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The summer of 2024 --
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There's a WEALTH of information about SPI games on this site.
I am trying to get to a set of pages for every SPI game - like these: Terrible Swift Sword | Wellington's Victory | I would enjoy discussions of the games, with tactics you've tried and results you achieved. Here is an example of that with SPI's Terrible Swift Sword / GBACW series: I also have an opponent's wanted, all SPI games. Opponents Wanted (Sign Up Sheet) | Map of Opponents | 2022 SPI Napoleon Quads Fest! But there is much more to be done! However, this is my Christmas present to all of you. Explore the site, and let me know what you think. And good gaming! ----Russ
By the way - I'd appreciate any feedback you'd like to offer. Click here And - if you find links that don't work - or you are looking for something from SPI you can't find -- please send me a note -- here!
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9/24/24 - SPI Games that were out of print by
6/30/1980 Link
SPI Game List with SPI IDs A work in progress - have a few more to go but a listing of SPI games with their SPI ID Both the letter ID, and the later Number ID. (Number ID came in when the company changed from Flatpacks to Boxes.) Link 6/25/24 - Victory in the West VASSAL Tournament announced! Details here! Link Sign up! Link
6/19/24 - Added - a beautiful cleaned up scan of the
Barbarossa map! Wade Wilson again has done an incredible job
cleaning this up. Thank you Wade!
Link
6/18/2024 - a 1.4 VASSAL version of the original
Terrible Swift Sword 1st edition. (Original missing the 17th Maine from III
Corps.) All credit remains with Al Hay, who willed so many of these SPI
Vassal modules, and Allen Dickenson, who added to this one and is keeping it
alive. I suspect Allen will either add this update to the VASSAL site, or
improve it with his own work, but for now...
LINK
6/4/24 - Added - scan of SimPubs version of the Creature that Ate Sheboygan Rulebook Link
5/30/2024 JFD and RAS illuminate their approach to Game
Design looking back on their 1972 games. Game Design: Where Do We Go
From Here? by James Dunnigan.
Link
5/16/24 - Draft of a profile of Operation Grenade
by Nathan Mueller- including my 'important rules to play the game' on pages
2 and 8! Link 5/12/24 - Added - scan of Original Dawn of the Dead
Rulebook
Link 4/2/2024 Added the original scenarios for
Armageddon - so they are separated and easier to use.
Link 2/13/24 - See the excitement you are missing - read my latest weekly update for the Musket & Pike VASSAL tourney - and see my hair raising finish to my first round battle! LINK 1/22/24 -- Take a trip back to 1973 and visit the offices
of SPI with John Positano in "Tales of the Old Guard!" --
LINK
TOURNAMENTS STARTING! Link to M&P Vassal module with scenarios in place: LINK 1/1/24 The 2024 Blue & Gray VASSAL
tournament is about to begin! I have 16 players confirmed. If you not signed
up, now is the time to do so! Matchups and details will go out this week! Sign up
here! LINK 12/11/23 Added an interview with artist Timothy Truman (GrimJack, Scout, and a WHOLE lot more) talking about his first professional job - at SPI in 1980-81! You'll recognize the art from Ares magazine - some of their BEST covers - and you will get to see the people we know at SPI, too! LINK 12/8/23 Wade Wilson is at it again! He has given us a pristine copy of the WWI map. Enjoy, and Thanks Wade! JPG LINK PNG LINK 12/8/23 Richard Mottram has uploaded numerous counterset images -- all added in the Extras menu! Many thanks, Richard!
12/5/23 And Philip Sabin has
updated his Napoleon at Waterloo Variant rules. These have been popular! See
more under the Variant menu! Or just download here!
LINK 12/2/23 Floated the idea of a Musket & Pike VASSAL tournament
and it looks like it has enough players to be a go! Interested? Sign up
here! LINK
10/30/23 James F. Epperson, whose original work for MOVES included articles on TSS and Stonewall, has contributed a TSS scenario for our use! This is a "What If" scenario, happening the day BEFORE the traditional Gettysburg, with extra cavalry that COULD have been there. Enjoy! LINK
10/29/23 Joseph Godbout has gifted us with an excellent review and partial
replay of the original Kursk! There is a lot to unpack in this
article, so let's get started!
LINK 10/14/23 Tabletop Games has certainly come a long way. This sheet shows some 225 SPI games are now available in this popular online format. (The list shows 212 - but some some of the quad games are not listed separately.) LINK 9/3/23 We are starting September with a bang - Joseph Godbout has gifted us with an excellent play by play of Year of the Rat - a game we never see enough of here! LINK 8/27/23 Bruce Redenour has contributed a replay of the SPI Classic, The
Ardennes Offensive. I added a rules review, and and put it all together
here! LINK
7/30/23 I have added the Second Edition Armada rules to the site, as well as
the Errata pages for Armada 1st edition.
Link to 2nd Ed
Rules 7/29/23 Wade Wilson is at it again! He has a beautifully cleaned map for
Lost Battles, an early lost gem from the SPI House of Wonders!
Original PDF Link 5
Meg JPG Link 3
Meg JPG Link 4/28/23 Alan R. Arvold contributes two articles on Lost Battles! The first is a recap of changes, and needed errata, plus suggested counters! And the second is a rundown of all the counters in the game, along with the ones he proposes in the first article! Enjoy! Advanced Lost Battles Link And Counter Listing Link Brian Train shared this PDF of Arvold's Variants! Link 4/14/23 A list of publications by hobby mainstay Martin Campion - scholar, researcher, writer, and long-time chronicler of the simulation games hobby! I have also linked all the articles of his that are already on the website so you can read them. Special thanks to the late John Kula for this, and to Brian Link Link to unpublished Campion article here! 4/6-8/23 George Nap is at it again! This time it is the SPI great, Chickamauga! See it here! Link And now, Fredericksburg! Link
A highly detailed replay of Balaclava
from The Crimean War Quad has been delivered to me from Leo
Zappa. This is a very enjoyable effort!
Link
Also one for Blue & Gray. (I know, but what
the heck.)
Link 3/25/23 Bannockburn scenario cards for ROI Link and Yeoman Link. Honoring the day Robert the Bruce became King of the Scots - and the battle that marks the beginning of the end of the Feudal system. Need the ROI VASSAL module? Link New 3/22/23 New 3/18/23 PRESTAGS Scenarios!! Mod
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5 Musket & Pike Scenarios!!
Musket & Pike
The Gold Rush of scenarios for
this old favorite, by "the usual suspects?" MANY THANKS to Steven B. Guy,
Kim Meints, Arthur Hendrick, Lawrence P. Duffield, John Lee, and Rob Gibson.
New 3/16/23
New Replays! New 3/12/23
New Replays!
Adjourned Game Sheets New 3/7/23
New Replays! Have you noticed the new menu item, Tactics? I have recently added some nice articles, including a look at reinforcement choices in Arnhem, and other articles to follow! New 12/18/22 Cedar Mountain Tactics If Tactics is all about how you move the units, this 11 page booklet looks at making your maneuvers on the board 'all about menace' that forces your opponent to prevent disaster! The booklet focuses on the power and proper use of Artillery and Cavalry. Don't overlook the little realized points of a cavalry charge. Quizzes review your understanding of elevation and line of sight, and the later review of calculations for fire and melee combat! New 12/13/22
King Arthur
Replay! Cedar Mountain Strategy Russ Gifford walks through the first two turns of Cedar Mountain, and discusses the development of a winning strategy for the Union! New - 6/20/22
JFD
interview by Pat Flory New - 6/12/22 New - 4/17/22 Plus a few examples to drive home the points. SPI Videos 2/8/22 New - 1/23/22
Quick Start VASSAL
Guide! New - 1/8/22
Event-Year Cards Added
the cards for Empire of the Middle Ages - thank you John Edwards. Much nicer
than my originals!
Creature Video Replay: Yugoslavia Breaking into the Mod Battles II quad, George Nap adds this Yugo/NATO effort to eject the invading Soviets from Zagreb!
Replay: Mukden Mr. Nap
provides yet another great replay from The Modern Battles Quad. This time it
is Mukden, a hypothetical battle that occurs when the Soviets invade China!
New - 1/3/22
Campaign for North Africa
RAS on Large Games
RAS on Game Graphics New - 12/31/21
The Next War Intro
Operation
Typhoon New - 12/23/21
Normandy Rules
New - 12/21/21
Leipzig Rules
Wreck of the Pandora New - 12/12/21 Special Issues S&T Books New - 12/8/21
Barbarossa Rules
Some Universe stuff added - like
errata, other things. New - 11/26/21
Deployment Rules! New - 11/26/21
Game Design Newsletter #5
Game Design Newsletter
#4
Tactical Tips
- 11/17/21
The Never Quads
Game Design Newsletter #3
Game Design Newsletter
#2 New - 11/14/21
Against Four Worlds
Game Design
Newsletter #1 S&T Supplement 8 Below: I'm excited about these Designer / Developer Notes compilations. It was a goal when I started this web site to do ALL of these.
Compiled
Development Notes for SPI Games: If you
want the original versions I did for the GBACW Development Notes, here
is the link to the first page of them. Follow the links on that first
page for the rest. (GBACW
Link) See previous Months additions here
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