Eastern Front Blitzkrieg Panzer Campaigns 4.04 Updates

Hi All,

The WDS Summer Sale, is in full swing and we have the next tranche of version 4.04 updates for Panzer Campaigns.

 

In 1941 and 1942 the Axis powers were at their zenith in the Soviet Union. Starting with the initial invasion in June 1941, it would take them to Moscow and then beyond to the banks of the Volga River. It was only with the ‘planetary’ offensives of Operation Mars/Jupiter at Rzhev and Uranus/Saturn at Stalingrad that the tide would finally begin to turn. Following on from the recent Modern Campaigns, Panzer Campaigns and First World War Campaigns upgrades we are releasing the updates for a further six Panzer Campaigns titles with the new 4.04 version. This is the same version as the recently released title, Panzer Campaigns: Spring Awakening ’45 and our recent games of the week, Panzer Campaigns: Sealion ‘40, the Asia titles the Western Front games, North Africa titles and last week’s First World War Campaigns.

The six titles updated today are Panzer Campaigns: Smolensk ’41, Panzer Campaigns: Moscow ’41, Panzer Campaigns: Moscow ’42, Panzer Campaigns: Kharkov ’42, Panzer Campaigns: Rzhev ’42 and Panzer Campaigns: Stalingrad ’42.

 

 

Please note, these are full installation builds. The reason for this is to align to the upgrades we started to release back in March here. There is no patch from the prior version available. If you already have a copy of any of these five titles, the latest game build should be available now in your store account on the WDS website. You will have to uninstall any existing versions and then install the latest to be up to date.

With the move to version 4.04, here are the following changes beyond version 4.03:

Panzer Campaigns version 4.04 Changelog

Full Release

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash due to registry setting for the classic toolbar (which no longer exists).
• Prevent Windows 11 CTD by replacing MCI audio with DirectSound on the Splash Screen.
• Fixed a crash to desktop and game corruption when playing Network Direct Play.
• Fixed a rare crash to desktop when Auto-Save was not selected.

Enhancements

• Units are not penalised with night fatigue when moving by rail.
• Dynamic NATO counter drawing on the Hex Info display. This is the same as the Panzer Battles implementation and the NATO counter on the unit card will highlight when appropriate.

• New unit boxes to improve legibility of text.
• New Unit box Back image to improve legibility of text.

We expect to follow-up with further updated games very soon.

Her are a few sample screen shots:

Panzer Campaigns: Smolensk ’41

Panzer Campaigns: Moscow ’41

 

Panzer Campaigns: Moscow ’42

Panzer Campaigns: Kharkov ’42

Panzer Campaigns: Rzhev ’42

Panzer Campaigns: Stalingrad ’42

We plan to continue to migrate the remaining Panzer Campaigns series across to version 4.04 over the next month or so. We also are working on a range of additional enhancements that we will share with you all very soon, expect some interesting features in version 4.04.1.

The Wargame Design Studio Summer Sale is now live. The sale will run till Thursday, July 4^th. You can read more details in our blog post.

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