Panzer Elite Action follows the story of three tank commanders and their crew as they go through hell.

The German commander, pumped by the fast success in Poland and France, moves on to the Eastern Front and the brink of victory with the taking of Stalingrad. We meet the Russian commander in desperate straits as he helps defend Stalingrad, and follow him as the tide turns against the Germans and he joins the massive tank battle of Kursk.

The American commander enters the war on the Normandy Beachhead on D-Day. After the struggle for the Bocage, he defends the German outbreak at the Battle of the Bulge, and then drives on to the victorious crossing of the Rhine.

Here are some key features of "Panzer Elite Action":

· Command your tank through 18 missions over 3 different campaigns and experience the biggest battles of the 2nd World War – from Stalingrad to the tank battle of Kursk to the Beaches of Normandy
· Become the leader of your own squad and employ a wealth of strategies
· The fast paced, action packed game puts you right into the battlefield filled with dozens of AI controlled airplanes, anti tank cannons, infantry and enemy vehicles.
· Feel the power of 30 tons of steel armor around you as you crush through the destructible environment, mowing down trees and destroying entire buildings
· Popular "Conquest" style multiplayer mode for up to 32 players, allowing for complex team strategies utilizing the different tank's unique advantages
· Additional maps and vehicles available for download after release


Requirements:

Minimal requirements:
· PIII 800Mhz or AMD Duron 800Mhz or faster x86 compatible 256Mb [DDRAM] or more
· ATI Radeon 8500 or nVidia GeForce 3 Ti (must support ps.1.1) with at least 32Mb of video memory
· 3Gb or more free disk space
· DirectX 9.0 or newer
· Windows XP
· [optional] Sound card
Recommended specification
· P4 2.0Ghz or AMD XP 2400+ or greater x86 or AMD64 processor.
· 1Gb of fast DDRAM (PC3200 recommended)
· ATI 9800XT or nVidia 6600Gt with 256Mb of video memory
· 3Gb or more free disk space
· DirectX 9.0c
· Windows XP with service pack 2 and updates
· Sound card with 5.1 or 7.1 support (Audigy2 recommended)


What's New in This Release:

Fixes:
· Various localization fixes (typos)
· Fixed being able to issue attack commands on supply areas
· Fixed airstrike related load game crash
· Fixed multiplayer airstrike planes sometimes bombing themselves
· Fixed missing hit indicator in binoculars mode with medium tank in MP
· Fixed camera penetrating ground sometimes
· Fixed issue with vertical aimaing when on very slopey terrain
· Game now restarts properly when changing resolution and/or language
· Fixed problem with some area sounds stuttering
· Fixed rare crash during interactive music change
· Fixed annoying "3d sounds must have one channel" message in log output
· Fixed mouse cursor texture leak
· Refresh-rate can now be changed even if resolution remains the same
· Fixed crash when loading screen text was too long (mostly in french)
· Fixed a bug where a missing unit description would crash the game
· Fixed autosave on objective/mission complete that sometimes didn't save
· Fixed a freeze if player first completed mission then failed on next
· Fixed end of mission freezes (dialog and video related)
· Fixed dialog queue bug that sometimes paused dialogs
· Fixed profile/save related bug if user was out of HD space
· Fixed load mission black screen frezze
· Fixed infantry unit that sometimes caused crash in Stalingrad mission
· Fixed automatic language detection
· Fixed various ALT+TAB issues, though it is still officially unsupported
· Fixed various other freezes and crashes
Changes:
· Added 1 second fade in at mission end
· If player tank drives over a dead AI, it will blow up and disapper
· Changed MP spawn behavior to spawn players that were not spawned due to full spawn area ASAP
· Changed default immortal time after spawn in MP from 6 to 3 seconds
· Added more information (savegames, extended log info) to crashreports
· Added missing quick save/load (F9 quick load, F6 quick save)


Note: Users with the 1.43.87 patch will not be able to play multiplayer games with previous versions of PEA