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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.
Grade: C" List concluded, "All these games had great potential. None achieved it. Too bad." [8] In Issue 63 of Fire & Movement, Rick Swan was critical of the four-game collection, writing, "Army Group South is a not particularly successful example of an SPI quadrigame. [The four games are] a crazyquilt collection that is neither good history ...
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.
The game is divided into three scenarios, each of which becomes more complex than the previous due to the addition of new rules: Operation Barbarossa: This simulation for two players covers the period of war between Germany and the USSR after Germany's invasion in 1941. It is designed to introduce the players to the game's combat and movement ...
The game comes with nine scenarios: "Invasion of Poland" — Critic Nick Palmer claimed this two-turn scenario was the shortest to appear in a board wargame with the exception of GDW's Chaco, which also had a two-turn scenario [1] "Barbarossa" "Stalingrad" "High Water Mark" "Kursk" "Destruction of Army Group Center"
Another point for players of tactical wargames to consider was the increasing amount of unit data that was being built into the games. Rather than pieces depicting generic "infantry" or "cavalry" units as in Civil War strategy games, for example, games like Tobruk were inundating players with tables of complex ballistics information.
Barbarossa: The Russo-German War 1941–45 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1969 that simulates the conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II. This was only SPI's second game produced during a preliminary round of "Test Series" games, and proved to be the most popular.
The corps was originally formed on 15 December 1940 in Germany. At the dawn of Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June 1941, the Corps was attached to Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's Panzer Group 1, a part of Army Group South. The corps took part in the Battle of Brody early in the campaign, and later saw action at Berdichev and Kirovograd.