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Wehrmacht - Faction Overview
A steadfast and elite force that can hold against even the most stubborn foe. Unlock unique arsenals to specialize your forces.
Battlegroups
Breakthrough Battlegroup
Advance forward with assault infantry and breakthrough tactics, while you prepare your economy for heavy armor support.
Assault Forces
Passive
Assault Grenadiers
Enables Grenadier Squads to be upgraded with the Assault Package to increase short-range effectiveness.
Costs
45
Offensive / Timed
Breakthrough
Infantry can quickly capture and decapture territory when active.
+100% capture and decapture rate.
Costs
120
60
1
Support / Select target position
Smoke Bombing Run
Airdrops smoke pots at the target location that block vision upon detonating.
Smoke lasts up to 20 seconds.
Costs
60
40
1
Ability / Call In
Mechanized Assault Group
Deploy an 251 Medium Carrier with a Stoßtruppen Squad escort.
Both units arrive at Veterancy Level 1.
Costs
120
600
30
15
2
Offensive / Select target position
Incendiary Bombing Run
Airdrops incendiary bombs that continuously damage infantry and structures in the area after detonating.
Costs
120
100
2
Armored Offensive
Passive
Rapid Production
Reduces the build time of all vehicles and upgrades from production structures by 50%.
Costs
90
2
Offensive / Timed
Blitzkrieg
Issue orders for all vehicles to initiate Blitzkrieg, drastically improving their combat performance for a short period of time.
+35% rate of fire, +20% speed, +25% rotation rate. Lasts for 30 seconds.
Costs
90
125
3
Italian Coastal Battlegroup
Hold the line with powerful defensive abilities, upgrades and bunkers, supported by Italian infantry and artillery.
Heavy Fortifications
Defensive / Select friendly territory point or bunker
Designate Defensive Line
Permanently mark a friendly territory point or Bunker as a Defensive Line. Infantry and bunkers in the radius take less damage. Lasts until destroyed, decaptured, or a new point is designated.
Infantry take 25% less damage
Costs
120
50
1
Production Unlock / Passive
Support Bunkers
Allows constructions of Command and Anti-tank Bunkers. Bunkers can be also be upgraded to anti-tank bunkers. \nCommand Bunker: Acts as a retreat point and reduces the incoming damage of nearby units and defenses\nAnti-Tank Bunker: Long-range emplacement effective against all vehicles.
Costs
2
Offensive / Select target position
Designated Artillery Overwatch
Designate a bunker as an artillery overwatch position. Off-map artillery will fire at nearby units around the bunker. Moderate blast radius. Effective against light targets.
Costs
90
90
1
Defensive / Select friendly territory area
Rapid Fortifications
Places a bunker in friendly territory that automatically constructs itself. Upgrades on this bunker are discounted by 50%.
Costs
120
150
1
Defensive / Timed
Call the Reserves!
All infantry units near bunkers will gain combat bonuses and periodically reinforce for free when active.
Infantry are 30% harder to hit and are granted 1 free reinforcement every 10 seconds.
Costs
90
100
1
Passive
Bulwark
Bunkers gain increased health and will automatically repair when out of combat.
Bunkers gain +120 health and restore +3 health per second when out of combat.
Costs
3
Coastal Forces
Passive
Coastal Wall
Reduces the manpower and munitions cost of all defenses, defense upgrades and mines by 35%.
Costs
45
3
Last Stand Battlegroup
Desperate Battle
Offensive / Toggle
Final Battle
Shift battle tactics to focus on aggression and firepower, over defense. Infantry take +20% increased damage but deal +10% increased damage in return. +3 munitions is received for each infantry squad member lost while active.
Costs
1
Global Upgrade / Select to Immediately Purchase
Panzerfaust Rollout
Unlocks the Panzerfaust rollout upgrade. Once purchased, enables all infantry units to use the Panzerfaust ability against enemy vehicles. Upgrade is purchased from the command ability panel.
Costs
120
3
Offensive / Select target position
Nebelwerfer Overwatch
Designates off-map rocket batteries to overwatch the target area. Batteries will fire on any valid enemy target. Rockets are delivered in quick salvos with a moderate blast radius.
Costs
120
180
3
Passive
Scavenge Doctrine
Enemy infantry squad members may drop Scavenge Crates when killed. These can be picked up by infantry squads. Scavenge Crates immediately recharges all abilities and the squad gains +25% rate of fire for 25 seconds.
Costs
3
Defense in Depth
Offensive / Select target position
Improvised Barrage
Barrages the target area with a random assortment of off-map artillery guns. Barrages can have the following shell types: • Medium Artillery - Effective against stationary targets. • Light Artillery - Effective against stationary infantry. • Incendiary - Deals damage continuously to infantry and buildings in an area for a short period of time. • Smoke - Blocks vision in the area.
Costs
120
90
2
Passive
Last Ditch Defenses
Enables Pioneers and Sturmpioneers to build the following: Propaganda Tower: Demoralizes nearby enemy infantry units, reducing their offensive power and capture speed. Pantherturm Emplacement: Anti-tank emplacement with high health and full rotation.
Costs
1
Support / Select target wreck
Rapid Salvage
Sturmpioneer squads can recover vehicle wrecks, restoring them to a functional unit, or salvage them for resources.
Costs
6
Passive / Unlock Ability
Immobilize and Fortify
Pioneers and Sturmpioneers can permanently immobilize a vehicle to refund 75% of its fuel cost and reduce its population upkeep by 75%. When immobilized, the vehicle gains stronger defensive and offensive bonuses.
Reduces incoming damage by 25%, +12.5 range, +20% rate of fire and disables movement for affected units. Vehicles with fixed main weapons gain +15 weapon arc radius.
Costs
3
Luftwaffe Battlegroup
Combine airborne infantry and heavy emplacements to take and hold ground, calling upon air support when needed.
Air-to-Ground Support
Recon / Select target position
Reconnaissance Run
Designates a recon run over the target area that provides vision along the plane's flight path. Can reveal camouflaged units.
Costs
60
35
1
Offensive / Select target position
Stuka Strafing Run
Designates a strafing run over the target area. Damages and suppresses infantry.
Costs
90
50
1
Offensive / Select target position
Fragmentation Bombs
Airdrops fragmentation bombing run over the target area in a line. Wide blast radius. Extremely effective against infantry.
Costs
120
120
2
Offensive / Select target position
Stuka Loiter
Designates two Stukas to loiter an area and automatically attack visible enemy units.
Costs
180
180
4
Field Support
Production Unlock / Passive
Flak 38 Anti-Air Emplacement
Enables Fallschirmpioneers and Pioneers to build stationary Flak 38 Anti-Air Emplacements that are effective against infantry, light vehicles, and can shoot down aircraft.
Costs
1
Passive
Infantry Reserves
Reduces the reinforcement cost of all infantry units and infantry-based team weapons by 20%.
Costs
5
Mechanized Battlegroup
Puncture your opponent’s frontline with light vehicles, artillery support and assault groups, until heavy armor arrives.
Mechanized Armor
Passive
Raid Package
Globally allows all light vehicles to capture territory and all vehicles can use the Smoke Canisters ability.
Costs
2
Production Unlock / Passive
Allows the Panther Heavy Tank to be produced from the Panzer Kompanie. Very effective against all armored vehicles. Deals limited anti-infantry damage • Strong front armor, weak side armor. • High health.
Costs
120
2
Mechanized Support
Passive
Repair Crews
251 Personnel Carriers and 221 Scout Cars can slowly repair themselves and nearby vehicles when out of combat and stationary.
Restores +5.5 health per second.
Costs
1
Passive
Spotting Scopes
Enables vehicles to be upgraded with spotting scopes to improve line of sight.
Increases vision by +10 when stationary.
Costs
1
Passive
Stoßtruppen Assault Package
Enables Stoßtruppen to be upgraded with StG 44 assault rifles that greatly improve medium and short-range firepower and grants camouflage.
Costs
1
Offensive / Timed
Mechanized Assault
Auto-repairs vehicles. Infantry move faster, take less damage and are harder to hit when near vehicles while active.
+3.5 repair rate per second for vehicles. Affected infantry receive +20% speed, -30% less damage, and are 20% harder to hit.
Costs
120
120
2
Offensive / Select target position
Zeroing Artillery Barrage
Designates an artillery barrage that becomes more accurate over time. Very effective against stationary targets.
Costs
120
200
3
Siege Breaker Battlegroup
Siegeworks
Passive / Unlock Ability
Siege Specialists
Mortar Teams, Nebelwerfer Teams, Brummbär, or Sturmtigers that remain stationary for 10 seconds gain 15% increased range. This effect is lost if they move. Increases the experience rate gain of these units by 25%.
Costs
60
1
Passive / Unlock Ability
Grinding Advance
Increases the crush value of all vehicles by an additional level, allowing them to drive through heavier obstacles. All non-ultra light vehicles gain the S-Mine Launcher ability, allowing them to detonate short-ranged explosives that suppress and deal damage to all nearby infantry.
Costs
60
1
Auto Build / Select target position
Construct Siege Camp
Constructs a Siege Camp equipped at target position. Effective against stationary infantry, team weapons, and structures. • Long-range attack and barrage. • Can fire smoke rounds to block vision. • Increases the rate of fire and ability recharge speed of nearby units.
Upgrades: • Forward Retreat Point
Costs
180
250
25
3
2
Support / Select own vehicle
Designate Siege leader
Designate a vehicle as a Siege Leader, granting it the following: • Receives 33% reduced frontal damage for 10 seconds when entering combat. • Reduces ability recharge time by 50% and removes ability Munitions cost. Designating a new vehicle removes the Siege Leader bonus from the previously designated unit. Cannot be cast on allied or Ultra-light vehicles.
Costs
180
125
2
Production Unlock / Passive
Unlock Sturmtiger Heavy Tank
Allows the Sturmtiger Heavy Tank to be produced from the Panzer Kompanie. Short-ranged rocket launcher that can devastate a massive area with a single shot. • High health and frontal armor; slow speed. • Main weapon only fires when given an explicit command. • Must reload manually after firing. • Takes increased damage and moves slower when reloading.
Costs
60
5
Vanguard Tactics
Passive / Unlock Ability
Clearing Gear
Infantry squads gain new grenade abilities to increase offensive potential. • Pioneers gain satchel charges. • Grenadiers gain incendiary grenades. • Panzergrenadiers gain smoke grenades. • Jägers gain rifle grenades.
Costs
60
1
Offensive / Select friendly infantry unit
Into The Breach
Grants a friendly infantry squad +50% movement speed and reduces the cost of grenade abilities by 100%. Lasts for 10 seconds.
Costs
120
1
Passive / Unlock Ability
Firestorm Doctrine
Grants the following: • Grenadiers can be upgraded with flamethrowers. • 251 Medium Carriers can be converted to the 251/16 Flammpanzerwagen, a flamethrower carrier that excels against infantry in cover, buildings, and emplacements. • 251/16 Flammpanzerwagen can be constructed from the HQ.
Costs
60
1
Offensive / Select neutral or enemy territory point
Critical Location
Designates a neutral or hostile territory sector as a Critical Location. Enemy units within range 35 of the designated territory point take +15% increased damage. Lasts for 30 seconds. Every 10 seconds, if enemy units remain within range, the duration extends by 10 seconds.
Costs
120
40
3
Offensive / Select target position
Probing Barrage
Fires a barrage of flares and smoke shells into the target area. Can be used in the fog of war.
Provides vision for 30 seconds in a radius of 45.
Costs
120
70
3
Terror Battlegroup
Terror Tactics
Passive
Interrogate
Infantry squads can interrogate enemy casualties, revealing the location of enemy forces within range 90 of the casualty for 15 seconds. The casualty is killed when the interrogation is finished and the squad receives 175 experience.
While interrogating the squad takes +50% increased damage and is +100% easier to hit.
Costs
1
Passive
Contempt for the Weak
Infantry squads gain +20% rate of fire and +33% capture/decapture speed for 15 seconds when a nearby enemy unit retreats within range 18. Effects refresh if enemy units retreat while the bonus is active.
Costs
1
Offensive / Select target position
Jericho Trumpet
Designates two Stukas to loiter the area, demoralizing enemy infantry within the area. Does not deal damage to enemy units. Provides vision and reveals camouflaged units when the planes arrive at their destination.
Demoralized infantry receive -25% speed and -15% accuracy. Lasts for 45 seconds
Costs
120
90
3
Offensive / Select target position
Propaganda Leaflet Drop
Airdrops propaganda leaflets over target area for 25 seconds. Infantry and Team Weapon crews that remain in the area automatically retreat after 3 seconds. Affects units that cannot retreat, but not units that cannot move without being towed.
Costs
120
90
3
Offensive / Select target position
V1 Rocket Strike
Fires an off-map V1 Rocket at the target area that does not have warning flares, but has a distinct audio signature. Massive blast radius. Devastating against stationary targets.
Costs
120
225
4
Weapon Superiority
Offensive / Passive
Machine Gun Camouflage
Machine Gun Teams gain camouflage when in cover and out of combat, becoming invisible to enemies unless they get too close. Grants Hold Fire ability to the unit to allow for deadly ambushes.
+25% damage and +40% accuracy when firing from camouflage for 5 seconds.
Costs
1
Passive
Heavy Gunnery
Allows the Heavy Gunnery ability to be used on certain vehicles, granting them suppression damage. Affects the following units: • 221 Scout Car • 251 Medium Carrier • StuG III G Assault Gun • Panzer IV Medium Tank • King Tiger Heavy Tank
Defensive / Timed
Defend the Fatherland
Infantry squads in any friendly territory take less damage and have increased weapon accuracy and rate of fire for each missing squad member. Lasts 45 seconds.
Bonuses have a maximum of +75% damage reduction and +50% accuracy and rate of fire.
Costs
60
75
3
Offensive / Passive
No Quarter
Infantry within range 25 of suppressed or pinned enemy units gain +25% accuracy.
Costs
4
Buildings
Headquarters
Production building
Produces: Pioneer Squads and Kettenkrad Recon Vehicles.
Can Reinforce infantry.
Hitpoints
3000
Costs
90
500
Tech upgrade
Medical Station
Upgrades the structure with a medical station that heals nearby infantry units when out of combat.
Restores +3.2 health per second.
Costs
25
200
Infanterie Kompanie
Production building
Produces: Grenadier Squads, Heavy Machine Gun Teams, Mortar Teams, and Snipers. Enables promotion of Grenadiers.
Can Reinforce infantry.
Hitpoints
1500
Costs
15
100
15
Tech upgrade
Infanterie Officer Quarters
Promotes all units from the HQ and Infanterie Kompanie to Veterancy 1 and increases their veterancy earn rate by 25%. Standard and support infantry from Battlegroups are also affected. Bonuses from other officer quarters do not stack.
Applies to current and future units.
Costs
45
125
25
Luftwaffe Kompanie
Production building
Produces: Jäger Squads, Flak 30 Anti-aircraft Gun Teams, 221 Scout Cars, Marder III M Tank Destroyers and Wirbelwind IV Flakpanzers.
Can Reinforce infantry.
Hitpoints
1500
Costs
40
150
50
Tech upgrade
Support Elements
• Unlocks the Nebelwerfer and StuG III G Assault Gun in the Panzergrenadier Kompanie.\n• Unlocks the Marder Tank Destroyer and Flakpanzer Wirbelwind in the Luftwaffe Kompanie.
Costs
30
150
50
Tech upgrade
Luftwaffe Officer Quarters
Promotes all units from the Luftwaffe Kompanie to Veterancy 1 and increases their veterancy earn rate by 25%. Elite infantry, flak emplacements, team weapons, medium and light vehicles from Battlegroups are also affected. Bonuses from other officer quarters do not stack.
Applies to current and future units.
Costs
30
125
25
Tech upgrade
Side Skirts
Globally equips Panzer IVs, Sturmpanzer IVs, StuG IIIs, and Wirbelwinds with armored skirts.
Increases health of affected vehicles by +80. Increases side armor by +20%.
Costs
25
200
45
Panzergrenadier Kompanie
Production building
Produces: Panzergrenadier Squads, 251 Medium Carriers, Pak 40 Anti-tank Gun Teams, Nebelwerfer 42 Rocket Launchers, and StuG III G Assault Guns.
Can Reinforce infantry.
Hitpoints
2000
Costs
40
150
40
Tech upgrade
Support Elements
• Unlocks the Nebelwerfer and StuG III G Assault Gun in the Panzergrenadier Kompanie.\n• Unlocks the Marder Tank Destroyer and Flakpanzer Wirbelwind in the Luftwaffe Kompanie.
Costs
30
150
50
Tech upgrade
Panzergrenadier Officer Quarters
Promotes all units from the Panzergrenadier Kompanie to Veterancy 1 and increases their veterancy earn rate by 25%. Elite infantry, flak emplacements, team weapons, medium and light vehicles from Battlegroups are also affected. Bonuses from other officer quarters do not stack.
Applies to current and future units.
Costs
30
125
25
Tech upgrade
Side Skirts
Globally equips Panzer IVs, Sturmpanzer IVs, StuG IIIs, and Wirbelwinds with armored skirts.
Increases health of affected vehicles by +80. Increases side armor by +20%.
Costs
25
200
45
Panzer Kompanie
Production building
Produces: Stoßtruppen Squads, Panzer IV Medium Tanks, and Sturmpanzer IV Assault Guns.
Can Reinforce infantry.
Hitpoints
2000
Costs
55
300
135
Tech upgrade
Panzer Officer Quarters
Promotes all units from the Panzer Kompanie to Veterancy 1 and increases their veterancy earn rate by 25%. Heavy tanks and heavy artillery emplacements from Battlegroups are also affected. Bonuses from other officer quarters do not stack.
Applies to current and future units.
Costs
30
125
25
Tech upgrade
Side Skirts
Globally equips Panzer IVs, Sturmpanzer IVs, StuG IIIs, and Wirbelwinds with armored skirts.
Increases health of affected vehicles by +80. Increases side armor by +20%.
Costs
25
200
45