Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jon Freeman's The Complete Book of Wargames hit the shelves on the 1st of January 1980. The book arrived at a moment when the wargaming industry was expanding so rapidly that it was already becoming obsolete before its first copy was sold.
The Complete Book of Wargames was published by Simon & Schuster under the Fireside imprint. This 285-page volume attempted to capture a hobby that was changing faster than the authors could write.
Critics like Jamie Adams of Games magazine pointed out that the title was misleading because the book reviewed and described only board wargames. The text failed to cover the important part of the hobby devoted to miniatures or fantasy role-playing games.
The Combat Resolution Table or CRT served as the mathematical heart of most strategy games in Jon Freeman's The Complete Book of Wargames. The book detailed how players could read a CRT to maximize odds and use terrain to execute defensive tactics on a hexgrid.
Major companies like Yaquinto Publications were entirely absent from the pages of The Complete Book of Wargames because they formed after the book was written. Many of the games reviewed were no longer available by the time the book reached bookstores.