Consistently relevant, consistently enjoyable, consistently capturing and representing the essence of board gaming culture, the Legendary Tactics channel is a must view for anyone interested in or invested in the hobby. Thanks for putting this episode together, it brought back a lot of fond memories of great gaming.
Man…this video brings back memories of the early 80s. If we weren’t playing D&D, we were breaking out the Avalon Hill games like Panzer Blitz, Squad Leader, etc. Good Times.
@@LegendaryTactics for land warfare games, my favorite was Panzer Leader. Naval Warfare, Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Finance would be Acquire, followed closely by Executive Decision. I do wish that I had others to play against, but all my family and friends are very disbursed.
First game I ever played in about 1972, aged 8 LOL. My neighbor friend's older brother had it and he used me as an available opponent. A great game for its time but the lack of an opportunity fire rule was an unforgivable oversight, leading to well-known absurdities in the way the game played.
There was an interesting article in the General about that - how tanks, for example, can't just turn and shoot accurately if an enemy is zipping from cover to cover a mile away, but yes, I know what you mean. They did address this in Panzer Leader, and I have considered playing Panzerblitz with those rules. Have you tried them?
My cousin had this back in early 80s . We would play it for HOURS. He went off to college and moved away never got to see him much after that or play Panzer Blitz. It was a great game. I had a civil war game like this ( I cant recall name now but I think it was the Battle of Bull Run ) but never played it much because I could not find anyone that was interested putting that much time into a board game or play a Civil War game.
I bought this game after watching two guys playing this at college one very late night. I never actually played it because life got too busy and it was forgotten. Here I am, 70 years old watching your video. I doubt if I can convince my D&D player son to join me in a game.
Nostalgia for the high quality cardboard map, rather than paper. And the vivid colors. The rules for PanzerBlitz are elegant, being only a few pages. There is a certain desirable quality to not having "opportunity fire" on moving units, and the spotting rules for towns and woods. Still, there are also other rules from the later Western Front Panzer Leader game that are also more "realistic," and make more sense, such as the use of movement factors for a transport unit, and loading and unloading that were improvements (1/2 the movement factor to load or unload, rather than the entire movement factor). Fortifications turning into a wreck rather than a block after being destroyed. Etc. The Panzer Leader mine clearing rule for engineers I am not sure about. Whatever the case, Panzer Leader rules can be used for PanzerBlitz, but will change the probability of winning or losing for many scenarios, since the victory criteria are based on PanzerBlitz rules. A great game. An early simulation similar to what the military has used for a long time.
Fantastic! I still claim that it's the foundation of one of the greatest tactical game systems of all time. The refinements in Panzer Leader and Arab-Israeli Wars just made it better. When i first got divorced, my neighbors in the apartment across the hall from me (all half my age, of course 😀) were into D&D and the Magic: The Gathering card game. One of them noticed all three games sitting on my bookcase and said, "Dude! You're a gamer?!?" Yeah, but I only like the military stuff. "Hook us up! It'll be like a history lesson!" The really funny thing is that after they got the hang of the rules - they cleaned my clock almost *every* time. They preferred Panzer Leader, I could have given them the Eisenhower 'D-Day failure' speech a dozen times.
Haha, those are some great memories! Once we are done the 12 situations in the base game of Panzerblitz, we will move on to Panzer Leader. I will see if we can get to AIW - the jury seems to still be out on that one, as it has always had mixed reviews.
@@LegendaryTactics, yeah..they got a little 'ambitious' with AIW. But OTOH, I think the designers might have just been trying to replicate Mid-East deserts with some of those changes. IIRC, you couldn't ford rivers in PL because they were 'deeper' in Western Europe? Yeah, stuff like that. Hope this gives you a chuckle..when I was in college, we'd take the Allied counters from PL, and the Russian ones from PB. And pick the "hilliest" boards from all three games and play "Korea".
@@LegendaryTactics yeah, on second thought..they may have been a little over ambitious with AIW. (can you tell I finally saw your AH '71-'77 video? 😆) I now recall playing all three games with the PL rulebook.
This was the first wargame I played as a kid in the 70s. It was good for its time, but once SL came out I never played PB or PL again; they were too slow. I’ve lots of good memories playing these games against my dad and friends.
Thank you so much! We are actually going to play through all the scenarios for the channel, although we are about six games away from Situation 7 at the moment! Have fun!
This is really interesting and instructive! I bought PB as a kid with my paper route money, because I was REALLY interested in WW2. But I could never figure out how to play it, and no one I knew was a wargamer, and my dad never offeres to help me figure it out, so it just got shelved. I kept it for years, though, and it probably just ended up in the trash at some point. I'm 56 now, and would like to play this or Squad Leader, or something else that I could do solo.
Great job on this video and thank you! I haven't played this game in forever, and I'm getting ready to play it with a friend of mine this quarter, so this was incredibly helpful in 2025 :-)
First Class work - thank you so much for your splendid production. A great way to get an overview of the rules of a game for anyone thinking about buying/paying it - and a great way to get ready to learn the rules over again if it is has been... a while... The Hobby salutes your contributions!
@@LegendaryTactics This is indeed a worthy ambition. There are so many great, old games. And I wanted to add that I very much appreciate the amount of work that surely goes into such a crisp presentation - this gets the information to the viewer in a very much more powerful way than a chatty conversation. I would love to see you do the same for Panzer Leader! Yes - similar for sure, but certainly not 'the same'. All the best!
Wonderful stuff. I loved PB and PL in the 1970s/80s. Such great memories, and I'm annoyed I gave away all my old AH and SPI games. But I've recently got GMT's superb Panzer series which covers the same ground and, for me, is streets ahead - except on the nostalgia front of course!
@@LegendaryTactics Well, it's single vehicles and squads rather than platoons, and the rules are more like a miniatures based game, so different in that regard. But there's obvious evidence of a lineage harking back to PB - and the box art is most definitely a tribute to that classic game.
@@LegendaryTactics Wondering if you are near enough to play. I am in Virginia. I am guessing you are in Toronto? Also, I noticed in your 10 favorite AH games, this did not make the cut? Curious as to why; I have not play many of the ones that you mention. I was pleased to see that Afrika Korps made the cut because you are right the addition of the supply requirements is a nice wrinkle in play although really heavily abstracted, by necessity0.
Perhaps I missed it in your excellent explanation of the rules, but I remember playing for Eorope against the USA in a postal game and indirect fire on a hex was permitted. I bombarded a town I thought the oponent would enter with great effect. Or maybe this was just PBM rules. There was a Eoropean wargames league too - which wasn't only Panzerblitz.
The wildest game I have ever played was Panzerblitz using 2 complete games and an extra person as a referee, playing the scenario in the manner of Midway, called Blind Panzerblitz... I lost, but it was an interesting and intense game
Awesome video. I am still learning but if anybody wants to game online with Panzer Blitz. I can play on TTS and Vassal. Just PM. Again, I am still new at it. :-)
I tried to make videos on how to play this game and the whole thing was miserable/painful to watch..I had to delete the vids THANKYOU FOR THIS! ABOUT TIME!
this is great for understanding all the nitty gritty of the game. But i would like some big picture explanation. I bought a copy but still have not learned enough to play.
We have some playthroughs of some scenarios here on the channel, but perhaps a strategy guide would help? Try this one: th-cam.com/video/C1tFRVI5VZE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks that was very useful: I had a query regarding Artillery - as reading the rules a friend expressed the mechanism as attacking the whole hex contents (sum of all DF) - but as I understand the actual rule the attacker has the option of targeting individual elements (is this correct) ?
From what I know, the closest Avalon Hill game to Panzer would be MBT, if you are familiar with it. There are others I have heard that say it feels a bit like Advanced Squad leader as well.
It really sold 300 thousand copies? I never realized. I always thought it was 4 figures, maybe 10k? I'll take a new look at the numbers. I thought Squad Leader sold like 25k and it was a best seller? ... sorry, love the channel, you just freaked me out with that publication figure :)
There are many sources confirming this - here is a link to one: opinionatedgamers.com/2021/12/17/gaming-timeline-1970-1973/ The official company history published in 1980 says it had sold 200,000 copies by that time, and I have seen as high a figure as 320,000.
@@LegendaryTactics Our "Strategy Club" was just a Pb/PL club. Our moderator had dozens of copies so we had MEGA games over several big tables, all covered with hex paper, hand-drawn maps. He grouped counters into historically accurate regiments, divisions, etc. It was a whole thing! That takes a whole lot of counters, lol. We all pitched in. But maybe 5 copies I just wore out. I really loved these games, and I guess I still do.
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Man…this video brings back memories of the early 80s. If we weren’t playing D&D, we were breaking out the Avalon Hill games like Panzer Blitz, Squad Leader, etc. Good Times.
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Consistently relevant, consistently enjoyable, consistently capturing and representing the essence of board gaming culture, the Legendary Tactics channel is a must view for anyone interested in or invested in the hobby. Thanks for putting this episode together, it brought back a lot of fond memories of great gaming.
Thank you so much for your kind words! We appreciate you watching our content!
50 years ago sounds like an eternity. I have a first edition game, well worn and taped together. I love the game.
Wow, that's great! Lots of memories in that box!
I can't think of any way this video could have been better. A masterpiece of pacing and clarity.
Thank you so much!! And thank you for watching!
Man…this video brings back memories of the early 80s. If we weren’t playing D&D, we were breaking out the Avalon Hill games like Panzer Blitz, Squad Leader, etc. Good Times.
That's great - what game was your favorite?
@@LegendaryTactics for land warfare games, my favorite was Panzer Leader. Naval Warfare, Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Finance would be Acquire, followed closely by Executive Decision. I do wish that I had others to play against, but all my family and friends are very disbursed.
First game I ever played in about 1972, aged 8 LOL. My neighbor friend's older brother had it and he used me as an available opponent. A great game for its time but the lack of an opportunity fire rule was an unforgivable oversight, leading to well-known absurdities in the way the game played.
There was an interesting article in the General about that - how tanks, for example, can't just turn and shoot accurately if an enemy is zipping from cover to cover a mile away, but yes, I know what you mean. They did address this in Panzer Leader, and I have considered playing Panzerblitz with those rules. Have you tried them?
My cousin had this back in early 80s . We would play it for HOURS. He went off to college and moved away never got to see him much after that or play Panzer Blitz. It was a great game.
I had a civil war game like this ( I cant recall name now but I think it was the Battle of Bull Run ) but never played it much because I could not find anyone that was interested putting that much time into a board game or play a Civil War game.
Yes, it is a chronic problem that opponents are hard to find, but I'm glad you have such great memories!
Great review of this wargaming classic, makes me want to dig it back out and play. Thanks for the excellent summary of this classic game.
Awesome! Then that is mission accomplished for me!
I bought this game after watching two guys playing this at college one very late night. I never actually played it because life got too busy and it was forgotten. Here I am, 70 years old watching your video. I doubt if I can convince my D&D player son to join me in a game.
Nostalgia for the high quality cardboard map, rather than paper. And the vivid colors. The rules for PanzerBlitz are elegant, being only a few pages. There is a certain desirable quality to not having "opportunity fire" on moving units, and the spotting rules for towns and woods.
Still, there are also other rules from the later Western Front Panzer Leader game that are also more "realistic," and make more sense, such as the use of movement factors for a transport unit, and loading and unloading that were improvements (1/2 the movement factor to load or unload, rather than the entire movement factor). Fortifications turning into a wreck rather than a block after being destroyed. Etc.
The Panzer Leader mine clearing rule for engineers I am not sure about. Whatever the case, Panzer Leader rules can be used for PanzerBlitz, but will change the probability of winning or losing for many scenarios, since the victory criteria are based on PanzerBlitz rules.
A great game. An early simulation similar to what the military has used for a long time.
One of my first wargames. I own four copies. It's been about five years since I played it last.
Great! Time to get it back to the table?
Fantastic presentation and honored that the sequence of play from my own player reference makes a brief cameo :)
Thank you for creating it! We are doing what we can to bring this game back to a new generation of players, and the tools you created helps!
Nicely done! Good to see my TTS mod get a professional showing. :)
Thank you so much for making it! It's very well done. We're hoping to bring this old game some exposure
Fantastic! I still claim that it's the foundation of one of the greatest tactical game systems of all time. The refinements in Panzer Leader and Arab-Israeli Wars just made it better. When i first got divorced, my neighbors in the apartment across the hall from me (all half my age, of course 😀) were into D&D and the Magic: The Gathering card game. One of them noticed all three games sitting on my bookcase and said, "Dude! You're a gamer?!?" Yeah, but I only like the military stuff. "Hook us up! It'll be like a history lesson!"
The really funny thing is that after they got the hang of the rules - they cleaned my clock almost *every* time. They preferred Panzer Leader, I could have given them the Eisenhower 'D-Day failure' speech a dozen times.
Haha, those are some great memories! Once we are done the 12 situations in the base game of Panzerblitz, we will move on to Panzer Leader. I will see if we can get to AIW - the jury seems to still be out on that one, as it has always had mixed reviews.
@@LegendaryTactics, yeah..they got a little 'ambitious' with AIW. But OTOH, I think the designers might have just been trying to replicate Mid-East deserts with some of those changes. IIRC, you couldn't ford rivers in PL because they were 'deeper' in Western Europe? Yeah, stuff like that.
Hope this gives you a chuckle..when I was in college, we'd take the Allied counters from PL, and the Russian ones from PB. And pick the "hilliest" boards from all three games and play "Korea".
@@LegendaryTactics yeah, on second thought..they may have been a little over ambitious with AIW. (can you tell I finally saw your AH '71-'77 video? 😆) I now recall playing all three games with the PL rulebook.
To calculate the hexes the line of sight is traced through, just use a straight edge or string from the middle of the firing hex to the target hex.
That's a great idea! Thank you!
This was the first wargame I played as a kid in the 70s. It was good for its time, but once SL came out I never played PB or PL again; they were too slow. I’ve lots of good memories playing these games against my dad and friends.
Yes, the hobby moves on and older designs are left in its wake. We will be doing more squad leader coverage in the future, so stay tuned!
@@LegendaryTactics Advanced squad leader I hope!
I was *just* setting up Situation 7 today: synchronicity!
Great video for brushing up on the rules. You did an awesome job!
Thank you so much! We are actually going to play through all the scenarios for the channel, although we are about six games away from Situation 7 at the moment! Have fun!
This is really interesting and instructive! I bought PB as a kid with my paper route money, because I was REALLY interested in WW2. But I could never figure out how to play it, and no one I knew was a wargamer, and my dad never offeres to help me figure it out, so it just got shelved. I kept it for years, though, and it probably just ended up in the trash at some point. I'm 56 now, and would like to play this or Squad Leader, or something else that I could do solo.
Both of those games can be found on sites like eBay or Noble Knight. And you can play digitally on Vassal or Tabletop Simulator.
@LegendaryTactics Thanks very much!
I've played TACTICS II, and this game looks exponentially more complicated. I like how you explain it clearly.
Thank you! I am doing my best to summarize it well for anyone who is interested in playing!
Great job on this video and thank you!
I haven't played this game in forever, and I'm getting ready to play it with a friend of mine this quarter, so this was incredibly helpful in 2025 :-)
this is great. more panzer blitz content please.....
It's on the way! Thanks for watching!
Awesome presentation. I have not played the game in years. I'm getting it out for this weekend. Thank you.
Awesome! Enjoy!!
I loved this one... so many good days playing this, thanks for the video. it takes me back, waay back.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! We are playing through the situations, and discussing some strategies if you are interested!
First Class work - thank you so much for your splendid production. A great way to get an overview of the rules of a game for anyone thinking about buying/paying it - and a great way to get ready to learn the rules over again if it is has been... a while... The Hobby salutes your contributions!
Thank you so much! We want to do what we can to bring these old games back to life!
@@LegendaryTactics
This is indeed a worthy ambition. There are so many great, old games. And I wanted to add that I very much appreciate the amount of work that surely goes into such a crisp presentation - this gets the information to the viewer in a very much more powerful way than a chatty conversation.
I would love to see you do the same for Panzer Leader! Yes - similar for sure, but certainly not 'the same'. All the best!
Thank you for sharing. It is enjoyable to me to listen to rules for some strange reason I cannot explain.
Must be my soothing voice...
@@LegendaryTactics Must be. Keep it up!
Wonderful stuff. I loved PB and PL in the 1970s/80s. Such great memories, and I'm annoyed I gave away all my old AH and SPI games. But I've recently got GMT's superb Panzer series which covers the same ground and, for me, is streets ahead - except on the nostalgia front of course!
Nice! (Love the community reference there!). I am curious about Panzer - does it attempt to recreate PB & PL or does it do its own thing?
@@LegendaryTactics Well, it's single vehicles and squads rather than platoons, and the rules are more like a miniatures based game, so different in that regard. But there's obvious evidence of a lineage harking back to PB - and the box art is most definitely a tribute to that classic game.
Wonderful and beautiful video. I wonder how you made it. Warms the heart to see this game treated so well.
It took a lot of work, but it turned out pretty well. Thanks for watching!
@@LegendaryTactics Wondering if you are near enough to play. I am in Virginia. I am guessing you are in Toronto? Also, I noticed in your 10 favorite AH games, this did not make the cut? Curious as to why; I have not play many of the ones that you mention. I was pleased to see that Afrika Korps made the cut because you are right the addition of the supply requirements is a nice wrinkle in play although really heavily abstracted, by necessity0.
@@LegendaryTactics Would love to play a game if you are near VA...
Very well done -- Thank you!
Glad you liked it! Thank you for watching!
Great work! Many Thanks!
Perhaps I missed it in your excellent explanation of the rules, but I remember playing for Eorope against the USA in a postal game and indirect fire on a hex was permitted. I bombarded a town I thought the oponent would enter with great effect. Or maybe this was just PBM rules. There was a Eoropean wargames league too - which wasn't only Panzerblitz.
I'm trying to remember, but I think I may have left out the optional rules in the interests of time. The video was already getting pretty long
@@LegendaryTactics Perhaps it was part of the Play-By-Mail rules.
too bad this video wasn't out when i bought the game back then... great video info!
Thank you! It would have been interesting to see what things would have looked like if TH-cam had been around in the '70s...
Do you plan to also release a tutorial for Panzer Leader?
Many thanks
Yes, it is already in the works! It should be done at some point early next year, hopefully in January.
The wildest game I have ever played was Panzerblitz using 2 complete games and an extra person as a referee, playing the scenario in the manner of Midway, called Blind Panzerblitz... I lost, but it was an interesting and intense game
Oh wow, that's the way to do it! How long did it take?
Awesome video. I am still learning but if anybody wants to game online with Panzer Blitz. I can play on TTS and Vassal. Just PM. Again, I am still new at it. :-)
Thank you! We are hoping to create a community of people who love these games on our Discord at discord.com/invite/Kquf34pVQd Spread the word!
Are there any
dice rolls in this game?
2:34 "Since the weapons in Panzerblitz are direct fire weapons..." *puts an image of an artillery piece in the video* 😕
Ha ha, yes, maybe bad timing on my part. But it is, for the most part, true, even of artillery
I tried to make videos on how to play this game and the whole thing was miserable/painful to watch..I had to delete the vids THANKYOU FOR THIS! ABOUT TIME!
I'm so glad my video wasn't miserable/painful to watch! Thank you so much for your kind words, and for watching!
You should edit this time bar to label each rule set time stamp to create a player’s aid for people to use while playing
Yes, I'm going to do that sometime soon! Sorry for the delay
this is great for understanding all the nitty gritty of the game. But i would like some big picture explanation. I bought a copy but still have not learned enough to play.
We have some playthroughs of some scenarios here on the channel, but perhaps a strategy guide would help? Try this one: th-cam.com/video/C1tFRVI5VZE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks that was very useful: I had a query regarding Artillery - as reading the rules a friend expressed the mechanism as attacking the whole hex contents (sum of all DF) - but as I understand the actual rule the attacker has the option of targeting individual elements (is this correct) ?
Optional Rules 33:28
It's a classic for sure. What software are you using for the visuals?
It's a fun one!
Table top simulator
LOL. I had the game years ago, but I could have lived without the "50 years ago" part 😁
Ha ha, yeah, and it's the 70th Anniversary of the founding of Avalon Hill... Crazy
How does this game differ from the GMT's Panzer?
From what I know, the closest Avalon Hill game to Panzer would be MBT, if you are familiar with it. There are others I have heard that say it feels a bit like Advanced Squad leader as well.
It really sold 300 thousand copies? I never realized. I always thought it was 4 figures, maybe 10k? I'll take a new look at the numbers. I thought Squad Leader sold like 25k and it was a best seller? ... sorry, love the channel, you just freaked me out with that publication figure :)
I have probably owned six or eight copies of this game so far in my life. I used to see it everywhere, too. I believe 300k is very possible.
There are many sources confirming this - here is a link to one:
opinionatedgamers.com/2021/12/17/gaming-timeline-1970-1973/
The official company history published in 1980 says it had sold 200,000 copies by that time, and I have seen as high a figure as 320,000.
Wow, you wore out 6-8 copies of that game?
@@LegendaryTactics Our "Strategy Club" was just a Pb/PL club. Our moderator had dozens of copies so we had MEGA games over several big tables, all covered with hex paper, hand-drawn maps. He grouped counters into historically accurate regiments, divisions, etc. It was a whole thing! That takes a whole lot of counters, lol. We all pitched in. But maybe 5 copies I just wore out. I really loved these games, and I guess I still do.
Great game!
Yes, it is! Thanks for watching!
300 000! My copy is not as collectable as I thought..
~ laughs ~
I just bought my copy for $15....
@@LegendaryTactics Mine cost AU$90. But that's what they got for here. I'm OK with that though.
Where were you 50 years ago when Frank and I were butchering these rules.
We played wrong...well into the 80s.
I wasn't even born 50 years ago LOL
as a kid i found the game and sadly lost it through time
That's too bad - you can still find affordable copies out there though! I got my copy for $25
Y isn't this a digital game?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's because the sales might not offset the cost of development. But you can find it on tabletop simulator!
Panzerbush.
Yes.
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Man…this video brings back memories of the early 80s. If we weren’t playing D&D, we were breaking out the Avalon Hill games like Panzer Blitz, Squad Leader, etc. Good Times.
Awesome! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@John Grigg I grew up and still live in San Antonio, TX
Playing right now at TSR con
Same for me !!! Is there a way to play this game online?