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The table below offers you pages of play by play action for SPI game replays!
View a move by move replay of games you know well - or ones you have never tried!
These replays are a great way to experience the game. Via pictures and discussions of moves, you can see different strategies, and their results!
Experience the game as the situation unfolds!
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| Title | About | by | Length |
| SPI's Antietam (B&G Quad) | Quick play through of the game with a picture per turn! | J.L. Robert | 20 Pages, 10 pictures |
| SPI's Battle of Austerlitz | Another EXCELLENT play by play from George, with multiple pictures per turn from this later version of Austerlitz! | George Nap | 27 pages, 23 pictures |
| SPI's Battle of Corinth (GBACW V6) | Light on pictures, but this replay is great on textual detail of the moves in a play by play recounting, with a nice break down in the after action recap. Good analysis! | Tom Hanover | 23 pages, 1 picture |
| SPI's Battle of Monmouth (S&T 90) | Play by play action of the Campaign Game! Lots of action, and lots of pictures with plenty of commentary! | David OS | 29 pages, 20 pictures |
| SPI's Battle of Monmouth (S&T 90) | This one offers up the first 14 turns, and has plenty of surprises! Lots of action, and lots of pictures with commentary! Opening also gives an refresher of the game system. | Russ Gifford | 35 pages, 20 pictures |
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SPI's Cassino (S&T 71) |
Play by play action - 17 turns, nice layout, good writeup. | ER Bickford | 12 pages, 18 pictures |
| SPI's Cemetery Hill (B&G Quad) | Quick play through of the game with a picture per turn! | J.L. Robert | 10 Pages, 10 pictures |
| SPI's Chariot (PRESTAGS) | The first scenario in the pack is in this quick replay. Delta – Hyskos vs. Egyptians,1675 BCE. | Michael Wintz | 11 Pages, 8 pictures |
| SPI's Chickamauga (B&G Quad) | Quick play through of the game with a picture per turn! | J.L. Robert | 20 Pages, 10 pictures |
| SPI's Chinese Farm (Mod Battles) | George Nap has given us another quality replay to enjoy! Follow this fast moving scenario 1 battle - the Israeli effort to breach the Suez in 8 turns against a lot of Egyptian forces! | George Nap | 31 pages, 31 pictures |
| SPI's Conquistador (S&T 58) | A nicely detailed overview of the game following 21 turns of action with big close up pictures. | ER Bickford | 29 pages, 25 pictures |
| SPI's Crete (S&T 18)! | George Nap turns in a tour de force of this replay of SPI's FIRST magazine game - Crete! Don't miss this! | George Nap | 19 pages, 18 pictures |
| SPI's Desert Fox (S&T 87) | A short play of two turns. (If I get more of the game, it will be added.) But the opening overview gives you insights to the mechanics of the game, and you see how those mechanics work in these opening turns. | James Halstad | 6 pages, 4 pictures. |
| SPI's Drive on Washington | Keith Meadows contributes a firecracker of a replay of this short sharp collision of Early's Rebels trying to steal victory by routing the Union troops from Washington DC shortly before the 1864 elections! Can Wallace's ad hoc force hold them? At least 25 closeup pictures shows you almost ALL of the action! | Keith Meadows | 27 pages, 25 pictures. |
| SPI's Oil War (S&T 52) | A quick replay (8 turns) of this highly tactical game that was never really considered a great game, but it was widely played in its time. | ER Bickford | 13 pages, 15 pictures. |
| SPI's
Operation: Grenade (S&T 84) VITW #2 |
This game, the second in the Victory in the West series, is a highly tactical puzzle for the Allied player. Mr. Bickford does a nice job of laying out the choices faced by both sides in these 10 turns. The pictures are not quite as clear as others, but this replay is highly informative for those wanting to learn to excel at this great game! | ER Bickford | 14 pages, 10 pictures, with helpful details on the pictures. |
| SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian | EXCELLENT step by step replay, with lots of beautiful pictures. Read this replay and see why Panzergruppe Guderian is considered one of best wargames ever! | George Nap | 38 Pages, 22 pictures |
| SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian | A short, sharp replay of Panzergruppe Guderian with nice pictures and pithy comments by a seasoned PGG Player! | George Falconer | 12 Pages, 11 pictures |
| SPI's
Patton's Third Army (S&T 78) VITW #1 |
A detailed look at the first game in the Victory in the West series, covering 24 turns! | ER Bickford | 22 pages, 16 pictures |
| SPI's
Pea Ridge
GBACW #1 |
A grand replay of this treasured first volume from the Great Battles of the American Civil War series. There are over 30 large pictures with plenty fo detail to allow you to cover the ebb and flow of the entire battle - all 28 turns! | ER Bickford | 59 pages, 34 pictures! |
| SPI's Punic Wars (S&T 53) | George Nap takes us through a replay of the first Punic War scenario! | George Nap | 16 pages, 15 pictures |
| SPI's Punic Wars (S&T 53) | George Nap and the Second Punic War scenario! This time each turn is an overview, and the results are excellent! | George Nap | 26 pages, 25 pictures |
| SPI's Road to Richmond (B&G) | This is an EXCITING replay to follow. George embraces the reality that the Union must fight to escape, and it is a hard fought battle from start to finish! 50 pages, but he lets the pictures do the talking! | George Nap | 50 pages, 50 pictures |
| SPI's Seelowe | Think you'd like to see if you can change history? George Nap thinks Hitler should have struck England in July of 1940. Can the Brits hold? See it unfold with pics from the end of EACH player turn! | George Nap | 38 pages, 35 pictures |
| SPI's Shiloh (B&G Quad) | Quick play through of the game with a picture per turn! | J.L. Robert | 20 Pages, 10 pictures |
| SPI's
Sicily
(S&T 89) VITW #3 |
Beautiful pictures with a detailed look at the third game in the Victory in the West series of greats. ER Bickford comments on 20 turns of this highly pleasing crowd favorite, perhaps the pinnacle of the original SPI WWII games. | ER Bickford | 25 pages, 19 pictures |
| SPI's Sinai | EXCELLENT step by step replay, with lots of beautiful pictures. The replay is of the 1956 scenario, and is a nail biter to the end. | George Nap | 26 Pages, 26 pictures |
| SPI's
Siege of
Constantinople (S&T 66) |
While he doesn't show every turn, he describes the action bombardment in the first 8 turns, and then picks up as the actions begins on Turn 9! Beautiful closeups of the counters! Ends on the May 10 turn, so over 20 turns. | ER Bickford | 15 pages, 15 pictures |
| SPI's South Africa | ER Bickford | ||
| SPI's
Stonewall (S&T 67) Prelude to GBACW |
The Stonewall game has always been a crowd favorite - and one of the earliest examples of SPI taking a great monster rules set and bringing it down to a small scenario. This one takes on TSS, and creates a knife's edge scenario that keeps both sides on the edge of their seat! This Replay is a huge help as well, though, because first time players can be a little uncertain of what the game is all about, and Bickford's talk through will help people get started! Roughly 12 turns. | ER Bickford | 11 pages, 12 pictures |
| SPI's Terrible Swift Sword (1st Ed.) | Wow - this replay will show WHY the original TSS was such a hit with everyone. The beauty of the game map and pieces is one part of it, and that is showcased in these pictures. The incredible action the game offers is the other reason. This replay starts fast and delivers a punch every turn as the desperate Union forces try to stop the rampaging Rebels in their surge toward Cemetery Hill. Watch the first day unfold in this GREAT effort! | T.C. Bradley | 53 pages, over 50 pictures! |
| SPI's Veracruz (S&T 63) | Another great and rather unusual game for SPI. Nice overview to get you started with this highly accessible game that still imparts lessons on the history of this vitally important but long forgotten campaign! | ER Bickford | 30 pages, over 30 pictures! |
| SPI's War of the Ring | ER Bickford | ||
| SPI's
Wilson's
Creek (S&T 80) GBACW #3 |
A great play by play of one of the great small playfests of the GBACW system. 15 Turns with lots of nice pictures track this game to its conclusion, and you will be much the wiser on your choices when you start your play of this game! | ER Bickford | 16 pages, 19 pictures |
| SPI's Year of the Rat (S&T 35) | And oldie AND a good one at that! Detailed play-by-play to get you into this game, and see how the mechanics work! This game was a ground breaking look into the war as it was happening, and was a pivotal point for ME in my interest in SPI. | ER Bickford | 16 pages, 20 pictures |
| Learning to Play SPI's GBACW v1.0 | These are PDF versions of my audio-visual training sessions. (e.g., no audio here). Consider these a different method of learning the rules to play SPI's TSS/GBACW system. | Russ Gifford | 10 sessions, hundreds of pictures. |
Special thanks to all the people donating their replays!
A number of these come from something I call the Bickford
Replays! Close to half the replays here were created by an incredible force
of nature named EH Bickford.
This page is made possible by his kind agreement to allow me to take his
original blog postings of these games and structure them into PDFs that are
easily downloaded for readers to gain enjoyment and insight into these great
games!
Many thanks to the other folks who have contributed as well - including George Nap, who has also compiled a great group of games for your enjoyment!
And ... you, the reader? There is plenty of room for more of these - and feel free to do the same game again! All these games can branch into new situations on a single different choice!
Click here to send feedback or to post me your play by play!