JagdPanther (magazine)

In 1973, Texas Tech student Stephen V. Cole started playing PanzerBlitz, a tactical-level World War II wargame published by Avalon Hill.

[2]: 114 The first issue, published in April 1973, contained the first article on PanzerBlitz Unlimited, an article on World War II mechanized combat, a variant for the wargame Borodino, and two reviews of commercial wargames, as well as several original mini-games — the squad-level WWII game MP44, a football game called Scrimmage IV, and a simulation of the Battle of Cowpens.

By that time, the focus of the magazine had moved away from World War II wargames, and to reflect this, Cole changed the title of Issue #15 (October 1976) to Battlefield.

Cole had graduated from Texas Tech the previous year,[3] and found he was becoming more interested in building a game company than publishing a magazine.

[3] In the February 1976 edition of The Strategic Review (Issue #6), Gary Gygax called this zine "a veritable goldmine of information on boardgames.