Objectives range from capturing or taking and holding key locations and sometimes destroying enemy units, though the game does allow you to bypass enemy units and fortifications and just go for the objectives. There are many campaigns to take part in, the main one playing as a Wehrmacht General from the invasion of Poland through to the end of the War. As the campaign progresses and time advances, new units become available, and, playing as the Germans, you’ll gain access to better tanks and weapons as the war goes on. Your units, which run the gamut from basic straight leg infantry to armour to artillery and aircraft. Panzer Corps II offers turn-based strategy on a somewhat abstract scale, with the player generally taking the part of an individual general, with traits and prestige of their own which is spent on adding “core units” which persist between missions and adding replacements to damaged units. Since those heady times, many games have revisited the formula, and Panzer Corps was seen by many as the spiritual successor to Panzer General, and Panzer Corps II is the latest in the series to bring the gameplay back to PC gamers. The series expanded out with Allied General, Pacific General and then much esoteric Fantasy General and Star General before coming back down to Earth for Panzer General II and People’s General. Back in the 1990s, SSI revolutionized strategy games when they released the “Five Star” series, beginning with Panzer General. Whilst the game kept the hexes of the old war-game world, it brought new graphics and a new, far more approachable gameplay, including an emphasis on combined arms and units gaining experience between battles.
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