 Its unofficial heir was "Operations Magazine" published by Multi-Man Publishing to support the line of Avalon Hill games that remained in print, but that too went out of print in 2010, replaced by "Special Ops" magazine in 2011.When the first issue was published, wargaming in the modern recreational sense was still in its infancy, and The Avalon Hill Game Company had been producing wargames for a mass market for only five years.It was the first professionally produced wargaming magazine ever published for the nascent cardboard and hex-map wargaming hobby.