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Author Topic: SPI's Modern Battles Quads  (Read 116 times)

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on: September 07, 2024, 11:17:31 AM
SPI's "ModQuads" were some of my favorite games for a long time.  Still hold up remarkably well....


Modern Battles (I) published in 1975
Had 4 games in it.  Counters were silhouettes.  2 of the 4 were actual battles that happened, while the other 2 were hypotheticals

Chinese Farm - not in China, but rather Israel v Egypt in '73

Würzburg - A favorite of mine, obvs hypothetical
Also makes an appearance in this battle lab article about recon units and wargaming

Golan - Another actual battle, and again from '73, but at the other end of Israel

Mukden - What was then a rare hypothetical - Sino-Soviet combat, including paratroopers


Modern Battles II published in 1977
Had 4 games in it.  Counters were NATO symbols, and only 1 historical battle.  All the hypothetical games had "untried" unit sides for greater fog of war before the battles started

Bundeswehr - double-rarity: it's a rare wargame designed by a woman (decades before Kai Jensen, Amabel Holland, and Rachel Simmons, among others, would cut loose on wargame design); it's a rare NATO-vs-Red Horde CWGH game with -no- Americans in it.  It's all Germans + Brits vs the Warsaw Pact in Northern Germany

DMZ - Hypothetical Korean shooting war in the '70s, later redone/updated by Decision as a folio game

Yugoslavia - 3 major factions: Russians, NATO (US/Italy), Yugoslavians. Depending on the scenario, the Yugoslavians side with either the Russians or NATO, and a rare 3-player scenario, too.  Plus the prescient Yugoslavian Civil War scenario that splits their army into Serb/Croat factions

Jerusalem - The only historical battle in here - 1967 - and the only one with untried units, since historically they were, y'know... tried and we know what happened.  Also had multiple nationalities on the "Arab" player side: Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq

Gonna end up adding some other posts to this thread w/ attachments and links...

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Reply #1 on: September 07, 2024, 11:32:51 AM
Here are a few magazine articles that appeared on these games over the years

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Reply #2 on: September 07, 2024, 11:34:42 AM
And we've had a few of these on #UnboxingDay over the years, like this one

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/unbox/unboxingday-dmz-bundeswehr-by-spi/



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Reply #3 on: September 07, 2024, 11:45:45 AM
Of note, we also have SPI's Bundeswehr on the schedule for the 2024 Fall Assembly

And you have to specify that it's the SPI Bundeswehr, b/c there was also an expansion for the GDW Assault series games called "Bundeswehr" too

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