Battle Fleet: Ground Assault Reviews

You'll have to realize that the game just stops working, must be uninstalled, reinstalled repeatedly. It just quits working at random times. I've tried to get help from the developer with no success. When it works it's fun, but don't plan on being able to finish a game or campaign. It's very frustrating.

Maybe worth five bucks, definitely not worth the twenty, here's why; CONS -Graphics from like 2007 -Unbalanced campaign -Not historically accurate -Already dead multiplayer, lucky to catch three people online -AI is either braindead or aimbotted PROS -Fun blend of strategy and action, unique -Good for fans of Axis and Allies board games (as that's almost exactly what it is) -Pretty good selection of units Honestly I would wait for a sale that puts this price way down, as these cons outweigh the pros. Battle fleet two I would reccomend 10x more.

If you like that old apple II game where you dial in your shots with arcs, then you might like this game. If you think this is anything other than a lame "tank-ish" game, you're going to have a bad time. Other than having Europe and England on the map, and having some actual tank names and looks, it's completely un-realistic and very lame. Don't waste your money like I did.

Great and amazing game, Except... This game is amazing in the terms of making sure that you get to relive all of the greatest military history in playing as all of the historical tanks on the battlefield in the strategic overhead point of view. There is the story where you are playing as the axis or as the allies in the fierce battle to turn the tide in the war of the era. It's just just like a huge chess board, or risk even when you attack a certain country you can see all of the tanks and military personnel to attack and all of the personnel you are trying to attack to a certain point unless you have a recon down on the target then you are able to see the total amount of armor and enemies they have for that region. You zoom into the ground and it is turn based strategic map you are in control over taking cover utilizing the terrain and man made building that are in the area of that map. The only thing that I do NOT like and is what is making me give a negative review is that this is solely a single play game at this point I am not to sure of why I am not able to connect online to play against other people but I have tried several and countless times to. I think that this game is so old that they took it off because of the amount of people that still play it. In my opinion I really do love this game and it is a very good playtime to enjoy without all of the stress of reaction time, its more so taking your time on your next move and attacking and moving and taking cover. I would wait for a sale just for the reason of how long it has been out and that the Multiplayer function seems to not work anymore.

I prefer playing against the Computer in strategy games and after very good experience with the Naval Battles I decided to try out the Land based tank battles. I was not disappointed. I regularly get my backside kicked by the Axis in combat. One has to remember that they were masters of this form of warfare for a long time and their armaments were significantly more effective. So expect to get outmanouvred and out gunned regularly. That is the way it was. Only caveat would be that I would love an upgrade bringing in the Russian Front with the Soviet equipment. This would be a cherry on the cake.

Great game. So far the only complaint is that I can only position minefields, recon, and airstrikes (all things with the crosshair locator) in a narrow band down the middle of the screen. In other words, there is a band to left and one to the right where I cannot position the crosshairs. Very frustrating as the enemy can. I am using a PC with WIN10.

There is an element to this game that I wish was in all other war-games. That is the fact that you must use your very own judgement and skill to score hits, not a randomly generated number. LOVE that. Its enjoyable, this game, and fills a niche for a war-gamer . The cons are I don't know what the Sepp Dietrich's sausage shorts hell I am doing in the campaign. I wish they would upgrade graphics. ON a unrelated note. DO YOU realize , you steamy fanatics that a large portion of these game developers are getting away with not finishing games by releasing most everything 'early access? IT's a real rip and a cop-out, especially when you have games people play long after their release and they never are completed, the same crap for eternity. Just a thought.SEESH!!

While it was easier to gauge distance in the original 'Battle Fleet', it was IMPOSSIBLE to judge distance in this ground battle version!!! For such tank combat games, I strongly recommend the designers would add tick marks in 10 meters increment because it was impossible to try and judge the distance of a target when all I had to work with was the half and max distance circles!!! What the hell is near 1/3 of 125 when the targets were much smaller than a battleship!!!? I played a quick battle and even when my own tank was near a couple of tank length distance from the enemy, I was still unable to input the correct distance for my shots. At two shots per turn, I was unable to score any hits while the computer would consistently score even if not by the first shot. It sure was a quick battle as all my tanks got wiped out simply because I couldn't judge the distance of any of my shots. If a future update does not include a revised shot distance interface, I will surely be returning this game to Stream within 24 hours! I served as commander for a tank unit in real life and this is probably the most frustrating and unplayable game; I believe it could be a great turn based tank battle game if the shot distance issue have been rectified; for not, this is NOT playable unless I wanted to treat myself to a session of pure frustration! The way it is right now, I cannot recommend it to anyone even for free.

I have alot of fun playing this game, and it is ...only a game, Not over complicated, or like a simulation. Fun to play when you have a few, or a few too many,and just want to play and have fun, You will have fun feeling out the pros and cons of different units, and with that the different levels of difficulty, If not sure, wait for a sale and play , and have some fun,

BATTLE FLEET : GROUND ASSAULT If you know BATTLE FLEET and BATTLE FLEET 2, this is the same game: turn-based gunnery combat, but with tanks not ships. So it takes a format that works well for World War Two naval combat and transfers it to ground assault, causing many problems. In BATTLE FLEET: GROUND ASSAULT the map no longer represents an expanse of ocean square miles in size, with gunnery determined by teams using mechanical computers inside ships' command centers, perhaps without ever seeing the enemy. Instead, here's a small battle just a few hundred meters across, with individual gunners making decisions quickly, plus complications like topography, contours, roads and trees and buildings and boulders, gullies and peaks and such -- direct-fire combat with complex lines of sight, typically judged by the eye, the exact opposite of naval gunnery. ***But you can't aim by line of sight in this game.*** Instead, BATTLE FLEET: GROUND ASSAULT has top-down graphics only, in essentially 2D. All your units are tanks, plus a few field guns (which can't move) and trucks (which have little tactical use). Zero infantry! You choose one of just two ammunition types (AP or HE, no HEAT, WP, smoke, etc.), you set direction and distance for the shot, and you hope for the best. If your AP can't penetrate a tank's armor, then HE will unrealistically cause more damage. You can't aim your weapons down the barrel or through a sight like real tank gunners: there's no tank or gun interface, no options like defilade, open hatches vs. buttoning up, opportunity fire, or ammo supply. You can't change tank weapons like you can with ships in the other BATTLE FLEET games. The AI in BATTLE FLEET: GROUND ASSAULT is simplistic and sometimes irrational. The computer can ignore clear shots within its line of sight while attempting to hit units that are blocked by terrain. So if there's a peak between you and the computer, the computer can blast away at the peak trying to hit you, which would never happen in reality. A skillful player will lead the computer to shoot at its own units. And, each computer-controlled unit seems to operate independently without coordinating or cooperating with the others, so they never seem to show teamwork by maneuvering to trap your tanks from different angles, or to use one tank as a decoy while others go for the kill, etc. Consequently, multiplayer offers better gameplay than solo. The campaign plays exactly the same as in the other BATTLE FLEET games, with no special rules for ground assault except the trucks you need to move around the campaign map. Most frustrating is that you have no control over where your units start each battle, so your artillery remains stuck wherever the computer randomly places it -- usually highly exposed, sometimes behind obstacles that block their fields of fire. If developers ever improve the BATTLE FLEET system to do ground assault properly, with proper AI and greater detail, including infantry and APCs and indirect-fire artillery, then this could be a better game than BATTLE FLEET 2. But right now it's just a cheap transfer of BATTLE FLEET to a radically different environment, leaving the weaknesses of the original without improvement, while creating new problems that go unaddressed. A diehard fan might enjoy this game, though not as much as the other BATTLE FLEET titles. A new player will find it simplistic and strange -- a little bit fun, very outmoded, and (in my opinion) overpriced.