Series History
The Steel Panthers series includes the following titles:
- 1995 Steel Panthers (1939-1945) by Strategic Simulations Inc
- 1996 Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles (1950-1999) by Strategic Simulations Inc
- 1997 Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command (1939-1999) by Strategic Simulations Inc
- 1999 SPWW2 (1930-1949) by Camo Workshop
- 2000 SPWaW (World at War)(1930-1949) by Matrix Games
- 2002 SPMBT (Main Battle Tank)(1946-2020) by Camo Workshop
- 2005 WinSPWW2 (1930-1946) by Camo Workshop, Distributed by Shrapnel Games
- 2006 WinSPMBT (1946-2020) by Camo Workshop, Distributed by Shrapnel Games
Rights to the game and source code were acquired by Matrix Games who developed and released as freeware an improved remake based on the Steel Panthers III engine (but limited to the timespan of World War II), Steel Panthers: World at War! The latest available patch version is 8.403. No further development is planned.
There also exists ongoing development by The Camo Workshop based on the Steel Panthers II code. The Camo Workshop have introduced many new and innovative features to their two Windows based versions of Steel Panthers. Steel Panthers: World War 2 (WinSPWW2) features battles from 1930 through 1946, with an extreme vast array of OOB (Order of battle). Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank (WinSPMBT) features battles from 1945 to 2020, with 90 different nations to allow for the simulation of a wide variety of different real and hypothetical conflicts. Those versions are still maintained and improved.
In 2005 Shrapnel Games took over distribution of SPCAMO's output, handling the distribution of the Windows version of their games. WinSPMBT was released in June of that year as a free download. A CD version with added bonus features was also offered as a commercial product (though the free version of the game itself is a full wargame already), the first time SPCAMO had charged for one of its games. WinSPWW2 was released on May 15, 2006.
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