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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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Drive on Stalingrad

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIRR    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

Four Battles in North Africa

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQNA    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

Best Seller

Kursk (Eric Goldberg)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2680    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

Moscow Campaign, The (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIMC-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

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

Best Seller

Operation Typhoon

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2070    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Pea Ridge

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2950    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - American Civil & Revolutionary Wars - Boxed Games (SPI)

Best Seller

TaskForce

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2890    Year: 1981

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

Wacht am Rhein

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWA    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

#101 w/Cromwell's Victory

By: SPI

Year: 1985

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

Best Seller

#16 w/The High Crusade

By: SPI

Year: 1983

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

#174 w/Indo-Pakistani Wars

By: SPI

Year: 1995

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#181 w/The Fall of Rome

By: SPI

Year: 1996

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

Best Seller

#219 w/The Spanish Civil War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-219    Year: 2003

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#229 w/Khan - The Rise of the Mongols

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-229    Year: 2005

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Recent Arrival

#239 w/Winged Horse - Vietnam - 1965

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-239    Year: 2006

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Recent Arrival

#264 w/The Battle of Shiloh, 1862

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-264    Year: 2010

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

Best Seller

#279 w/Reconquista! - The Struggle for Iberia, 850-1250 AD

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-279    Year: 2013

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#28 "Arnhem, Patrol, Narvik"

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

Best Seller

#291 w/Warpath - Indian Territory in the American Civil War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-291    Year: 2015

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#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

#324 w/Fight the Fall

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-324    Year: 2020

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

Best Seller

#43 w/The American Civil War

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#51 w/World War 1

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Best Seller

#9 w/Delta Vee

By: SPI

Year: 1981

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Recent Arrival

1918 (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPINE-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

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

Best Seller

Battle for Stalingrad

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2840    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

Battles for the Ardennes

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2150-83    Year: 1983

Type: Boxed Game

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

Bloody April

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2510    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - American Civil & Revolutionary Wars - Boxed Games (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)

Recent Arrival

Empires of the Middle Ages

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2700    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - Ancients to Middle Ages - Boxed Games (SPI)

Four Battles in North Africa

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQNA-Z    Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - World War II African Campaign - Ziplocks (SPI)

Best Seller

Frigate

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIFG    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - 1500 to 1900 - Flat Trays (SPI)

Fulda Gap

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIFU    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

John Carter - Warlord of Mars

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2380    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - 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)

Best Seller

NATO Division Commander

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2310    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

Onslaught

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3021    Year: 1987

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

Operation Olympic (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIOL    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

Patrol!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIPL    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

Sniper Companion #2 - Special Forces

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3024    Year: 1988

Type: Ziplock

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

Terrible Swift Sword

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1310    Year: 1976

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: War Games - American Civil & Revolutionary Wars - Boxed Games (SPI)

Terrible Swift Sword

By: SPI

Stock #: SPITS-Z    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - American Civil & Revolutionary Wars - Flat Trays (SPI)

double flat tray

Recent Arrival

To the Green Fields Beyond - The Battle of Cambrai, 1917

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1960    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Recent Arrival

War in the East (1st Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWE    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

double 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

World War II - European Theater of Operations (Expanded & Updated)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3029    Year: 1990

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

#12 w/Star Trader

By: SPI

Year: 1982

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Best Seller

#156 w/White Eagle Eastward

By: SPI

Year: 1992

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#179 w/The First Afghan War, 1839-42

By: SPI

Year: 1996

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#182 w/The Balkans Campaign of 1941

By: SPI

Year: 1996

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