Battleplan Wiki
Fan-Made Community WikiDraw your plans directly on the map and command divisions across real WW2 terrain. This wiki maps the full Battleplan system — the planning phase and its emergency replan, the persistent campaign layer, division tactics and combined-arms unit doctrine.
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Battleplan Beginner Guide: Your First Plans and First Victories
Battleplan Overview Guide: What It Is and How It Plays
Battleplan Campaign Guide: Armies, Officers and Consequences
Battleplan Scenarios Guide: Reading Operations Before You Plan
Battleplan Planning Phase Guide: Drawing Plans That Survive the Day
Battleplan Tactics Guide: Map Reading and Operational Patterns
Battleplan Units Guide: Formations, Roles and Combined Arms
Best Battleplan Units: The Formations Worth Building Around
Commander Fundamentals
Take Command In Four Steps
Read the Ground
Roads, rivers and ridges decide what plans can work — walk the map in three passes before drawing a single arrow.
Draw Three Arrows
Main effort, fixing force, reserve. Missions instead of errands — plans with a why survive friction.
Hold the Replan
The Emergency Planning Phase is a reserve, not a panic button. Spend it on material change with a better idea ready.
Think in Campaigns
Losses carry forward — end battles with an army, not just a victory flag. The campaign remembers everything.
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Battleplan Beginner Guide: Your First Plans and First Victories
The beginner path through Battleplan — reading terrain before drawing plans, your first planning phase, when to spend the emergency replan and the habits of new commanders.
Battleplan Overview Guide: What It Is and How It Plays
A complete overview of Battleplan, the WW2 real-time strategy game by Slitherine — the drawn-planning system, divisional warfare, real-world terrain and the persistent campaign layer.
Battleplan Campaign Guide: Armies, Officers and Consequences
How the Battleplan campaign layer works — building and customizing your army, recruiting officers, unlocking historical units and managing consequences across battles.
Battleplan Scenarios Guide: Reading Operations Before You Plan
How to approach Battleplan scenarios and historical operations — briefing analysis, victory conditions, force ratios and matching your plan to what each battle actually rewards.
Battleplan Planning Phase Guide: Drawing Plans That Survive the Day
The Battleplan planning phase explained — drawing multi-unit plans on the map, timing and coordination, missions versus objectives and spending the Emergency Planning Phase.
Battleplan Tactics Guide: Map Reading and Operational Patterns
Battleplan tactics from the ground up — the map reading checklist, concentration, fixing forces, defense in depth and the operational patterns that win divisional battles.
Battleplan Units Guide: Formations, Roles and Combined Arms
How unit types work in Battleplan — infantry, armor, artillery and support formations, their roles in a drawn plan and the combined-arms logic that makes plans work.
Best Battleplan Units: The Formations Worth Building Around
The most valuable Battleplan formations ranked by campaign worth — what makes each worth building your army and plans around, and how to unlock toward your doctrine.
Battleplan Beginner Guide: Your First Plans and First Victories
The beginner path through Battleplan — reading terrain before drawing plans, your first planning phase, when to spend the emergency replan and the habits of new commanders.
Battleplan Overview Guide: What It Is and How It Plays
A complete overview of Battleplan, the WW2 real-time strategy game by Slitherine — the drawn-planning system, divisional warfare, real-world terrain and the persistent campaign layer.
Battleplan Campaign Guide: Armies, Officers and Consequences
How the Battleplan campaign layer works — building and customizing your army, recruiting officers, unlocking historical units and managing consequences across battles.
Battleplan Scenarios Guide: Reading Operations Before You Plan
How to approach Battleplan scenarios and historical operations — briefing analysis, victory conditions, force ratios and matching your plan to what each battle actually rewards.
Battleplan Planning Phase Guide: Drawing Plans That Survive the Day
The Battleplan planning phase explained — drawing multi-unit plans on the map, timing and coordination, missions versus objectives and spending the Emergency Planning Phase.
Battleplan Tactics Guide: Map Reading and Operational Patterns
Battleplan tactics from the ground up — the map reading checklist, concentration, fixing forces, defense in depth and the operational patterns that win divisional battles.
Battleplan Units Guide: Formations, Roles and Combined Arms
How unit types work in Battleplan — infantry, armor, artillery and support formations, their roles in a drawn plan and the combined-arms logic that makes plans work.
Best Battleplan Units: The Formations Worth Building Around
The most valuable Battleplan formations ranked by campaign worth — what makes each worth building your army and plans around, and how to unlock toward your doctrine.
What Is Battleplan?
Battleplan is a historical WW2 real-time strategy game by Slitherine, released on Steam October 12, 2026 — you draw elaborate multi-unit plans directly on the map, then watch the day unfold across real-world terrain with hundreds of thousands of troops.
This wiki is the fan-built companion: the planning phase system, campaign walkthroughs, division tactics and unit doctrine — everything from your first arrow to your first deliberate defensive victory.
Explore All GuidesSetting
World War 2
Scale
Divisional Command
Core system
Drawn Plans
Terrain
Real-World
Campaign
Persistent
Platform
Steam PC
Everything Battleplan, Mapped
Guides, campaigns, tactics and units — the complete toolkit.
Drawn Battle Plans
The signature system explained.
Plan → Run → ReplanOne Emergency Planning Phase per day — scarcity that makes planning honestBeginner Guide
Your first plans and first victories.
Campaign Layer
Armies, officers and consequences.
Persistent army — losses and readiness carry forward
Officer corps — recruit, develop, rotate
Historical unlocks — deepen your doctrine
Between-battle economy — repair deliberately
Scenarios
Reading operations before you plan.
Operational Tactics
The patterns that win divisional battles.
Units & Combined Arms
The words your plans are written in.
Best Units
The formations worth building around.
Artillery and engineers — always-right unlocks
Reconnaissance and core infantry
Armor — tempo, situational by terrain
Late specialists — unlock toward doctrine
Game Overview
What it is and how it plays.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the most common questions about Battleplan.
Ready to draw your first battle plan?
Beginner guide, planning system, campaign layer and unit doctrine — the complete path from first arrow to first victory.