The third booklet in Guidon Game’s Wargamer’s Guidebook Series was an expanded reprint of the book that started the idea, Don Greenwood’s Stalingrad Strategy Guide. Printed around September 1972, it reprinted articles from The Avalon Hill General, International Wargamer, Panzerfaust, and The Spartan collected by Don Greenwood.
The book was reprinted somewhere around 1977, and this PDF is based on that printing.
Contents:
Stalingrad—Win With Either Side * Lou Zocchi
The Pieces of Stalingrad * George Phillies
Stalingrad Replayed * Avalon Hill Staff
Russian Analysis * Gary Charbonneau
Variants & Redesigns * George Phillies
Stalingrad Over Simplified * Terence Zuber
German Chances in Stalingrad * Carl Knabe
Stalingrad in Detail * George Phillies
An Amazing Stalingrad Tactic * Richard Shagrin
Stalingrad Tournament Style * Steve Tinsley
Rule Clarifications
Weather Table
Available on Wargame Vault.
This issue was the first one produced in Fallbrook, CA, which would be the home of the magazine for the rest of its life. This, and the next couple would still carry no cover date, but this one is being considered December ’74/January-February ’75.
The third issue of Lowrys Guidon came out around late July 1972, after a trip to Maine to secure a larger house for the family and business. It went back down to twelve pages in the same format as the first two issues.
This was the last issue produced in Maine, and has a reconstructed date of October-November 1974.
The second booklet in Guidon Game’s Wargamer’s Guidebook Series came out around April 1972, and reprinted articles from The Avalon Hill General, International Wargamer, and Panzerfaust collected by Don Greenwood.
By the reconstructed schedule, this was the August-September 1974 issue. The big news this time was the sale of Lowrys Hobbies (the original mail-order store) to Pete Rice, under the name “The Toy Soldier”.
The second issue of Lowrys Guidon came out in April 1972, alongside the 1972 Discount Catalog and shortly after Don Lowry had acquired Panzerfaust from Don Greenwood. It expanded to 20 pages, and had a few more articles than the first issue, but otherwise kept the same format.
Don Lowry’s personal copy of Panzerfaust #62 has “Jun-Jul ’74” penciled on the cover, which would be about when this undated issue went out.
In 1972, Guidon Games published the “Wargamer’s Guidebook Series”, reprinting the better articles from various magazines on a particular game. All were edited by Don Greenwood, and put together just before (or as) he was hired by Avalon Hill.
Issue #61 of of Panzerfaust moved to a new printing service, and a new digest-sized format. It did come out two months after #60, making it effectively (though unmarked) the April-May 1974 issue.