German armour and infantry massed on the Kursk battle map

The Second World War · 1939 – 1945

PANZERKEIL

Build an army of your own. Lead it through the war.

A turn-based hex wargame across 48 battles on hand-drawn maps, made for the phone in your hand and the iPad on your desk.

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Free to start · iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple TV

48Battles
3Campaigns
126Unit types
4Screens

Free to start

Play free.
Unlock the war once.

  • The opening battles of every campaign
  • Basic Training
  • The Daily Operation, every day
  • Battle Mode against other players

One purchase

The Whole War

Every battle of all three campaigns, every Quick Battle and the Weekly Operation, on every screen you own.

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Choose your side

Three wars.
One is yours.

How you win decides where the war goes next: a decisive victory opens a different road, a defeat a harder one.

Briefed before. Remembered after.

Every battle has a voice

A general of your side reads the briefing. Afterwards, a voiced “What really happened” sets your war beside the real one. Here is Kursk, July 1943, with sound.

The briefingUnternehmen Zitadelle, 5 July 1943
What really happenedOperation Citadel, 5 to 16 July 1943

An army that remembers

Name them. Paint them.
Bring them home.

Your units travel with you from battle to battle and grow from Green recruits to Guards. They win medals with lasting bonuses, from the Iron Cross to the Victoria Cross, and earn traits from what they live through.

  • Tank Hunters
  • Street Fighters
  • Winter-Hardened
  • Shell-Shocked
  • Battle-Weary

Every unit keeps a service record. The fallen go on the Roll of Honour. Win a campaign and your army marches in a victory parade.

Your Army: a Battle Group and its units, with honours and traits
A Tiger unit earns the Street Fighters trait at Prokhorovka

Battle Mode

Your army.
Their army.

Raise a Battle Group for each side from any unit of the war and take it into matches against other players. Your army always comes back, keeps what it learned, and earns titles, feats and honours.

  • Choose your side
  • Choose the weather
  • Fog of war
  • Buy intelligence
  • Rematch
A Battle Group on Apple TV: its record, units and honours

Morale and the fate of a unit

One blow can
break a line

Units have morale: a surprise against the odds can shake a whole line. Trapped units starve and surrender, and closing a ring is a moment to remember. When a veteran’s life hangs on one blow, the battle slows to watch.

Cheated DeathA veteran that lives through odds that should have destroyed it.
Long ShotA kill against long odds, celebrated on the spot.
The Lodz Pocket: an enemy unit encircled and cut off from supply

Supply, sieges and weather

Fight the war.
And the winter.

Supply

Supply runs along the roads and railheads you hold. Cut the enemy’s lines and their units starve.

Sieges

Surround a city and its defences crumble, turn by turn.

Weather

Snow, mud and storms change how every kind of unit moves and fights, with a three-turn forecast.

Become the commander

From Major to
Field Marshal

Rise over 20 levels. Attributes strengthen the whole army; Command Points buy 13 tactics, from an artillery barrage to an airlift.

Major›Colonel›Brigadier›Major General›Lieutenant General›General›Field Marshal

And while the game is closed, your commander keeps working: studying the Field Manual or training a unit of your Battle Group.

The Commander page: rank, level, Command Points and Battle Groups
The title screen with the commander, campaign and today's operations

Every attack shows its maths

Know the odds
before you fire

Before you commit, the forecast shows attack and defence, every modifier and the losses each side can expect.

Then watch the enemy’s turn play out, with your general on the radio calling the big moments.

The attack forecast: a StuG III against Soviet Guards, with every modifier

Daily and Weekly Operations

A new battle
every day

A new battle every day and every week, each with its own twist and a leaderboard that shows the difficulty every score was earned on.

Watch the leader’s battle film, and share a film of your own.

  • Three stars a battle
  • Leaderboards
  • Battle films
A decisive victory with stars and the battle film
What really happened at Operation Citadel, beside your result

See it played

Move.
Strike.
Hold.

Select a unit, read the odds, attack, and watch the enemy answer. Recorded on iPhone, without sound.

iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple TV

One war.
Every screen.

Touch, keyboard and mouse, the Siri Remote or a game controller. Your war follows you through iCloud, and The Whole War is bought once for all of them.

Panzerkeil on Apple TV, played with a controller
Apple TV
Panzerkeil on iPad
iPad
Panzerkeil on iPhone
iPhone
Panzerkeil on Mac

Everything in the box

Built for the long war

Three campaigns, 48 battlesBranching roads through the war

126 illustrated unit typesFrom cavalry to jet fighters

Battle ModeYour own army against other players, under fog of war

Game Center matchesTurn by turn, with chat and rematches

Morale, traits and medals12 traits, nine medals, service records and the Roll of Honour

Encirclement and supplySupply lines, sieges, airlifts and weather by unit type

Voiced briefings and historiesAnd battlefield calls from your general

Battle filmsWatch every battle again, and share it

25 achievementsAnd six Game Center leaderboards

Three difficulty levelsFog of war, Dynamic Type and colour-vision settings

WidgetsOn the Home Screen and the Lock Screen

Plays offlineNo ads, no tracking

Free to start

The war
is waiting.

Start with the opening battles of every campaign. Unlock the whole war whenever you are ready.

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All 48 battles Your Army The Armoury Leaderboards Help