There is one long campaign as Germany, with five starting locales: In Campaign Mode, a series of battles unfolds as a campaign heads to victory. The player can engage in a single battle or a campaign mode. Panzer General has 38 scenarios based on real or fictitious battles from World War II. New ideas are still being developed well over a decade after its initial release. The game and its sequels spawned a loyal following, who have revived online head-to-head play and added many units, features, and over 2,500 scenarios. In 1996, Panzer General won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1995.

Units are able to gain experience and become stronger, where success in one battle would award the player prestige to upgrade units, acquire additional units, and select a better scenario for the next battle. Its novel feature was to link individual scenarios into a campaign spanning World War II from 1939 to 1945. While the names and information for the units are reasonably accurate, the scenarios only approximate historical situations. Panzer General is an operational-level game, and units approximate battalions, although unit size and map scale from one scenario to the next are elastic. In Campaign Mode, the player assumes the role of a German general against the Allied computer. One plays lone scenarios from either Axis or Allied side and against a computer or human opponent. Panzer General is turn-based, set on operational level hex maps.

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