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Panzer Marshal – Strategy Game Review
Panzer Marshal is a Strategy/Board/Entertainment game from Nicu Pavel, first launched in 13th December 2013.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 343+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Panzer Marshal Stand Out
Tactical scale World War 2 turn based strategy game, that puts the player in the role of an Axis or Allied army general. You command battalion level units with the objectives to engage the enemy forces to occupy key locations or supply points.
• Playable in both Retina high-resolution mode and normal resolution mode.
• 2 US, UK, Soviet, 5 German, French, Italian, Finnish and Romanian starting campaigns in 200+ historical semi-accurate scenarios, and introductory tutorial scenario.
• 4000 historically accurate units, each unit having more than 20 stats and only being available depending on scenario year, based on AdlerKorps equipment. 30 countries available.
• Build you own core army, train your core units to increase their experience, gain prestige to upgrade or buy new units, carry them over scenarios as the campaign progresses.
• Units can gain Leaders in combat for more abilities
• Special unit actions depending on unit class
• Cross platform save/load game state at anytime beside the automatic turn save . Cloud based save/load game facility to continue playing on other devices.
• 20 Terrain types that influence combat, weather and ground conditions, automatic reinforcements.
• Strategic overview map of entire battlefield, clean user interface that never hides the battlefield from player.
• Full featured unit upgrade/purchase Equipment window with sorting and filtering
• Ad Free.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Panzer Marshal is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th November 2020
Recent improvements include:
Russian Counter-Offensive Campaign
Japanese Campaign
US Army Pacific Campaign
US Marines Pacific Campaign
Many fixes and improvements ! Full changelog: https://github.com/nicupavel/openpanzer/issues/202
Download & Availability
Panzer Marshal is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Panzer Marshal on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We really love this game but would make it even better is that if we can customize our own maps play it, that would really make us and others happy or add in new campaigns like the pacific war in 1941-1945 or fictional gameplay where the German army invaded America. That would make us happy, really love this game.
Its a great game we were played it for a long time.
We would like to see the pacific campaign with Japanese units.
Cool scenarios, just needs some bug fixes like how the sound randomly cuts out.
By far the best turn based strategy game available. Keep those updates coming.
For some reason the town names keep popping up in random places. We dont know why but it does. Like in oran. There are town names in the middle of the ocean.
Ive always been a huge fan of WW2. Now that we have this game we can actually simulate actual battles on a large scale! We truly love this game (its pretty addicting too once you get a hang of it) and we hope more gets added in the future.
Thank you for providing such a great game and updating it with fresh new content. Well done.
We like the game, its fun and we like the different campaigns, battles, and operations but whenever we save a game it always gets deleted after about three days, if you could fix that, that would be awesome.
One thing we really loved about panzer general was the scenario creator please add this option it would be so epic.
Its a good game and all but we think you need a sandbox gamemode . Where you can have an unlimited amount of money build your own maps play as both sides by switching between them and you could have all the vehicles in the game like from m 1940 41 42 43 44 45 . If you did this your game would be awesome.
If you played beer & pretzels turn-based wargames on the PC in the 90s, this is all quite familiar. Its essentially a port of Panzer General II with some new campaigns. Significant learning curve if youre unfamiliar with the genre, especially PG2, but overall pretty great. 2 noticeable bugs: 1.) If you are playing a scenario with multiple allied nations, you cannot buy your allies units (ex. In the US World campaign, you cant buy British or New Zealand units even though theyre presented in the purchase menu). 2.) in the US World and Big Red 1 campaigns (maybe others as well), the AI starts spamming cheap, anachronistic militia, artillery, and fighter units (ex. Pre-war biplanes and pro-fascist Arab militias in the Monte Cassino scenario of the US World campaign), rendering a scenario almost unwinnable.
Option for good board style counters with NATO symbols. We friggin hate playing with little toy soldiers and tonka toy vehicles. =(.
The game UI, decent units and the historical event make the game really entertaining. But some of the campaign cannot proceed to the next ones, also units cannot move to edge of the map but enemy can. If developers fix this critical issues this game would be thriving.
First scenario worked fine. Second scenario, only opposing forces can fight. Will not allow reinforcements. You just lose units and objectives without being able to do anything. Do not recommend until they fix this major glitch.
The game keeps freezing and we can not move the pieces.
As we played with the nazi army. Everything was fun until Germany encased Russia. Then we would finish the level. Be given the message that we achieved a brilliant victory and we would be unable to advance to the next level… Waste of time with major bugs..,.
After installing, you only get to read during the tutorial mode. The cpu likes to control everything. As a player learning the ropes, youd expect to move your forces with a little advice. Nope. The computer just tells you what is being done. Uninstalled.
If you liked Panzer General 2 youll love this iPhone friendly game!! Note to the dev team, is there a chance of an update with new maps coming out?! Maybe a Pacific Campaign, including Hawaii/Midway. Id also like to have the chance to have allies as Core units. Thanks for making such a great game.
Like we said the game is buggy as Ill get out, but theres a ton of content, maps, units, campaigns, scenarios, even a good bit of customization. Ive been playing it again for the first time in like 3 years again and Im loving it. If you need to clean a bug we just save, then close the app and reopen. It takes maybe 2 seconds to do that.
If you liked Panzer General 2 youll love this iPhone friendly game!! Note to the dev team, is there a chance of an update with new maps coming out?! Maybe a Pacific Campaign, including Hawaii/Midway. Id also like to have the chance to have allies as Core units. Thanks for making such a great game.
Reminded us of the old talonsoft games like battle of the bulge. The only bad thing is the ui does not scale to our screen on a Iphone 13 pro.
This is a great game but we would greatly enjoy a feature to make out own scenarios.
As good as panzer general but unlike that game which rewards superior play with extra scenarios this one punishes superior play by deleting scenarios. Also the Sea Lion and Dunkirk scenarios are missed. Having a 20 cap unit strength instead of 15 is bad. We captured Moscow with just horses and horse drawn units and biplanes using this exploit. Also Too many good bonus units too early needs adjusting. Bulge campaign great; would like to see Crete and Norway scenarios. Update: Crete and Norway and fantastic and challenging! Italian campaign best Afrika ever! Only would change Malta leads to Alexandria otherwise historical. Japanese best most challenging campaign yet! New requests: Japanese fleet campaign from Pearl to ten-go with 6 carriers and Yamato core. Impossible mode with constant reinforcements for the enemy.
Best war game for the phone. Super in depth to the point where a more casual player would probably not last long. 5 stars.
This is a great ww2 actually the best we love strategy games our favorite battle is oak ridge we love all the units.
Growing up in the 90s we somehow got addicted to PGII instead on Nickelodeon cartoons. Finding this game has been a real throwback to our childhood. We love seeing some of the familiar scenarios but these creators took the time to dish out a ton more content (campaigns, countries, units, etc..). #Team Fireflies w/ Overrun.
We really like how the game is so spot on with the old PC version. You have put a lot into this and it shows. One suggestion, like the PC version at the start of any given campaign/scenario if you had prestige you could purchase tanks, planes etc. But there doesnt seem to be that option? It would also be very cool to be able to play 2 player version just like the old PC version. At any rate we have found a very challenging game with which to occupy our time and we applaud your efforts here.
We are a very experienced player of turn based, tactical and strategic games. The iPad is our device of choice and this game is fabulous on the iPad. No ads, weeks of gameplay, and it is just so good. Highly recommended.
Just a great game for mobile! Easy to pick up and put down at a moments notice, and a wonderful turned based WW2 game. Can be pretty buggy, but the devs have slowly been fixing them over time. We get so excited when new campaigns pop up in an update.
The game was great but can you make it so on scenarios you dont have a turn limit because it limits the amount of time to mess around with them.
Over time the game develops a big in the deployment UI. Rendering it impossible to upgrade or sell units, making it basically impossible to be able to level up units. No troubleshooting fixes the problem and its so annoying it makes restarting long running campaigns the only viable option.
The game is great, there are a bunch of scenarios, and detailed units and maps making this game extremely replayable, entertaining, and decent looking. Our only complaints are are bugs. Sometimes, all of the units flip and teleport everywhere and even become invisible at times. Ive had bunkers teleport into water, and when these bugs happen it renders the game unplayable. We cant complain too much about this because the game is free but that doesnt mean the games major bugs should go unnoticed. Overall this is a fantastic game and we totally recommend it if you can handle bugs that can screw up your game every now and then.
Could you add more campaigns like a Hungarian one and s Belgian and Dutch one.
This is a great game. Ive been fan of these hex based games since we were a little kid. The thing that was most annoying, but was probably fixed, was a gap in between movement orders and the actual movement. But thats the only thing since Ive played it last was most annoying.
Ok where do we start. It’s a pretty solid game if you like ww2 strategy and long lasting multiplayer battles. It has a wide variety of maps and units. Now the confusing part is that there are a ton of buttons and gadgets to use. Some of them useless some of them helpful. Most of them we haven’t figured out or we’re just crazy. Anyways it’s a good game just could use some lag fixes and maybe a tutorial. BUT PLEASE make it simpler and easier to use and this could go a long way.
When you go to the help menu, there is no way to leave it. You have to close the app and reopen.
On one of the big red 1 mission. It wont let us attack the Germans when its our turn. It will let us move some but not attack even when we are next to the enemy. Is there a way too fixs this.
The game has a lot of issues with current ios. Cant select anything. Cant fit the screen. So on.
We were a huge fan of this game on android and was ecstatic to see its on ios aswell. Unfortunately the game refuses to cooperate with our phone. Ive never had this issue on android but even after fixing the resolution to fit, crucial buttons like ending turn, just up and disappear and the resolution resets so that our info bar is half off our screen. We hope you can fix these issues because other then that this is a very well made game with quite alot of content.
Buggy, needs to be reinstalled often.
This is a great game we really like playing it but the amount of bugs and glitches in the game drives us crazy.
Its too bad, campaigns and separate actions end after one or two turns when they are supposed to go at least 27. One scene was supposed to be US marines, but was Germany and Japan. Strange. Dont be bother downloading this, you will be frustrated and disappointed.
As a fan of the old Panzer General PC games we have tried several dozen iOS games over the years and never found one that evoked the original…until now. Panzer Marshal captures the spirit of the original game. There is one minor quirk…occasionally the enemy appears to spawn out of the ground between your own troops in an impossible manner, but that is not enough to detract from the many hours of fun the game delivers.
Been playing since PG2 was released last century. Into the first scenario for the big red one campaign and 2 things: The enemies ours fields are attacking our ships and the non-core unit british spitfires do not provide interception support to our core unit bombers.
We for one enjoy this game. Takes us back to our younger gamer days (80s). Until someone ports over Steel Panthers, this is our go to for WWII strategy/strategic sim. SSI reborn.
Thank you for making this classic PC strategy game in to an APP. We love this game.
Another update? Sweet. Sad we cant get 3000xp super panzers but thats probably for the best.
This game is like Kreigs-spiel, but on a device! None-the-less, there are major bugs, but the chief of all these is the bug to which your units become unselectable, and the game is thus impossible to play. There are other interface problems, making the game simply hard to play, which lends the game inferior to its table-top brethren. If you fix the interface, this truly would be utterly amazing as a game! Overall, one star off for the two major problems discussed above, and another for all the other minor problems, leaving you at 3/5.
For fans of Panzer General this is a must. It plays 95% like the original, but with more units and scenarios. A real time killer.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2.10
- Size: 304.65 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Nicu Pavel
Last updated: 4th November 2020 | Genre: Strategy, Board | Developer: Nicu Pavel