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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.
[1] 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.
Jim Dunnigan founded the small publisher wargame publisher Poultron Press in 1969, and changed the name to Simulations Publications in 1971. 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 ...
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Adaptation of the Avalon Hill board game, 1830. 5th Fleet: 1994 Achtung Spitfire! 1997 Andromeda Conquest: 1982 Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization: 1995 B-1 Nuclear Bomber: 1981 Cave Wars: 1996 Computer Acquire: 1983 Adaptation of the Avalon Hill Board Game, Acquire. 1983 version was for Atari 400/800, Apple II/II Plus, Pet 2001 and TRS-80 ...
The concept was introduced in PanzerBlitz, though the number of configurations was low.This is the moment when "geo-morphic" gets in wargaming its peculiar meaning. The back of the game box described among the contents a “three section ‘Geo-Morphic’ mapboard which can be rearranged to form dozens of different terrain configurations”.
He has won Origins Awards both for wargame design (U.S. Navy Plan Orange) and role-playing game design . [1] He scripted the Panzer General II (for which he also designed the maps [ 2 ] ) and Destroyer Commander computer games, among others; designed such games as Survival of the Witless , Panzer Grenadier , and Great War at Sea ; and was the ...
Panzer, subtitled "A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945", is a board wargame published by Yaquinto Publications in 1979 that simulates Eastern Front combat between Axis forces and the Soviet Union during World War II. A version was released by Excalibre Games in 1993.