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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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Musket & Pike

Musket & Pike

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIMP

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

Napoleon at War - Four Battles

Napoleon at War - Four Battles

By: SPI

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

Napoleon's Art of War - Eylau & Dresden

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2630

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

Normandy - The Invasion of Europe 1944

By: SPI

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

North Africa - Kasserine

North Africa - Kasserine

By: SPI

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

North Africa - Supercharge

North Africa - Supercharge

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXSC

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Objective Moscow

Objective Moscow

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIOM-Z

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

Objective Moscow

Objective Moscow

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIOM

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

double flat tray

Oil War (Collector's Edition)

Oil War (Collector's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIJOW-779

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

Outreach

Outreach

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1480

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Boxed Games (SPI)

Paratroop

Phalanx

Phalanx

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIPHX-Z

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

Prestags - Legion

Prestags - Legion

By: SPI

Stock #: SPILO-Z

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

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Red Sun Rising

Red Sun Rising

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1840-ZIP

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

Red Sun Rising

Red Sun Rising

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1840

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

Seelowe

Seelowe

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISE-Z

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

Siege of Constantinople, The

Siege of Constantinople, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1870

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

SPI Wargame Collection - Musket & Pike, Rifle & Saber + Grenadier!

By: SPI

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

Staff Study #2 - Wargame Design

Staff Study #2 - Wargame Design

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

StarForce Trilogy

StarForce Trilogy

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1540

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Boxed Games (SPI)

StarSoldier

StarSoldier

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1530

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Boxed Games (SPI)

Swords & Sorcery (Red Box Edition)

Swords & Sorcery (Red Box Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1990-R

Product Line: War Games - Fantasy - Boxed Games (SPI)

Vol. 3, #2 w/Crete (mini-game)

Vol. 3, #2 w/Crete (mini-game)

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Wacht am Rhein

Wacht am Rhein

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1510

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

War In Europe - Expansion Set

War In Europe - Expansion Set

By: SPI

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

War in the East (2nd Edition)

War in the East (2nd Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1220

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

Wellington's Victory - The Battle of Waterloo

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1450-SPI

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

large brown box version

Westwall - Bastogne, The Desperate Defense, December 1944

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXBS

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Westwall - Hurtgen Forest

Westwall - Hurtgen Forest

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXHF-WES

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

Wilderness Campaign, The - Lee vs. Grant

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWD

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

WolfPack- Map Only!

WolfPack- Map Only!

By: SPI

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora, The

Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2960

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Boxed Games (SPI)

Year of the Rat

Year of the Rat

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIYR-Z

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

#106 "The Red River Campaign, The Battle of Pleasant Hill, Wargames Writ Large"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#107 "Warsaw Rising, Home Army at Bay, Nicaraguan Insurrection of 1979"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#108 "Remember the Maine!, The New Empire, Russo-German War Plans 1941"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#110 "Hastings 1066, Tactics at a Micro Level, Russo-German War Plans"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#115 "Parachutes Across the Dnepr, The Vicksburg Campaign, Abensberg & Eckmuhl"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#122 "Pegasus Bridge, BEF, German Aerial Reconnaissance"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#125 "The Far Seas, Russo-Swedish War, Island Combat"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#126 "2nd Annual Modern Warfare Issue, Beirut '82, Arab Stalingrad"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#127 "War with Mexico, Colonel Washington at War, Beyond the Beachhead"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#13 "Damocles Mission, Fifth Frontier War, Space Ace 21"

By: SPI

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI) - Magazine Only!

#130 "Tsushima, Russo-Japanese War, Erratas"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#133 "Baton Rouge, Sumer and Smoke, The Gulf War"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#135 "German East Africa, Assault at Odessa, Artillery"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#136 "Borodino, Waterloo Campaign, NATO"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#140 "Tunis, Under Foreign Flags, Battle of Lissa"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#141 "Great Armor Assaults, Persian Gulf Order of Battle"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#144 "Chad - The Toyota Wars, The Rise of the Red Army and Its Path to Operational Art"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#145 "Trajan - Roman Campaign in the East, Naval Weaponry, Applied Wargaming"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150 - Magazine Only!

#15 "Nightmare House, Haunted Places, Into the Void"

By: SPI

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI) - Magazine Only!

#151 ""The Napoleonic Revolution in Battle, Raphia and the Military System of Alexander's Successors"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!

#158 "Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance Military"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!

#161 "Napoleon's First Battles, Tactical Notebook, Profile - J.F.C. Fuller"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!

#163 "The Seven Years War in Europe, Weapons of the American Civil War, Profile - Sebastien Vauban"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!

#171 "Profile - Machiavelli, Somalia - Roots of Conflict"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!

#172 "Molotob's War, Ther German A-Bomb, Orwell War"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!

#175 "Prussian Light Infantry, Operation Iron Hammer - The Luftwaffe"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!

#178 "Boer War of 1899-1902, Japanese Grand Strategy 1850-1942"

By: SPI

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200 - Magazine Only!