Is the Panzer Grenadier Series Dying?

[otto]

This is a fascinating question, even though may be a bit excessive, rather than dying may be you want to say “declining” .
First of all, I would add another bullet: “yes, because the series is relying only on stand alone modules”.

IMO APL shifted from one extreme to another. May be in the past a few supplements relied on too many boxed games. At the same time, I have to say, we are moving into an excessive counters duplication territory (e.g. I don’t know how many German GREN I have!). Supplements relying on a limited set of boxed games (e.g. Africa and Middle East; Russian Front and PTO and Western and Southern Europe) and offering a couple of new maps and additional counters might be very actractive. APL claims that all maps are compatible but is no longer offering products that combine them (BTW, Mariannas was excellent even though relied only on Saipan)

APL could be smarter in producing New maps. If two new maps with a river will be needed for Lawrence of Arabia the same to maps could be used for a beautiful supplement to Sward of Israel … Suez crossing by Israelians.
Reselling components (like in the case of AOI) is a similar issue. But this is also related to lack of flexibility that damages APL.

I think It would have been a win-win if Dr. Mike had offered three options: complete boxed game, counters+scenario book and scenario book on it own. I would have gone for the third one, those owning already COE and not wanting two sets of identical maps for the second one. This is forgone sales. Now, I understand that it could be complicated, but really that much?