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Wargamer’s Guide to The Battle of the Bulge

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.

These are all about the original 1965 Avalon Hill release of the game, though there is also a review of Guidon Games’ variant Operation Greif.

Contents:
Introduction * Don Greenwood
Before the Bulge * James F. Dunnigan
Operation Greif * Lawrence Schmidt
On the Way to Antwerp * Bob Hultman
Baron von der Heydte Jumps Again * Craig Alder
Bulge Follow-Up * G. Phillies
Allied Defense in Bulge * Len Lakofka
Bulge Commentary * Chuck Lane
How to Lose at Bulge * Myrun Brudnage
How to Capture Antwerp Without Really Trying * Richard Shagrin
Bulge: Isolation & Supply * Mike Carr
Key to German Victory in Bulge * Joseph Pollock
Exploiting the Initiative in Bulge * Don Lowry
Seizing the Initiative in Bulge * Don Lowry

Available on Wargame Vault.

Wargamer’s Guide to Afrika Korps

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.

The first of these was Wargamer’s Guide to Afrika Korps, containing eleven articles about the design and play of Avalon Hill’s classic 1964 game on the North African campaign in WWII.

This volume is being republished very close to fifty years after its initial release, and contains an afterword from Don Greenwood himself, with his thoughts on five decades in wargaming, and on Afrika Korps itself.

Contents:
Foreword * Don Greenwood
Play Balance for Afrika Korps * Victor Madeja
Sink Some African Sands * Victor Madeja
Absurdity of Afrika Korps * John Perica
Tactics of Isolation * Carl Knabe II
Afrika Korps Replayed * AH Staff
Tactics & Strategy * David B. Whiskeyman
A New German Approach * Jared Johnson
Rommel Rides Again * Allan Wood
The Tobruch Dilemna * Harley Anton
Shortcomings of Afrika Korps * Chuck Lane
The Afrika Korps Thesis * Tom Hazlett

Available on Wargame Vault.