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WDS Scenario Picker

Every scenario of your WDS games in one sortable, colour-coded table, with the full briefing beside it. Pick one, and the Picker starts it in the game for you.

Download the Picker 1.0Released 8 Nov 2026 · ZIP · 20.7 MB · Windows 10/11, 64-bitHow to install

Unofficial, fan-made. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Wargame Design Studio. Windows may warn about an unsigned program the first time — see Install.

What it does

A WDS game’s own Scenario Selector is, essentially, a list of file names. You cannot tell a two-hour introductory scenario from a forty-turn campaign without clicking each one in turn.

The Picker sits alongside your games and shows the same scenarios as a table you can sort, search and filter, with the description and designer’s notes beside it. Pick a row, pressLaunch Scenario, and it selects that scenario in the game’s own selector and clicks OK for you.

It is not a mod, a patch or a trainer: it never changes your game files, and your games behave exactly as they did before.

Screenshots

  • The scenario table — sortable, filterable, colour-codedScreenshot to come
  • Scenario Info — the full description and designer notesScreenshot to come
  • All Scenarios — every installed game in one listScreenshot to come
  • Saved Games — every save and PBEM turn file in one placeScreenshot to come
  • My Play Log — your results and notes per scenarioScreenshot to come
  • Blitz Balance — TheBlitz.club ratings and win balanceScreenshot to come

Features

Install

  1. Download the zip. It holds one folder, WDS Scenario Picker.
  2. Unzip the whole folder into your WDS game folder — the one that holds your games, e.g. C:\WDS. Placed there, the Picker finds your games on its own. Anywhere else you can write to works too; you then point it at your games once.
  3. Double-click WDS Scenario Picker.exe inside it. Keep the exe,_internal and Scenario Catalog together, and don’t run it from inside the zip.
  4. Windows SmartScreen may say “Windows protected your PC”, because the program is not code-signed. Click More info → Run anyway. This happens once.

Nothing to install — no Python, no runtime, no libraries.

Updating

  1. Close the Picker.
  2. Delete your old WDS Scenario Picker folder.
  3. Unzip the new one in the same place.

Nothing of yours is lost: your settings, your play log and the catalog files you added with+ Add to Catalog are kept outside that folder. Only a .wdspack you dropped into the Scenario Catalog folder by hand lives inside it — copy it out first.

When a newer version is out, the Picker’s header shows an update button that brings you to this page.

Supported games

The Picker has scenario data for these 46 titles, and the download includes all of them. Other WDS games still appear in the Picker — you can launch them and browse their saves — just without a scenario table yet. More are added over time.

Panzer Campaigns 13

  • Budapest '45 Gold
  • Bulge '44 Gold
  • France '40 Gold
  • Market-Garden '44 Gold
  • Mius '43Free demo
  • Normandy '44 Gold
  • Philippines '44
  • Poland '39
  • Salerno '43 Gold
  • Sicily '43 Gold
  • Spring Awakening '45
  • Tobruk '41 Gold
  • Tunisia '43 Gold

Squad Battles 10

  • Advance of the Reich
  • Eagles Strike
  • First World War
  • GrenadaFree demo
  • Modern War
  • Red Victory
  • SBWW2 West FrontCommunity mod for Eagles Strike
  • The Proud and the Few
  • Tour of Duty
  • Winter War

Musket & Pike 5

  • American Revolutionary War
  • Renaissance
  • Thirty Years War
  • Vienna 1683Free demo
  • War of the Austrian Succession

Modern Campaigns 4

  • Danube Front '85
  • Korea '85
  • Middle East '67
  • Quang Tri '72Free demo

Sword & Siege 4

  • Age of Longbow: Volume I
  • Crusades: Book I
  • Crusades: Book II
  • Sword & Siege DemoFree demo

Panzer Battles 3

  • Battles of Normandy
  • Battles of North Africa 1941
  • Panzer Battles DemoFree demo

Civil War Battles 2

  • Campaign Gettysburg
  • Civil War Battles DemoFree demo

Napoleonic Battles 2

  • Campaign Austerlitz
  • The Final StruggleFree demo

First World War Campaigns 1

  • France '14

Modern Air Power 1

  • Modern Air Power DemoFree demo

Naval Campaigns 1

  • Spanish-American War Naval BattlesFree demo

Game names and box art belong to their owners.

FAQ

Is it official?
No. It is a free, unofficial, fan-made tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wargame Design Studio.
Does it change my game?
No. It never modifies your game installation, scenario files or saved games. It only clicks the game’s own Scenario Selector for you, exactly as your mouse would. The one exception is Duplicate and Delete in the Saved Games tab, which you trigger yourself.
Does it go online?
Only for two optional checks, both switchable in Preferences → Updates: whether a newer Picker is out (with the Blitz numbers on the same switch), and — off by default — whether your games have updates. Nothing about you is sent, and there are no accounts or telemetry.
Where is my play log kept?
In the folder you choose on first launch — Documents\WDS Scenario Picker unless you pick another. Preferences → Play Log Folder shows or changes it. Updating the Picker never touches it.
What does it need?
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, and your WDS games installed. No Python, no runtime, nothing else to install.
I have the Steam versions. Does it find them?
Yes. Every Steam library is found on its own, on any drive. For non-Steam games, unzip the Picker into your WDS game folder, or point it at that folder once: gear icon → Installed Games → WDS game folder → Browse.
My game is not on the list.
It still shows up in the Picker — you can launch it and browse its saved games — but without a scenario table. The download already includes the scenario catalog for every game listed on this page; more are added over time.