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PanzerBlitz is a tactical-scale board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1970 that simulates armored combat set on the Eastern Front of World War II. The game, which was the most popular board wargame of the 1970s, is notable for being the first true board-based tactical-level, commercially available conflict simulation wargame.
The new company produced a series of wargames of approximately the same scale and using similar rules, all designed by Dunnigan: Tactical Game 3 (sold to Avalon Hill and republished as PanzerBlitz), Combat Command, Red Star/White Star, Kampfpanzer, and Desert War. [2] Red Star/White Star was published in 1972 with graphic design by Redmond A ...
Panzer '44: Tactical Combat in Western Europe, 1944–45; Panzer (wargame) Panzer Command (board game) Panzer General: Russian Assault; Panzer Grenadier series; Panzer Leader (game) PanzerArmee Afrika (board game) PanzerBlitz; Panzergruppe Guderian (game) Patrol (board game) Patton's 3rd Army; Patton's Best; Piercing the Reich; The Plot to ...
The Panzer Leader map boards are interchangeable with the PanzerBlitz maps, and one could combine the two sets to make a larger battlefield. The scale is the same with the two games. The German units are interchangeable, and if one wanted, players can try a "what if" scenario with American/British forces vs. Soviet forces.
In 2001, Axis & Allies:Europe won the Origins Award for Best Historical Board Game of 2000. [1] Axis & Allies: Europe is set in the spring of 1941 and covers the conflicts between Germany and the Soviet Union, Great Britain (U.K.), and the United States (U.S.) across Europe, the Atlantic, North Africa, and the Middle East. [2]
Hammer's Slammers is a two-player board wargame using a hex grid map where players control various military units [1] including "Hammer's Slammers", a mercenary regiment commanded by Colonel Alois Hammer. [2] Game play is very similar to PanzerBlitz, using an alternating series of turns. The first player has the following phases: [2] Rally units
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 19] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.