PlayingHardball: Let's Play Panzer Corps Gold #141 Buzinovka Depot Part 3 Securing the Depot
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We are playing Panzer Corps Gold.
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The PC game Panzer Corps Gold is a turn-based strategy game based on World War 2 events. It offers many historic and some fictive scenarios that can be experienced if the player is particularly successful – or unsuccessful. It is a successor to the classic and highly renown Panzer General series (which was first published in 1994 by SSI) and is relatively similar, but also sports some new features. Panzercorps Gold edition contains a great number of campaigns and scenarios for the Axis, the Allies and the Soviets.
The game was produced by The Lordz Games Studio and published by Slitherine Ltd. In 2011. It is being played on a hex-field map. It can be described as a more complicated (and more interesting) variant of chess.
The player has to chose which units to deploy, which to develop over the course of the campaign and sometimes has strategic choices that determine what kind of mission aka strategic map will be next. The game sports a great variety of thousands of units like different types of infantry, artillery, tanks, anti-air or anti-tank, cavalry, fighter planes, tactical bombers, strategic bombers and naval units many of which are historically accurate WW2 models. Getting to know the military gear of the phases of WW2 is a highly interesting topic that makes this game shine.
In the game as a military general the player's goal is not only to be successful in the missions but also to accumulate prestige. With prestige you pay for new units, replacements and technological upgrades.
The game focuses on pure strategy. That means for example that there are only limited logistical challenges, no production of war material and no further aspects of warfare like good or bad leadership of individual units or medical aid for the soldiers. Also the whole political dimension of WW2 is not implemented, and neither are aspects like war crimes or the crimes the SS and Wehrmacht committed in the conquered and occupied states or the Soviets committed for example in Poland or Ukraine. This unreflected approach makes the game too clean and a bit problematic especially when playing the Axis or the Soviets. So reading and thinking about the topic on your own is advised.
Still, it is an accessible and highly enjoyable game that is relatively easy to understand and relatively hard to master. I will comment here and there on history as I happen to know a thing or two about WW2.
In this Let's Play we will play the complete grand campaign on the side of the Axis starting in 1939 with the Nazi-German assault on Poland that started the events of WW2 all through all the war's fronts until the end of the war. We will play on difficulty level of “General” which will give the enemy a 150% prestige advantage and the highest level of AI. So there will be waves after waves of Polish tanks coming at us (those were pretty good ones in reality by the way, just not not used to their full potential).
We will role-play the game as an honest and honourable but somewhat ever more cynical general of the German Wehrmacht. Thus we will create our own narrative connecting all the missions.
"Panzercorps Gold© Slitherine Ltd. www.slitherine.com."