Strategy and Tactics Magazine

Update 2000

By Joe Miranda, editor, S&T



Just Out: S&T 198 Lemberg and Verdun

Two WW 1 battles using the familiar Over The Top system; lead on the World War One Revolution in Military Affairs (Joe Miranda); the Air War in North Africa, 1940-43 (a very extensive study by Michael Cunningham); the Allied Intervention at Archangel in the Russian Civil War (by noted game designer Perry Moore); and Swedish Volunteers in the Russo-Finnish War, 1939-40 (by Anders Frankson--now you know what that Swedish unit is doing in your Winter War game!).

S&T Upcoming

(Everything is subject to change!)

S&T 199 Fight to the Finnish: Two more battles (Salla and Allakurtti-Loukhi, 1941) using the Forgotten Axis system. Also, a long article on Finland in the Second World War.

S&T 200 French Foreign Legion: Three French colonial campaigns, Sun Never Sets system. Plus a comprehensive index of the contents of all 200 past issues!

S&T 201 Crimean Battles: reissues of two SPI classics.

S&T 202 Taipei: Hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan in the early 21st century. Demonstrates the rapidly changing nature of modern warfare. Land, air and C4I operations. Special units include new Chinese rapid deployment forces and U.S. high-tech strike brigades. Extensive air system, with conventional, stealth, EW and missile units.

S&T 203 Xenophon: 10,000 against Persia Persian Civil War of 401-387 BC. Emperor Artaxerxes versus rebels, barbarians and outlanders (latter includes Athenian general Xenophon). Game map from Greece and Egypt in the West to the Indus in the East. Phalanxes, cavalry, nomads, agents, ele-phants.

S&T 204 Piave: Twilight of the Habsburgs.

S&T 205 War of 1812. United States versus Great Britain, 1812-15. Game map covers America east of the Mississippi, British North America (Canada), West Indies. Point to point movement, historical regiments, Indians, three types of naval units, leaders. “In 1814 we took a little trip... “

S&T 206 Kuban Gateway: Eastern Front, WW2.

S&T 207 Boer War: British Empire versus the Boers, 1899-1902. Map covers south Africa. Trade victory points for reinforcements: armored trains, mounted infantry, commandos. Leaders include Britain's Kitchener ("K of Chaos"), Cecil Rhodes (very good in defending diamond mines), et alia.


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