Strategy & Tactics Magazine
Strategy &
Tactics (S&T) was founded in 1966 as a wargaming
fanzine published by US Air
Force Staff Sergeant Chris Wagner, at first in Japan, then
moving to the United States with Wagner. It was intended as
independent competition with the Avalon Hill
house organ The General.
The magazine did not meet with commercial success, and James
F. Dunnigan arranged a purchase of the magazine in 1969,
founding Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) to publish S&T.
The purchase price of the magazine was one dollar.1
Issue 18 marked
a radical change in the wargaming industry, and S&T introduced
many innovative concepts to the hobby as a whole. Whereas
Avalon Hill was producing an average of two new wargames every
three years, Issue 18 included a wargame within the pages of
the magazine, and promised a new game in every issue - in
other words, every eight weeks. The magazine also pioneered
tactical subjects, printing Tac Game 3 in 1969, the
first tactical level game covering modern warfare (which the
next year became PanzerBlitz) and the next year
publishing a set of miniatures rules called T-34.
In March 1971,
S&T produced its first issue with die-cut counters, and the
very first board wargame featuring the infantry squad as the
basic unit of command. Grunt was also "the focus of
SPI's first big advertising campaign."2 |
Volume II, No. 6
(#16), Mar-Apr 1969 issue. After the buyout later that year,
the consecutive numbering system was continued and
volume/issue numbers were dropped.
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SPI
also produced box games during this period, and other tactical
titles found their way to market in the early 1970s, including
Grunt, Red Star/White Star, Soldiers, and Combat
Command, either in boxed form, in the magazine, or both.
The magazine served as an advertising vehicle for the boxed
games not released in its pages.
By 1973, S&T's
circulation was 20,000 (as compared to Miniature Warfare
(8,000), Moves (5,000),
The General
(5,000),
Panzerfaust
(1,000), and The Courier (1,000).)3 Greg Costikyan, in an
online opinion article dated 1996, remarked that
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It is hard to
overemphasize the importance of S&T to the history of wargaming;
indeed, the rise and fall of the hobby can virtually be correlated
with the rise and fall of S&T. SPI's staff freely discussed future
plans, down to details of marketing and distribution, in the pages
of the magazine; its subscribers began to feel a personal stake in
the company's survival, going so far as to write long letters of
advice and volunteering time and effort to help the company
survive. The historical articles were of the highest quality, and
quite unlike anything being published in the historical magazines
of the period, since SPI, befitting its gaming orientation, tried
to quantify almost everything, providing copious tables of
comparative data on, for instance, the merits of World War II-era
tanks. Other journals tended to be far more descriptive. As a
result, S&T acquired a readership even among military history
devotees who had no interest in the games.4
By the mid 1970s,
S&T's circulation exceeded
The General's and paid staff at
SPI numbered as many as forty individuals, with as many games being
produced annually included boxed titles. Despite annual income
declared at two million dollars, SPI's sales declined, and
increasing inflation decreased profits. James Dunnigan left SPI in
the late 1970s, and the departure of marketing manager Howie
Barasch's was never properly addressed. Founder Chris Wagner
returned as a consultant and found poor communication between the
company and its own sales representatives was a major concern. When
full-blown recession hit the US, financial mismanagement led to SPI
seeking a buyout. The Christmas season in 1981 hit SPI hard, who had
borrowed large sums of money from three investors. Work stopped in
January 1982 and by March "the company sought financial relief in
the form of someone who might lend money to buy or acquire
Simulations (Publications, Inc.)."5
TSR indicated initial interest, and
SPI, desperate for cash, asked for the loan of a few thousand
dollars to meet its payroll. TSR agreed, requiring that the loan
be backed by SPI's assets, making it a secured creditor. Shortly
after SPI paid its employees, TSR demanded repayment of the loan.
SPI agreed to be taken over by TSR, for no cash money.
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TSR sent out a press release
announcing that they had taken over SPI. Soon, however, they
realized the extent of SPI's liabilities; and, horrified,
"clarified" their own initial announcement, claiming that,
instead, they had assumed SPI's assets but not its debts.
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Now, while TSR had been a secured
creditor, it was a tiny one. SPI's printers and the venture
capital investors were owed far more money. Legally, TSR's
position gave them first crack at SPI's assets, but hardly
entitled them to take over the company, lock, stock, and barrel,
without assuming any liabilities. However, no one in SPI's
management was going to sue over the ownership of a bankrupt
company, and TSR's takeover seemed the only shot at keeping the
company together. And TSR quickly paid off the major creditors, at
some cents on the dollar, to avoid the possibility that anyone
else would challenge the transaction.6
By the time of the
buyout in 1982, SPI was selling, it is estimated, some 60-70% of all
wargames in the world. Avalon Hill remained a bigger company, but
only because it sold many more sports and general interest games
than wargames. By this point, S&T boasted 30,000 subscribers and the
magazine was truly the flagship of SPI.
In Issue 91 (Winter
1983), S&T announced that SPI had been too ambitious:
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Simulations
Publications lost money on every copy of S&T™ and Ares™ magazine. This
loss was written off as "advertising expenses" since the magazines
were intended to promote the SPI line of games. The trouble was
that putting out twelve issue games per year cut down on the
number of non-issue products Simulations was able to create...As
fewer boxed products were available, less money came in from these
products. Without this profit coming in to offset the loss from
the magazines, there was an inevitable downward spiral to
collapse.
TSR contemplated selling three issues
a year without games, and three with games, but were quickly told
by their sales representatives that their customers would not
approve of such a scheme. Instead, S&T moved to a quarterly
format, so that a new game could still be included in every issue.
Another innovation of
S&T during its history was its feedback system, in which readers
could answer various multiple-choice questions on a return card,
whose data would then be entered into a Burroughs minicomputer for
analysis. Thus S&T always had good information about which games
readers were looking for.
Again, from Greg
Costikyan:
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Perhaps S&T's most important
innovation...was its feedback system. Using primitive Burroughs,
later IBM, minicomputers, Dunnigan put together a highly
sophisticated system to obtain marketing information from his
customers. In every issue of the magazine, there was a response
card, with 96 numbered blanks. At the back of the magazine were a
series of questions, to which a reader could respond by entering a
number between 0 and 9 on the blanks of the card. Some questions
provided marketing data, e.g., average age of the readership; some
were used to provide competitive rankings of SPI's and other
publishers' products, charts that S&T's readers pored over when
deciding what game to buy next. And some were used to ask the
readers what kinds of games they'd like to see. Indeed, every
issue provided brief write-ups of game ideas, and SPI would design
the games which received the highest ratings.
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This kind of market research was
astonishing for the field, remains astonishing for the field,
would be astonishing in any field. SPI had immediate, timely data
telling it precisely what its most valued customers thought. For
years, the sales of SPI's games correlated very closely with the
feedback results; SPI could predict, with virtual certainty, a
game's sales before embarking on its design.
Through this
feedback, it became obvious that S&T's readership included many of
the avid wargamers - over 50% of readers claimed to own 100 or more
games; many bought a dozen games every year on top of those
contained in the magazine. SPI estimated that 250,000 people in
North America had ever bought a wargame based on the total number of
games sold by all companies to date, and felt that its subscribers
probably owned a disproportionate share of those games. In other
words, these subscribers were the key market audience for the entire
wargaming industry. And SPI had its finger on their pulse through
the feedback system in S&T.
SPI's assets included
a company library of 5,000 volumes, including Jane's Fighting
Ships for various years, the official US Army military history
of the Second World War (the "Green Books") as well as other
official histories, and other academic and populist accounts in
addition to technical works, atlases, maps, and other reference
material in addition to a large library of wargames, back issues,
and game design materials, all of which was shipped to TSR at the
time of the takeover. However, when TSR took over SPI, they refused
to honour commitments to existing dedicated S&T subscribers, about
1,000 of whom had been granted "life-time" status with entitlement
to all future issues without any further payment. Greg Costikyan
claims that this was the turning point in the wargaming industry;
few S&T subscribers renewed, even though the magazine continued to
be published (TSR published issues 91 through 111); as importantly,
Costikyan further claims that these disenchanged magazine
subscribers also refused to buy any TSR titles due to bitterness
over the handling of their subscriptions.
SPI's design staff
moved on to Avalon Hill to form subsidiary Victory Games. Although
TSR continued making games in hopes of recouping its investment, and
even despite a more efficient distribution chain than SPI had
established, its wargame line was never successful. S&T Magazine was
eventually sold to
World Wide Wargames (3W) who at
that time was publishing
The Wargamer, a direct competitor
that also put a game in each issue. By this time, the wargame market
had splintered and 1970's era sales of 50,000 copies per title were
gone in favour of 10,000 being considered successful and 20,000
astronomical.
3W continued
publication of S&T from issue 112 to 139 under three editors (Keith
Poulter from issues #112 to #119, Ty Bomba from #120 to #129, and a
returning James Dunnigan from #130 to #139). Though circulation
began to increase again, subscriptions never recovered, and third
parties cut into profits since most sales were via retail outlets.
In Issue 140 in February 1991, it was announced that Keith Poulter
"has had enough" and sold the magazine to
Decision Games. beginning
with No. 176 S&T was introduced for sale on newsstands (without a
game) and by No. 216 more copies were sold without the game each
issue than game editions.7
Modern Era Tactical
Games Published in Strategy & Tactics
Year |
Title |
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1970 |
T-34 (S&T 23) |
Miniatures |
1971 |
Grunt (S&T 26) |
Board |
1972 |
Combat Command (S&T 30) |
Board |
1973 |
KampfPanzer (S&T 41) |
Board |
1974 |
Tank! (S&T 44) |
Board |
1977 |
October War (S&T 61) |
Board |
1977 |
Raid! (S&T 64) |
Board |
1979 |
Panzer Battles (S&T 73) |
Board |
1979 |
Paratroop (S&T 77) |
Board |
1983 |
Rapid Deployment Force (S&T 91) |
Board |
1988 |
Pegasus Bridge (S&T 122) |
Board |
1990 |
Iron Cross (S&T 132) |
Board |
2013 |
Soldiers: Decision in the Trenches, 1918 (S&T
280) |
Board |
Cover Gallery/Issue Listing - Regular Issues
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No. 289 (mag ed.) |
Nov-Dec 2015
No. 289 (game ed.) |
Jan-Feb 2015
No. 290 |
Mar-Apr 2015
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May-Jun 2015
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Jul-Aug 2015
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Nov-Dec 2015
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Jan-Feb 2016
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Mar-Apr 2016
No. 297 |
May-Jun 2016
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Jun-Jul 2016
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Mar-Apr 2017
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May-Jun 2017
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Jun-Jul 2017
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No. 306 |
Nov-Dec 2017
No. 307 |
Jan-Feb 2018
No. 308 |
Mar-Apr 2018
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May-Jun 2018
No. 310 |
Jun-Jul 2018
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Sep-Oct 2018
No. 312 |
Nov-Dec 2018
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Jan-Feb 2019
No. 314 |
Mar-Apr 2019
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Nov-Dec 2019
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Jan-Feb 2020
No. 320 |
Mar-Apr 2020
No. 321 |
May-Jun 2020
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Jul-Aug 2020
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318 game ed. |
319 game ed. |
320 game ed. |
321 game ed. |
322 game ed. |
323 game ed. |
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Nov-Dec 2021 No. 325
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Jan-Feb 2021 No. 326
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Mar-Apr 2021 No. 327
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May-Jun 2021 No. 328
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Jul-Aug 2021 No. 329
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Nov-Dec 2021 No. 331
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Jan-Feb 2022 No. 332
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Nov-Dec 2022 No. 337
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Jan-Feb 2023 No. 338
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May-Jun
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Jul-Aug 2023 No. 341 (game edition omits
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Sep-Oct 2023 No. 342
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the info box at lower left) |
Nov-Dec 2023 No. 343
(game edition omits
the info box at lower left) |
Jan-Feb 2024 No. 344
(game edition omits
the info box at lower left) |
Mar-Apr
2024
No. 345
(game edition omits
the info box
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lower left) |
May-Jun
2023
No. 346 (game edition omits
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Jul-Aug 2024 No. 347
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Sep-Oct 2024 No. 348
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Nov-Dec 2024 No. 349
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Cover Gallery/Issue Listing - Special Issues
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Special Issue 1 |
Special Issue 2 |
Special Issue 3 |
Special Issue 4 |
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S&T
Quarterly #1
Spring 2018 |
S&T
Quarterly #2
Summer 2018 |
S&T
Quarterly #3
Fall 2018 |
S&T
Quarterly #4
Winter 2018 |
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S&T
Quarterly #5
Spring 2019 |
S&T
Quarterly #6
Summer 2019 |
S&T
Quarterly #7
Fall 2019 |
S&T
Quarterly #8
Winter 2019 |
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S&T
Quarterly #9
Spring 2020 |
S&T
Quarterly #10
Summer 2020 |
S&T
Quarterly #11
Fall 2020 |
S&T
Quarterly #12
Winter 2020 |
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S&T
Quarterly #13
Spring 2021 |
S&T
Quarterly #14
Summer 2021 |
S&T
Quarterly #15
Fall 2021 |
S&T
Quarterly #16
Winter 2021 |
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S&T
Quarterly #17
Spring 2022 |
S&T
Quarterly #18
Summer 2022 |
S&T
Quarterly #19
Fall 2022 |
S&T
Quarterly #20
Winter 2022 |
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S&T
Quarterly #21
Spring 2023 |
S&T
Quarterly #22
Summer 2023 |
S&T
Quarterly #23
Fall 2023 |
S&T
Quarterly #24
Winter 2023 |
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S&T
Quarterly #25
Spring 2024 |
S&T
Quarterly #26
Summer 2024 |
S&T
Quarterly #27
Fall 2024 |
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Notes
- Strategy & Tactics #83,
interview by Chris Wagner. Apparently payment was not made
until 1975.
- Kosnett, Phill. "From Grunt to Search
& Destroy" (Moves,
Nr. 23)
- Phillies, George and Martin
Campion. "A Guide to Conflict Simulation Games and
Periodicals" (Moves,
Nr. 7)
-
A Farewell to Hexes, Greg Costikyan, 1996
- Strategy & Tactics #91
- Cosikyan, Ibid
- S&T website
- According to the publisher's website, the "magazine-only"
edition sold on line had, due to a printer's error, the same
cover as the "game edition".
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