Reply To: "Golden Age of Wargaming"….perhaps not?

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@phaidknott – I cannot disagree with anything in your post.

On this we are of one mind.

You are not alone. 😀

I can recommend magazines like Strategy & Tactics.  They’ve been going for over 50 years (first issue in 1966) and don’t seem to be slowing down any time soon.  In fact, they have expanded two more periodicals, World at War (strictly for WW2) and Modern War (post-1945) with S&T sticking to anything prior to 1939.

Now I confess, this is all hex & counter, zone-based, board games and computer games.  But they roll out a new title every issue (bi-monthly).  So altogether that’s 18 new games a year.   Of course there are some duds in there, too.

I will admit I wish they would cover miniature wargames as well, though.  But with Decision Games, Matrix Games, etc, and designers like Joseph Miranda, Javier Romero, Ty Bomba, etc … they definitely stick to the “crunchy” system-driven releases rather than pretty pictures, overwrought fluff, and “slick marketing.”