Panzergruppe Guderian is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1976 that simulates the 1941 Battle of Smolensk during Operation Barbarossa, when the Second Panzer Group under Generaloberst Heinz Guderian tried to encircle Soviet forces. It was designed by Jim Dunnigan, with cartography and graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen, and first appeared as a pull-out game in Strategy and Tactics issue 57 (July-August 1976), later in flat-pack and Designer's Edition boxes. The original had a 32 by 22 inch hex map at 10.5 km per hex and 200 die-cut counters. Its best-known feature is the untried unit rule: the Soviet player deploys units face down, and no one knows a unit's combat strength until it first fights. Avalon Hill issued a new edition in 1984 after TSR took over SPI. It was a finalist for a Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Strategic Game of 1976.
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Panzergruppe Guderian is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1976
DMZ: The Battle for South Korea (Wikipedia)
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The game borrows the "untried unit" rule from SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian wargame
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