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.
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.