The player attacks enemies and captures hexes by moving units, which approximately represent a battalion, regiment or squadron. The objective is to defeat an enemy by capturing all of their victory hexes in a specified number of turns. The game also features four kinds of capturable hexes marked by a flag indicating the country owning it: ownership, designating a player's ownership of a city, town or other important feature supply, allowing unit deployment victory, indicating critical cities or objectives and victory-supply, combining victory and supply. Mountain, city, and forest types block line of sight. At the beginning of the game, the entire map is revealed to the player, but enemy units are covered by fog of war and are not visible.Įach hex is assigned one of thirteen terrain types that penalize or assist the movement of units. All are played on a hex map, which is divided up into hexagons that represent between one and two kilometers. The game of Panzer General II is divided into scenarios, each representing a specific battle. The game was re-released in 2010 on GOG.com. In the April 2000 issue of the magazine PC Gamer, it was voted the 44th best computer game of all time, and the highest rating in the Panzer General series.

It takes place during World War II, covering events from the Spanish Civil War in 1938 to hypothetical battles in 1946. Released October 15, 1997, Panzer General II is the sixth SSI game in the Panzer General series and the first in the 'Living Battlefield' series. Panzer General II is a computer wargame by Strategic Simulations, Inc.

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