Steel Panthers - About SP

What is Steel Panthers?
What is OOB/MOB/KOB? What is LBM? What is SHP?

	What is Steel Panthers?

n September 1995, Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) published what is perhaps war game legend Gary Grigsby's finest work yet: Steel Panthers. In my opinion, this is the game to set the standard for all player interfaces, levels of fun, and especially replay value in war and strategy games to come.
With an emphasis on armor, Steel Panthers includes over 200 tank and aircraft models, over 100 weapon systems, and a large variety of specialized infantry such as heavy and anti-tank infantry, Pioneers, Volksgrenadiers, and even airborne troops. Individual units and formations from a large selection of both major and minor nations fighting in World War II allows players to recreate almost any battle imaginable in the Pacific, in Western Europe, on the Eastern Front, or in desert climates like Northern Africa.
This game enjoys tremendous replay value with its inclusion of premade scenarios, linked campaigns, a random battle generator, and a powerful and user-friendly scenario editor. Perhaps more than any other game, Steel Panthers has made scenario authors out of people who formerly had only dreamed of creating their own battles in other games.
Although Steel Panthers ships with over 60 premade scenarios and six historical, linked campaigns, to date, there are over 1,000 additional custom scenarios available from both commercial sources or for free. Commercial scenarios are offered at reasonable cost from a variety of sources, including the wonderful SSI Steel Panthers Campaign Disks. Sources for free scenarios abound as well, although we believe the searchable, fully indexed Custom Scenario Archives found on The Wargamer to be the best source for such free creations. (We may be biased, of course. ;-)
Currently, Steel Panthers has been officially patched to version 1.2 and now includes password protection for play by email (PBEM), a very competent AI, and one of the best war gaming experiences around. The game's interface is simply superb, allowing even the casual war or strategy gamer to quickly play and feel comfortable with the controls of this gaming gem. If you've worn out your Panzer General (and seek more realism) or are looking for something a little lighter fare than Panthers in the Shadows or Tigers on the Prowl, Steel Panthers may very well be the game that hardly leaves your CD Rom drive. In fact, I've played it so much, I even wore out a copy.
What you are about to find is hopefully the best and most comprehensive collection of information, add-ons, utilities, and custom scenarios available for Steel Panthers. We (and our contributing authors) have worked hard at collecting this material over the past two years and hope you enjoy it.

	But I still don't understand what Steel Panthers is?

It's PC turn-based strategic wargame. Steel Panthers 1 covers World War 2 (1939-1945), Steel Panthers 2: Modern Battles covers worlds conflicts from 1950-1999 (Year 2000 bug? , Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Commands joins both SP (WW2 and Modern) but on larger scale.

	What is OOB/MOB/KOB?

OOB in SP1, MOB in SP2, KOB in SP3, are files which contains information's about weapons and units for nations in the game, they can be easily modified to players wishes for greater realism. You can find many already done on our site. Just unzip them and copy them to your \sp directory.

	What is LBM?

LBM are pictures or units you see in the game. You can create new ones by using Paint Shop Pro 5.1. Many OOB/MOB/KOB comes with LBM pictures, just copy the pictures to your \sp\lbm directory (if you don't have that directory, just create it).

	What is SHP?

SHP are graphics in the game. You can create new ones by using Fred's Chalnda SHP-Editor. Many OOB/MOB/KOB comes with SHP graphics, just copy the SHP files to your \sp\shp directory (if you don't have that directory, just create it).

Please send your questions to steelpanthers@wargamer.com.