How to play Steel Panthers on Mac

Game summary

Steel panthers is a classic World War II simulation strategic game. It is a hexagon-based turn strategy not too different from Panzer General series. This game contains all the major battles of the entire war. The game can be played as Allied forces or Germany forces and on two battle fronts. You can choose two major campaigns; the battle of Pacific and the battle of Europe. The game contains several advanced tactical elements such as air-strikes, which are always several turns delayed.
First released: Dec 1995

Play Steel Panthers on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Steel Panthers on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Steel Panthers installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Steel Panthers like you would on any PC.
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