$14.99Battle Academy
A quick-to-learn turn-based WWII tactics game where you lead small Allied forces through more than 30 battles. Set ambushes, pin troops with suppressing fire, flank tanks, and call in artillery and airstrikes. Easy to pick up, tricky to master, with async multiplayer and plenty of custom scenarios.
Is Battle Academy worth it?
Battle Academy is worth it if…
- you like turn-based WWII tactics with tanks, infantry, and artillery
- you like short, careful missions you can finish in an evening
- you like async multiplayer you play at your own pace
- you like making or trying custom scenarios and mods
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Small forces, real combined-arms decisions
You command a select group of infantry, tanks, scouts, and support guns across WWII fronts, and winning comes from how they work together. Infantry spots what tanks cannot see, scouts check for ambushes, armor hits from the flank, and artillery and airstrikes soften a strong point before an assault.
Morale shapes every fight. Troops under fire get suppressed and stop returning fire, and broken units cannot attack until they recover. You watch line of sight, keep guns protected, and move APCs, snipers, flamethrowers, and heavy bombers where they count. Units that survive gain experience toward Veteran and Elite status with new skills.
Three Allied campaigns across the war
The base game follows British, US, Polish, and Canadian forces through three campaigns and more than 30 varied battles. You get Shermans and Fireflys, Panthers and Tigers, Stukas, Hurricanes, P-47s, and around 100 units from six nations in total.
Each mission hands you a fresh force for that battle, so a lost squad does not follow you into the next fight. Missions stay a comfortable hour or two, challenging enough to make you retry a plan but simple to read thanks to a clean interface. It is a good balance of interesting and demanding without eating whole days.
Multiplayer at your own pace, plus mods
The PBEM++ server system runs asynchronous multiplayer, so you find an opponent and take turns when it suits you, with thousands of games running at a time. In multiplayer you can also take Italian and German forces. Cross-platform play with iPad keeps the pool of opponents wide.
The engine is script-driven and built for modding. A built-in scenario editor plus user mods and scenarios add custom missions and full overhauls, which gives the game long replay value beyond the campaigns.
What else should you know?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. The three campaigns and more than 30 battles are single-player, with three difficulty levels.
How does multiplayer work?
It uses an asynchronous server system. You take your turn, your opponent is notified, and they answer later, so a battle can stretch over days. It suits longer tactical games with friends or strangers in any time zone.
Do your units level up?
Within a battle, units gain experience as they fight and can reach Veteran and Elite status with new skills. Campaign missions then reset you with a new force, so you can risk troops to win the scenario at hand.
