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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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#90 w/The Battle of Monmouth

By: SPI

Year: 1982

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#76 w/The China War

By: SPI

Year: 1979

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#56 w/Revolt in the East

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#58 w/Conquistador

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#73 w/Panzer Battles

By: SPI

Year: 1979

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#123 w/Campaigns in the Valley

By: SPI

Year: 1988

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#136 w/Borodino - Doomed Victory

By: SPI

Year: 1990

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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Sinai - The Arab-Israeli Wars

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISA    Year: 1973

Type: Flat Tray

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

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#69 w/Tannenberg

By: SPI

Year: 1978

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#83 w/The Kaiser's Battle

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#94 w/Nordkapp

By: SPI

Year: 1983

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#102 w/Monty's D-Day

By: SPI

Year: 1985

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#110 w/Hastings 1066

By: SPI

Year: 1986

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#141 w/Hannibal - The Second Punic War

By: SPI

Year: 1991

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#345 w/Tanks of August

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST345    Year: 2024

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

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#67 w/Stonewall

By: SPI

Year: 1978

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#130 w/The Battle of Tsushima

By: SPI

Year: 1989

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#144 w/Chad - The Toyota Wars

By: SPI

Year: 1991

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#70 w/The Crusades

By: SPI

Year: 1978

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#99 w/Thunder at Luetzen

By: SPI

Year: 1985

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Fast Carriers, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIFS    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

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

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#100 w/Superpowers at War

By: SPI

Year: 1985

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#103 w/The Road to Vicksburg

By: SPI

Year: 1985

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#112 w/Patton Goes to War

By: SPI

Year: 1987

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

#129 w/Harvest of Death

By: SPI

Year: 1989

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#155 w/The Italian Campaign - Anzio

By: SPI

Year: 1992

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

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#50 w/Battle for Germany

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

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#74 w/Ney vs. Wellington

By: SPI

Year: 1979

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#98 w/Central Command

By: SPI

Year: 1984

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#116 w/Manchu

By: SPI

Year: 1988

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#125 w/The Far Seas

By: SPI

Year: 1989

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#157 w/Roman Civil War

By: SPI

Year: 1993

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

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#226 w/Middle East Battles - Suez '56 & Elarish '67

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-226    Year: 2005

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

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#82 w/Fifth Corps

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#92 w/Iwo Jima

By: SPI

Year: 1983

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#95 w/Soldiers of the Queen

By: SPI

Year: 1984

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#121 w/The Indian Mutiny

By: SPI

Year: 1988

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#137 w/Men-At-Arms

By: SPI

Year: 1990

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#146 w/The Italian Campaign - Sicily

By: SPI

Year: 1991

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#252 w/The New Mexico Campaign 1862

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-252    Year: 2008

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#341 w/Return to Europe

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST341    Year: 2023

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

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#346 w/Battles of Andrew Jackson

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST346    Year: 2024

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

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#78 w/Patton's 3rd Army

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#80 w/Wilson's Creek

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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Napoleon at Waterloo (2nd Printing)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI651    Year: 1979

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Napoleonic - Ziplocks (SPI)

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NATO (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPINT-PFT    Year: 1973

Type: Flat Tray

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

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#106 w/The Battle of Pleasant Hill

By: SPI

Year: 1986

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#115 w/Kanev

By: SPI

Year: 1987

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#124 w/Fortress Stalingrad

By: SPI

Year: 1988

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#150 w/The Italian Campaign - Salerno

By: SPI

Year: 1992

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#3 w/Barbarian Kings

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

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#344 w/The Great Turkish War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST344    Year: 2023

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

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#60 w/Road to Richmond

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#64 w/Raid!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100