Similar games?

[Red Shirt]

I like games like that allows you to make decision on where the next battle to take place. (Example the first Panzer General had an option to burn 1000 prestige point to make a quick drive to Moskov or Sid Meier's Gettyburg where you can decide at various point in the battle where to conduct the next operations.)

Any games like that you'd recommend?

[Econ]

I guess you've played the DLCs? The epic 1939-1945 German campaign had quite a few choices about where the next battle took place. And of course, there's now Panzer Corps 2. The DLCs come with the Gold edition of Panzer Corps and are just insane value for money in terms of hours of gameplay. You mentioned the Panzer General series. Panzer General 2 with the Millerblitz mod was the ultimate PG experience for me - up until the Panzer Corps DLCs, that is. Order of Battle also by Slitherine seems very similar to Panzer Corps, although I am not very familiar with it.

A very different type of game - but my favorite series of all strategy games - is Total War. That combines a Civilization type turn-based strategy layer with real time battles. The big thing about the series are the battles - they are quite superb. But it is the strategy layer that makes me care about the battles. The pinnacle of the series for me is Attila Total War, specifically the Western Roman Empire campaign. Trying to fend of the Huns and other barbarian hordes is incredibly challenging and immersive. I've sunk 2700+ hours into Attila, just playing as the Romans.

You mentioned SMG: you might like Civil War Ultimate General and Ultimate Admiral Age of Sail. They use TW battle mechanics, but focus on improving their realism and dispense with the Civilisation type province building layer.

A final quirky recommendation is Victory and Glory: Napoleon. It is based on a board game and is of similar complexity to Panzer General (i.e. it's beer and pretzels wargame). The strategy layer has you moving armies around a Risk type map, with card draw mechanics adding flavoursome events (e.g. there's one for the Treaty of Tilsit etc.). It does a really good job of simulating the cut and thrust of Napoleon's strategic offensives. The battle layer is very abstract - the battle is divided into 3 wings or lanes, and you win if you breakthrough one. But I found it a lot of fun and it captures combined arms pretty well. Napoleonic warfare is my favorite period and I find VGN did a FAR better job of capturing its flavour than Napoleon Total War. I wasn't such a big fan of Victory and Glory: American Civil War, although the subject may appeal to you.

[Red Shirt]

Lots of great suggestions. Thanks!

[Smoothhoof]

Unity of Command is a cracking WW2 game. Intense strategy with a challenging AI. It doesn't have quite the branching scenarios of PzC but how well you do in each battle does affect your progress in the campaign.

[Crazed Possum]

I always recommend this game even though others don't agree. This is a WWI grand strategy game. I give it a solid grade of : B.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/312350/Commander_The_Great_War/

[Red Shirt]

Have you played Strategic command: World War one? It looks pretty similar to that commander game.

[Bibouland]

SIMILAR games:

- ORDER of BATTLE : very good clone of Panzer corps !
- KLOTZEN ( coming in Q3 2021)
- OPEN GENERAL( or panzer generale II remake) = free
- Panzer tactics HD ( very pleasant)
- Commander at war: europe ( old but very good europe map)
- Battle academy 1 and 2

RTS WW2:
-codename panzer 1 and 2 : awesome !
-sudden strike serie
-blitzkrieg serie
-men of war serie

[DEMON RAGEUR]

I recommend you the best RTS game on the Steam store: it's the HEX OF STEEL game! This game is very complete and very fun to play: for proof I am 445 hours of play and I am not even halfway! ;-)

[Bibouland]

wow thxs DEMON RAGEUR. HEX OF STEEL is an awesome game ! and it is on ios for only 5$

[Groglox]

Thread necromancy I guess, but Warhammer: Armageddon and DLC by the same publisher is basically Panzer Corps in the Wahammer 40k universe.

[Red Shirt]

Don't mind belated entries, the search will keep going forever. :)