Test your strategy skills!

Klotzen! Panzer Battles is a turn-based operational strategy game set during World War 2. Take the role of one of the WW2 generals and control your units trying to recreate historical battles like the German invasion of Poland – or even change the history by attempting to take London or Moscow.

Maps vary from 200 to over 1000 km in scale divided in hexes (20 km in size). Armies consist of a historical mix of 600+ unit types divided into 22 different unit classes including infantry, tanks, artillery, fighters, bombers, submarines, battleships and more.

Players take turns trying to achieve victory by attempting to outmaneuver or destroy enemy divisions using a combination of land, sea and air units. The player can choose between more than 60 scenarios describing various historical as well as alternative history scenarios.

The game is played in either campaign mode, following one nation from scenario to scenario, or standalone mode where the player can choose either side.

Klotzen experience

The Klotzen game has its roots in the genre classic – Panzer General from 1994.

It is a turn-based game, played on a hexagonal map. Players could test their skills fighting famous WW2 battles against the computer or another player. In 1995, the game Panzer General won the award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1995. It quickly gained a large group of strategy fans, one of which is the creator of the Klotzen game, a strategy game enthusiast.

In 2010 he set off on the road of indie game development with the desire to create the best strategy game and the idea of Klotzen! Panzer Battles was born. To fans of war strategy, the games Klotzen brings a new and modern experience of World War II. The first edition of Klotzen: Panzer Battles has more than 600 historical unit types and more than 60 different scenarios that describe historical or alternative campaigns of WW2.

The game is played in either campaign mode, following one nation from scenario to scenario, or standalone mode where the player can choose either side.

  • A unique supply system that can lead to epic triumphs… or catastrophic losses
  • A never-before-seen air interdiction system where control of the skies can paralyze whole armies
  • Buy veteran units, sell unused equipment, see the unit prices change through supply and demand or changing situation on the battlefield
  • Face an aggressive AI that responds to the changing battlefield and launches counterattacks where it hurts the most
  • Generals with unique personalities, flaws and traits that can reduce the cost of reinforcements, speed up unit introduction, or give you that extra turn needed to win
  • Commanders with game-changing skills that allow units to make an extra move, repeat a failed attack and more
  • Use planes to attack moving units in an area, bomb enemy airfields, bridges and supply lines
  • See mighty battleships blow up after being hit in the magazine or sit helplessly in the water after having a rudder disabled with our new naval combat system
  • Use engineers to dig trenches, repair damaged bridges or lay minefields
  • Use superior morale to gain the advantage over disheartened enemy
  • 600+ beautifully animated historical unit types
  • 60+ historical and what-if scenarios set in Europe, Africa, and USSR
  • Coordinate air, ground and naval forces to gain the edge over the enemy
  • Play with infantry in its historical role where it rules combat in closed terrains
  • Simple to learn but difficult to master combat system, where each unit type must be used in its historical role to have any chance of winning
  • Reduce the effectiveness of enemy armies by cutting vital supply lines
  • Mount air offensives to destroy enemy planes on the ground, or reduce effectiveness of enemy armies by bombing cities and ports
  • Control more than one army group at the same time, each with units that carry over from scenario to scenario
  • Campaign event system which uses historical facts to fork campaign into historical and what-if scenarios
  • 40+ alternative history scenarios – delay Barbarossa by one year to deal with the UK, fight in Normandy in 1943, attack Norway with the UK already landed there, win in Africa to attack USSR from the Caucasus
  • Lead your armies across fertile European plains, scorched deserts of North Africa or frozen tundra of USSR.

Included scenario editor for creating your own custom scenarios

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