User Guide

Current Strength
The unit’s current strength points. A unit’s maximum normal strength
is either five or ten, although this can be modified using ‘over
strength.’ If a unit’s strength is reduced to zero, the unit is destroyed.
Entrenchment
The unit’s current total entrenchment level. Entrenchment represents
the fact that ground units, given enough time, can create defensive
structures that better prepare them to withstand attack.
Equipment Type
The specific type of unit of a particular class.
Experience Level
The number of experience bars, between zero and five, that a unit has
earned. Experience greatly increases unit’s effectiveness.
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UNIT STATISTICS DESCRIPTIONS
These statistics appear throughout PANZER GENERAL II.
Air Attack
A value gauging the unit’s attack capabilities against air targets,
such as tactical bombers and fighters. A value of zero indicates that
the unit cannot attack air targets.
Air Defense
A value gauging the unit’s ability to withstand attacks by air units.
Air units use this defense value against all attacks
Ammo
Depending on the screen, this can be either the unit’s current ammo
supply, or their maximum ammunition. If the unit’s ammunition runs
out, it cannot attack the enemy until it is resupplied.
Class
The general class to which the unit belongs. The unit classes are aircraft car-
rier, air defense, anti-tank, artillery, capital ship, destroyer, fighter
fortification, infantry, recon, tank, tactical bomber, and transport.
Close Defense
A value gauging a non-infantry ground unit’s ability to attack
infantry in city or forest hexes, or defend itself in city or forest hexes
against infantry. When any non-infantry ground unit attacks infantry
which puts up a rugged defense, the attacking unit uses its close defense
value. When combating or defending against infantry in city or forest hexes,
non-infantry ground units suffer the handicap of using their close defense val-
ues. Infantry do not retain this advantage in clear terrain. Since close defense
values are usually less than ground defense values, this makes infantry more
dangerous in difficult terrain.
Cost
The estimated prestige point cost of requisitioning a new unit.
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