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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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War in the West -Map E Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

War in the West -Map F Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

War in the West -Map G Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

War in the West -Map H Only!

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Supplies

Product Line: War Games - Parts (SPI)

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Wilson's Creek

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3000-Z    Year: 1980

Type: Ziplock

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

Winter War (Flat White Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWW-FWB    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

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

Winter War (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWW-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

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

World War 3

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWO-Z    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

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

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#88 w/BAOR

By: SPI

Year: 1981

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#142 w/Tarawa - Red Beach One

By: SPI

Year: 1991

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#63 w/Veracruz

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#147 w/Holy War - Afghanistan

By: SPI

Year: 1991

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#240 w/1066 - The Battle of Hastings

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-240    Year: 2006

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Best Seller

#340 w/French & Indian War Battles

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST340    Year: 2023

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

Best Seller

#77 w/Paratroop

By: SPI

Year: 1979

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Best Seller

#111 w/Korea - The Mobile War

By: SPI

Stock #: ST349    Year: 1987

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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#116 w/Manchu

By: SPI

Year: 1988

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

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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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#60 w/Road to Richmond

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Best Seller

#215 w/The Iran-Iraq War, 80-88

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-215    Year: 2003

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Best Seller

#44 w/Tank!

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Best Seller
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#61 w/October War

By: SPI

Year: 1977

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Bloody April

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2510    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

#227 w/Vinegar Joe's War - CBI Theater

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-227    Year: 2005

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

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#244 w/Drive on Moscow (Special Double Sized Game)

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-244    Year: 2007

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

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#52 w/Oil War

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

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#290 w/Angola - Cold War Struggle in Africa

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-290M    Year: 2014

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

Best Seller
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#49 w/Frederick the Great

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Blue & Gray

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI00820    Year: 1984

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

Next War, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2000    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

Russian Civil War

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIKRC-795    Year: 1976

Type: Boxed Game

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

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#222 w/The Ottomans - Rise of the Turkish Empire

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-222    Year: 2004

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Best Seller

#223 w/1918

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-223    Year: 2004

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

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#260 w/The Black Prince - Crecy & Naverette

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-260    Year: 2009

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

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#66 w/The Siege of Constantinople

By: SPI

Year: 1978

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Best Seller

Island War - Four Pacific Battles

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQIW    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

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

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StarForce - Alpha Centauri (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIHSF-771    Year: 1974

Type: Boxed Game

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

#204 w/Twilight of the Hapsburgs

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-204    Year: 2001

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Best Seller
Best Seller

#238 w/Marlborough & The War of Spanish Succession

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-238    Year: 2006

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#297 w/1863 - Turning Point in the Civil War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-297    Year: 2016

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

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#322 w/Banana Wars

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-322    Year: 2020

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

Best Seller

#347 w/Operation Holland

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST347    Year: 2024

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

Best Seller

Middle Earth Trilogy - War of the Ring, Gondor & Sauron

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQRT    Year: 1978

Type: Flat Tray

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

War in the Pacific

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1860-B    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

#219 w/The Spanish Civil War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-219    Year: 2003

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#220 w/Group of Soviet Forces Germany

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-220    Year: 2004

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

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#229 w/Khan - The Rise of the Mongols

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-229    Year: 2005

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#328 w/Vicksburg

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-328    Year: 2021

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#41 w/Kampfpanzer

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#187 w/Risorgimento - War in Italy

By: SPI

Year: 1997

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#210 w/Belisarius - The Byzantine Empire Strikes

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-210    Year: 2002

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250