Klotzen! Panzer Battles

I'm a sucker for PG clones but this one is hard to love, especially at this price point. GUI ignores just about every user friendly innovation and qol improvement from the last decade of war games. Air-force management especially aggravating. Most information poorly presented and sorely lacking crucial information. Tool tips unfinished or otherwise lacking for the most part. If there's documentation I'd love to see it because numerous mechanics have little or no explanation. Performance is a mixed bag, plays fine for the most part but on busier maps gets choppy, freezing for seconds during basic operations. Playing Sea Lion atm but it's hitching for ~10-15 seconds when selecting units, unplayable. Edit : Seems to be related to transport reserves bugging out and the way the save files record them. Edited the 500k lines out of the save file and it ran fine, at least until the next scenario. For a game that crashes and locks up like a motherhugger it has the gall to state that saving games is for losers, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rich. Would recommend to masochistic grognards but otherwise I'd dodge this one.

again, late to beta, late to post a review, but any one who loves turn based hex based war gaming, something to add to the every going smaller list of released games each and every year, you know what your getting, a game of passion and love, as anyone who wishes to make money just doesn't make war games any more, 4 years in the making is a long road, was it worth the wait? well tbh yes imo, it has plenty of what you like, looks good, plays well and best of all it's enjoyable and re playable. developer is someone who listens, and enjoys war gaming, map sizes and amount is very good and plays like old school war gaming on a modern engine. would i recommend yes? Yes, tbh there's not enough new war games to keep an old player happy so well worth the cost, as time to learn is little and rewards are plenty.

At last the war gaming military masterpiece known as KLOTZEN! PANZER BATTLES has been unleashed with majestic power and unrelenting fury! Excellent PANZER GENERAL inspired game building on the original formula and adding many welcomed enhancements such as supply lines where you can stop the opposing force from receiving resources but they can also do the same to you so protecting them becomes a major priority. Tons of land, air and sea units are at your disposal to utterly annihilate the enemy with OVERWHELMING POWER! That is if you lead well lead courageously with burning lead and explosive weaponry of all sizes and varieties to boggle the mind and satisfy your wargaming senses! Sound effects are most effective bringing the bone rattling, adrenaline electrifying limbs into action of the battlefield making you feel you are in the violently visceral heart of battle bathed in turn based combat. Music is elegant and welcoming in its classical trappings never distracting always pleasing. Mountains upon mountains of weapon and vehicle stats to ogle at with rich life bringing modifiers to make you scream ' ITS LIKE AM REALLY THERE!!! " as the earth shaking sounds and terrifying ULTRA REALISTIC visuals of incoming bombs and troops fall all around you. User interface is a graceful intuitive work of gaming interaction with satisfying pop up tool tips when hovering over icons and exploring the vast yet comfortable level of onscreen options which allow you to effect the battlefield with astonishing accuracy. KLOTZEN! PANZER BATTLES, Buy it!, Play it! Throw yourself into a grand feast of programming mastery, delectable eye candy and arousing audio work awaiting to grip you in world war 2 combat beyond the legendary days of PANZER GENERAL and into the enhanced futuristic wargaming grognard glory of KLOTZEN! PANZER BATTLES.

Krashed 5 times in a row. Lagging and very poor frame rate when computer made his moves. Unresponsive UI. Looked like it could have been a decent Panzer General Clone but pretty much unplayable in this state. :( Refund requsted.

OK, so first thing first, I might be biased, cause I worked on this game as a QA/Beta tester and few other things as well, so... yeah, I might be biased, but I'm often my own harshest critique and . So, this is a classic turn based hex-terrain map WWII strategy game, in other words inspired by the legendary Panzer General series, although sometimes it reminds me also on the other hex-turn cult game from the 90s, East Front. Anyway, if you are into that sort of games, you won't be bored. It's a classic in terms of what WWII turn based hex strategies look like, but with a lot of fine details that make it fun to play and explore. There are a lot of historical scenarios of famous large scale battles and operations, but there are also some ahistorical and what if scenarios. You will get to either use or fight against a lot of real life equipment that existed plus maybe a few surprise units just to juice it up. The thing that I really liked is the existence of supply lines, and that it is not a simple click to resupply all your units, but you actually need to control railways, roads, have enough trucks or other equipment to supply all your units. Other cool thing is commander traits, there are a lot of them.. and I mean a lot, and they, together with experience and morale can drastically change and improve, or degrade, how the unit performs. If you are an experienced turn-based strategy player and love the style of original Panzer General and it's clones, you will love this one. If you are a new player who is just getting into hexagonal turn based games, arm yourself with some patience, this one is really fun, but sometimes the learning curve is steep, it can be challenging, but rewarding.

Definitely not just a Panzer General clone. There is a lot more going on here. The supply system and the way air units are handled are two things that really add new layers. Graphics are as good as you could wish for on this type of game, and both the variety of units, and the variety of unit stats are excellent. Still needs some polish in the English department, as well as a better way to display some information to the user, but the game is a lot of fun. Overall, for this type of game, it abstracts combat in a way that gives very satisfying and plausible results.

A fair warning. This is a great game, but you have to invest (a lot of) time into getting to know the game. You have to read the manual and https://www.awargamersneedfulthings.co.uk/2022/06/klotzen-panzer-battles-indpeth-special.html is also helpful. Once you mastered the essentials, it becomes clear this is worthy successor for panzer general/panzercorps. I run this game on a old laptop with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 350 @ 2.27GHz and 4GB RAM without any issues, so I am confused why so many people have problems loading the game, although it certainly has some bugs. There are no cheats, but you can easily modify the file of a saved game to get e.g. extra influence or more turns. So I advice this game if you are into the likes of panzer general and are willing to spend some time learning it, (and tweaking it) if you look for a game with an intuitive interface without the need to read any manual and without any bugs out of the box, look for something else.

Two very different computers, one crashes on starting Klotzen and the other crashes on loading particular scenarios, more than one but haven't tried them all. Don't bother with this unless you enjoy feeling like a beta tester, there are many better wargames out there, especially for the asking price. If you're looking for a well developed PG-like than look at Hex of Steel.

Nice panzer pusher game, a little deeper than Panzer Corps or Panzer General. Nice support seems determined to squash any remaining bugs. The campaign is apparently pretty deep, much more content here than Panzer Corps base campaign. Some really nice mechanics for supply so that enemy formations can be cut off, nice having commanders and consequential upgrades for units gaining experience and the game looks and plays nice. Some UI issues exist for users with larger monitors, and working through the UI system can be a learning curve, but they are being worked through by the developers. Mine fields are done really well, and I love their directional impact and the way they deprive the enemy of an approach as they were intended, but they do a bit too much damage and they are employed liberally along with bunkers. They take a significant toll, but mostly they just slow you down and make the game into a race against time. As an old guy, I would personally prefer to have an option for turn limits, at least on easier difficulty levels, so that I could play at my own pace and not suffer a defeat or a minor victory even after I have wiped the map clean except for one hex...relatively minor issues for the most part. A really nice purchase if you like WW2 strategy games in this niche, 8/10 in my first 10 hours or so.

Game Blows! The map is cluttered with useles boxes just do not like the overall design of the game it sucked!