The heart of Blitzkrieg for PC is undeniably the German campaign. Blitzkrieg is the lasting image of the German military campaigns of the Second World War, and so the German Blitzkrieg campaign offers the most variety and the most nuanced application of strategy and tactics in the Blitzkrieg game.
How effective was the blitzkrieg in World War 2? Seventy years after the war, it is difficult to assess the question without getting bogged down in historical debate. But as far as PC games go, Blitzkrieg is sufficiently realistic that it can give some idea to a curious student of military history
Blitzkrieg is not a shooter or a grand strategy title, which sets it apart from the crowd in the saturated World War II game market. A real time strategy game heavily focused on small unit tactics and organization, particular features of Blitzkrieg maps prove a central focus for much of the game.
The Harpoon series is a set of naval simulations that place the player in the position of a naval admiral tasked with achieving in game objectives that are heavily modeled after potential real world scenarios. The games feature accurate unit databases and a simple but realistic model of naval ops.
As a historically inspired turn based strategy game, Panzer General II is as much about the units as the strategy. The status of some types equipment used by the combatants in WWII is near legendary; tanks like the Tiger and aircraft like the Stuka are about as recognizable as Normandy or Kursk.
Panzer General is a classic turn based strategy game set during the Second World War. Following the path of the historic and at times hypothetical exploits of the German military from the invasion of Poland to the fall of Berlin, Panzer General takes some effort to get working in Windows XP and 7.
Tanks are cool. They’re the modern day equivalent to the mechs geek love so - huge, hulking masses of metal capable of laying waste to anything that stand in their way. World of Tanks, an upcoming game from Wargaming.net, tries to capture this concept and bottle it. Does it have hope?
