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Permalink Reply by Eric Walters on October 31, 2020 at 11:54am

From the Boardgame Geek entry for the game:

Magazine References:

Moves Article Index:

• Number 18, December 1974/January 1975
  • MechWar '77: Tactical Armored Combat in the 1970's / Frederick the Great: The Campaigns of The Soldier King - "Designer's Notes" (Design Notes)
• Number 26, April/May 1976
  • " '77 x 7: Additional Scenarios for MechWar '77: Tactical Armored Combat in the 1970's" (Scenarios), Philip S. Kosnett
    • 24.1 Hedgehog Defence - Soviet vs West German
    • 24.2 Rear Area Raid - Soviet vs US Army
    • 24.3 Mechanized Assault - Soviet vs US Army
    • 24.4 Diversionary Assault - Soviet vs British
    • 24.5 Delaying Action - Soviet vs WW2 German
    • 24.6 Syrian-Israeli Tank Battle - Syria vs Israel
    • 24.7 Iranian-Iraqui Tank Battle - Iranian vs Iraqui
  • "Facing in Panzer '44: Tactical Armored Combat, Europe, 1944-45/MechWar '77: Tactical Armored Combat in the 1970's" (Variant), William Tallen
• Number 27, June/July 1976
  • MechWar '77: Tactical Armored Combat in the 1970's - "Mech War Tactical Doctrine" (Strategy), John Hinsley
  • "Scenarios for Modern Games" (untested scenarios), Philip S. Kosnett
    • 4 scenarios for MechWar '77: Tactical Armored Combat in the 1970's:
      • 23.1 The German Revolt - Strong Point Defence - Soviet vs East German
      • 23.2 The German Revolt - Pursuit of defeated rebels - Soviet vs East German
      • 23.3 Greek Invasion - Bulgarian vs US Army/British
      • 23.4 Immun Gun Incursion - North Korean vs South Korean

Fire & Movement Article Index:

• Number 1, 1976
  • "Mech War '77: Zeuzleben Affair" (scenario) Warren Williams

Some of this material can be found in the SPI scenario archive in PDF, along with some others:

http://www.spigames.net/SPIScenarios.htm

http://www.spigames.net/PDFs/MechWar77P11com.pdf

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Permalink Reply by Eric Walters on October 31, 2020 at 12:14pm

There's also a good number of variant counter graphics and map versions available in the Files section of BoardGameGeek for the game entry:  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5383/mechwar-77-tactical-armore....

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