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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.
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 major disappointment with the three major Avalon Hill games (Panzer Leader, PanzerBlitz and Arab-Israeli Wars) was the obvious sequential nature of the whole situation. A shoots, A moves. B shoots, B moves. With a little opportunity fire thrown in. In situations like the Battle of Kursk in Panzer Blitz confronting the enemy meant possible ...
In a 1976 poll carried out by SPI to determine the most popular board wargames in North America, Desert War placed 65th out of 202 games. [1] In Issue 55 of The Pouch, Duncan K. Smith liked the simultaneous move system, claiming that "moves for twenty pieces can be written in five minutes." The only disappointment Smith had with the game was ...
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.
Dunnigan was born in Rockland County, New York.After high school, he volunteered for the military instead of waiting to be drafted. From 1961 to 1964, he worked as a repair technician for the Sergeant ballistic missile; his service included a tour in Korea.
Cover art by Rodger B. MacGowan, 1979. Panzer is a wargame series by Yaquinto includes several related wargames, distinguished by subtitles. "Panzer: 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.
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”.