Title: Steel Panthers World at War.

Developer: Matrix Games, SSI
Individual Contributors:  Gary Grigsby, Keith Brors, David Heath, Michael Wood, Nick Papp, Wild Bill Wilder, Scott Grasse, Mike Amos, Jim Faletti, Tom Proudfoot.
Version: 8.4
Birthdate: Unknown
Development Status: Full Release
Requirements: Windows
Rating: 9/10
Site: http://www.matrixgames.com/
Description: An update to the classic Steel Panthers game from SSI. Turn-based, tactical wargame simulating World War II.

Features

• Single and multiplayer (up to 4).
• Simulates combat from 1930 to 1949.
• 340+ scenarios.
• 25 campaigns.
• Battle Generator.
• Scenario Editor.
• Historical Encyclopedia.
• Includes tools for customizing/editing the game including:
  • OOB Editor
  • MapThing
  • SHP Editor
  • World at War Game Editor
  • World at War Map Editor
• Documentation is fairly extensive:
  • Main User Manual: 239 pages
  • OOB Changes: 32 pages
  • RockinHarry’s New Shapes: 31 pages
  • Sound Effects Map: 6 pages
  • Tables of Organization of World War II: 101 pages
  • Special Scenario Designer Units in Norway OOB 86: 13 pages

Screenshots

Scenarios

• There are 344 scenarios included with the game, a sampling of a few titles are listed below:
• Chateau de Quesnoy (Author: Paul Saunders) – June 6, 1940 – Along the Somme in France the Germans experience unexpected and sustained resistance from the 4th North African Division.
• The Vanishing Division (Author: John Redleg Rank) – November 23-24, 1942 – Play as Soviet troops attacking General Seydlitz-Kurbach’s German 94th Division (part of the 6th Army) at Stalingrad.
• Across the Wire (Author: Wild Bill Wilder, Jim ‘Figmo’ Faletti) – June 16, 1940 – An encounter between British and Italian troops in Libya.
• The Beginning of the End (Author: Davor Popovic) – June 7, 1942 – Soviet positions around Sevastopol begin to collapse as the Germans advance.

Campaigns

• World War II
• Preparing the Way
• Heroes of the Motherland
• From Utah to the Rhine
• A Long, Long Road to Victory
• Watchword Freedom
• Tulagi – The First Offensive
• Guadalcanal 1942
• Normandy Gold
• Stalingrad Campaign
• The Victors: USA vs USSR
• Rommel to the Rescue (Easy/Hard)
• Raiders of the Sahara
  • Author: Kevin (FlashfyreSP) McFerren
  • Simulates the British Rat Patrol units in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco in World War II.
• Balkan Crisis
  • Author: Kurt Beaumont-Jones
  • Simulates operations of the 7th SS Gebirgs Division ‘Prinz Eugen’ in 1945 against Yugaslavian revolutionaries.
• The Hated Hurtgen – WBW
• Operation Weserubung
• The Chosin Few
• Italians at War
• Flesh and Steel
• Yangtze River Patrol
• Dien Bien Phu
• Legione di Valorosi