| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 1 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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Battleplan was an ambitious magazine devoted to providing variants, scenarios, and articles on game strategy for wargaming products by a variety of publishers.
Published between 1987 and 1989, the magazine had a great deal of content to appeal to war gamers, including articles and materials for Ambush!, Squad Leader, Advanced Squad Leader, Up Front, and many other games.
The periodical lasted nine issues, before it was folded into the Wargamer, Volume 2 periodical.
In this inaugural issue, published in March/April 1987, the contents include:
Letter from the Editior
Squad Leader Scenarios - "One if by Air, Two if by Sea" and "Blunting the Spearhead"
Solitaire Up Front - Flamethrower Defense Scenario
Overlord 1943 - Variant for AH Fortress Europa (includes countersheet ins...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 2 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this issue, published in May/June 1987, the contents include:
Two For The Road – Word from the Editor
Squad Leader Scenarios - "Counterattack" and "Victory at Pratulin"
Supremacy Variants
Operation Sea Lion - SSG Battlefront scenario
A House Restored - Rules variants for GDW A House Divided (part 2 of 3)
Screaming Eagles – A Scenario for Cobra
A Better Bite for Cobra - Cobra variants
Luftwaffe Variants
Japanese Jets for Dauntless – Additional planes and scenarios for Dauntless
Stratego Strategy – An update on a classic game
Fallschirmjager - Ambush mega-variant
World in Flames - Decline and Fall: 1944-45 Campaign Game
World in Flames - 4th edition corrections and optional rules
Battle Board Bismarck - Variants for AH Bismarck
Rerigging Wooden Ships & Iron Men - Variants for AH Wo...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 3 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this issue, published in July/August 1987, the contents include:
Rushing to the (Fore) Front – A word from the Editor
Third Reich – A special 1941 scenario
Mission Grenada – A quick review
Options for Mission Grenada - Variants and optional rules
Squad Leader Scenarios - "Partisan Purge" and "The Tank Repair Shop"
Squad Leader Abbreviations Defined – You don’t need a decoder ring, anymore!
A House Restored - Rules variants for GDW A House Divided (part 3 of 3)
Alternative Risk! Rules – Variants for the classic game
Axis & Allies Mega Variant Section – A history of the game and dozens of new variants, and card inserts
Black Capes and Whispered Secrets – An Empires in Arms spy network variant
War in Europe - Variant for the German economy in this monster SPI game
Remember the Maine...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 4 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this issue, published in September/October 1987, the contents include:
Shogun: The Editorial – A humorous clarification from the Editor
Two New Squad Leader Scenarios - from Guy Sajer's book "The Forgotten Soldier" – “The Burning Corridor” and “The Dying Place”
Panzers at Kursk - Soviet counterattack scenario
Blue Max - Campaign game variants
Shogun: The Complete Game Replay - A complete replay of the game from MB
Ambush Mission 17: Block Party - A complete January, 1945 campaign scenario and insert cards
In Praise of Older Wargames - A nostalgic look back at "good old" wargames
Battlewagon - Three never fought battles
Battlewagon: Fleet Actions - WWI, interwar and WWII scenarios
Fortress America - A play balance variant for the MB game
Battle for Moscow Winner Declared
The Relief o...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 5 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this issue, published in January/February 1988, the contents include:
The Editorial Letters
Two New Squad Leader Scenarios - "Race to the Clerf" and "Last Stand on the Oder"
Russian Campaign II - Changes and strategies for this expansion kit
Assault on Singapore - New scenarios
Top Gun in the Med - Additional campaigns for Top Gun
Victory in Europe - Two new scenarios for this Omega game
Added Fuel to A World in Flames - Optional rules
Dance of the Vampires - Scenario for VG 2nd Fleet
Will We Ever Forget to Remember the Maine? - Situations and strategies for the S&T game
Guns of August - Complete mega-variant for AH Guns of August
Rodger MacGowan: His Art and His Style - In depth interview with the artist
Duel in the Desert and North African Campaign - Short variants for these t...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 6 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this issue, published in June/July 1988, the contents include:
Editorial
Midway Random Events - A classic with spice
Hastings, 1066 - Review and addendum
The Battle of Senlac Hill - Hastings, 1066 variants, strategies and tactics
A House Divided - Complete mega-variant with counters
Wilderness of Mirrors - New Central America scenario
That Dirty Double Dealing Nuclear War Variant That Only Leaves You With Half a Chance! - Fiction and variant
Axis & Allies - Technology variant
Rumania Uber Alles - Strategies in Russian Campaign
Sniper: Special Forces - Scenarios and variants
Options for France – World in Flames variant
Armor on the Chir River – A new scenario for Armor at Kursk
Air War Once More! - Realism variant
Empires in Arms in the Peninsula - Strategies from the Canadian W...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 7 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this issue, published in August/September 1988, the contents include:
Editorial
Tank Leader Scenarios – Official & Tournament scenarios for WEG Tank Leader
Variants for Shogun – Mega-variant including DIY Karma cards
Ancients Scenarios - Good Industries Pydna 156 BC, Leuctra 371 BC, and Cannae 216 BC
What Happens Next - Battle for Moscow mini “Campaign Game”
Unofficial Errata & Variants – What you need to play GDW Great Patriotic War
Fireteam Scenarios – Six new scenarios to sharpen your troops
4th Edition World in Flames preview – A quick peek at what is new
Take the Axis - Strategies in World in Flames
The Unfought Battle - Scenario variants for GDW 1940
Operation Battleaxe – A new scenario for Rommel in the Desert
Fortress America - Variant for MB Gamemaster series game
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 8 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this issue, published in January/February 1989, the contents include:
Editorial
Eastern Front Solitaire - Vlasov's Army variant
Washing the Spears in Zulu War - Variants for last issue's mini-wargame
Bismarck House Rules – Errata and new ideas
The Conquest of Britain, AD 43 – A scenario for WEG Druid
Drive on Frankfurt Variations – Tinkering with a finely tuned game
Axis & Allies 1941 Scenario – The “historical” set-up of a year earlier
Nuclear Risk! - Combining Nuclear War and Risk!
Empires in Arms - Strategies in Spain
Aircraft for Air War - More for this TSR game
Quick & Dirty Fortress America Variants – Some fast ideas for this MB game
Red, White, and Blue Max – U.S. aircraft for GDW classic
Yamamoto's Plan for Midway – A variant for Yaquinto’s CV
Ortona - A Canadia...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue 9 Regular price: $4.99 Bundle price: $2.75 Format: Watermarked PDF
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In this final issue, published in the summer of 1989, the contents include:
Editorial
Duel in the Desert – Errata, clarifications, and single board game variant
The Michicon '88 ASL Tournament – The Playtesters Advanced Squad Leader tournament scenarios “B1 Two Long Bars”, “B2 Ice Follies”, “B3 Prussian Panic”, “B4 Clear Up the Bridgehead…”
Finnish Front – An introductory scenario to AH Russian Front
Remember the Maine Scenarios – Scenarios for this S&T 108 game
Burning The Tigers – A scenario for The Tigers are Burning
Airpower in the Middle East: Eagles of the Gulf Expansion – Variant scenarios, aircraft cards, and maps for GDW Air Superiority / Air Strike
World in Flames – Optional rules & changes
The Mediterranean Option – An Axis & Allies variant ...
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| Battleplan Magazine - Issue Index Regular price: $0.50 Bundle price: $0.24 Format: Watermarked PDF
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Battleplan was an ambitious magazine devoted to providing variants, scenarios, and articles on game strategy for wargaming products by a variety of publishers. Published between 1987 and 1989, the magazine had a great deal of content to appeal to war gamers, including articles and materials for Ambush!, Squad Leader, Advanced Squad Leader, Up Front, and many other games.
The periodical lasted nine issues, before it was folded into the Wargamer, Volume 2 periodical.
This download includes the index for the nine issues....
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