Blitzkrieg is one of Avalon Hill's earlier releases, and is a classic hex and counter board game. The game is a fictional representation of the breakout of World War II. Five minor countries become engulfed in a tremendous conflict for territory waged by Great Blue and Big Red, the major antagonists. Units represented are infantry, airborne, rangers...
Published in Strategy & Tactics magazine#19. (from the rulebook:) "This BLITZKRIEG revision was designed by James F. Dunnigan (who has never played this game) and put into an understandable format by Redmond Simonsen (who has played the game frequently). Mr. Dunnigan’s ideas and Mr. Simonsen’s organizational talents) became so intermingled by the time the...
Blitzkrieg 1939: Hoepner (or Blitzkrieg 1939 II) is the second game in the "Blitzkrieg 1939" mini-series. It simulates battles during the German invasion of Poland, September, 1939, between Polish defenders and the German XVI Corps commanded by Erich Hoepner. The following battles are included: Mokra Piotrków Trybunalski Tomaszów Mazowiecki Sochaczew...
(from the rulebook:) Blitzkrieg 1940 is a two-player simulation of the decisive first three weeks of the campaign fought across the Low Countries and northeastern France during May of that year. The Allied player, primarily on the defensive, controls French, British, Belgian and Dutch forces, and is opposed by the invading German player, who commands units...
First edition: It is a development of the game system that appeared in VV #7, Abbeville 1940 and covers two other battles in the 1940 campaign, Hannut and Stonne. Both maps together take up one standard Vae Victis map. As with all Vae Victis games, counters need to be mounted and cut apart prior to play. Vae Victis issue 63. VV #63 also includes an ASL...
Blitzkrieg `41 is a two-player strategic level wargame of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The game includes a 20 page rulebook, 200 counters, and a 22" x 34" mapsheet which contains a map plus charts and tables for both players. Victory conditions are quite extensive (over a page of rules) and, because of the great number of draws that the...
Really small hex and counter wargame, by Lou Coatney. Corps to army Level, with British 1st Armoured Division thrown in. Succinct air rules. Incentive for British evacuation, should the French collapse. }:-) From the Designer's Notes: I should mention right here that I used the map and infantry strengths of my previous game, France 1914, as a basis for...
Blitzkrieg Challenged: The Battle of Dinant: May 12-15, 1940, is an introductory level game of the battle between the French Armed forces and Germany’s Wehrmacht on May 12th through 15th, 1940. The Germans launched Operation Yellow, the invasion of France and the Low Countries, on May 10, 1940. The German’s 5th Panzer Corps drove the Belgian and French...
Blitzkrieg Checked: The Battle of Gembloux: May 14-15, 1940, is an introductory level game of the battle between the French Armed forces and Germany’s Wehrmacht on May 14th and 15th, 1940. The Germans launched Operation Yellow, the invasion of France and the Low Countries, on May 10, 1940. The German vanguard of General Hoepner's XVI Coprs ran head-on into...
Blitzkrieg Deluxe is a "generic" World War 2 era wargame that pits two fictional nations against each other over a fictional land mass represented by a huge 34 by 55 inch map. The game is easy to learn with the rules clocking in at under sixeteen pages, but difficult to master as the options available to each player are numerous. Do you mass your assault...