Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages

• Skygard Arena @skygard-arena.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2025

  We are thrilled to officially host this week's #TurnBasedThursday! #gamedev, please share you turn-based game in the thread! RPG, Strategy, Tactics, Roguelike... we want them all! 🌟 Make sure to like❤️, share🔄 and wishlist✅ any gem you find in the comments!

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

  About to start the first playtest match of Javier Romero’s “Poland Reborn” for Strategy & Tactics magazine. This game covers the independence struggle of Poland, 1919-1921, centering on the Russo-Polish War but also other border conflicts. #boardwargames #boardwargaming #russopolishwar

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

  Welcome to match 2 of "Alfred the Great" (playtest phase, forthcoming from Decision Games Strategy & Tactics 372). I have the Vikings this round, @nopipbutcpip.bsky.social is playing the Anglo-Saxon side. Today we're experimenting with several optional rules (pillage and Danegeld).

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• The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

  New arrival today (I have a problem I know!). Strategy & Tactics Magazine #358 with the pack-in game Battle of Pensacola 1781 designed by Javier Romero.

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• James Buckley @jsbuckley.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

  My Napoleonic gaming 'moment' is in full swing. Today'game: Reves de Gloire, a solitaire game recently published in Strategy & Tactics. Rules need interpretation but otherwise it's pretty good on the emergent narrative front, particularly if you know a bit about the period.

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• The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2025

  Our interview with Javier Romero designer of Bosnian War 1992-1995 in Strategy & Tactics Magazine #351 from Decision Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/04/21/i...

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

  4 new additions to my #boardwargame library, all Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games era) magazines w/games; issue 195 (Clash of the Eagles - Borodino & Friedland), 200 (French Foreign Legion), 205 (2nd Boer War) & 208 (Back to Iraq 3rd edition). #wargaming #boardwargaming

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

  Today's #boardwargame session; first playtest match of Decision Games' upcoming "Alfred the Great" (Strategy & Tactics 372). I have the Anglo-Saxons, @nopipbutcpip.bsky.social has the Vikings. It's the Viking playerturn of Game Turn 1. The Anglo-Saxons successfully cleared a town...

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• It's a Pip! @nopipbutcpip.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

  Playtest season 2026 has begun! With @joea64.bsky.social, we are playtesting Romania 1916, expected to be published next year in Strategy & Tactics issue 371. The game covers the 1916 Romanian campaign, starting with Romania's August offensive and carrying through to December.

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• Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2023

  2023 was the year of tactical RPGs We did it, gang Fire Emblem Disaeda (I dunno—the penguin game) Triangle Strategy Tactics Ogre remaster

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• The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

  Interview with Javier Romero Designer of Battle of Pensacola 1781 in Strategy & Tactics Magazine #358 from Decision Games. theplayersaid.com/2026/06/29/i...

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

  ...that the only way to get a feedback proposal passed by the Strategy & Tactics readership (in SPI's 1970's glory days) was for the game to involve NATO, nuclear weapons or Nazis in some way.

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• Greg Costikyan @costik.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

  Weird Game Designer Facts Albert Aurelius Nofi I met Al Nofi at SPI, where he was for many years associate editor of Strategy & Tactics magazine, and also the designer of many tabletop wargames. But he was a scholar, not just a game designer, receiving a PHD from CUNY in military history in 1991.

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• Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

  I remember there was an old Strategy & Tactics magazine Vietnam war game that used fake unit counters to represent hidden Vietcong movements so that you wouldn't know where they really were until they attacked

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• MegaApple @megaapple18.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2026

  Finished : Marvel's Midnight Sun Another flawed game I really enjoyed, with lot of clear love for the source material and absolutely engaging combat. A strange Strategy-Tactics and RPG hybrid, hard to describe but addictive to play. A sequel would be a classic. #MegaMidnightSuns

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• Frank Davis @fdavismobile.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2025

  MY FAVORITE WARGAMES Dagger Thrusts - Patton and Montgomery September 1944 Strategy & Tactics Magazine Game Issue # 233 Game Designer: Ty Bomba boardgamegeek.com/thread/35881...

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

  Yet it's still a popular subject for #boardwargames. One of the games @amfisher.bsky.social gave me in January was Strategy & Tactics issue 253 whose included game was on this battle. Yes, the Soviet defensive lines are VERY prominent.

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2025

  If you care to search my timeline, I have quite a few posts. I am currently playtesting Decision Games' upcoming "Napoleonic World War" (for Strategy & Tactics magazine). TL: DR - l'Empereur is doing a lot better in-game than historically in the first two matches.

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

  @nopipbutcpip.bsky.social and I, for instance, playtested a game for Decision Games (originally for the now-defunct Modern War magazine, ultimately published in Strategy & Tactics) on the 1990's Bosnian War. The game was a good simulation, but definitely NOT "fun" to play...

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

  SPI also published several wargames covering various facets of the Vietnam War during the early 1970's. "Grunt", released in 1971 as a Strategy & Tactics magazine game & later updated as "Search and Destroy", may be the first commercial squad-level wargame. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70...

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• JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2025

  ...now carry list prices of $50 a pop. The really interesting thing is, when inflation is factored in, a Strategy & Tactics magazine with game isn't that much more expensive in 2025 than it was in 1977, when I got seriously into the hobby as a high school freshman. A boxed wargame, meanwhile...

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