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Wargamer's Digest was a wargaming magazine created by Gene McCoy that was published from 1973 to 2000 (from 1984 to 2000 as Military Digest).It is notable as one of the earliest publications to publish the work of Gary Gygax, and for the high regard that military professionals and academics showed for its military scenarios and simulations.
Published quarterly, War Game Digest became the publication around which the early miniatures hobby coalesced. In 1962, Scruby began to publish Table Top Talk, intended as a promotional publication for his lines of miniatures and sets of miniatures rules, and ceased publishing War Game Digest in 1963.
In 1960 the two of them began editing the UK version of the War Game Digest, a seminal wargaming newsletter started by Jack Scruby in the United States. Featherstone expressed disapproval of a trend towards articles "attempting to spread an aura of pseudo-science over what is a pastime". [ 6 ]
In 1956, Scruby organized the first miniature wargaming convention in America, which was attended by just fourteen people. From 1957 to 1962, he self-published the world's first wargaming magazine, titled The War Game Digest, through which wargamers could publish their rules and share game reports. It had less than two hundred subscribers, but ...
Wargaming magazines are a separate sub-category of gaming magazines and have had a rich history, beginning in 1964 with the publication of The General Magazine, but especially in the 1970s and 1980s when commercial board wargaming was at its peak, with some publishers having multiple titles for public consumption.
In 1956, Scruby organized the first miniature wargaming convention in America, which was attended by just fourteen people. From 1957 to 1962, he self-published the world's first miniature wargaming magazine, titled The War Game Digest, through which wargamers could publish their rules and share game reports. It had less than two hundred ...
In 1956, Scruby organized the first miniature wargaming convention in America, which was attended by just fourteen people. From 1957 to 1962, he self-published the world's first wargaming magazine, titled The War Game Digest, through which wargamers could publish their rules and share game reports. It had fewer than two hundred subscribers, but ...
Hutsell Computer War Games is a series of MS-DOS computer wargames written by W. R. Hutsell. They were distributed as shareware. The games include VGA Civil War Strategy Game, [1] EGA Civil War Battleset, Wars of Napoleon, and World War II In Western Europe. [2] All of the games are available for free since 2017.