Maneuver Warfare

Maneuver Warfare is a war game in which you command combined-arms battle groups made up of maneuver and combat support units. Build each group around infantry and armor, then reinforce it with elements such as anti-tank or engineer platoons. On the battlefield, coordinate maneuver and fire, plan ammunition replenishment and defeat an enemy following tactically sound battle plans.

Command your forces

You can assemble battle groups from a selection of 159 British, French, German, Polish and Soviet unit types, including:

• Motorized and mechanized infantry companies
• Soviet and German assault gun companies
• Tank companies, from early Panzer IID tanks to heavy King Tigers
• Field artillery and multiple rocket launcher batteries, which provide indirect fire and lay smoke screens
• Combat engineer platoons, which can lay and breach minefields
• Reconnaissance detachments
• Anti-tank gun platoons
• Tank destroyer platoons, from the first Panzerjagers to the massive Jagdtigers
• Forward air controllers, who can call in reconnaissance and strike aircraft, as well as fighters to protect against enemy air attacks
• Platoons of 88mm Flak guns, used against the enemy’s heaviest tanks

Campaigns and missions

Fight historical scenarios across eight short campaigns, or combine them into a Grand Campaign. The campaigns cover:

• 1939: Poland
• 1940: Belgium and France
• 1941: Operation Barbarossa
• 1941: Operation Typhoon
• 1942: Advance into the Caucasus
• 1943: The Battle of Kursk
• 1944: Defensive battles during the withdrawal across Poland
• 1945: The final German counteroffensive in Pomerania and fighting along the Oder River

You can also choose from 24 individual missions based on key battles of the war:

• Wielun, 1939: The initial German advance into Poland.
• Piotrkow, 1939: Clash with Polish reserves, including armored units, blocking the road to Warsaw.
• 1st Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski, 1939: Try to stop surrounded Polish forces from breaking out.
• Hannut, 1940: German panzers face French armored forces in Belgium.
• Meuse, 1940: Defeat a French counterattack aimed at crushing a bridgehead across the Meuse.
• Across the Bug, 1941: The initial advance into the Soviet Union.
• Brody, 1941: Fight in what may be the biggest armored battle of Operation Barbarossa.
• Kiev, 1941: Close the Kiev cauldron to destroy Soviet armies trapped around the city.
• Advance on Moscow, 1941: Break through Soviet defensive lines blocking the road to Moscow.
• Southern attack on Moscow, 1941: Encircle the Soviet capital from the south.
• The withdrawal from Moscow, 1941: Stop the Soviet counterattack outside Moscow.
• Budyonnovsk, 1942: Advance towards the Caucasus during Operation Blue.
• Clash in the Steppe, 1942: Defend German lines of communication against Soviet raids.
• Opening the Road, 1942: Destroy Soviet forces trying to block the German withdrawal from the Caucasus.
• Kursk, 1943: Break through the first two Soviet defensive lines during the Battle of Kursk.
• Kursk – Prokhorovka, 1943: Fight through the massive armored clash at Prokhorovka.
• Bug, 1944: Delay the Soviet advance towards the Bug River.
• Radzymin, 1944: Counterattack Soviet armored spearheads advancing on Warsaw, then cover the German withdrawal from the battle.
• Stargard, 1945: Advance against Soviet forces in the last German offensive in Pomerania, then cover their withdrawal from the operation.
• Oder, 1945: Counterattack Soviet forces that have crossed the Oder River north of Berlin.

An editor lets you design your own offensive or defensive battles. You can pit King Tigers against masses of early-war light tanks, or try to stop a flood of Soviet armor with only infantry and anti-tank guns. DLCs add further battles and operations, as well as logistics and headquarters elements.