Cauldrons of War - Barbarossa Reviews

An interesting take on the War in Russia that fails to achieve its potential. You order units to move and attack with command points. These command points run everything including air operations. Each Front or Army Group has a specific number of these points. Playing the Russians is relatively easy. On normal setting in my first game I achieved a minor victory. All I did was retreat until the start of winter. The German side however is more difficult, since tutorial is pretty short on explaining how selecting different attack options play out. There are a couple of guides that help with this on steam. My biggest complaint is you can split armies, but It is impossible to reform them. The developers are under the false notion that this accurately depicts a widening German front. This is very ahistorical, since the Germans often formed new corps and Armies. (Even the 6th Army was reformed.) Considering It costs the same number of command points to operate a division as it does an entire army things get surreal very fast if you split an army or one splits due to combat. Don't get me wrong this is an interesting game if you can get past the one way valve unit breakdown system. A total lack of being able to assign units to armies or corps or even move them from one to another. And of course a Finish army that does almost nothing outside of its pre-1939/40 war borders no matter how well the war goes. I purchased this game for $15 and I got what I paid for, but not a cent more. I have uninstalled the game.