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Redmond & The End of SPI

[Above: Eric Lee Smith & Kevin discussing Redmond and SPI at ConsimWorld Expo 2025] Redmond Simonsen, SPI’s Art Director from 1969 to 1982, was...

The Inner Game of Music

We were both nineteen and going to “High School with ashtrays.” She wore tan corduroys, unlike the other girls, and flannel shirts—Pendleton’s. She...

High School Days

Our housing development was built on the grounds of a former Japanese Internment camp called “Camp Kohler.” Initially a camp for migrant farm worke...

NAPOLEONIC TOURS: 1991–2017

Napoleonic Tours started in 1991 with our first tour—to Paris and Waterloo. The next year took us to Northern Italy, to discover Bonaparte’s first ...

Bonaparte in Italy: Why a Redesign Now?

Since 1979 when the first edition of OSG's Bonaparte in Italy was published, knowledge about the campaign has increased exponentially... More impor...

vintage print ad for Avalon Hill's D-Day wargame

HOW I BECAME A WARGAME PUBLISHER

At the age of 13, I started studying the "Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation" published in the back of magazines, usually in the D...

IN 1972

In the course of editing over 100 games I came to know something no one else at SPI knew—where all the best ideas were.

OPEN UP THE TIRED EYES

I confess I was surprised when GDW's Avalanche won 'Best Graphics' at Origins '77. Perhaps one contributing factor is that the three SPI games nomi...

WHY ARE UPDATES

ALWAYS NECESSARY? Is there a wargame out there without errata?

COUNTERSTRIKE DISPATCHES

At Wartenburg the combat loss was estimated as equal to the after-battle attrition... The full story isn’t recorded for Bertrand’s IV Corps but the...

DRESDEN AAR: START TIME AUGUST 26, 1813

Greetings Kevin, thought I’d write you a game report of our first run-through of the Dresden scenario. We had a great day!

LINDA MOSCA

"I would like to remind women wargamers that while they are fewer in numbers, they make equally effective generals."