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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.
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 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”.
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 ...
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 ...
Panzer Command (board game) Panzer General: Russian Assault; Panzer Grenadier series; Panzer Leader (game) PanzerArmee Afrika (board game) PanzerBlitz; Panzergruppe Guderian (game) Patrol (board game) Patton's 3rd Army; Patton's Best; Piercing the Reich; The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (game) Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk; Proud Monster
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 author of the infamous book, Black Flags. [1] Great War at Sea received awards at the Origins Awards in 1998 and ...
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.