Battleplan was a magazine devoted to providing variants, scenarios, and articles on game strategy for wargaming

Wargaming

A wargame is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional. Wargaming is the hobby dedicated to the play of such games, which can also be called conflict simulations, or consims for short. When used professionally to study warfare, it is generally known as...

 products by a variety of publishers. The first issue appeared in March/April 1987, with the last issue, Number 9, appearing in 1989. The first six issues had been published by Diverse Talents, Inc. (DTI also published Fire & Movement

Fire & Movement

Fire & Movement: The Forum of Conflict Simulation was founded by Rodger MacGowan in 1975, and began publication the following year. The magazine is devoted to covering games from a variety of manufacturers, specializing in wargames, both traditional board wargames and also computer wargames Fire &...

 and Space Gamer

The Space Gamer

The Space Gamer was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 70s through the mid-80s...

 at that time) until DTI was bought out by World Wide Wargamers (3W), who continued to publish the magazine for three more issues.

The magazine had low production values, being printed on low grade newsprint rather than high quality paper like its sister magazines of the day.

Major features of the nine issues (list is representative, not exhaustive) are as follows, giving an idea of the range of publishers and games covered by this ambitious but low quality periodical:

Issue 1 - March/April 1987

• Two Squad Leader
  Squad Leader
  thumb|Squad Leader game package.Squad Leader is a tactical level board wargame originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. It was designed by Hall of Fame game designer John Hill and focuses on infantry combat in Europe during World War II...
  
   Scenarios
• Solitaire Scenario for Up Front
  Up Front
  Up Front is a World War II card-based wargame. It was designed by Courtney F. Allen and published by Avalon Hill in 1983. Hasbro now owns the franchise which is currently licensed to Multi-Man Publishing....
  
  
• Variant for Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contained its initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations...
  
  's Fortress Europa (including counters)
• Scenario for SSG's Carriers at War
• Rules variants for GDW's A House Divided (first of three part article)
• Political variants for Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contained its initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations...
  
  's Russian Campaign
• Scenario for Task Force's Armor at Kursk
• Variant situation cards and weather effects for Jedko game Field Marshal (including cards)
• Escalation variant for Yaquinto WWII card game Combat Cards II
• Tournament scenario contest for Panther game Warlords of the World
• Assorted small variants for World In Flames, Third Reich, Operation Konrad

Issue 2 - May/June 1987

• Two Squad Leader
  Squad Leader
  thumb|Squad Leader game package.Squad Leader is a tactical level board wargame originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. It was designed by Hall of Fame game designer John Hill and focuses on infantry combat in Europe during World War II...
  
   Scenarios
• Supremacy Variants
• Scenario for SSG's Battlefront
• Rules variants for GDW A House Divided (part 2)
• Scenario for Cobra
• Variants for Cobra
• Variants for Avalon Hill's Luftwaffe
• Japanese Jet variant for Avalon Hill's Dauntless
• Strategy article on Stratego
• Fallschirmjäger variant for Ambush!
• Decline and Fall: 1944-45 Campaign Game (new scenario) for World in Flames
• 4th edition corrections and optional rules for World in Flames
• Variants for Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contained its initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations...
  
  's "Bismarck"
• Variants for Avalon Hill's Wooden Ships and Iron Men
• Assorted small variants for War at Sea, Napoleon's Last Battles, Hue, Op Badr, and Dunkirk 1940
• New aircraft for Avalon Hill's Richtofen's War

Issue 3 - July/August 1987

• scenario for Third Reich
• review of Mission Grenada
• variants and optional rules for Mission Grenada
• two scenarios for Squad Leader
• Squad Leader abbreviations Defined
• rules variants for GDW's A House Divided (part 3)
• alternative Risk rules
• Axis & Allies variants (including cards)
• Empires in Arms variant
• SPI's War in Europe variant
• scenario for Remember the Maine (Strategy & Tactics
  Strategy & Tactics
  Strategy & Tactics is a wargaming magazine now published by Decision Games, notable for publishing a complete new wargame in each issue...
  
   game)
• extras for GDW's Trenchfoot
• variant for War at Sea

Issue 4 Sep/Oct 1987

• Shogun editorial
• Squad Leader
  Squad Leader
  thumb|Squad Leader game package.Squad Leader is a tactical level board wargame originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. It was designed by Hall of Fame game designer John Hill and focuses on infantry combat in Europe during World War II...
  
   scenarios - based on Guy Sajer's book The Forgotten Soldier
• Panzers at Kursk
• Blue Max variants
• Ambush!
  Ambush!
  Ambush! is a man-to-man wargame developed by Avalon Hill. It was released under Avalon's Victory Games label and was developed by Eric Lee Smith and John Butterfield. In 1984, Ambush! won the Origins Award for Best 20th Century Boardgame of 1983...
  
   scenario
• Battlewagon
• Fortress America
• Battle for Moscow
• Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill
  Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contained its initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports simulations...
  
  's Midway

Issue 5

• two Squad Leader
  Squad Leader
  thumb|Squad Leader game package.Squad Leader is a tactical level board wargame originally published by Avalon Hill in 1977. It was designed by Hall of Fame game designer John Hill and focuses on infantry combat in Europe during World War II...
  
   scenarios
• Russian Campaign II changes and strategies for expansion kit
• new scenarios for Assault on Singapore
• additional campaigns for Top Gun
• two new scenarios for Omega Game's Victory in Europe
• optional rules for A World in Flames
• scenario for Victory Games' 2nd Fleet
• variant for Guns of August
• interview with Rodger MacGowan
• short variants for Duel in the Desert and North African Campaign
• strategies and errata for Last Panzer Victory
• variants for the Battle of Debrecan
• Shanghai Trader Tournament Rules

Issue 6 - June/July 1988

• Midway Random Events
• 1066 review and addendum
• 1066 variants, strategies and tactics
• A House Divided variant with counters
• Central America scenario
• Axis & Allies variant
• strategies in Russian Campaign
• Sniper! (board game)
  Sniper! (board game)
  Sniper! was a board wargame originally released in 1973. Some sources refer to "Sniper/Patrol" as a sort of series of games: a similar game by Simulations Publications Inc. was released at the same time as the original Sniper!, called Patrol....
  
  : Special Forces scenarios and variants
• World in Flames variant
• scenario for Armor at Kursk
• Air War realism variant
• Empires in Arms strategies

Issue 7 - Aug/Sept 1988

• complete minigame Zulu War
• West End Games' Tank Leader scenarios
• variants for Shogun
• Ancients scenarios
• Battle for Moscow mini-campaign
• GDW's Great Patriotic War errata and new variants
• Fireteam scenarios
• 4th Edition World in Flames preview
• strategies in World in Flames
• scenario for Game Design Workshop's 1940
• scenario for Rommel in the Desert
• Milton Bradley's Fortress America variant
• Extra firefights for Platoon
• variants for B-17, Queen of the Skies
  B-17, Queen of the Skies
  B-17, Queen of the Skies is a solitaire board wargame published in the US in 1983 by Avalon Hill and is a simulation of the experiences of a single B-17F Flying Fortress Bomber flying with the 8th Air Force in World War 2...
  
  
• variant for Okinawa (game included in The Wargamer
  The Wargamer (magazine)
  The Wargamer was a magazine devoted to the hobby of board wargaming. It was founded by Keith Poulter and published six times a year by World Wide Wargames , Although initially it was only published four times a year....
  
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• extra teams for Team Yankee
• Last Victory
• Raid on St.Nazaire variant
• Red Star/White Star scenarios
• variant for The Last Victory
• variant for Winter Storm

Issue 8 - Jan/Feb 1989

• variant for Eastern Front Solitaire
• variant for Zulu War (last issue's minigame)
• Bismarck House Rules
• scenario for West End Games' Druid
• Drive on Frankfurt variants
• Axis & Allies scenario
• rules for combining Nuclear War and Risk
• Empires in Arms strategies
• aircraft for TSR's
  TSR, Inc.
  Blume and Gygax, the remaining owners, incorporated a new company called TSR Hobbies, Inc., with Blume and his father, Melvin Blume, owning the larger share. The former assets of the partnership were transferred to TSR Hobbies, Inc....
  
  Air War
• variants for Fortress America
• US aircraft for GDW's Blue Max
• variant for Yaquinto's Carrier
• scenario for Up Front
• variant for FireTeam
• variants for S&T game Kanev
• Third Reich variant with map and rules
• scenarios for Third Reich

Issue 9

• Duel in the Desert errata
• Remember the Maine scenario
• World in Flames variant
• Axis & Allies variants
• campaign game for Rolling Thunder