Steam Workshop::SPI game mods

Created by MadMark56

Not a SPI title, but still a S&T #153 magazine game from 1990. It's a hex-and-counter strategy game of the conflict in East Africa in World War I by Richard Berg. New re-designed counters and a regrettably poor, but usable, map. Rules PDF with historical b...

SPI's A Mighty Fortress

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SPI's multi-player power politics game of the Reformation/Counter-reformation between 1532-1555. A unique game kind of like Diplomacy with religion and missionaries added. Rule booklet included. New counters and upgraded (and corrected) cards and map. I al...

SPI's Agincourt

Created by MadMark56

A hex-and-counter war-game of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 on the tactical level, designed by James F. Dunnigan (Panzerblitz, et al.) in 1978. Rule book, and new re-designed counters with corrected art and typos included. Thanks to MrStump for the Flex ...

SPI's Albion: Land of Faerie

Created by MadMark56

ARES #11, November 1981 issue game. A fantasy wargame/RPG pitting the Elves (or Sidh), against trolls and humans for control of the Enchanted Isles. Rules and background fiction included. Somewhat complex gameplay, designed by David James Ritchie. Thanks t...

SPI's Arena of Death

Created by MadMark56

ARES #4 magazine game by SPI from 1980, designed by David James Ritchie. This is the tactical component from the Dragonquest RPG. I've uploaded the entire magazine including the game rules and articles, etc. I've also re-designed the counters expanding the...

SPI's Armada

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics Magazine #72, a 1978 hex and counter wargame of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet in 1586-88, designed by Sterling S. Hart. I've included re-designed and corrected counters and map. Thanks to MrStump for the Flex Tabl...

SPI's Battle of Austerlitz

Created by MadMark56

A hex-and-counter wargame from 1980 of the Battle of Austerlitz. Also called the Battle of Three Emperors, it is concidered by some historians to be Napoleon's greatest victory. Designed by David James Ritchie. Moderate complexity, with rulebook & new coun...

SPI's Battle of Monmouth

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Strategy & Tactics #90 magazine game from 1982. A hex and counter wargame of the Battle of Monmouth between General Washington's re-formed army after the Valley Forge winter, and the British Regulars under General Clinton. Designed by Dr. David G. Martin, ...

SPI's Blue&Gray Complete

Created by MadMark56

The complete Blue&Gray collection, nine hex-and-counter wargames from the American Civil War by the SPI design team from 1975-77. New counter design, and rulebooks included. Introductory to intermediate difficulty, based upon the Napoleon at Waterloo syste...

SPI's Breitenfeld

Created by MadMark56

SPI's Stategy & Tactics magazine #55 game, Breitenfeld: Triumph of the Swedish System. A game-system of operational warfare in the first half the the Seventeenth Century. Rules Booklet included. This is the premier game of the Thirty Years War QuadriGame. ...

SPI's Citadel of Blood

Created by MadMark56

ARES #5 November 1980 magazine game. The mod also includes backstory fiction and rules booklets. An early attempt at using two-sided dungeon tiles to make a ever-changing playing board. A good entry-level RPG for beginners, and a fun "beer & pretzels" game...

SPI's City-Fight

Created by MadMark56

SPI's hex & counter war game of tactical combat in the urban environment for two players designed by Joe Balkoski and Stephen Donaldson in 1979. A graduated learning progression incorporating a Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced game. Each level increasing ...

SPI's Crimean War

Created by MadMark56

Four complete hex and counter battles of the Crimean War from 1978. Designed by Steve Ross, these were an attempt to combine the simplistic rules of 'Napolean at War' or the 'Blue and Grey Quad' with somewhat more 'realistic' rules from 'Terrible Swift Swo...

SPI's DeltaVee

Created by MadMark56

ARES #9 magazine game by SPI from 1981. This is the tactical ship-to-ship combat system from the UNIVERSE Role Playing Game. New counter graphics, and Ship logs optimized and scripted for TTS. Thanks to Mr.Stump for the flex table and the customizable char...

SPI's Dixie

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics #54 Dixie is an alternate history wargame supposing that the Confederacy survived the Civil War, and refought the conflict with modern weapons in the 1930s. Rulebook included, designed by Redmond A. Simonson....

SPI's DragonQuest

Created by MadMark56

SPI's award-winning Fantasy RPG by Eric Goldberg, G.Klug, D.J. Ritchie & E.Woods from 1980. Later re-published by TSR in 1989, but is all but forgotten today. A solid game system with all the elements of most modern RPGs, and a few odd querks. I've include...

SPI's Frederick the Great

Created by MadMark56

Stragegy & Tactics #49 Mar/Apr 1975 magazine game. Campaigns of the 'Soldier King' 1756-1759. Features two maps, the original and a new 4-color one from Luca Marcolungo via BBG. New scans and custom counters, rules and historical article included. Designed...

SPI's Freedom in the Galaxy

Created by MadMark56

SPI's Freedom in the Galaxy is a science fantasy wargame/RPG from 1979. A Star Wars homage (or ripoff) with 140 Cards, 400 counters, rules and background booklets included. Somewhat complex, but entertaining. Easy graduated learning scenarios. Designed by ...

SPI's Games of Middle Earth

Created by MadMark56

The War of the Ring, Gondor, and Sauron in one package. Winner of the Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Fantasy game. New updated graphics. Rules tablets (with URLs for download) included. This is the 40th anniversary of it's publication in 1977. I was 21 ...

SPI's Great Medieval Battles

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Four hex-and-counter battles (one fictional) from the middle ages from 1979, designed by David Werden. Of moderate complexity, these are an entertaining mix of rival weapon systems rather than historically slavish simulations. Re-designed counters and an u...

SPI's Grenadier

Created by MadMark56

Grenadier is a tactical (company level) simulation of warfare in the 18th-19th century from 1680 to 1850. The period was marked by a tremendous increase in the firepower of infantry and artillery units leading to combined-arms tactics. Cavalry and infantry...

SPI's John Carter Warlord of Mars

Created by MadMark56

SPI's game of ERB's second-most famous creation, John Carter Of Mars. A unique attempt at re-creating the iconic stories that some more 'serious' science fiction writers consider one of their important inspirations. While the stories are mainly 'adventure-...

SPI's Kharkov

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics Magazine #68 hex and counter wargame of the Soviet Spring Offensive in 1942. Designed by Stephen B. Patrick, with new counter graphics and rules booklet included. A spin-off of the popular game Panzergruppe Guderian, but this time it's t...

SPI's King Arthur (w/Miniatures)

Created by MadMark56

King Arthur faces Modred at the battle of Stonehenge 536 as part of the Great Medieval Battles Quad from SPI. Comes complete with both based and un-based miniatures, plus the original SPI counter set. Rule booklets included, moderate compexity. Special tha...

SPI's Musket & Pike

Created by MadMark56

Musket and Pike is a 1973 simulation of the art of warfare in Europe from the introduction of manageable individual-man firearms to the introduction of the socket bayonet in the late Seventeenth Century. The game presents the tactics and possible results o...

SPI's Naploeon's Last Battles

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Four hex-and-counter wargames of the major battles of Napoleon's 'Hundred Days' campaign from 1976. A popular game, it has been published several times by different copyright holders. Designed by Kevin Zucker. New re-designed counters, moderate complexity....

SPI's Napoleon At War

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Four complete hex and counter battles from the Napoleonic Wars from 1975. Jointly-designed by the SPI team. These games where an attempt to generate more interest for inexpensive pre-20th century games. They are of introductory/moderate complexity. I re-de...

SPI's Napoleon at Waterloo

Created by MadMark56

An introduction to hex and counter wargaming by Simulations Publications Inc. from 1971. Designed by James F Dunnigan. Rules Booklet included. with miniature soldier tokens http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1097438327...

SPI's Napoleon at Waterloo (with Miniatures)

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An introduction to hex and counter wargaming by Simulations Publications Inc. from 1971. Designed by James F Dunnigan. Rules Booklet included. Beautifully detailed miniatures by JamesManhattan. without miniature soldier tokens http://steamcommunity.com/sha...

SPI's PRESTAGS

Created by MadMark56

Pre-Seventeenth Century Tactical Game System. Five complete hex and counter wargames with 80 historical scenarios covering battles from the Pharoah to the Swiss Pikemen. This is the 40th Anniversary of this game's publication(1975) designed by John M. Youn...

SPI's PRESTAGS Triptych-The 100 Years War (English ascendance)

Created by MadMark56

Three battles from the Hundred Years War (English asendency) using SPI's PRESTAGS game system updated for 2018. I've expanded, revised, and improved the terrain graphics, added counters for VPs, Panic, and Turns. Flip the unit over for 'Disrupted' state. T...

SPI's PRESTAGS Triptych-The Italian Wars

Created by MadMark56

Three battles from the early 16th century Italian Wars using SPI's PRESTAGS game system updated for 2018. I've expanded, revised, and improved the terrain graphics, added counters for VPs, Panic, and Turns. Flip the unit over for 'Disrupted' state. The new...

SPI's PRESTAGS Triptych-The Scottish Wars

Created by MadMark56

Three battles from the Scottish Wars of Independance using SPI's PRESTAGS game system updated for 2018. I've expanded, revised, and improved the terrain graphics, added counters for VPs, Panic, and Turns. Flip the unit over for 'Disrupted' state. The newes...

SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian

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Strategy & Tactics Magazine #57 hex and counter wargame of the Battle of Smolensk in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa. Designed by James F. Dunnigan, with new counter graphics and rules booklet included. A popular game that introduced some innova...

SPI's Paratroop

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Strategy & Tactics #77 game of three WWII Airborne assaults by John H. Butterfield from 1979. Rules, new redesigned counters, and the complete S&T #77 magazine included. Thanks to MrStump for the Flex Table....

SPI's RAID!

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Strategy & Tactics #64 magazine game designed by Mark Herman in 1977. Simulates commando operations in the 20th century from 1941 through 1976. Featuring game rules, re-designed counters, and the complete S&T#64 magazine. Thanks to MrStump for the Flex Tab...

SPI's Ragnarok

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Ares #8 magazine game from May 1981. I've also included the original fiction backstory....

SPI's Rescue from the Hive

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ARES #7 magazine game from March 1981. I've included the original backstory article, and a solitaire system developed by the designer Nick Karp. *New updated table, thanks MrStump, and new re-designed counters. I hated the original alien counters, apologie...

SPI's Return of the Stainless Steel Rat

Created by MadMark56

ARES #10 magazine game by SPI from 1981, designed by Greg Costikyan. Original story and game idea from well known sci-fi author Harry Harrison (Soylent Green, et al) introducing anti-hero 'Slippery Jim' diGriz. Primarily a solitaire game, but can be two pl...

SPI's Rifle & Saber

Created by MadMark56

Rifle & Saber is a tactical (company level) simulation of warfare in "the age of the rifle," roughly from 1850 to 1900. The period was marked by a tremendous increase in the firepower of infantry units which far outstripped advances in tactics. Cavalry and...

SPI's Robert at Bannockburn

Created by MadMark56

Part of the Great Medieval Battles Quad from SPI, it features custom counters from BBG member Sergio Guerra. SPI's King Arthur (w/Miniatures) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1535622972...

SPI's Russian Civil War

Created by MadMark56

A multiplayer (or solitaire) political/war game from 1976 featuring area movement , assassinations, and random events. Up to six factions vie for control of the crumbling Czarist Empire, including the Reds, Whites, Nationalists, and foreign interventions. ...

SPI's Search & Destroy

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Squad level tactical combat in Vietnam 1965-66 published in 1975, rulebook included. It's kind of like a boardgame version of "Vietnam '65". Designed by John M. Young Jr....

SPI's Siege of Constantinople

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Strategy & Tactics #66 magazine game from 1978. A hex and counter wargame of the fall of the Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire in 1453. Includes rules booklet, historical article, and new custom counters, rules, and map additions for naval combat. Designed ...

SPI's Sorcerer

Created by MadMark56

Sorcerer is a fantasy wargame from 1975. Each player has an army consisting of Sorcerers, human infantry, and magical units (trolls, demons, and dragons). Sorcerers specialize in types of magic represented by 6 (or 8) different colors. Sorcerer adds a twis...

SPI's Spies!

Created by MadMark56

Game of European international intrigue in the 1930's. Thanks to BBG member boyce1981 for the Card replacements for the event tiles & action counters. I also used them as backs when making the police and spy counters. (The map was the best I could find, if...

SPI's StarSoldier

Created by MadMark56

A hex-and-counter wargame of Tactical Combat in the 25th Century designed by Tom Walczyk in 1977. This game and Spi's 'Outreach' and 'StarForce' form their trilogy of future warfare. This game focuses on man-to-man combat whereas Outreach simulates interst...

SPI's Stonewall

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics #67 magazine game from 1978. A hex and counter wargame of the Battle of Kernstown in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. The premier game of the popular Great Battles of the Civil War series by Mark Herman/Tom Walczyk from SPI (designed origi...

SPI's Tannenberg

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics Magazine #69 from 1978, a hex and counter war-game of the opening battles of the Eastern Front in 1914. Designed by David C. Isby, with new counter graphics and rules booklet included. This was the premier game of the War in the East ser...

SPI's The Art of Siege

Created by MadMark56

Four hex-and-counter war games of Alexander the Great's Siege of Tyre in 332 BC, Richard the Lion-heart's Siege of Acre in 1191, Marlborough vs Vauban at Lille in 1708, and the 'first modern siege' at Sevastopol in the Crimean War 1855. Designed by Mark He...

SPI's The Conquerors

Created by MadMark56

Two massive ancients hex-and-counter war games using one system. The first is the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great, and the second simulates the Roman Republic's Expansion in the Mediterranean. Designed by the recently departed Richard...

SPI's The Crusades

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics Magazine #70 - a 1978 hex and counter multi-player wargame of the 1st Crusade, and a two-player game of the 3rd Crusade, designed by Richard Berg. Re-designed and expanded counter set and rulebook included. Thanks to MrStump for the Flex...

SPI's Napoleon's Art of War

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Strategy & Tactics #75 magazine game of two Napoleonic battles, Dresden & Eylau by Bob Jervis/Omar DeWitt from 1979. Rules, new redesigned counters, and the complete S&T #75 magazine included. Thanks to MrStump for the Flex Table....

SPI's The Flight of the Goeben (plus Tactical Goeben)

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Stategy & Tactics #21 magazine game from May-Jun 1970 simulating the WWI battlecruiser's exploits for 11 days in the Mediterranean in August 1914. Includes Tactical Goeben miniatures ship rules. I've added transports and colliers for fun in the tactical ga...

SPI's The Omega War

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Ares #14 magazine game about post-apocalyptic warfare in former North America designed by David James Ritchie in 1983, then owned by TSR. Sorry for the regrettable (but playable) map quality. I've re-designed the counter set, and included the game rules an...

SPI's The Kaiser's Battle

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Strategy & Tactics # 83 magazine game from 1980 by Joseph M. Balkosky. It simulates the last German Counter Offensive of the Western Front during World War I in 1918. The game features a somewhat complicated combat system designed to parallel the attrition...

SPI's Berlin'85

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S&T#79 magazine game Berlin'85 is an operational level simulation of a hypothetical attempt by the Warsaw Pact to seize the city of West Berlin within the context of a general conventional East-West war, designed by James F. Dunnigan (Panzer Blitz, et al) ...

SPI's Thirty Years War

Created by MadMark56

Four complete hex and counter wargames from the Religious Wars in Europe 1618-1648. The prequel to these games is the S&T magazine issue game Breitenfeld, available here on TTS. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=475501367...

SPI's South Africa

Created by MadMark56

S&T#62 magazine game South Africa: Death of Colonialism is a hypothetical operational level simulation of a possible revolt of that nation's Black majority against the White South African government and the reaction to such a revolt in the late 1970's. In ...

SPI's Veracruz

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics #63 magazine game from 1977. A hex and counter wargame of the Invasion of Mexico and the taking of it's capital in 1847. Designed by Richard Berg. A moderate complexity game, with somewhat arcane combat rules, but overall a solid 'Berg d...

SPI's Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Created by MadMark56

S&T #59 magazine game Plot to Assassinate Hitler is a power politics simulation of the attempts by various members of the German hierarchy to kill Hitler and seize the reins of government by James F. Dunnigan (Panzer Blitz, et al) from 1976. Includes re-de...

SPI's Wellington's Victory

Created by MadMark56

The Battle of Waterloo on the 'Grand Tactical' scale, designed by Frank Davis. With 4 maps and 1000 counters it was the original 'monster game' from SPI in 1976. It was reprinted by TSR in 1983, and later totally revamped by Decision Games in 2015 (the suc...

SPI's Cassino

Created by MadMark56

Strategy&Tactics #71 magazine game is a company/platoon scale simulation of the third Allied attack on the German Gustav Line around the Abbey and town of Monte Cassino in March of 1944 designed by John Prados (Third Reich, et al) in 1978. Includes redesig...

SPI's WolfPack

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics Magazine #47 hex-and-counter Solitaire wargame of submarine warfare in the North Atlantic in World War II. Of moderate complexity, it was designed by James F. Dunnigan in 1974. New counter graphics, and rules booklet included. Thanks to ...

SPI's S&T Quad

Created by MadMark56

Four S&T magazine games #50, 51, 52,and 56 bundled into one. These games were the smaller 'Folio' size with 17x22 maps & 100 single-sided counters and I didn't feel they justified their own mods, though they are solid games all designed by James F. Dunniga...

SPI's Year of the Rat

Created by MadMark56

Strategy & Tactics #35 magazine game is a simulation of the documented operations during the thirteen weeks of the Communist Offensive in the Spring of 1972 in Vietnam, designed by John Prados and James F. Dunnigan. Interesting to note that this may have b...

SPI's China War

Created by MadMark56

Strategy&Tactics#74 magazine game of a hypothetical Sino-Soviet conflict in the 1980's, designed by Brad Hessel in 1979. Includes redesigned counters, rules, and the complete S&T#74 magazine. Thanks to MrStump for the Flex Table....

TSR's Soldiers of the Queen

Created by MadMark56

Another non-SPI S&T#95 issue, this time from TSR. A hex-and-counter strategy game of two of the most famous Victorian Colonial War battles, Omdurman and Ishandlwana. One an overwhelming victory, the other Britain's greatest defeat by a native army. Designe...

SPI's Operation Olympic

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S&T#45 Operation Olympic: the Invasion of Japan designed by James F. Dunnigan (PanzerBlitz, et al) from 1974. A solitaire (or 2 player) simulation of the planned attack on the Japanese homeland in 1945. Includes redesigned counters, rules, and the complete...

SPI's The Alamo

Created by MadMark56

SPI's hex-and-counter rendition of the siege of the Alamo by Eric Smith in 1981. It features some interesting rules, but nearly always ends as expected. Rules, S&T article, and redesigned counters included. I've also added a couple of Osprey books for hist...

SPI's Bloody April

Created by MadMark56

SPI's Bloody April is the grand tactical, regimental level simulation of the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), April 6-7, 1862. Bloody April is Richard Berg's second game using the award winning system for American Civil War battles introduced in Terrible Swif...

SPI's Universe RPG

Created by MadMark56

Universe: The Role-Playing Game of the Future is a science fiction role-playing game published by Simulation Publications, Inc (SPI) from 1981 to 1983 by John H. Butterfield & Gerard C. Klug. Included are my custom unit counters, the Delta Vee tactical gam...

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