Tank Squad

Tank Squad is a World War II tactical-combat game in which you command a squad of tanks through battles in linear campaigns. Play alone or with up to three friends: each player can control a tank or join another player’s tank as a crew member. Battles are separate campaign missions with objectives to complete, and the losses you take can affect your readiness for the campaign’s final battle.

Campaigns and missions

The game includes two campaigns, both playable alone or in co-op, set during the 1943 Battle of Kursk (Operation Citadel): German vs. Soviet Union and Soviet Union vs. German. Its 38 missions comprise 20 German skirmish scenarios, 6 Soviet skirmish missions and 12 procedural missions. You can also play skirmish or procedural missions with up to three friends, using the tank radio to communicate and give orders.

Command and combat

Plan your tactics and use infantry, artillery and air support when available. Each mission has its own objectives, and minimizing losses helps prepare your forces for the campaign’s final battle. You can play in total control mode, or in multi-crew mode, where other players join your tank as crew members rather than controlling whole tanks. Multi-crew play calls for communication and coordination.

Maintain your forces

Tanks can be damaged or lost in battle. Recover your own or enemy vehicles to the repair station, then work together to get them back into action sooner. You can repair battle damage, replenish main-gun and machine-gun ammunition, and refuel vehicles. Vehicles have parts and modules that need repairs, including components of the engine, fuel system, gearbox, tracks and wheels; you can interact with parts both inside and outside the tank.

You also manage your squads, replacing deceased or destroyed units and creating new squads. Units can be assigned from the pool automatically or manually. Vehicles can be customized with camouflage patterns, side numbers and emblems, with unlimited customization options. You can take any vehicle in the game to the proving grounds.

Vehicles and equipment

The game includes 23 vehicles, including 19 tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled guns:

• PzBfWg VI Tiger Ausf. E
• PzKpfw VI Tiger Ausf. H1
• PzKpfw VI Tiger Ausf. E (Mid)
• PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. A
• Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. C
• Sd.Kfz. 251/2 Ausf. C (Mortar)
• PzKpfw VIII Maus
• PzKpfw IV Ausf. H
• PzKpfw III Ausf. M
• PzKpfw KW-1S(r)
• PzKpfw. KW-1B 755(r)
• PzKpfw. KW-1B 756(r)
• PzKpfw. KW-1C 756(r)
• PzKpfw T-34 747(r)
• PzKpfw T-70 743(r)
• StuG 40 Ausf. G
• Opel Blitz
• KV-1 mod 1941
• KV-1 mod 1942
• KV-1S
• T-34/76
• T-70
• ZiS-5

There are also 16 static guns:

• 8.8 cm Flak 18
• 2 cm Flakvierling 38 (AA)
• 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41
• 8 cm Granatwerfer 34
• Static MG-42
• 5 cm Pak 38
• 7.5 cm Pak 40
• 82 mm BM-37 Mortar
• 85 mm M1939 (52-K)
• 85 mm air defense gun M1939
• 37 mm M1939 (61-K)
• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939
• 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10)
• M-42 45mm AT gun
• ZIS-3 AT gun
• MG Maxim

The forces include German and Soviet troops: Wehrmacht units, including tank crews; Waffen SS, including tank crews; and Red Army units, including tank crews.