Matrix Games

A turn-based strategy game like no other has landed.

Approachable, absorbing and visually impressive yet detailed, Battle Academy aims to revolutionise the strategy games market with a blend of intuitive design and compelling game play driven by cutting edge technical innovation.

Inspired by an original online game concept devised by the BBC, the game has more than 30 battles in a range of theatres of war from the North African desert through D-Day to the to the snowy Ardennes mountains where the Allies battled to repel the final German offensive.

The team at Slitherine worked with Professor John Buckley, Military Historian at the University of Wolverhampton and a keen wargamer himself, to make sure that the strategy, tactics, scenarios and available firepower of the battles fought in WW2 were turned intorealistic AI behaviour, powering expertly crafted battles.

The game engine is also completely script-driven, allowing players to create their own missions and scenario in a simple and effective way.

The revolutionary server-based PBEM++  Slitherine system completes the package, for a gaming experience that will certainly please both hard core wargamers and newcomers.

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Be sure to check out these Battle Academy expansion packs as well!

• Control British, US, Polish, Canadian forces in 3 epic campaigns covering more than 30 varied battles or take control of Italian and German forces in multiplayer.
• Select from a vast array of equipment including 100 units from 6 nations - Shermans, Fireflys, Panthers, Tigers, Stukas, Hurricanes, P47s and much more!
• Gameplay features include ambushes, line of sight, artillery barrages, airstrikes, scouts, morale, APCs, flame throwers, heavy bombers, snipers and suppression.
• Your units gain experience as they fight. Get promoted to Veteran and Elite status and gain new skills.
• Addictive multiplayer modes using Slitherines revolutionary multiplayer server thats linked into an online ranking system.
• Huge modding opportunities. The game has been designed so that its easily moddable and accessible scripts control all aspects of combat, user interface and the game's appearance.

Review on TLeaves
I unreservedly recommend it to anyone who is as enamored of turn-based combat games as I am.

Review on NetWargamingItalia
7.5/10 - Overall I think BA deserves a vote more than adequate score, despite the simplicity, or perhaps because of that, in addition to the implementation which is clean and well kept, for its innovative approach and the desire to bring new players to wargaming, although it's also fun for veterans.

Review on Strategy Informer
7/10 - A relatively low price and entertaining, balanced gameplay should be more than enough for those of you curious enough to give it the time to impress.

Review on Gamer's Hall
92% (GOLD AWARD) - [Translated from German] Battlefield Academy offers entertaining and exciting game play ... Slitherine managed to put out a game that understands how to drop players into an atmospheric and tenderly designed world in which you can plunge right into the game through easy and intuitive controls ... the love for detail and the richness of units in the game provides an exclamation mark.