Allied General is a turn-based strategy game which was developed by Strategic Simulations Inc. and released in 1996. Set in World War II, it allows play of scenarii and campaigns against Axis forces. More a very attractive abstraction than a true simulation, it fits tactical units in strategic level and the opportunity of ugrading them between battles.

Allied General manual

One drawback however : whereas the previous Panzer General targeted DOS, Allied General was made for Windows. Nowadays, the good old DOS games are playable on all operating systems through DOSBox, an open source DOS emulator.

Panzer General manual

Pepa Drobný did a Great modding job, allowing us to play Allied General with the Panzer General engine. Among many more things, You can download three archives on his site :

• AGPG 1.6
  (Allied General style interface and British campaigns)
• US campaigns
• Soviet campaigns

The files must be overwritten on separate copies of Panzer General.

Soviet campaigns are the toughest and my favourite. In the biggest one - beginning with the Winter War - I played ten scenarii to reach Berlin.

Finland - November 30, 1939
Pskov - July 1, 1941
Vyazma - January 1, 1942
Stalingrad - November 19, 1942
Rostov - January 2, 1943
Dniepr - October 1, 1943
Minsk - June 22, 1944
Ploesti - August 1, 1944
Debrecen - September 24, 1944
Berlin - April 18, 1945

Here is a view of the nine core units, before the first upgrade, on the eve of the Great patriotic war :

Engineers
BT7
KV1/39
152 howitzers
I16 Rata

Here is a view of the 27 core units, before the last upgrade and the crossing of the Oder :

Engineers
T34/85
JSII
JSU122
JSU152
152 howitzers
76.2 AA guns
Jak9
La7
Il2
Il2M3
Pe8

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