Publisher/Date:
3W/Decision Games (1977-1990)
Product Type:
Non-ASL Magazine with ASL Scenarios, Periodical
Country of Origin:
Great Britain/United States
Contents:
Rare ASL scenario
The Wargamer was a bimonthly wargaming magazine founded by Keith Poulter in Great Britain in 1977 that originally included a wargame in each issue. After 62 issues, in 1987, when Poulter acquired the similar magazine Strategy & Tactics, the games were dropped from The Wargamer (from then on known as “Volume 2” of the Wargamer) and it focused instead on reviews, strategy and analysis articles, as well as scenarios and variants.
When Decision Games acquired The Wargamer and other magazines from 3W, it was believed that the content in The Wargamer duplicated the content in other magazines and it was dropped in 1990 after 25 “Volume 2” issues.
The Wargamer did not pay much attention to ASL, but several “Volume 2” issues featured scenarios.
| Issue | ASL Scenario |
| Vol. 2, #1 (July-August 1987) | Scenarios: Swing on Singling (Germany, December 1944) Objective Bill (Germany, March 1945) |
| Vol. 2, #2 (September-October 1987) | One Lone Farmhouse (Germany, March 1945) |
| Vol. 2, #8 (November-December 1988) | Counterattack at the Roundhouse (March 1944)This issue also included two generic ASL scenarios featuring Central American guerrillas: The Los Lobos Prison Break On the Border |
| Vol. 2, #9 (Special Christmas Issue, 1988) | Starting with this issue, The Wargamer ran a series of 10 East Front ASL scenarios. Based on the high amount of errata, it seems unlikely that these scenarios were sufficiently playtested.WG1 Boltenko’s Gun (USSR, September 1942) WG2 Assault on Teploye Heights (USSR, July 1943) |
| Vol. 2, #10 (January-February 1989) | WG3 Attack on the Frontier (USSR, June 1941) WG4 Breaking out of the Pocket (USSR, September 1941) WG5 Setback on the Road to Mtensk (USSR, October 1941) WG6 Plugging the Gap: State Farm 79 (USSR, December 1942) |
| Vol. 2, #11 (March-April 1989) | WG7 Desperation at Seelow (Germany, April 1945) WG8 The Storming of Ivanovo (USSR, November 1941) WG9 Retreat from Moscow (USSR, December 1941) WG10 Repulsed (USSR, August 1942) |
| Vol. 2, #14 (September-October 1989) | Needed errata for above scenarios. Also available at http://grognard.com/errata/aslwg.txt. |
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