Steel Panthers: World at War

[Patrick Carroll]

Anybody still playing this game? Someone recommended it to me in another thread, so I downloaded it and gave it a try.

Just made my way through all the tutorials, and now that I kinda know what I'm doing, it's a pretty great game.

I remember getting a free copy of SP years ago, on a CD with Panzer General or something. Back then I fooled around with it briefly but couldn't figure out what was happening, so I gave it up as a poorly designed game.

I'm surprised to see that so much work has been done on it in the intervening years--and that it's still free!

Brings back fond memories of my SL/ASL days.

[Jim H. Moreno]

Oh, yea, it's still played around here.

I just started The Final Fortress (easy version) a couple of days ago. Gonna have to finish it off before I get to reviewing Crusader Kings which just arrived.

[freightshaker]

I like playing the long campaign from 39-48 as the Germans. Once the Germans get Tigers it gets rather boring since the enemy uses the same rush tactics all the time and a good crew in the Tiger can get 1800-2000 meter kills. Still a fun game to pass the time away.

[dannybou]

Originally posted by freightshaker
I like playing the long campaign from 39-48 as the Germans. Once the Germans get Tigers it gets rather boring since the enemy uses the same rush tactics all the time and a good crew in the Tiger can get 1800-2000 meter kills. Still a fun game to pass the time away.

That's how I like to play also.

[JDS8072]

it was on my laptop but I havent played it in forever

[Dano]

Originally posted by dannybou
That's how I like to play also.



Try playing that against the Russians. It's hard.

[gobeavs]

Its one of the games that runs near perfectly on linux with some emulation programs, so I reckon I will get to like it...(I love linux)

[KG_RangerBooBoo]

There are several clubs with ladders for Steel Panthers. You can find one at the Blitzkrieg Wargaming Club (http://www.theblitz.org/) or at Warfare HQ (http://www.warfarehq.com/news.shtml) . Both have active forums dedicated to the game. You can also go to theSPWAW Depot (http://spwaw.com/) and find opponents and tons of information. Matrix Games also has an active forum for the game. I always have one or two PBEM games going on.

[freightshaker]

Originally posted by Dano
Try playing that against the Russians. It's hard.

I play the long campaign against the US, Britain, and the USSR. All you really need is a section of 88's and some good placement. I use an Infantry coy., Panzer plt., SPAA Sec., 88 Sec, and an Eng Plt as a core force. By 42' it's a pretty formidable force with most of the armor having 40-50+ kills and the 88's into the 60's.