Steel Panthers
| Steel Panthers | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Tactical wargame |
| Developers | Strategic Simulations Matrix Games Camo Workshop |
| Publishers | Mindscape Strategic Simulations Matrix Games Shrapnel Games |
| Creators | Gary Grigsby Keith Brors |
| Platforms | MS-DOS, Windows |
| First release | Steel Panthers 1995 |
| Latest release | Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank and "Steel Panthers: WW2" 2018 |
Steel Panthers is a series of computer wargames, developed and published by several different companies, with various games simulating war battles from 1930 to 2025. The first Steel Panthers game was released in 1995, and the most recent update was released in 2018 and is still updated regularly (yearly).
Players control individual tanks and vehicles from a top-down perspective, on a map with a hexagonal overlay. Infantry are mostly in squad/section (8-12 men) sized units, but some units, like snipers, can be controlled individually. The whole force under a player's control would typically be Battalion sized, but may be as small as a Platoon or Company, or as large as a Regiment/Brigade.
The games are turn-based and are played against the AI or other humans via email or hotseat.