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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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#28 w/Lost Battles (1st Printing)

By: SPI

Year: 1971

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

Recent Arrival

#285 w/Duel on the Steppe - Russia, February - March 1943

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-285    Year: 2014

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#29 w/U.S.N.

By: SPI

Year: 1971

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#292 w/North Cape

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-292    Year: 2015

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #251 - #300

#312 w/Alesia - Last Stand of The Gauls

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-312    Year: 2018

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#318 w/Constantinople - Bullwark of Empire 641-718

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-318    Year: 2019

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#319 w/Schlieffen's War

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-319    Year: 2019

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#325 w/Italian Ottoman War 1911-1912

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST-325    Year: 2020

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#334 w/What If? Rio Grande War 1865

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST334    Year: 2022

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#338 w/Russian Boots South

By: Decision Games

Stock #: DCGST338    Year: 2022

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #301 - Present

#37 w/Scrimmage

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#4 w/Arena of Death

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

#42 "Atlantic Wall, The Next War"

By: SPI

Year: 1979

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#46 w/Combined Arms

By: SPI

Year: 1974

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics #01 - #50

#49 "Ironclads, Drive on Stalingrad"

By: SPI

Year: 1980

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#7 w/Rescue from the Hive & DragonQuest Adventure

By: SPI

Year: 1981

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Ares Magazine (SPI)

#9 "Maxi-PanzerBlitz, Shiloh"

By: SPI

Year: 1973

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #01 - #50

#96 "Over the Top, Charlemagne"

By: SPI

Year: 1998

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Moves Magazine #051 - #100

Across Suez

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2640    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

American Civil War, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIAW    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

Art of Siege, The

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2020    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Berlin '85

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2830    Year: 1980

Type: Boxed Game

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

Blue & Gray I

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIQBG    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

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

Blue & Gray I - Cemetery Hill

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXCM    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

City-Fight

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2250    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

Conquerors, The (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPICR    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

Firefight

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIFF    Year: 1976

Type: Flat Tray

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

Firefight

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1370-84    Year: 1984

Type: Boxed Game

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

Recent Arrival

Four Battles of Army Group South

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2390    Year: 1979

Type: Boxed Game

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

Highway to the Reich (2nd Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1820    Year: 1977

Type: Boxed Game

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

Introduction to Wargaming

By: SPI

Year: 1978

Type: Magazine

Product Line: Strategy & Tactics (Special Issues)

MechWar '77

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIMW    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

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

MechWar '77 (Designer's Edition)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIHMW-773    Year: 1975

Type: Boxed Game

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

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

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1780    Year: 1977

Type: Boxed Game

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

Mighty Fortress, A

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIMG    Year: 1977

Type: Flat Tray

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

Modern Battles I - Chinese Farm, Egyptian-Israeli Combat in the '73 War

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXCF    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series

Recent Arrival

Napoleon's Last Battles

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI3016    Year: 1984

Type: Boxed Game

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

Operation Olympic (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIOL    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

Prestags Master-Pack

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIPRS    Year: 1975

Type: Flat Tray

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

double flat tray

Seelowe

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISE    Year: 1974

Type: Flat Tray

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

Sixth Fleet

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISXZ    Year: 1975

Type: Ziplock

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

Solomons Campaign, The (Plastic Flat Tray)

By: SPI

Stock #: SPISC-PFT    Year: 1973

Type: Flat Tray

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

Space Capsule #3 - Titan Strike!

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI2356    Year: 1979

Type: Ziplock

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

Stonewall - The Battle of Kernstown

By: SPI

Stock #: SPI1880    Year: 1978

Type: Boxed Game

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

Strategy & Tactics - Revolt in the East

By: SPI

Stock #: SPIXRE

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: War Games - Folio Series (SPI)

Folio Series