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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 is a German anti-tank unguided aerial rocket developed during the Second World War. The missile was based on the R4M Orkan air-to-air rocket used by the Messerschmitt Me 262 . It was fitted with either an 80 mm (3.1 in)-diameter standard [ clarification needed ] warhead, in Panzerblitz I, or a 210 mm (8.3 in)-diameter hollow charge ...
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
He designed Jutland, which Avalon Hill published in 1967, following it up with 1914 the next year, and PanzerBlitz in 1970, which eventually sold more than 300,000 copies. [2] Meanwhile, Dunnigan had founded his own company, initially known as Poultron Press, and which was soon renamed to Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI).
However, he noted "The opportunity fire rule, while more realistic, has a slight tendency to keep units' heads down in cover, so the game is not quite as fluid as [previously published Avalon Hill game] PanzerBlitz." Comparing Panzer Leader and PanzerBlitz, Palmer said, "both games are excellent, and preference is largely a matter of taste." [3]
The remains of a World War II airman were identified 80 years after his plane was shot down during a bombing mission in Germany, military officials said this week. In the spring of 1944, U.S. Army ...
In the first years of its existence, SPI produced several tank combat wargames, including PanzerBlitz (1970), Combat Command (1972) and KampfPanzer (1973). SPI game designers Jim Dunnigan and Redmond A. Simonsen took elements from each of the three previous games and produced Desert War, [2] a non-historical game of desert combat, which was published in 1973.