This is a super detailed battalion-level WW2 game. Everything except earthworks is destructible piece-by-piece. If the enemy is entrenched into a town, level the buildings with high explosives or incinerate it with white phosphorus. Ricochet a round off a stone wall to precisely hit a tank and cook it off to destroy a nearby AA gun with the falling turret. Micromanage squads and individual soldiers with realistic cover systems, an inventory system with battlefield looting, and accurately modeled ballistics/vehicles. It has Soviet, German, American, British, and Finnish forces in the base game/DLC while the super active modding community also added others. Modders have also changed the timelines across the entirety of the 20th and 21st centuries along with zombie apocalypse scenarios.
I haven’t played the multiplayer since the loading times are long on my computer, but it has such a great damage and physics model. Definitely worth buying at this price or pirating.
It’s a really excellent game. Offers a huge spectrum of experience; you can play it very simply at a remove, or micromanage down to supplies foraged from dead enemies. You can FPS control any units. You can capture enemies vehicles that aren’t destroyed and level them up in dynamic campaigns. Great visuals also. Strongly recommend if you like complex RTS and the timeframe.
It’s so intricate compared to a game like Company of Heroes, its closest competitor. A flamethrower squad just tried to ambush my supply truck as it was en route to refill my artillery pounding a nearby village. The guy holding it hit a tree and sprayed his entire squad with napalm through the windows of their house, lighting the entire building on fire. One of them dropped an antitank grenade and blew half of them to bits while I shot the rest through a wall with a .50 machine gun. If I had shot a tank round into the wall instead, I could have killed them with wooden splinters and falling furniture.
Yeah somehow all of the mechanics really come together to create these really memorable battles that are far more interesting than just point and clicking unit groupings. I like how you get attached to stuff also, so that losses feel very impactful. Some of the defense missions where I’ve just been hanging g on by a thread, very fun stuff.
Dope, imma check it out when I wake up
Real Oldheads remember looting enemies in Men of War
