#Panzer corps 2 review series

At its core, Panzer Corps 2 is a pretty straight-up turn-based combat game, but thanks to its inheritance, there is a lot more to it, at least for someone who didn’t play the previous one. This adds an intense amount of pressure, as you’re constantly fighting a battle against the clock, trying to consolidate your limited resources so that you don’t waste them impulsively. In each mission, you have to complete certain objectives like eliminating all enemy units or capturing specific locations, but you have a limited amount of turns to accomplish this. Obviously, depending on your choice, you’ll end up on a different map with different objectives. Also, a cool feature present in the game, one which happens to add a lot of replayability, is the fact that in the campaign you can take different strategic approaches on each territory, like for example, you can choose to attack Poland from the North or the South, with the North being more open, while an invasion through the South will force you into more close-quarters combat.

#Panzer corps 2 review series

There’s also a 6 scenario-long extensive tutorial that teaches you the basics of the game, and, if you’re new to the series like myself, I highly recommend you to play this first. Furthermore, solo players also get two historical scenarios (Crete and Fall Weiss), and two fictional scenarios, with one putting you in charge of defending Berlin against random waves of enemies and the other one placing you in a Fjord War against the combined forces of the Allies.Īll these options can be played from five different difficulty modes, and you even have access to advanced difficulty options such as Ironman Mode, turning on and off the fog of war and turn limitations, amongst a few others. For solo players, Panzer Corps 2 a grand campaign consisting of five different stages of the Second World War, played from the Wehrmacht perspective, ranging all the way from the invasion of Poland in 1939, to the Barbarossa Campaign in 1941, and the defence of Italy in 1943. This review is coming from the perspective of someone who has never played this kind of games before.īesides the single-player component, there’s also hot-seat and online multiplayer, but I wasn’t able to test the multiplayer component. So, if you were hoping for this review to come from someone who played and enjoyed the original Panzer Corps, or who’s an expert in this game, you’ll be disappointed.

I believe that the closest that I’ve gotten to play something like Panzer Corps would be a 4X game whose focus doesn’t really rely on combat, like the Endless Space and Civilization series. Panzer Corps 2 is a turn-based tactical wargame which should be no stranger to fans of the genre, given the high critical acclaim and reception that its predecessor received, and continued to receive in the years following its release, as the game gained multiple DLCs.įirst and foremost, I have to admit that I have never played the original Panzer Corps game, nor games such as Order of Battle or Panzer General, nor anything of the sorts.