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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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#39 w/The Fall of Rome

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#40 w/Panzer Armee Afrika

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#53 w/The Punic Wars

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

Best Seller

Agincourt

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2010    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

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)

Best Seller

Gleam of Bayonets, A

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI00343    Year: 1983

Type: Boxed Game

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

Recent Arrival

John Carter - Warlord of Mars

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2380    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

Onslaught

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3021    Year: 1987

Type: Boxed Game

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

Operation Typhoon

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2070    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Panzergruppe Guderian (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIHPG    Year: 1976

Type: Boxed Game

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

Terrible Swift Sword

By: SPI

Stock #: SPITS-Z    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

War in the East (1st Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIWE    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

Best Seller

#11 w/Albion - Land of Faerie

By: SPI

Year: 1981

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

Best Seller

#188 w/Kiev & Rostov

By: SPI

Year: 1997

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

Best Seller

#2 w/Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

#209 w/Indochina War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-209    Year: 2002

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

#261 w/The Kaiser's War - 1918

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-261    Year: 2010

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#263 w/Cold War Battles 2 - Kabul '79 & Wurzburg Pentomic

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-263    Year: 2010

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#276 w/Operation Anaconda

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-276    Year: 2012

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

#281 w/In Country - The Vietnam War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-281    Year: 2013

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

Recent Arrival

#300 w/Desert Fox Deluxe

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-300    Year: 2016

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

Best Seller

#32 w/Borodino

By: SPI

Year: 1972

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#43 w/The American Civil War

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Best Seller

#5 w/Citadel of Blood

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

#57 w/Panzergruppe Guderian

By: SPI

Year: 1976

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

#80 w/Wilson's Creek

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #051 - #100

1918 (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPINE-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

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

Blue & Gray II

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQBT    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

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

Best Seller

Four Battles in North Africa

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQNA    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

Recent Arrival

Fulda Gap

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIFU    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

Modern Battles II

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQMT-FT    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

Best Seller

Moscow Campaign, The (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIMC-PFT    Year: 1972

Type: Flat Tray

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

Patrol!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIPL    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

Recent Arrival

Pea Ridge

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2950    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

TaskForce

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2890    Year: 1981

Type: Boxed Game

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

Best Seller

Wellington's Victory

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1450-TSR    Year: 1983

Type: Boxed Game

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

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)

Recent Arrival

World War II - European Theater of Operations

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3013    Year: 1985

Type: Boxed Game

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

#15 w/Nightmare House

By: SPI

Year: 1983

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

#174 w/Indo-Pakistani Wars

By: SPI

Year: 1995

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

Best Seller

#182 w/The Balkans Campaign of 1941

By: SPI

Year: 1996

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

Best Seller

#190 w/The Gauntlet

By: SPI

Year: 1998

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #151 - #200

#22 "Bull Run, Kursk, StarForce"

By: SPI

Year: 1975

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#259 w/Battle for China, 1937

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-259    Year: 2009

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#279 w/Reconquista! - The Struggle for Iberia, 850-1250 AD

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-279    Year: 2013

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#282 w/The War of the Pacific - Chile vs. Bolivia & Peru, 1879-83

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-282    Year: 2013

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

Best Seller

#289 w/War of the Austrian Succession

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-289    Year: 2014

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300