Tabletop Gaming Annual

I GAVE up buying Tabletop Gaming because I felt the editors' hearts were not in it.
Instead of showing a game or game components on the cover, they always went with a computer-generated image, suggesting tabletop games were a poor relation of 'the real thing'.
However, I have made an exception with the magazine's special issue: The Best Games Of 2019.

Annual round-up … £9.99

It contains 181 reviews - in some cases, perhaps, truncated reviews.
That is a lot to get through, but most I just skimmed as they were of fantasy games set in the game-designers' imagined worlds - not something that interests me at all.
But there was enough in the magazine to form the basis for further research, with the possibility, however remote, of making a purchase.
The reviews that have piqued my interest are: 1066, Tears To Many Mothers; Ancient Civilizations Of The Inner Sea; Blitzkrieg!

Tabletop Gaming - Oct/Nov '17

IT has been some time since I bought a copy of Tabletop Gaming.
I have always been put off by the belief that the editor/publishers do not really believe in tabletop games, which is why the cover seems to be invariably bereft of any tabletop content.
Instead we get illustrations more suitable to computer games, which is where I suspect most of the staff's expertise lies.
However, I bought issue 12 on the promise of an article on "60 Years Of Risk - Looking Back On A Strategy Icon."

Tabletop Shaming?...no tabletop contents on the cover

I was not disappointed - the article takes up four pages and made me think I'd got my money's worth (£5.25) whatever the rest of the content.
The magazine is packed with pieces about tabletop games, but not a single report of a game played.