Steel Panthers (in some form) has to be a formative wargame for at least some of us here. When it first came out I was blown away by it. I'd been reading about the development in some of the gaming mags for a few months prior and getting more and more excited. It wasn't the first of it's kind, as there were games such as The Perfect General, WCS: Tanks, and even Battle Isle (for a scifi take) that went for the 'digital minis' style but Steel Panthers just seemed to take it to a new level, with all the unit command link stuff, preplanned artillery barrages and airstrikes, and whatnot else. And the graphics (for the time) were pretty neat.