Strategy and Wargaming

In Panzer Corps: Soviet Corps you will have deal with a dangerous enemy, who is overpowering you across multiple fronts and striking directly at the heart of your Nation. Only by counting on the unshakable will of your people and fighting a delaying action, you might be able to prepare yourself for the counterattack and save the Motherland from destruction!

But this will be a long path. Discover it with the Panzer Corps: Soviet Corps Campaign Tree viewable here!

Can you resist Operation Barbarossa with defensive actions before counter-striking to relieve and encircle Stalingrad and start the reclaiming of Soviet soil?

Get more information about the game from its Product Page.

Panzer Corps: Soviet Corps will be available on 18th, February!

After the incredible success of the wargame Order of Battle: Pacific and its free DLC Battle of Britain, the developers from The Artistocrats studio have raised the level of the challenge!

With their new expansion Order of Battle: Morning Sun they have switched the focus onto the Second Sino-Japanese War, which started few years before the attack on Pearl Harbour in World War II.

In Order of Battle: Morning Sun you will take control over the Japanese forces in their attempt to take advantage of the Republic of China. But you will soon discover that better equipment and training could be counteracted by force of numbers and by fierce resistance in the backlines!

Watch the launch trailer here.

Discover new iconic units and face the vastness of the battles employing tanks, air fighters, amphibious assaults, and even war horses!

Grab the game now!

Do you want to know more? Follow the Twitch Stream today at 20:00 CET / 19:00 UTC / 2:00 PM EST on our official Twitch Channel!

Order of Battle: Morning Sun is an expansion for Order of Battle: Pacific and requires the base game to be played.

A brand new battlefield has been added to Total War: Arena, Gergovia is the largest and most detailed map to date and joins Thermopylae, Marathon, Salernum, Alps, Rubicon and Germania in the map roster for the Total War: Arena Closed Beta.

By fighting through the twisting streets of the town, Gergovia is rife with tight corners and hiding spots that allow for devastating encounters with often little room to escape. Getting cornered can lead to a swift demise. With the Roman siege garrison on one side, and the Gallic reinforcement camp on the other; win control of the town and it’s a clear downhill push towards the enemy encampment.

Check out the Gergovia Map Spotlight Video now for further details on this new battlefield.

Alongside the new map update, a new patch has been released for Total War: Arena – full patch notes can we viewed here.

Key updates include:

•  Players can no longer place deployables (stakes, caltrops) inside enemy units.
•  Militades rebalanced to make him more effective as a commander.
•  Further optimised matchmaking.

Total War: Arena is a free-to-play, team-based strategy game, putting players in the middle of epic-scale battles. Using key elements of award-winning Total War design, it is made from the ground-up for multiplayer realtime strategy fans, with players going head-to-head in 10v10 battles.

It is easy and quick to join the Closed Beta, sign up here.

After the success of the funding campaign on Kickstarter for the Board Game Victory and Glory, developers from Electric Games are eager to show a new bunch of awesome screenshots for the PC version!

Far from being a mere adaptation from the Board Game, the digital version of Victory and Glory features a vicious and challenging AI, forcing you to use all of your abilities to prevail with diplomatic and military actions alike!

The new screenshots add more details about the scope of the game, featuring a British Blockade along the Channel, an unstable balance of Power in Spain, the defeat of Austria and more!

The game is still in Beta and if you want to help us in giving the final touches you can apply here.

Victory and Glory: Napoleon is a game of grand strategy and fast-play tactical battles where you take the role of Napoleon Bonaparte and attempt to dominate the entire continent of Europe. You will move armies and navies, fight great battles, recruit new troops, and add new regions to your empire. The AI controls Great Britain and the other allied nations and troops that comprise an ever-changing alliance bent on stopping you!

Can you carve out a European empire that will survive the growing threat from perfidious Albion and her allies? Can you change history and do better than L’Empereur?

Get more information about Victory and Glory: Napoleon from its official Product Page!

As the release date is getting closer it’s time to reveal some introductory videos for Tigers on the Hunt!

In this first Tutorial you will discover the basics of infantry movement and fire, featuring assaults with Officers charging you main attack, flamethrowers units, combat engineers with satchel charges, line of fire and more!

Get more information about the game from its official product page!

Do you want to know more about Tigers on the Hunt? Take a look on the Matrix Games Tigers on the Hunt forum!

The second Sino-Japanese War was a cruel and bloody conflict often overlooked due to its proximity to the Japanese entry into World War 2 at Pearl Harbour. But the events of this campaign had a great impact on the future of the people and armed forces of both nations.

This conflict, and its protracted nature in the later years, could be seen as one of main causes of the final Japanese defeat. It greatly drained the Empire’s resources, forcing it to deploy thousands of soldiers and war-ships and defend against repeated guerrilla attacks.

In Order of Battle: Morning Sun, the second expansion of the innovative wargame Order of Battle: Pacific, you will revive the battles and operations of this crucial war, from the initial boarder’s skirmishes to the massive invasion of the inland China.

Have a look on the infographic here depicting the main stages of the War, and don’t forget to share your thoughts on the forums!

Rewrite history to change the outcome of one of the most famous military operations attempted in the modern era. Succeed where most leaders and dictators have failed in the past.

Conquer the United Kingdom and to put an end to the British Empire!

Wars of Napoleon succeeds where others have failed. It puts a wealth of What If scenarios in the hands of the players, with an unprecedented level of detail and accuracy.

To show off one of these scenarios, Slitherine asked the help of Iain Dickie, Chairman of the Battlefield Trust.

In a wonderfully scripted video, Dickie leads players on a journey through one the most intriguing what if scenarios that history has known: the planned – but never fulfilled – French invasion of Great Britain. This huge operation was to employ Napoleon’s mighty Army of England composed of over 200,000 soldiers.

Check out the video here.

Get more information on Wars of Napoleon from its official product page.

New Expansion Will Hit Stores February 2, New Screens

Your chancellor wants you to press his claim on a neighboring county. Your marshal is a bit of an incompetent. And no one thinks you should execute your uncle, like you had planned to – even though he’s a nasty rebel. Difficult problems with easy solutions? Not quite.

Crusader Kings II: Conclave, the newest expansion for Paradox Development Studio’s celebrated medieval grand-strategy game, will bring out the politician, diplomat or tyrant in you as your royal council demands to be heard – and the loudest voices demand a seat at the table. Paradox is happy to announce that this new expansion will be on February 2, 2016.

Conclave adds greater depth to ruling your realm with a host of new laws and council interactions. Will you placate your vassals by giving them a say in matters of war and peace? Will you raise the status of women in your kingdom by recognizing their right to inherit lands and title? Can you find a place on council for that one duke who has too many armies to ignore, but no talent for anything?

This expansion will also increase the importance of marriage alliances, introduce systems to block rapid overexpansion, and allow you to rent out some of your soldiers as mercenaries – just because you’re not at war doesn’t mean you can’t make a ducat or two off someone else’s aggression.

So mark the date on your calendar – February 2, 2016: the day that Crusader Kings II challenges you to up your king game. Be ready for Conclave. It will be available from major digital retailers and the Paradox store for $14.99, 10.99 GBP or 14.99 Euros.

For more information on Crusader Kings II, click here.

All-time classic Panzer Corps and its expansions covered almost every single battle of the European theater of World War II.

In 2015 there was even the chance to lead a completely fictional invasion of Great Britain with the Axis Forces in Operation Sea Lion.

However, until now, no campaign devoted to the Red Army was available. Fans of Russian history will no longer be frustrated because Soviet Corps – a stand-alone expansion of Panzer Corps – will be released on PC and iPad on February, 18!

Expanding upon the successful Panzer Corps game system, Soviet Corps features 25 challenging scenarios on multiple fronts. From the Winter War in Finland to the last offensives against Japan in Manchuria, players will relive 6 exhausting years of war from the Soviet point of view. More than 60 new regular and special elite units have been added to the huge database for an unforgettable experience at the head of the Red Army!

Get more information on Soviet Corps from its official product page.

By James Cobb @ The Wargamer

A literal English translation of the German adjective weltgeschichtlich is meaningless and clumsy: “world historical”. A better paraphrase is “world changing” In this sense, Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, was a weltgeschichtlich event because the world changed because of it. No wonder so many wargames have been produced around this pivotal conflict. Yet, despite its importance, Matrix/Slitherine Games and VR Designs have made it the third entry into the Decisive Campaigns series. The developers have given the conflict a unique point of view distinguishing it from the usual hex-based war game paradigm.

Read on…