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Simulations Publications, Inc., was formed in 1969 by James F. Dunnigan, as an entity to oversee the publication of Strategy & Tactics, which Dunnigan purchased from Chris Wagner for the price of one dollar. Dunnigan and SPI quickly became established as more than just a magazine, however, and began producing wargames for both separate sale as well as the revolutionary step of including them in the magazine for subscribers. SPI aggressively entered a market dominated to that point in time by The Avalon Hill Game Company and adopted many other business concepts and practices in addition to its ambitious production schedule. SPI embarked on expensive advertising campaigns, for example purchasing full-page ads in Scientific American, and producing give-away copies of wargames for subscribers and visitors to trade shows (Napoleon at Waterloo went out to subscribers to S&T, while Strike Force One was produced specifically as an introductory game). S&T quickly acquired a much larger subscriber base than The General, though it was admitted that the magazine ran at a financial loss, though it was able to claim the cost of the wargames it produced as advertising costs.

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World War II - European Theater of Operations

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3013    Year: 1985

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - Boxed Games (SPI/TSR)

World War II - Pacific Theater of Operations

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3031    Year: 1991

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - World War II Pacific Theater - Boxed Games (SPI)

Best Seller

#10 w/The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat

By: SPI

Year: 1981

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Best Seller

#13 "NATO, To the Green Fields Beyond"

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

Best Seller

#156 w/White Eagle Eastward

By: SPI

Year: 1992

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#174 w/Indo-Pakistani Wars

By: SPI

Year: 1995

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#180 w/Reinforce the Right

By: SPI

Year: 1996

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

Best Seller

#182 w/The Balkans Campaign of 1941

By: SPI

Year: 1996

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#190 w/The Gauntlet

By: SPI

Year: 1998

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#191 w/Sea Devils

By: SPI

Year: 1998

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#207 w/War of 1812

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-207    Year: 2002

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#22 "Bull Run, Kursk, StarForce"

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#261 w/The Kaiser's War - 1918

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-261    Year: 2010

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#262 w/Frederick the Great at War - 1740-48

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-262    Year: 2010

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#276 w/Operation Anaconda

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-276    Year: 2012

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#292 w/North Cape

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-292    Year: 2015

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#301 w/Kaiser's War in the East 1914-1918

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-301    Year: 2016

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#303 w/War Returns to Europe - Yugoslavia Wars 1991

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-303    Year: 2016

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#308 w/The War of Jenkins' Ear 1739-1748

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-308    Year: 2017

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#32 "October War, Von Manstein, Starsoldier"

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#326 w/Mukden 1905

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-326    Year: 2020

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#332 w/Thirty Years War Battles

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST332    Year: 2021

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#37 "Expanded 3-Player War of the Ring"

By: SPI

Year: 1978

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#4 "Soldiers, War and Peace"

By: SPI

Year: 1972

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#42 w/The East Is Red

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Best Seller

#51 "Wilson's Creek, Pandora, Kursk"

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #051 - #100

#73 "Case Green, I am Spartacus"

By: SPI

Year: 1992

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #051 - #100

#93 w/The American Civil War

By: SPI

Year: 1983

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

1918 (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPINE-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - World War I - Flat Trays (SPI)

Battle for Cassino, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2260    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - World War II Assorted - Boxed Games (SPI)

Combined Arms

By: SPI

Stock #: SPICB    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Flat Trays (SPI)

East is Red, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIER    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II, Speculative - Flat Trays (SPI)

Julius Caesar

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3015    Year: 1985

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - Boxed Games (SPI/TSR)

Kaiser's Battle, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3190    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - World War I - Boxed Games (SPI)

Leipzig (Color Flat Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPILE-316    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Napoleonic - Flat Trays (SPI)

MechWar 2 - Suez to Golan

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2300    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II, Speculative - Boxed Games (SPI)

Plot to Assassinate Hitler, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIKAS-1030    Year: 1976

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - World War II Assorted - Boxed Games (SPI)

Twilight War, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3005    Year: 1984

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - Boxed Games (SPI/TSR)

U.S.N. (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIUS-PFT    Year: 1971

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - World War II Pacific Theater - Flat Trays (SPI)

War in Europe

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWR    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - World War II Assorted - Flat Trays (SPI)

triple flat tray

World War 3

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWO-FT    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II, Speculative - Flat Trays (SPI)

Best Seller

Year of the Rat (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIYR-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Post-World War II - Flat Trays (SPI)

#12 w/Star Trader

By: SPI

Year: 1982

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

#15 w/Nightmare House

By: SPI

Year: 1983

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Best Seller
Recent Arrival

#217 w/Meuse-Argonne - The Lost Battalion

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-217    Year: 2003

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Recent Arrival

#228 w/The Old Contemptibles at Mons, 1914

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-228    Year: 2005

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#230 w/Downfall - If the US Invaded Japan, 1945

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-230    Year: 2005

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#245 w/War of the Triple Alliance - Paraguay 1865-1870

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-245    Year: 2007

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Best Seller

#246 w/Manila 1945

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-246    Year: 2007

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#250 w/Red Dragon Rising

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-250    Year: 2008

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#259 w/Battle for China, 1937

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-259    Year: 2009

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300