In 1996, Panzer General won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1995. Units are able to gain experience and become stronger, where success in one battle would award the player prestige to upgrade units, acquire additional units, and select a better scenario for the next battle.

Its novel feature was to link individual scenarios into a campaign spanning World War II from 1939 to 1945. While the names and information for the units are reasonably accurate, the scenarios only approximate historical situations. Panzer General is an operational-level game, and units approximate battalions, although unit size and map scale from one scenario to the next are elastic. In Campaign Mode, the player assumes the role of a German general against the Allied computer. One plays lone scenarios from either Axis or Allied side and against a computer or human opponent. It is turn-based, set on operational level hex maps.

Panzer General is a computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in 1994 and set in World War II.

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