I’ve heard it referred to as the plateau effect. I like how you illustrated it with the 3D hexes.

Your visualized examples with the units on the hex risers or with the intervening building are worth their weight in gold!

I call that the Grand Canyon effect... you literally can't see down into the Grand Canyon until you walk right up to the edge...

Sorry Folks, I had some issue with this stream, I hope to get better at this.

mine will be here in March I am sure...

Good to see you back!

29, Let's go!!!

Thanks for the video! The game looks great!

The maps are lackluster throwbacks. They really need to improve the graphics.

That's a nice big game with a lot of contents, I had it on my P500 but unfortunately had to let it go (alongside Congress of Vienna) - only so many games my bookshelf can contain and my wallet can pay for. Still, getting FoF upgrade kit and Battle for Normandy, so not too bad a haul😁

I dont like the blandness of the maps... Besides the otherwise excellent graphics of everything else they deserve some more love.

Nice video Nerdy - still waiting for mine!! 😊

9:14 wasn´t the 1 on that die roll intended to impact the element instead of that bomber with the cohesion check?

I was lucky enough to playtest and proof this as well.

Only slightly jealous I don’t have mine yet! Ok, I’m better, very cool.

Welcome back!

nice unboxing boss, well done.

Good and useful video. Another tip, not all 10-sided dice are the same, some have more-rounded-edges than others, by design. The rounded-edges enable the dice to roll 'properly' when you roll them by dropping them across a hard tabletop etc rather than dropping them into a 'dice tower'. No more 'did that really roll properly for a random result or did it 'stick a bit' moments? The sharper-edged dice do this, they have me second-guessing whether they 'rolled properly' along a flat surface, but are absolutely fine when using a dice-tower, as of course are the more rounded dice also. A small tip but one that does make a difference, which I noticed soon after adding to my first game purchased only about 3 weeks ago! Some games have 'sharp-edged' type dice, some have the more rounded (better rolling ones) edges, and of course many games have more than one dice to be rolled simultaneously, sometimes a 'whole handful' - here a dice-tower is very useful indeed. I now use a dice-tower and simply drop my dice into it rather than try to roll them across my table etc.

Excellent walkthrough. I just got this model today, for £10, as part of the "Combat Patrol Magazine" collection. I was dreading putting it together. I am dreading putting it together. I get flashbacks of Szeras, even thought it's a Space Marine model.

I have been playing Avlon Hill game since I was 9 in March I will be 69. Just found this video but i love seeing the games I greew up on.

Great video! This brings back lots of memories. It was hard to find opponents, but I did mange to talk a few friends into learning it. One friend had been in military school in the late 70's and had played it there. So he was a worthy opponent. One time, me and a friend put Panzer Blitz and Panzer Leader together, and put all the maps together and played for about a week. The Americans came ashore on the seacoast map and the Russians on the far East side. I was the Germans. The Americans pushed hard and drove my forces back, but I was able to defeat the Russians and send those forces to wind up pushing the Americans back into the sea. Great times. lol

The map was terrible. Names of some German cities were misspelled, or spelled in other languages. The map has Breslau and Silesia as part of Czechoslovakia instead of Germany. The P-47 combat factor should be 4 instead of 3. The highest scoring U.S. fighter group in Europe flew P-47s. I still have my game, and play it solo. Lots of bookkeeping for bombing missions. Thanks for your nostalgic video.

Squad Leader?

I've just found your site and greatly enjoy your videos as they bring back many memories. In the late 1970s I became a fan of Avalon Hill wargames through my older cousin. Unfortunately, I never could find people to play them with, and often resorted to playing games solo while trying to remain unpartial (very difficult to do!). I had several of the flat box games, as well as the bookshelf variety; some I never played or learned how to. Unfortunately these games were all lost during a move several years ago, and I hope someone is enjoying them now! The list of games I remember having was: Afrika Korps Stalingrad Battle of the Bulge Midway Submarine Bismarck Panzer Blitz Panzer Leader Arab-Israeli Wars Squad Leader Third Reich Tobruk Richtofen's War Victory in the Pacific War at Sea

Also had this game in the late '70s along with Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader but never found anyone to play it with :( I always wondered if the attack and defense factors of the tanks and guns of the 60's -70's era were the directly equivalent to the WW2 armor and guns of the earlier two games?

Great video! I still have a question about the smaller trees and shrubs often found inside the hexes. If LOS is traced dot-to-dot and goes through a hex with single tree or shrub, and the line is through that tree, is it blocked?

Great to see you, Nerd Workshop! Happy New Year!

Nerd! Oddly enough, your video says it is Unlisted, but I got a Notification, and I am watching it! (Evidently just a weird caching issue with KZbin.)

My first AH game. I enjoyed playing Luftwaffe. Still have the game I got back in 1980 from my parents. Have not played it in years. Back when, my Best Friend and high school buddy played it with me a few times. These AH games are cool and fun but not many people want to play them. I would play Luftwaffe vs. Myself a few times. It was still fun, playing both sides.

And if you’re bold enough to involve yourself in miniature wargaming you will first need a whole new credit card to use for all the miniatures you’ll be purchasing and playing with. The paint and brushes, etc. for all the detailing of those miniatures if you’re so inclined to do so. Then a place to organize and store all these miniatures along with all the various terrain materials involved in the building of your scenario! I stopped miniatures play for this reason. Although fun, it takes up entirely too much space, and when you have somewhere in the vicinity of 1,300 war games you need that extra space. Yeah, I’m one of those too. I agree with the magnifying glass too. Us older folks don’t see as great as what we used to 45 years ago. Great vid though!

Given the popularity of this game I wonder why an updated version of this game has not been done. Publishing/copyright issues? I bought Victory at Sea-1992-version-from Compass which introduced me to this system. VITP seems to have more going on in terms of mechanics (day, night) so i bought a 2nd edition version from Noble Knight. Your videos help a lot to explain the game!

Hi guys, I'm finding that the "Into the woods" map is pretty thin paper, very much flimsy even after a few days playing scenarios on my game table. GMT should took better care of the GBACW serie maps: the one of Into the woods is superb imo but I'm afraid of tearing it off. What do you think of it?

1776 for me and of course my brother and I played Squad Leader and the module add-ons to death. Panzerblitz was the first war game I ever played way back then.

So how do you make 3d trays? I think your channel sir is click bait. Just be honest and put in the title you are selling stl files, its not the same thing

The GMT version has too many "optional" rules that can potentially unbalance the game. One of the reasons the Avalon Hill version was superior was that it "tweaked" the rules and clarified them. The Jedko version had a propensity for drawn games. Also, restricting the Hitler and Stalin units to rail movement ONLY prevented the end of game chasing that used to occur to get a win, as you pursued the elimination of that piece to prevent a draw, which is what happened more often than not.

Panzerblitz, Panzer Leader and 1776 are certainly among my top AH games as well. They ARE great games (not were). France 40 was the first game I bought back in 1971, so it will always have a fond place in my game pantheon. I have Arab Israeli War, but I would have to rate the Russian Campaign ahead of it, which IS a great game (and was recently republished by Compass Games (though I had no reason to buy it because I still have my original RC).

Here we go again. So many people on You Tube (you included) talk about a game they are holding in their hand in the past tense. It HAD geomorphic maps (etc.). The game exists now, it HAS geomorphic maps, it HAS opportunity fire, etc. etc. That is like saying: "That old game, chess had Bishops that moved diagonally, it had a checkerboard map, it had Kings and Queens." No matter how long ago a game was invented, if it is still in existence, then it HAS all these things. It can actually be played TODAY, where it HAS geomorphic maps and HAS opportunity fire. Also, you can use the Panzer Leader rules you like when playing Panzerblitz (such as opportunity fire, etc.). Also. I disagree that these games were "primitive". I would use the word "elegant." Don't confuse ease of play (and lower complexity) with "primitive." Chess (and France 40 for that matter) is relatively easy to learn, and it is definitely not "primitive."

Sigh. I cant find this game now.

Hi, if I can give you an advice, just play the game. If any trouble in deciding who sees who, a gentlemen agreement should be ok. Plus, you do not encounter very often such situations as described around 16:41 in the video. So, do not be embarassed by such rarities. BTW, thanks to Nerd W for this very comprehensive study of LOS in "Into the woods". What would be really interesting to see as well would be videos of the best way to handle your troops tactically to get the best result. To be remembered unless I misread or misinterpret the rules book: during your "Attack" activation you can move and shoot your infantry; but you may as well shoot first, hoping to disorder your foe two to three clear hexes away before moving on for the shock on the same target you just happen to shoot up.

The title should be "how it IS played", it is a game in existence NOW.

Does this play well solitaire?

You can put your designs on Printables and charge for them. Prusa take a cut .. but no cost to you to host.

I would love to be able to make those counter trays for my games. Guess I should learn how to use sketch up or see if you have the STL files available

Is there attrition in Winter?

Absolutely fantastic explanation of Line-of-Sight. Thank you!

Played it in 1972 , I was 12, 1st wargame I ever played. Positive I played it wrong. Recently purchased it again in hopes of playing it right

Similar to risk type of game play?

When attacked by fighters, the defender must drop tanks. If the attacker declines to drop tanks, the "E value", is reduced by 2. Also, there is no addition if attaching with a greater "E value"

Boy this sure brought memories, thanks so much.

I love these designs, very functional! Are you planning to make them available anywhere else? There are no good ones out there that I have found for counters this size. Thanks!