Talk:PanzerBlitz

Tactical Game 3

The main question I have with the current text is just how close the original S&T game was to the AH PanzerBlitz. If it was the same rules with new scenarios and maps (did TG3 have geomophic maps?), fine enough. If the rules got an extensive overhaul (which seems likely with Dunnigan) I'd rate them as separate games. Which would just make PB the direct decendant of the first tactical game, and the second one overall. --Rindis 19:00, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd have to check my reference. I have a copy of PanzerBlitz, but not TG3. My source was an anniversary issue of Strategy & Tactics, IIRC, which gave the whole rundown of lineage that I used as the basis of the article on the history of tactical wargames. Off the top of my head, it seems to me that Dunnigan designed the original and Avalon Hill simply published it in box form, but I've never seen the original - never even seen a picture of it. Will depend on how the magazine article describes it.Michael Dorosh 19:35, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly my problem. I've never seen anything say enough to know one way or another. :) --Rindis 20:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Game

Ironically, this masterpiece was designed by James F. Dunnigan who later became a major designer for SPI, a competing company noted for its emphasis on highly detailed simulations.

...not really ironic. James F. Dunnigan FOUNDED SPI. He went out on his own and published several more wargames than Avalon Hill, though they weren't quite as polished (the game maps were paper only - at least the ones my friends and I bought).