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Later the same year, SPI published War in Europe, which combined a revised version of War in the East (henceforth called War in the East, 2nd edition) and War in the West. Players can either play one or the other, or can combine both games into one massive campaign covering the entire European Theater called War in Europe.
Modern Battles is a "quadrigame" — a game box that contains four separate wargames that use a common set of rules. Two of the games are based on battles during the Yom Kippur War that had occurred less than two years before publication of the game: [1] Chinese Farm: The cross-canal Battle of The Chinese Farm
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 ...
SPI combined the new version of War in the East with the newly published War in the West, which covered the western front of World War II, to produce War in Europe. All three games featured cartography and graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen. Although War in the West stayed in SPI's Top Ten list for four months following its publication. [2]
SPI started out publishing games on historical subjects, but soon started producing games that were more hypothetical (e.g. World War III, Invasion: America), and a little later, also tackled fantasy and science fiction subjects, such as Starforce: Alpha Centauri and War of the Ring (a Lord of the Rings game), eventually starting a new magazine ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...