Who used to play SPI games?

[Elok]

I take it SPI was the name of the company that made the games, and not a description?

[Zkribbler]

Yep. They put out war stategy board games. Some of them were very creative.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Elok
I take it SPI was the name of the company that made the games, and not a description?

Strategic Publications, Inc, IIRC.

[Standup]

Pretty sure Freedom In the Galaxy was SPI. The character cards seemed very similar to Swords and Sorcery. Instead of magic items you'd get technology items.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Urb - Did that espionage game take place just before WWII? If so, I had it too. And I also don't remember with the name or whether it was SPI.

Yeah, I think so. The Soviet still got the NKVD.

[Tamerlin]

I regularly play the following SPI games (all republished by Decision Games):

Battles for the Ardennes
World War 1
Battle for Germany

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
I regularly play the following SPI games (all republished by Decision Games):

Battles for the Ardennes
World War 1
Battle for Germany

Interestingly Decision Games also publishes Strategy and Tactics, Dunnigans old magazine that used to be SPI (now under a different editor) No mention on their site of any connection to SPI though.