People's General Red Danger website by Devore

Copyright ©

The company was founded by Joel Billings, a war game enthusiast. He hired programmers John Lyon, who wrote Computer Bismarck, and Ed Williger, who wrote Computer Ambush. Both games were written in BASIC as were many more of SSI's games.Computer Bismarck was released for the Apple II in January 1980 and for the TRS-80 later in the year.

Ever since SSI released its first game the company has developed and published scores of wargames like : "Tigers In The Snow" (1981) -SSI's first game for the PC-, "Battles of Napoleon" (1989), "Waterloo" (1990) or "Clash of Steel" (1993).

In 1994 SSI released their most important game : "Panzer General" (innovative RPG elements, accesibility to non-wargamers). PG was the base for the Five Star system that carried SSI through five major games : "Panzer General", "Allied General", "Star General", "Fantasy General", and "Pacific General".

"Panzer General II" (1997) was the first major upgrade to the Five Star system and was the first title of a new series entitled "Living Battlefield".

Based on the Living Battlefield engine that made its debut with Panzer General II, "People's General" (1998) is a turn-based strategy game which takes a speculative look at the Eastern Hemisphere in the year 2005.

People's General uses an updated version of the graphics engine in Panzer General II, and the controls are similar.
One major difference with People's General as opposed to earlier SSI wargames is how airpower is handled.

SSI was acquired by Mindscape in 1994, which was in turn acquired by The Learning Company, which was "in turn" acquired by Mattel. From 2003 SSI is a brand name of Ubi Soft.

A French press review (PC4WAR) about the whole SSI Panzer General series can be found here

What is PeG ? Answers can be found on Redball's Express forum

Welcome :
This website has been created in order to allow players to download PeG campaigns, some of them being a result of a conversion of PG2 campaigns originally created by various authors. Each campaign includes all *.map files, a readme file, the readme file from the PG2 original campaign designer, and an excel file including campaign flow with references to used map files.

Pre-requesite :
This site is intended for license owners of "People's General" SSI strategic games.
Players will still need PeG game. They will also have to get S16 files or to convert SHP files into S16 format. Most of *.SHP file are available at Steve Brown's Website

Download People's General game :
Right-click on the file then use "save link as" to download it.
HERE