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Holiday box --- no 2 Blitzkreig (the game)

Next game in the box, Blitzkreig, Avalon Hill's first bigger than standard game.  This copy replaces a water damaged copy. 


For those of you unfamiliar with the game. 


Just under 5 foot of game.  Most of my dining table.

 Big Red and neighbors
Central zone with mostly smaller nations

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Great Blue and environs.

The game came with the rules intact, and it seems at a glance the counters are mostly there.

I plan on using the map as a basis for "what if"  campaigns after a few journeys back in time. 

 So many projects, so little time.

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rross said…
Ok so the maps don't look like Europe, so this is a kind of Imaginations Blitzkrieg...have I got that right Joe? Your final observation would ring true with most wargamers, I believe! It certainly dies for me, and my interests are much narrower... Land warfare with 15-30mm figures only!
November 21, 2022 at 5:08 PM
Gonsalvo said…
I have always loved this map! It just seems to cry out for a miniatures campaign! Of course, I'd do it Napoleonic, with the Major Powers being France, Austria, or Prussia, and the minor states being those of the Rhine confederation, Italy, Poland, and or the Scandinavian countries...
November 21, 2022 at 10:14 PM
pancerni said…
Keith, yes, the map is more representational than historical, the game's authors even mentions it. Great Blue is actually in two non contiguous parts, Big Red has more territory. Both have the same amount of cities,which translates into economic and victory points. That said, I do see at least one retro 1930's or 1980's set campaign.

Peter, originally it was the Blitzkrieg map for a campaign after college, but since everyone in our group could/did get the Warplan 5x5 map and atlas, we went that way. After all, Blitzkrieg was up to over ten dollars by then! Who knows, maybe it will still happen.
November 22, 2022 at 7:45 AM
Gonsalvo said…
Certainly not out of the realm of possibility! Was looking at my own mapboard last night - "River Zocchi", LOL!
November 22, 2022 at 9:33 PM
pancerni said…
I read somewhere that all the place names are inside jokes about people working t or for AH at the time.
November 22, 2022 at 11:29 PM
Gonsalvo said…
Probably true; there wwere some other suspect ones for sure, but that one was obvious!
November 23, 2022 at 12:35 AM
Matt Crump said…
Nicely looking game but I’m not very familiar with these type of games
November 23, 2022 at 12:53 PM
pancerni said…
Matt, the board games in the states were mostly from 2 companies in the 1960's to early 1970's, Avalon Hill and Strategy & Tactics. I will show the game in use as game, and possibly the map for an imagination game, if time permits. Got a lot of painting to do, first!
November 23, 2022 at 10:34 PM
James Fisher said…
Having only ever seen the box, I too did not realise that they had used a stylised board. Sorta Spain? Was it sensitivities of the anit-war late 60–70s, or simply design preference and to make it more adaptable? The names read like puns on US place names, but you'd be more across that than me!
December 2, 2022 at 7:28 PM
pancerni said…
James,
Looking at the map, Great Blue would be Teutonic (even is in two pieces) while Big Red resolves Slavik.The minor countries are more abstract, I suspect play balance rather than sensitiveness. The game came out in the mid-60's which was not a time of pulled punches.
December 2, 2022 at 9:39 PM
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