Panzer Corps: Grand Campaign East Walkthrough

I strongly suggest you play the campaign several times on your own on lower difficulties before following this walkthrough. If you are new to the game, check my Tips for Beginners guide on Steam and at least discover each scenarios events and flow by yourself first. Some information here may spoil the fun of discovery.

To me the Grand Campaign East is the most interesting and challenging, and the more epic campaign. It offers many choices for units upgrade paths and core building strategies.

My main goal is to show some guidance for players who struggle with the campaign or specific scenarios, as well as provide food for though for the more experienced players. Above all, I hope to show some good strategies and tactics and I think they should be solid in any lower difficulties. Hence this guide is intended as a general Grand Campaign East guide rather than a guide for specific settings. Yet I plan to reap all possible benefits from playing in Chess mode. For example if the combat prediction says zero loss for me, I might fire right away, whereas with the RNG I might add more suppression. There is not one single best way to play the game, it’s up to you to choose a difficulty setting and house rules that work for you.

The base game as 5 difficulty levels up to Field Marshall (FM), then there are 3 special unlockable difficulty levels. And finally an Ultimate difficulty combines the 3 special difficulties of the base game. The combination of the three makes for a formidable challenge.

– Rommel, you earn only 50% prestige points. This is manageablen indeed once you are familiar with the game I recommend Rommel as the standard difficulty setting.
– Manstein, each enemy units has +5 strength points. This not only make the enemies tougher to kill, but more importantly it makes the AI much more aggressive, as the AI usually only attacks when the combat predictions favor it. And obviously +5 strength increase the AI predicted damage.
– Guderian, each scenario last 5 less turns. On scenarios with many turns this is not a major problem, but in sharp contrast for scenario with a low turns number this can be extremely hard.

Chess Mode neutralize the RNG altogether. Most of the time I play with the RNG, but here, the main reason I choose Chess mode is because I find it is a great tool for study. You can reload as much as you want but you won’t get any better die rolls. If you want to have better results you must improve your tactics and strategies. It also makes it easier to compare one scenario playthrough to another.

It is somewhat easier than with the RNG, but certainly harder than RNG with reloads. In practice you might take less damage if you are careful, but on the other end you also tend to do less damage. Which is a problem in Ultimate with stronger enemies and less turns on the clock. Moreover using Chess mode I will set some extra challenges for myself along the way.

So playing with un-modded Panzer Corps Gold edition, rules 1.20.
The challenge is reload as much as you want and try to get the best result. I might reload poor heroes, but I won’t reload to get defender surprise when the AI attack. Above all this is a simple rule anyone can follow without having someone watching over your shoulder to see how you handle the wild RNG.

Please note that this guide is for CG East in Ultimate difficulty and Chess Mode, which is a big topic in itself. And not to discuss other campaigns. If you so desire that’s totally fine but please go make your own guide.

39-1 Poznan

39-2 Danzig Corridor

39-3 Lodz

39-4 Piatek

39-5 Kampinsoka Forest

39-6 Modlin

39-7 Warsaw South

39-8 Spoils of War

39-9 Oslo

39-10 Lillehammer

39-11 Narvik

40-1 Eben Emael

40-2 Albert Canal

40-3 The Hague

40-4 Sedan

40-5 Stonne

40-6 Wassigny

40-7 Amiens

40-8 Dunkirk

40-9 Reims

40-10 Dijon

40-11 Maginot Line

41-1 Belgrade

41-2 Metaxas Line

41-3 Crete Airborne

41-4 Minsk

41-5 Smolensk

41-6 Ostrov

41-7 Novgorod

41-8 Leningrad

41-9 Vyazma

41-10 Streets of Moscow

41-11 Demyansk Pocket

42-1 Vitebsk

42-2 Kharkov

42-3 Simferopol

42-4 Sevastopol Assault

42-5 Voronezh

42-6 Novoanninsky

42-7 Ilovlya

42-8 Buzinovka Depot

42-9 Storming Stalingrad

42-10 Stalingrad Docks

42-11 Stalingrad Ruins

42-12 Kotelnikovo

43-1 Kharkov

43-2 Belgorod

43-3 Orel

43-4 Yakovlevo

43-5 Oboyan

43-6 Kursk Armoury South

43-7 Prohkorovka

43-8 Dnipropetrovsk

43-9 Kremenchug

43-10 Kiev

44-1 Korsun Pocket

44-2 Korsun Breakout

44-3 Jassy-Kishinev

44-4 Poltava South

44-5 Mogilev South

44-6 Babruysk South

44-7 Minsk south

44-8 Vilna South

44-9 Warsaw Uprising South

44-10 Return to Kishinev

44-11 Budapest

45-1 Goldap

45-2 Pelleninkin

45-3 Parck

45-4 Laptau

45-5 Osterode

45-6 Poznan

45-7 Breslau

45-8 Budapest

45-9 Seelow Heights

Coming soon

45-10 Berlin

45-11 Berlin Redux

45-12 Epilogue

Coming soon

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