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Column of Tigers of the 2nd SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Das Reich" during Operation "Citadel", the Kursk offensive, July 1943
 
Game
Unit Size
Hex Size
Turn Length
PBEM Replay
Combat Mission
vehicle / squad
N/A*
1 minute
Yes
Squad Leader / ASL
(AH boardgame)
vehicle / squad
40 meters
2 minutes
--
Steel Panthers
vehicle / squad
~ 50 yards
several minutes
No
Steel Panthers:
World At War
 **
vehicle / squad
~ 50 yards
several minutes
Almost***
Tigers on the Prowl II / Panthers in the Shadows
section / platoon
~ 100 meters
1 minute
Yes
Steel Panthers III
section / platoon
~ 200 yards
6 - 30 minutes
Almost***
East Front / West Front / Rising Sun
platoon
250 meters
6 minutes
Yes
PanzerBlitz
(AH boardgame)
platoon & company
250 meters
6 minutes
--
Panzer Campaigns 1: Smolensk '41
battalion
1 km
2 hours
Yes
Panzer General II
company to division
~ 2 km
1 - 3 turns / day
Yes
The Operational Art
    of War
variable -
regiments to divisions
variable -
2.5 km to
50 km
variable -
12 hours to
2 weeks
Yes
*Simultaneous resolution of turns, movement not confined to discrete hexes
**Original Steel Panthers engine, heavily modified by Matrix Games
***Only targets fired on by opportunity fire will be seen in the replay, not units moving in LOS
 
Blitzkrieg Wargaming Club , a great site to get in contact with others for PBEM gaming
Combat Mission forums at Battlefront.com
 
 
Steel Panthers: World at War at Matrix Games 
 
    
My modest Pharaoh page 
 Pharaoh box
 
 
    
Civilization II, www.civ2.com 
 
Web-Grognards, a definitive wargaming site  
The Wargamer, Computer War and Strategy Gaming  
Wargames and Strategy Games, Pascal Ode's "Independent Player's Home Page"  
J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing , an excellent military history publisher on the Web I've personally dealt with and can recommend  
World War II Books, a military history bookstore on the Web I've also personally dealt with and can recommend  
A Farewell to Hexes, on the death of board wargaming  
 
 
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