Following
Steel Panthers strong commercial performance,
Steel Panthers II was a "major success", according to author Rusel DeMaria. Among other theories, he speculated that the deployment of tanks in
Operation Desert Storm could have influenced its sales.
Steel Panthers II was nominated as
Computer Games Strategy Pluss 1996 wargame of the year, although it lost to that year's
Battleground games:
Shiloh,
Antietam and
Waterloo. It was also a nominee for
CNET Gamecenter's "Strategy Game of the Year" award, which went to
Civilization II.
William R. Trotter of
PC Gamer US was largely positive toward
Steel Panthers II, but felt that it was held back by its technical problems, glitches and oversights. He concluded, "If not for the numerous little flaws that keep it from realizing its own best intentions, this would have been my nominee for Wargame of the Year." ==Legacy==