Panzer Marshal 12+

If you played beer & pretzels turn-based wargames on the PC in the 90’s, this is all quite familiar. It’s essentially a port of Panzer General II with some new campaigns. Significant learning curve if you’re unfamiliar with the genre, especially PG2, but overall pretty great.

2 noticeable bugs:
1.) If you are playing a scenario with multiple allied nations, you cannot buy your allies’ units (ex. In the US World campaign, you can’t buy British or New Zealand units even though they’re presented in the purchase menu).
2.) in the US World and Big Red 1 campaigns (maybe others as well), the AI starts spamming cheap, anachronistic militia, artillery, and fighter units (ex. pre-war biplanes and pro-fascist Arab militias in the Monte Cassino scenario of the US World campaign), rendering a scenario almost unwinnable.

As good as panzer general but unlike that game which rewards superior play with extra scenarios this one punishes superior play by deleting scenarios. Also the Sea Lion and Dunkirk scenarios are missed. Having a 20 cap unit strength instead of 15 is bad. I captured Moscow with just horses and horse drawn units and biplanes using this exploit. Also Too many good bonus units too early needs adjusting. Bulge campaign great; would like to see Crete and Norway scenarios.

Update: Crete and Norway and fantastic and challenging! Italian campaign best Afrika ever! Only would change Malta leads to Alexandria otherwise historical. Japanese best most challenging campaign yet! New requests: Japanese fleet campaign from Pearl to ten-go with 6 carriers and Yamato core. Impossible mode with constant reinforcements for the enemy.

The game is great, there are a bunch of scenarios, and detailed units and maps making this game extremely replayable, entertaining, and decent looking. My only complaints are are bugs. Sometimes, all of the units flip and teleport everywhere and even become invisible at times. I’ve had bunkers teleport into water, and when these bugs happen it renders the game unplayable. I can’t complain too much about this because the game is free but that doesn’t mean the game’s major bugs should go unnoticed. Overall this is a fantastic game and I totally recommend it if you can handle bugs that can screw up your game every now and then.