Panzertruppe: Armored Combat in WWII v4

This is a set is a set of tactical 1:1 rules for gaming World War II armored combat with 6mm micro armor or 10mm miniatures (1/300 - 1/200 scale). The basic rules comprise only a few pages of text. Optional rules are provided for advanced play involving infantry, anti-tank guns, artillery, mortars, air support, minefields, indirect fire, hedgerows, hidden set up, and more. Each of these elements can be added in or left out, allowing players to choose the level of complexity they prefer. Specifications are provided for over 200 armored fighting vehicles covering the major nationalities of WWII from 1939 through 1945. Extensive design notes are included. 

This game has no real game turns. The game sequence flows through a set of ten phases that can begin with any of them at the start of play. The phases for each side are intermixed. For each side, one of the phases is a movement phase and three of them are fire phases. As with real tank combat, shooting first gives you the advantage. However, if you fire while still moving then you will likely miss, because the tanks of this era were not capable of accurate fire while moving. If you come to a stop before firing then you will have a better chance of hitting, but that may give the enemy a chance to fire before you do. Your best chance of scoring a hit is to sit in ‘overwatch’ and take careful aim, but that gives the enemy more time to do his thing. Once a tank has fired, it cannot fire again until after its next load phase. For these reasons the game is very ‘tactical’ for a table-top game, and it is full of tension. You must know when to sit in overwatch and you must know when to fire fast and scoot for safety. You need to know how to use the terrain to your advantage and know how to deny its use by the enemy. Your hits are more likely to score kills if you maneuver around to strike the enemy tanks’ thinner side or rear armor, but you’ll need to keep your opponent from doing that to you instead.