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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.
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 ...
PanzerBlitz [3] 1970 Panzergruppe Guderian: 1984 First published by SPI in 1976 Panzerkrieg: 1983 Originally published by OSG Panzer Leader: 1974 Past Lives: 1988 Patton's Best: 1987 Paydirt: 1979 American football: Pennant Race: 1983 Baseball: Perilous Lands: 1985 A Powers & Perils adventure, published as a BookCase Game The Peter Principle: 1981
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Comparing Panzer Leader and PanzerBlitz, Palmer said, "both games are excellent, and preference is largely a matter of taste." [ 3 ] In the 1980 book The Complete Book of Wargames , game designer Jon Freeman noted that " Panzer Leader follows in the footsteps of PanzerBlitz , but with four years' worth of improvements and additions."
In the 1980 book The Complete Book of Wargames, game designer Jon Freeman thought "while if in not in some ways as successful or as satisfying as its preeminent forefather [PanzerBlitz], The Arab-Israeli Wars is nonetheless a good tactical game." Freeman also thought the game system was outdated, saying, "The main problem is that the system is ...
The first issue, published in April 1973, contained the first article on PanzerBlitz Unlimited, an article on World War II mechanized combat, a variant for the wargame Borodino, and two reviews of commercial wargames, as well as several original mini-games — the squad-level WWII game MP44, a football game called Scrimmage IV, and a simulation ...