A campaign game ties the individual scenarios together and allows your own personal leader counter to advance in rank and ability. The scenarios run the gamut from street fighting in Stalingrad, to armored advances across snow-covered roads in the Ardennes. Squad Leader utilizes programmed instruction to guide you through 12 scenarios of increasing realism and complexity.

Will that hedgerow provide adequate cover for your flanking efforts, or will your men be cut down by the American machinegun position in the woods? The decision is irrevocable and yours alone. You direct the fire of your squad, select your plan of attack, or set your defenses against massed Russian human wave or armor assaults. Now, you make the instant decisions resulting in life or death for your men, victory or defeat for your army. Squad Leader is a game of WWII tactical combat in Europe.