Panzer Corps 2: Elite - 1st Guards | Announcement

[MarcoT.]

Achtung, Panzer Generals!

Special announcement today! The Panzer Corps 2 Elite DLC continues with its second installment: a Soviet campaign titled 1st Guards!

As with the Ghost Division before, the focus once again falls on following the battles of the very best a nation involved in the Second World War had to offer, and for the Motherland, this means the Soviet Guards!



The continued Promise
With the glowing reception and success of Elite – Ghost Division, and while larger mega campaigns continue their production, we’re eager to fulfill the ideal of the Elite series to bring each major nation its own Panzer Corps 2 campaign. And who better to represent the soldiers of the USSR in their debut campaign than the 1st Guards?

As before, the Elite series is also resolved to its commitment to fight against rising inflation, and will once again release at the 4.99 USD price point. We were extremely pleased with the player rececption from Ghost Division, and see no good reason to arbitrarily raise this series’s price point.

Because in the end, that is what really matters, that we’re making great content that our players are excited to enjoy at fair exchange.



To uphold those values, we’ve got a great campaign lined up, filled with awesome battles of epic size.  Elite – 1st Guards is stuffed full of key battles ranging from 1937 all the way to 1945, and you’ll be deploying almost twice as many CORE units to battle over the previous Ghost Division campaign.

The 1st Guards
When Operation Barbarossa was launched in June of 1941, there was no such thing as a ‘Guards’ unit.  By the time World War II ended in 1945, over 200 formations carried the venerated title of ‘Guards’; from Guards Rifle Divisions to Guards Tank or Guards Mechanized Divisions to even Aviation Regiments and entire Guards Armies.

We’ll reveal a more information about this new campaign in an upcoming Developer Diary, but for now you can check out the store page for some more details and screenshots.

Upcoming Holiday 2025 Update


As we approach the Holiday Season and 2025 draws to a close, we have one more tradition we’d like to uphold.  Alongside the Soviet Elite campaign, we’re aiming to deploy additional Solo Scenario content that will be patched to the base game of Panzer Corps 2 that will be free for all owners of the game to enjoy, without any DLC requirements.

This tradition of free content during the holidays has been a theme for the last few years, and one we think is worth continuing as a way to continue to show our ongoing appreciation for the amazing community that continues to support Panzer Corps 2.  Thanks to you, our community, once again for keeping the Panzer Corps series going after all this time, we’ll have more information about the free solo scenario content soon!

[wecker]

Wow - Thank you. This is highly appreciated!

Is there already a date available?

I can see no list of scenarios - but from the pictures we see:

- 1937 Maybe Guadalajara
- 1939 Far East against Japan
- 1941 Yelnya
- 1943 Kursk
- 1945 Breslau and somewhere before Torgau?

Free scenarios are always welcome.

The price is literally a steal - instant buy.

Can`t wait for the release!

[Tassadar]

To uphold those values, we’ve got a great campaign lined up, filled with awesome battles of epic size.  Elite – 1st Guards is stuffed full of key battles ranging from 1937 all the way to 1945, and you’ll be deploying almost twice as many CORE units to battle over the previous Ghost Division campaign.

That's the only thing in this great piece of news that got me thinking. Ghost Division was great especially due to the slightly smaller scale, so I hope that bigger battles will not detract from the experience. Still, looking forward to something completely different and finally the first Soviet campaign in the game.

[terminator]

"The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (title of a 1966 American comedy film)

[bondjamesbond]

Thank you for remembering those who truly broke the back of fascism! I hope this Soviet add-on will be better than the Soviet Corps add-on from the first part!
https://www.strategium.ru/forum/topic/1 ... /#comments

[smashtheaxis]

I can see no list of scenarios - but from the pictures we see:

- 1937 Maybe Guadalajara
- 1939 Far East against Japan
- 1941 Yelnya
- 1943 Kursk
- 1945 Breslau and somewhere before Torgau?

The Steam page lists all the scenarios:

Lessons of War
Ending Stalemates
Born in Flames
Saturn on the Chir
Citadel Sortie
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Brody Cauldron
Oder Offensive
Allies

[terminator]

The Steam page lists all the scenarios:

You can also view the list of scenarios available here in the store, just click on the link the 1st Guards in the first post

[robin65]

Awesome news! The 1st Guards sounds like a great addition—really looking forward to seeing how the new missions and units play out. Panzer Corps 2 just keeps getting better.The Spike Mod APK

[robin65]

Awesome news! The 1st Guards sounds like a great addition—really looking forward to seeing how the new missions and units play out. Panzer Corps 2 just keeps getting better!

[terminator]

Has anyone seen new units on the screenshots ?

[Tassadar]

Has anyone seen new units on the screenshots ?

There's a captured Do 335 Pfeil and Jagdpanther on the screen from the last scenario and a Puma in the Oder scenario screen, so I guess you will be able to find hidden caches at least, for those willing to go a bit outside the historical composition. Always a nice option, as it is not compulsory, but remains a freedom of choice.

Other then that, it is hard to say. I think I might see a BT-2 on the "Ending Stalemates: screen (the 18 strength tank in the top left), but it is hard to tell because of the camouflage and the small model size, so I can be totally wrong here. Ghost Division made use of existing units, so overall I don't think 1st Guards will add any, or add more then 1-2, unless they are a side effect of the parallel work on the long China and Soviet campaigns.

[PanzerCro]

Elite campaigns are such neat addition to Panzer Corps 2 series.

This basically provides endless possibilites for new DLC's. 82nd and 101st airborne, Das Reich, 7th Armoured...

[adiekmann]

Only 9 scenarios? Whereas I don't expect a long, connected series of DLCs for a campaign dedicated to just one division, I still would like to have seen these DLCs to be much longer. This campaign concept of a DLC dedicated to a single famous division/unit is one that I have strongly proposed for several years going all the way back to my experiences with Panzer General 2 mod campaigns some 25 years ago. But I envisioned something more like 20 or more scenarios long, or similar to the vanilla German campaign. I would gladly pay twice as much for twice as many scenarios. Yes, I'm an older adult with income that makes a price of $12 or $5 inconsequential, and yes, I do remember a time as a kid when $7 difference was a big deal. But that was also the 1980s so $7 was also a lot more money in 1985 than it is today in 2025.

Again, an essential part of this genre of game is the ability to build, grow in experience and awards, and upgrade your core over a campaign. You grow attached to some of your more "elite" or powerful units. However, 9 scenarios really undermines those characteristics greatly when the campaign is this short. For example, you can find posts on this forum where some players develop such an attachment to the Verdeja tank gift unit that they resist even upgrading it as far as AO1943. That sort of emotional attachment to your core cannot take place in a 9 scenario long campaign, and that in turn reduces the potential enjoyment of the concept behind the "Elite Series" of DLCs.

[terminator]

Only 9 scenarios?

Massive maps and large-scale operations

[adiekmann]

Only 9 scenarios?

Massive maps and large-scale operations

That certainly helps, but I still would like more scenarios.

[bondjamesbond]

As I understand it, it will have nothing in common with the real Soviet Guards Corps that once existed ! ?
https://rkka.wiki/index.php/1_гв._танковый_корпус
http://tankfront.ru/ussr/tk/gvtk01.html

[Tassadar]

As I understand it, it will have nothing in common with the real Soviet Guards Corps that once existed ! ?

I wouldn't worry about it too much, as Kerensky already proved with Ghost Division he does his research in detail. The access to Soviet sources is likely much worse, but still should be faithful to the actual units and events. After all, the story of 7th Panzer also started with 2nd Light Division, so I assume something similar will occur here, where different units that later composed 1st Guards Tank Brigade (if we take the later missions into consideration that seems to be the most likely candidate for the DLC's namesake). There might be some freedom of interpretation of the link between the early Spanish Civil War and Khalkhin Gol, but I guess it's a good compromise to have a chance for the player to earn a bit of experience on his units directly and adjust the composition of the core to his liking rather than just give a bunch of pre-set experienced units.

Das Reich

No happening in a million years... Or at the very least not in any foreseeable future. That's a line I doubt any company would cross.

[adiekmann]

Das Reich

No happening in a million years... Or at the very least not in any foreseeable future. That's a line I doubt any company would cross.
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No, laws and other sentiments would create a problem for companies in numerous countries. I doubt it would fly well even in the United States and they are not going to make different versions for different markets. Not worth it.

But that being said, there are other elite German ground divisions that were not Waffen SS that could be explored. The first to come to mind is the Panzergrenadier-Division Großdeutschland. They would be my first choice and I'm rambled on about it for years many times before so I'll leave it at that.

Another would be Fallschirm-Panzer-Division Herman Göring, but with him being such a prominent Nazi I wonder if that is a bit too close to home as well. A third Panzer Division that was elite was the Panzer-Lehr Division. However, it had a rather short and unsuccessful history unlike Großdeutschland. A Fallschirmjäger Elite DLC would also offer all kinds of different interesting scenarios and history that begins in 1940. Perhaps that can be stretched into a 20-25 scenario DLC/campaign? Lots of different routes through the war that the designers could take.

And of course there are many choices for the Allies.

[sidxartxa]

Thank you for remembering those who truly broke the back of fascism!

The nations enslaved by the Soviet Union broke the back of fascism, not the man-eating maniac-led system above them.

[sidxartxa]

Also quite fun to see how Das Reich is perceived as something beyond in this context. USSR was a mass-murdering regime led by idiots and bastards, and while historically there is no problem with using the flags and logos, this whole "Time to go Soviet!" thing sounds like someone was not studying history.