Strategic Command Classic: WWII

Strategic Command Classic: WWII is a turn-based World War II strategy game in which you command the forces of nations across campaigns in Europe and the Pacific. This Gold Edition combines Strategic Command: Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare with the Pacific Theatre and Patton Drives East expansions. It includes a powerful editor for adding scripted image and sound events.

Campaigns in Europe

Weapons and Warfare expands the original Blitzkrieg with six full-length, open-ended campaigns that begin at key stages of the war: the invasion of Poland in 1939; Denmark and Norway in 1940; Russia in 1941; Stalingrad in 1942; the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943; and the D-Day landings in 1944.

Five mini-campaigns—North Afrika, Kursk, D-Day, Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge—have defined victory conditions and turn limits. Three more cover the 1941–42 Battle for Moscow, 1944 Operation Cobra and 1944 Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation. Weapons and Warfare also adds units, terrain types, land and naval combat features, and the editor.

War in the Pacific

The Pacific Theatre spans a 198-by-82-tile map, from British-occupied India, Tibet, Nepal and China in the west to Pearl Harbor and the west coasts of the United States and Canada. You command forces from five major and 23 minor nations. The game depicts 20 distinct unit types, each with up to 30 characteristics and stats, and more than 150 in-game events, including the Doolittle Raid, Merrill's Marauders, Japanese midget submarine attacks on Pearl Harbor, and the decisions to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Eight mini-campaigns cover Midway; MacArthur's struggle in the Philippines; General Slim's 14th Army defending India; the Allied liberation of Burma; the assaults on Okinawa, Iwo Jima and Peleliu; and the campaign in New Guinea. A full-length campaign begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and can continue until the middle of 1947.

Patton Drives East

Patton Drives East explores possible conflicts after the defeat of the Axis, including a war between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, an American campaign to liberate an Axis-subjugated Europe, and a German surrender followed by a joint Western Allied and Soviet fight against the USSR. Its 172-by-46-tile map includes a larger North American area, from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the Rocky Mountains. The expansion adds postwar unit graphics for equipment and technologies, an AI enhanced by new decision events and global variables, and campaigns featuring the Allies against the USSR.