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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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#38 w/CA

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Best Seller

Blue & Gray I - Shiloh

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXSH    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

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)

Best Seller

#13 "NATO, To the Green Fields Beyond"

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#187 w/Risorgimento - War in Italy

By: SPI

Year: 1997

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#214 w/The Ancient Battles of Marathon & Granicus

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-214    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

#242 w/They Died With Their Boots On #2 - Pershing & Mad Anthony

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-242    Year: 2007

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#253 w/Drive on Kursk - 1943

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-253    Year: 2008

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#266 w/Julian - 4th Century Roman Victories

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-266    Year: 2010

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#286 w/Sparta vs. Athens

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-286    Year: 2014

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#310 w/American Civil War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-310    Year: 2018

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#320 w/Sepoy Mutiny

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-320    Year: 2019

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

Best Seller

Panzer Armee Afrika

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIPA-Z    Year: 1973

Type: Ziplock

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

Wilson's Creek

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3000    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

#21 "StarForce, Frederick the Great"

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#213 w/Spanish Civil War Battles

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-213    Year: 2003

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#221 w/The Seven Years World War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-221    Year: 2004

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#241 w/Ottoman Twilight - World War I in the Middle East

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-241    Year: 2007

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

Best Seller

#243 w/Sealords on the Mekong Delta

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-243    Year: 2007

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

#309 w/The War of Turkish Liberation

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-309    Year: 2018

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

1812 - The Campaign of Napoleon in Russia (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIET-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

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

Across Suez

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2640    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

Austerlitz (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIAZ-PFT    Year: 1973

Type: Flat Tray

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

Campaign for North Africa, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2140    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

StarForce - Alpha Centauri

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISF    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Science Fiction - Flat Trays (SPI)

Sword and the Stars, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3340    Year: 1981

Type: Boxed Game

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

#202 w/Invasion Taipei

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-202    Year: 2000

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250

#269 w/Falklands Showdown - The 1982 Anglo-Argentine War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-269    Year: 2011

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#275 w/Koniggratz - Blood & Iron Triumphant

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-275    Year: 2012

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#36 w/Destruction of Army Group Center

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Commando

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2440    Year: 1979

Type: Box Set

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

RPG

Frigate

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIFG-Z

Type: Ziplock

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

Outreach

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIOT-Z    Year: 1976

Type: Ziplock

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

Patton's 3rd Army

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2910    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

SPI Catalog '73

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Catalogs (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)

#15 "Sinai, The Next War, War in the Pacific"

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#193 w/The Crimean War

By: SPI

Year: 1998

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#23 w/T-34 (Reprint Edition)

By: SPI

Year: 1970

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#25 w/Centurion

By: SPI

Year: 1971

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#321 w/Airborne Korea

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-321    Year: 2020

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

Arena of Death

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3080    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

Barbarossa (Color Flat Box)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIBA-CFB    Year: 1969

Type: Flat Tray

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

Battle of Borodino, The - Napoleon in Russia, 1812

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIBDZ    Year: 1972

Type: Ziplock

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

BattleFleet Mars

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1580    Year: 1977

Type: Boxed Game

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

Blue & Gray II - Battle of the Wilderness

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXBW    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series