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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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Best Seller

#8 w/Ragnarok

By: SPI

Year: 1981

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Best Seller

Agincourt

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2010    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Desert War

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIDW    Year: 1973

Type: Flat Tray

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

Modern Battles I

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQMB-FT    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

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

Napoleon at War - Four Battles

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQNP    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

Product Line: War Games - Napoleonic - 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)

Best Seller

#117 w/North German Plain

By: SPI

Year: 1988

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

#177 w/The Hundred Years War

By: SPI

Year: 1995

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#216 w/Asia Crossroads - The Great Game

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-216    Year: 2003

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250


Best Seller

#239 w/Winged Horse - Vietnam - 1965

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-239    Year: 2006

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250


Best Seller

#257 w/Chosin - X Corps Escapes the Trap

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-257    Year: 2009

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300


#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

#281 w/In Country - The Vietnam War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-281    Year: 2013

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#298 w/Balkan Gambit

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-298    Year: 2016

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300



Recent Arrival

#308 w/The War of Jenkins' Ear 1739-1748

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-308    Year: 2017

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present


Best Seller

#32 w/Borodino

By: SPI

Year: 1972

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#328 w/Vicksburg

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-328    Year: 2021

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present


Best Seller

#336 w/First Punic War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST336    Year: 2022

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present



#39 w/The Fall of Rome

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#5 w/Citadel of Blood

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Best Seller

#59 w/The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Best Seller
Recent Arrival

Bloody April

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2510    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

Drive on Stalingrad

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIRR    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

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)

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)

Onslaught

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3021    Year: 1987

Type: Boxed Game

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


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)

Best Seller

TaskForce

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2890    Year: 1981

Type: Boxed Game

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

Recent Arrival

Terrible Swift Sword

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1310    Year: 1976

Type: Boxed Game

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

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)

Best Seller

Up Scope!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIUP    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

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

Best Seller

Wellington's Victory - The Battle of Waterloo

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWV    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

Best Seller

Westwall - Four Battles to Germany

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQWS    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

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)

#11 w/Albion - Land of Faerie

By: SPI

Year: 1981

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Best Seller

#128 w/Africa Orientale

By: SPI

Year: 1989

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #101 - #150

Best Seller


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

By: SPI

Year: 1996

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200


#180 w/Reinforce the Right

By: SPI

Year: 1996

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
Best Seller

#19 "La Grande Armee"

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50



Best Seller

Best Seller

#234 w/Lest Darkness Falls - Rome in Crisis, A.D. 235-285

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-234    Year: 2006

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #201 - #250




#261 w/The Kaiser's War - 1918

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-261    Year: 2010

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300



Recent Arrival

#268 w/When Lions Sailed - 17th Century Global Naval War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-268    Year: 2011

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

#293 w/1066 - The Year of Three Battles

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-293    Year: 2015

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300


Best Seller

#302 w/Great Northern War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-302    Year: 2016

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present




#305 w/Armies of the White Sun, The War in China 1937-1945

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-305    Year: 2017

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present


Recent Arrival

#326 w/Mukden 1905

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-326    Year: 2020

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present



Best Seller

#48 w/Sixth Fleet

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

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)

Recent Arrival

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)