Order of Battle: Kriegsmarine DLC

Just as addictive as the base game. Simple yet challenging, this is a must have for fans of WW2 naval combat. I found some of the scenarios to be a bit easy well some were well balanced, so consider increasing the difficulty on some. Well worth the price.

+ Good cruiser game [forget subs]. Build your fleet, and can name individual craft after real vessels, atmospheric if you have read about them. So the Scharnhorst class has also a Gneisenau, etc. Battle though varied scenarios covering the actual Kriegsmarine + a couple of kill Americans and attack Scapa Flow what-ifs. Submarines have new rules (compared to previous OOB titles), which are more realistic though tricky to understand. It feels right using the Arado 196 scout planes to cover the fleet and find the enemy. Must be careful to overwhelm enemy piece by piece... - Submarine rules are fine for people but the AI can't use them. I did not bother to use sonar, and just massacred the Polish submarines on the surface. These new rules killed all the tension of finding them. This is a surface ship game apart from one scenario. Rules may be complex for beginners - so for example keep your ships moving to reduce hits on them and read about the changing ranges rule. Fake scenario. New sub rules. A big convoy action where you need to attack with subs, race ahead of it, recharge batteries, engage, repeat. Is a set up as the escort are all at the back of the convoy. Sub rules are broken... so forget about you U-Boats... in a game called Kriegsmarine... Some scenarios have optional strategies, but some don't. Thus I'm not too sure about replay value(?) {Note: based on Panzer General / Panzer Corps: This was one of the "new" game themes (like Burma or the Pacific) where the game scenarios are not just a rehash of the older games.} Enjoy!

I have all the other dlc's and they are great. They all function as intended. This one however seems to have a massive amount of bugs that gives the game no purpose. Sorry I cannot recommend at this time.

The 'Kriegsmarine' DLC has a few interesting scenarios (mostly at the beginning when you do the more historical operations) and a lot of tedious grind that somehow feels pointless. At some point you might realize, that the 'Hipper' class heavy cruiser is the only ship type worth buying. You unload your torpedos on enemy capital ships and during reload you are killing the smaller vessels with gunfire. Maybe 2-4 destroyers are also helpful to do occasional land bombardments... and yes they also have torpedos. The carrier aircraft are super weak... the only fighter is a Me 109 T which is fine for 1939 but you only get it in 43/44. And the old Stuka is also not the greatest ship killer. I think instead of investing in the 'Graf Zeppelin' you better just get more Hippers. The battleships (Bismarck) are too slow and their guns are not that great --> get more Hippers instead. OOB is great for combined land and naval warfare. But for a purely ship focused combat, the game system is just not detailed enough. This DLC is not worth the money, but as part of a bundle you can try it.

Have the other DLC's and enjoy the game but.. this one feels imbalanced. Not a terrible purchase and easy to kill a few hours, but there is really no need to do anything other than spam CL Admiral's. Everything else is super underpowered in comparison.

Pretty boring. The whole DLC really just devolves into spamming cruisers. 10-15 hours of just cruiser spam. Even the side objectives, which I usually find to be the best part of this franchise, to be pretty tedious, luck based, or boring. Overall, repetitive DLC that doesn't add much to the experience.

Of all the DLC, this naval-focused one seems somehow the least focused. A victory in a mission sometimes feels less triumphant than in other DLC, and the difficulty doesn't ramp up as much as your own lackluster fleet handicaps you. Still, mastering the naval side of the game is rewarding and the level design offers fun battles along Greenland, Morocco, and elsewhere. Worth the money if you enjoyed 2-3 other DLC. If not, hold off until you've beaten those and see if the itch for buying this remains. If played with the strategy that specialization points are hard to come by, and resources even moreso, this will be a good and successful campaign. If not, the missions may become a grind with you unable to afford the fun battleships and carriers and having to make do with old ships. The DLC is set in a semi-fictional world where the Germans (aka you) fought substantial battles off Morocco, the Irish coast, and Scotland. The levels are well-designed, but I wish the fictional world seemed to change as the result of you bombing Scotland into the stone age. That said, bombing radar stations in Cornwall fighting a decent-sized sea battle was fun and worth the cost.

I love this game and own all its DLC, every other bit of which is great. I regret purchasing this dull and worthless content. If you like tedious althistory with Nazi boats using none of the interesting and innovative mechanics that made this series great, you'll love this garbage pile.

Ruined Sea Warfare The Bad - The Cool Down Mechanic for the Primaries of Battleships ruined there worth as Units completely. - Low speed for German Battleships which had historicly enormous Sea Endurance by high speeds being planed as commerce Raiders. That means the Bismark and Scharnhorst have a Speed of 3 hexes in the game like an 8 knot heavy loaded Freighter. - Cruisers are the only ships class worth having in the game. BBs see above and destroyers easily to sink. Cruisers were a supporting ship class in WWII no Main Caracters like BBs, CVs and to a degree Subs and Destroyers. - Subs are powerless and have such a long reload time that they are but useless - Destroyer and Cruiser torpedo attacks are compared to that of subs much to strong - Subs don´t crash dive when the enemy shots at them instead get easily destroyed on the surface - Subs are now most time surfaced due to the newe battery loading mechanic. Which is in itself a good idea but see the line above. The Good - They improved the Sub detection mechanic. Overall the DlC is lame. You will loose your BBs early on and then build up a totally unhistoric Cruiser Fleet to win each scenario.

They werent kidding when they said what if. In kreigsmarine you feel nothing like Karl Doenitz and a lot like Erich Raeder. It's all about the surface ships with the exception of one scenario. If this is what you were hoping for by all means get it. The game starts you off with classic scenarios such as blocking the poles from mining the danzig bay and raiding narvik and British shipping. All round these scenarios are fun and enjoyable especially when you get the bismarck. However in the later scenarios instead of having you face the troubles of facing a very strong foe forcing you to rely on submarines and dodging radar, the game gives you works of fiction and suddenly you find yourself combatting in huge climatic surface to surface battles in the atlantic and other areas disguised as simply raiding shipping. If you are looking for a good dlc that represents the german armed forces in WW2 I highly recommend blitzkreig (probably their best dlc) other then that I recommend this scenario only to those who enjoy the Kreigsmarines early operations, massive surface fleets with the occasional submarine, and some what if scenarios