Daisenryaku (大戦略), which translates to roughly Grand Strategy is a long-running Japanese strategy game series that’s been around since 1988, and has been released on just about everything, from PCs to almost every major console.

Unfortunately, only three games in the series have been officially translated and brought over to the United States. They’re BLUE in the list below.

“Standard” Daisenryaku Lineage

Daisenryaku
(11 October 1988 – Famicom)
(12. June 1991 – Gameboy)
( 7 December 2001 – Gameboy Advance)

Super Daisenryaku
(29 April 1989 – Megadrive)
(27 April 1990 – TurboCD)

Daisenryaku G
(28 September 1991 – Game Gear)

Daisenryaku Expert
(25 September 1992 – Super Famicom)

Daisenryaku: Player’s Spirit
(29 March 1996 – PlayStation)

Daisenryaku Expert WWII
(30 August 1996 – Super Famicom)

Daisenryaku: Strong Style
(27 June 1997 – Saturn)

Daisenryaku: Master Combat
3 December 1998 – Playstation

Cyber Daisenryaku
4 February 1999 – Playstation

Daisenryaku 1941
26 September 2002 - PS2

Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics
20 December 2001 – PC Japanese Release
29 May 2003 – X-Box Japanese Release
16 February 2005 – X-Box USA Release

Daisenryaku Portable
20. December 2005 – PSP

Daisenryaku Portable 2
14. December 2006 – PSP

Daisenryaku VII Exceed
14 December 2006 – PS2 Japanese Release
12 December 2007 – PS2 USA Release
2008 – PSP Release

Daisenryaku DS
25 May 2006 – Nintendo DS

Gendai Daisenryaku 2002
25. October 2002 – PC

Daisenryaku Perfect 1.0
20. March 2003 – PC

Gendai Daisenryaku 2003
24. October 2003 – PC

Realtime Daisenryaku Perfect 1.0
27. February 2004 – PC

Daisenryaku Perfect 2.0
25. June 2004 – PC

Gendai Daisenryaku 2004
29. October 2004 – PC

Daisenryaku Daitoua-Kouboushi
28. January 2005 – PC

SEGA Daisenryaku Lineage

In 1991 SEGA of Japan bought the rights/license to use the Daisenryaku engine to produce a series of World War II games, resulting in the following games.

Advanced Daisenryaku
(21 June 1991 – Megadrive)

World Advanced Daisenryaku: Koutetsu no Senpuu / Iron Storm (Cover / Back)
(ワールドアドバンスド大戦略　～鋼鉄の戦風～)
(22 September 1995 – Sega Saturn)

Localized by Working Designs and released in the US as Iron Storm on 8 May 1996, with the US name coming from the Japanese “World Advanced Strategy - Steel War Wind” title.

World Advanced Daisenryaku: Sakusen File (Cover / Back)
(ワールドアドバンスド大戦略　～作戦ファイル～)
(15 March 1996 – Sega Saturn)

A semi-sequel to WAD:KnS / Iron Storm was released in 1996 in Japan only on the Saturn. The Japanese title translates to “Strategy File”. It’s basically Iron Storm version 1.2; with a complete Soviet Campaign and a hypothetical mythical campaign involving all the major powers of the world as playables. Many of the “hypothetical” campaign scenarios from Iron Storm are now available as playable scenarios in Sakusen File.

Advanced World War: Sennen Teikoku no Koubou (Cover / Back)
(アドバンスド ワールド ウォー 千年帝国の興亡)
(20 March 1997 – Sega Saturn)

This “spiritual sequel” to Iron Storm was released in 1997 in Japan only on the Saturn. While not a “true” Daisenryaku game, since it's main title was “Advanced World War” instead of “World Advanced Daisenryaku”, it offers a lot of “new” ideas that weren't adopted by the main Daisenryaku game stream. Sega of Japan (SOJ) briefly considered bringing it to the US as Iron Storm II. (see the game page for more information).

Advanced Daisenryaku: Europe no Arashi - Deutsch Dengeki Sakusen
(アドバンスド大戦略～ヨーロッパの嵐･ドイツ電撃作戦～)
(21 June 2000 – Dreamcast)

Advanced Daisenryaku 2001
26 April 2001 – Dreamcast

This is effectively a remake of the original Sega Megadrive/Genesis Advanced Daisenryaku.

Standard Daisenryaku: Dengekisen
11. November 2004

Standard Daisenryaku: Shiwareta Shouri
2. June 2005

Sega Ages Vol. 22 Advanced Daisenryaku Deuch Dengeki Sakusen
22. December 2005