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War in Europe is a grand strategic "monster" board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that attempts to simulate the entirety of the European theatre of World War II from 1939 to 1945.
Wagram: The Peace of Vienna (Napoleon at War quadrigame, 1975) War Between the States 1861–1865 (1977) War in Europe (1976) War in the East (1974) War in the Ice (1978) War in the Pacific (1978) War in the West (1976) War of the Ring (1977) Wavre: The Lost Opportunity (Napoleon's Last Battles quadrigame, 1976) Wellington's Victory: Battle of ...
In 1982, TSR unexpectedly took over SPI and made it their wargame publishing subsidiary. TSR reissued several of SPI's more popular games such as Blue & Gray without revision. In the case of World War II, TSR game designer Jeff Ealy decided that the game needed a complete redesign, and discarded all of Dunnigan's rules. [2]
A simulation game of the war in Europe. This game is a combination of War in the East and War in the West with additional rules and mechanics. [5] Highway to the Reich: SPI: 1976 2,400 6 The game is set during the Second World War, covering ten days of Operation Market-Garden, from 17 to 26 September 1944, with two hours per turn. War in the ...
The First World War, subtitled "August 1914–November 1918", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1977 that simulates World War I.. The game is an expansion of the SPI "monster" game War in Europe, and does not come with maps; players must own a copy of War in Europe and must re-mark the World War II maps with fortifications and national boundaries ...
In Issue 15 of Fire & Movement, Rodger MacGowan related that shortly after Wurzburg was released, SPI began to distribute their wargames in Western Europe, including West Germany. However, after the German magazine Der Stern ran an article on how Wurzburg used the town as the setting for military combat that might involve nuclear weapons, there ...
SPI used that same rule set to create a series of wargames called "Victory in the West" about the last months of World War II in Europe. The first of these was Patton's 3rd Army , a pull-out game published in Strategy & Tactics No. 78 (January–February 1980) that was designed by Joseph M. Balkoski, with graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen ...
NATO was designed by Jim Dunnigan and published by SPI in 1973. [1]In 2003, Decision Games acquired the license to the game, revised and streamlined the rules, and republished it in Strategy & Tactics #220 as Group of Soviet Forces Germany.