A bit of history

3W (World Wide Wargames) was started in the UK by Keith Poulter. After a few years he moved production to the USA. The magazine switched from bi-monthly to monthly publication starting in 1984. 3W bought Strategy & Tactics magazine after having published 62 issues of The Wargamer, and decided that there wasn't enough of a market to support both publications. So they stopped including games in the Wargamer. As a consequence they retroactively refered to issues 1-62 as The Wargamer Volume 1, though this was never included in the titulage of those magazines. And the subsequent (gameless) issues of the Wargamer were then refered to as "Volume 2", and were numbered from 1 again.

Links

On BGG:

• Scanned contents and covers
• Geeklists (volume 1) :
  • Wargamer V.1: 1-20
  • Wargamer v.1: 21-40
  • Wargamer v.1: 41-62

Other links :

• Volume 1 & 2 visual index, history : Tactical Wargamer "The Wargamer" page

Magazine issues (volume 1)

• Issue 1 (1977) Battle of the Ring
• Issue 2 (1977) Napoleon at Eylau
• Issue 3 (1977) Africa
• Issue 4 (1978) Blenheim
• Issue 5 (1978) Kesselring
• Issue 6 (1978) Operation Condor: The Liberation of Spain 1942/1943
• Issue 7 (1978) Marston Moor
• Issue 8 (1979) Albuera & Vittoria
• Issue 9 (1979) Bloody Buna
• Issue 10 (1979) Chinese Civil War
• Issue 11 (1979) Simon de Montfort
• Issue 12 (1980) Aces High
• Issue 13 (1980) Forward to Richmond!
• Issue 14 (1980) Assault on Leningrad
• Issue 15 (1981) Drive on Damascus
• Issue 16 (1981) Carrier Strike
• Issue 17 (1981) Napoleon at Austerlitz
• Issue 18 (1982) Birth of a Nation
• Issue 19 (1982) Sturm Nach Osten
• Issue 20 (1982) Little Round Top
• Issue 21 (1982) Siege at Peking
• Issue 22 (1982) No Trumpets No Drums
• Issue 23 (1983) Decision At Kasserine
• Issue 24 (1983) Lawrence of Arabia
• Issue 25 (1983) Never Call Retreat
• Issue 26 (1983) Race to the Meuse
• Issue 27 (1983) Peter the Great
• Issue 28 (1984) Port Stanley: Battle for the Falklands
• Issue 29 (1984) Lodz 1914: Blitzkrieg in the East
• Issue 30 (1984) Stars and Bars / Lesnaja: 'The Mother of Poltava' September 29, 1708
• Issue 31 (1984) Clash of Steel
• Issue 32 (1984) Napoleon at Lutzen
• Issue 33 (1984) Holy Roman Empire
• Issue 34 (1984) Khyber Rifles
• Issue 35 (1984) West Wall
• Issue 36 (1984) Unconditional Surrender
• Issue 37 (1985) China Incident
• Issue 38 (1985) Hell Hath No Fury
• Issue 39 (1985) Hellfire Pass
• Issue 40 (1985) Fight on the Beaches
• Issue 41 (1985) O'Connor's Offensive
• Issue 42 (1985) End of the Iron Dream
• Issue 43 (1985) Wellington Vs Massena
• Issue 44 (1985) Macarthur: The Road to Bataan
• Issue 45 (1985) Custer's Luck
• Issue 46 (1985) Rise of the House of Sa'ud
• Issue 47 (1985) Struggle for Stalingrad
• Issue 48 (1985) Red Baron
• Issue 49 (1986) Napoleon and the Archduke Charles: The Battle of Aspern-Essling
• Issue 50 (1986) Knights of Justice: The Siege of Malta, 1565
• Issue 51 (1986) Duel in the Desert: Rommel's Campaign in North Africa
• Issue 52 (1986) Glory Road: The First Battle of Bull Run
• Issue 53 (1986) Dynamo: Dunkirk, 1940
• Issue 54 (1986) Condottieri: The Battle of Castagnaro
• Issue 55 (1986) Okinawa
• Issue 56 (1986) First Team: Vietnam
• Issue 57 (1986) Race For Tunis
• Issue 58 (1986) Clash of Empires: The Battle for France 1914
• Issue 59 (1986) Bloody Keren
• Issue 60 (1986) Anvil-Dragoon: Southwall 1944
• Issue 61 (1987) Campaigns of Marlborough
• Issue 62 (1987) Fallen Eagle: The Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968

Magazine issues (volume 2)

[edit note: contents and index needed]

Issues 1 to 25.

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