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1974
# of Players
2
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Best with 2 players
Recommended with 1, 2 players
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Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
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12 and up
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Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
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Panzer Leader
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From the back of the box: "Panzer Leader lets you re-create all of the fast, furious action of tactical armored combat on the western front during World War II. Rules of play consider aspects of tactical armored warfare such as gun ranges, target elevation, indirect artillery fire, fortifications, roadblocks, minefields, close air support, naval support fire, engineer demolition, and opportunity fire."

Avalon Hill Complexity Rating - 7

Sister game to PanzerBlitz

Components

  • 384 British, US, and German counters
  • 4 boards
  • 20 scenarios
  • Terrain Effects Chart (two-sided)
  • Combat Results Chart
  • Rules of Play and Designer's Notes booklet
  • 1 six-sided die

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From "The Avalon Hill General Index and Company History, 1952-1980"

Panzer Leader (1974) Revised 1975
Freelance design revised by Avalon Hill
Designed by Dave Clark & N/A
Development by Randall Reed
Box art by W. Scott Moores

A West Front exploitation of the PANZERBLITZ system did very well in terms of both sales and gamer appreciation. It was far from perfect though and regrettably changed the scale of the original game so that the pieces did not really interchange smoothly. The revision was limited to the scenario cards of the first edition. Another member of the 100,000 sales club.


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Magazine References:

The GENERAL Index Article List

Panzerfaust and Campaign Article Index:

  • Number 72 Mar-Apr 1976
    • Panzer Leader - "Defending Omaha Beach" (Strategy), Jeffery Paul Jones
  • Number 76 November-December 1976
    • Panzer Leader - "Conquering the Reichswald" (Strategy), Jeffery Paul Jones
  • Number 77 January-February 1977

Campaign Article Index:

  • Number 83, January-February 1978
    • Panzer Leader - "Panzer Leader: Encirclement of Nancy" (Strategy), Jeffery Paul Jones

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Publisher: Avalon Hill
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Year: 1974
Product Code: 812
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7 New BPV System for PB/PL
This is an extension of the systems originally created by Tom Oleson and Robert Chiang for DYO scenario generation for PB and PL. It allows for greater variety in unit types and addresses shortcomings in Mr. Chiang's system for PL. Charts are included covering BPV ratings for the original units in each game as well as all additional and updated units on the Imaginative Strategist and Gregpanzerblitz sites.
2011-07-10
8 PL to AIW WEC V1.1(Carl Fung)
Carl Fung created a synopsis of the changes to PL that would be needed after looking at the design notes in AIW. He created a text file of the Movement/WEC and other rules changes to play the game in a balance that was not evaluated in PB-PL due to printing schedules and shortcuts that left the game "un-realistic". Here is an updated WEC that was "prettied up" with minor changes in formatting. PDF contains his WEC and movement chart on one sheet, his original text of changes (less the movement chart and WEC) and I included a chart to help calculate the new WEC fractions for individual Indirect Firing Units.
2010-08-03
3 New Panzerleader Vehicles and artillery
New US and Commonwealth units not found at the Imaginative Strategist.
2009-04-19
2 "What-if" unit counters
This is an assortment of hypothetical or if not hypothetical really, really rare units, I hope this can be of amusement to those of us that PB/PL/AIW, I got the basic counter scans off of a the yahoo PanzerBlitz-Leader group and used partial scans of the stuff off of IM Strategist...I then chopped and channeled them to get the results I sent for posting. Hope this info helps with the submission. Cheers! Bill Mayhue
2009-03-30
11 Panzer Leader Clarifications And Question Box by Alan Arvold
Compiled Panzer Leader Q&A from The General, as compiled by Alan Arvold and published in "The Boardgamer’s Special Panzer Leader Issue" (published in 2002, by Bruce Monnin). I'm submitting it with his permission.
2009-03-29
4 Plotting Table for Indirect Fire
Use this table to plot IF. write down all your units capable of IF including NASPS and the hex which they are attacking, not only can you now not forget to attack a hex it shows how much strength is attacking which hex on which turn enabling you to manage IF better. V1.0
2008-09-07
2 Components List.txt
List of Game Components
2006-08-03
2 Situations.zip
Situation Cards
2006-08-03
2 Effects Cards.zip
Game Effects Cards
2006-08-03
2 Boards.zip
Scans of the Mapboards
2006-08-03
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