The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Pertti]

Panzer Battles is a new simulation series that is designed to fit between Squad Battles and Panzer Campaigns and uses many features of both. It is built on the Panzer Campaigns engine with Squad Battles features as well as new routines to reflect this scale.

Reading the whole topic I see that the above is true, Panzer Battles derives from Panzer Campaigns with elements of Squad Battles. So a general question: how much have the PB designers played, playtested and got inspired by John Tiller's Campaign Series? After all the scale is quite similar - I suppose even for time scale the actual movement and casualty rates will differ less than what 6 vs 30 minutes implies - and JTCS has many concepts and features which are useful for this scale and that were later scrapped in Panzer Campaigns. I see Glenn Saunders is on board: IIRC he was heavily involved, either officially or as a devoted player and scenario designer, in the Talonsoft games. What about the others?

I don't really understand the following snippet from the PB vs JTCS FAQ (emphasis mine):

John Tillers Campaign Series covered multiple hypothetical engagements in a campaign format. Panzer Battles covers a specific battle in depth.

John Tiller's Campaign Series covered multiple historical engagements (with some what-ifs and hypotheticals). Obviously as it covers basically the whole war, it won't cover a specific battle in depth, though for some of the major actions you will find plenty of scenarios.
Sure, there are two campaign games formats: the few, historical "linked campaign games" and the quite useless random/hypothetical "dynamic campaign games", but they are kind of an afterthought and surely not many gamers played them. The strength of JTCS was (and still is?) the hundreds of single engagements. So I would say both games are quite similar in this regard, though one will focus on one big action only, while the other has historical engagements at a similar scale from the whole war.

Finally, I have only seen 2D graphics in this thread. Will there be 3D graphics?