What is the scale of the game?

[jdarocha]

What is the actual scale of Panzer Corps? What does one tank icon represent? Are the infantry units companies, battalions? and the airforce, I assume that each air unit represents a squadron of 12 (or so) planes?
Thanks
Halder

[Anfield]

The makers claim there is no scale, which when everything else in it follows historical lines seems odd to me, but whatever lol But for the most part the scale seems to be a unit is a regiment for ground units.

[the_iron_duke]

There's no stated scale for the game and the maps aren't necessarily to scale with each other.

As for what a unit represents, people have their own views - some say a unit is a battalion, some say it's a regiment. Some will even mix the two organisational levels and say some units represent regiments (infantry) while others (tanks) are battalions! If you're trying to be historical, the choice will affect the quality of your core (as discussed in other threads).

If you imagine a game unit as a battalion then your core will represent a small corps of c.20-40,000 men. If you view it as a regiment then your core might represent a large corps or small army of c. 60-90,000 men. Either way, these scales are too small to represent the battles of the main campaign, which would have involved multiple armies.

The Grand Campaign scenarios are zoomed-in at a closer scale, as it were, than the main campaign, so one would expect that a unit would represent a different-sized formation in each of the two different game campaign modes.