Strategic Command (video game series)

Strategic Command is a series of computer video games developed by Fury Software and Battlefront.com, and published by Excalibur Publishing. Since the premiere of the first game in the series, Strategic Command: European Theater in 2002, eight further new titles and six expansion packs have been released, with the ninth game released in 2022, Strategic Command: American Civil War, being the most recent one. Including re-releases, expansions, and the 2019 bundle Strategic Command: Complete, 22 different titles are included in the series.

Strategic Command games are turn-based strategies set in World War I, World War II, World War III, and the American Civil War, as well as other minor conflicts. The first games of each new generation of the series (i.e., European Theater, Blitzkrieg, and War in Europe) took place in the European Theatre of World War II. Two games have been released focusing on the entire global conflict of WW2 (Global Conflict and World at War). Two games have also been released focusing on the World War I (The Great War 1914-1918 and World War I). One-off games have been released focusing on the Pacific Theatre of WW2 and the American civil war.

Three different game engines have been created for different generations of Strategic Command. The first title featured a hex map. In the second generation of the series, the games are played on maps divided into squares ("tiles"). The third game-engine saw the return of hexes. Games from the first and second serieses saw the player assuming control over either Axis, Central Powers or Allied, Entente Cordiale states of World War II and World War I. The Patton Drives East expansion in the second series added a conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. The third series repeated the WW1 and WW2 focus of the preceding games and added a game focused on the American Civil War.