Codename: Panzers - Cold War

Codename: Panzers - Cold War is a real-time military strategy game set in an alternate 1949, where a clash over Berlin ignites a war between the Western powers and the Soviet bloc. The Tempelhof Incident—a near-fatal collision between a US cargo plane and a Soviet fighter—leads to fighting across Europe within 12 hours. The single-player story follows familiar Codename Panzers characters and new ones as NATO tries to stop the Soviets, with some missions taking you to Russia to help the KGB.

Campaign and scenarios

The single-player campaign contains 18 missions. Scenario Mode lets you replay missions you have already won or unlocked to improve your overall score.

Squads and combat

You command variable squads led by powerful squad leaders, and can personalize units with visible function upgrades. Units have individual AI and react to your actions. Light and terrain conditions affect their behavior, while changing weather can reduce sight, movement speed and firing range, as well as affect other gameplay parameters.

Buildings can be occupied for an advantage or destroyed. Their destruction uses real-time physics, with each building collapsing in its own way and falling pieces categorized by size and mass.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer includes 25 maps and three modes: Domination, Multiplayer-Mission and Team Match. A dual-display option provides a strategic map for planning.

Cold War setting and technology

The game depicts the Cold War era and uses the Gepard 3 graphics engine, with vertex and pixel shader 3.0 support.