This was the start of the so-called "Second Generation" of wargaming. Dunnigan, sold the rights to the game to Avalon Hill, who quickly released PanzerBlitz.
In 1970, that game's designer, the legendary James F. Tactical Game 3 was introduced by Strategy & Tactics magazine as a platoon/company level game focusing on tactics on the Eastern Front. However, most of these games were at the army, brigade, battalion, or regiment level. AH issued a wide range of similar games in the years that followed, and established itself as the market leader in board wargames. Roberts of Avalon Hill had developed a wide range of strategic wargames based upon historical battles-the first of these being the 1961 releases of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, issued to coincide with the beginning of the centennial celebration of the American Civil War.
Up until that time, wargaming-which in the modern, recreational form only dated back to 1958-tended to concentrate on operational and strategic subjects. The genesis of tactical board wargaming goes back to 1969. The number of land-based tactical miniatures games produced for the commercial market increased exponentially following the Second World War as interest in that conflict and disposable income increased.
Jane's published several sets of rules for naval games in the early to mid-20th Century. Commercially available miniatures, however, only became popular at the start of the 20th century. The first true "miniatures" games may have developed in antiquity, though Kriegsspiel, a command study invented in 18th century Prussia, is generally accepted as the first true miniatures game. Tactical wargame rules have appeared for every period of human history and even into the future.
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