SECOND WORLD WAR TANK ACTION IN 28MM LET'S PLAY ACHTUNG PANZER!

One of the Great White Whales of the wargaming world has surely got to be this: how can you make a World War II tank-focused game that is granular enough to keep the grogniest of Grognards happy, yet play-able within a couple of hours without endless cross-referencing of tabulated data? Just maybe that can be done.

By Chris King

After a rather long campaign of strangely opaque marketing, Warlord has launched their attempt to do just this: Achtung Panzer! And it is pretty good. It is well thought-through, well balanced, and well written. At its core, Achtung Panzer! is a d6-based game with all the information players need to control each tank conveniently collated on that tank's card and tracked with a range of very tiny tokens, particularly ammunition and crew members' abilities, which players get to fine-tune and assign pre-game from a randomised total. Games are designed to accommodate a handful of tanks per player and should take a couple of hours to play. The authors (Mike Bradford and Roger Gerrish - not Heinz Guderian) have done a tremendous job of streamlining tank battles in two very significant ways: by…

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