Schwerpunkt Reviews

easy to play fun,you have to think

As of now, the game has not gotten any updates in many months, I cant recommend a dead game. until this game starts getting updates again, I will not recommend. old review below OLD REVIEW It is fun, but somewhat over priced for what you get, I would say if it goes to a price of $5 or 6$, then get it. OLD REVIEW

Overall is a good game, it has a little bit of strategy to it but, at the same time it isn't that complex to understand because, units have no actual stats of damage or defence, when you, for example, trowh an anti-armor battalion againts tanks, it might as well do the same amount of damage to infantry, because the game doesn't seem to have a soft damage - hard damage mechanic, it doesn't have planes or ships, which leaves the game in a situacion in which no unit can support another unit as all of them always act on their own, and at the same time the only thing that would make an infantry battalion different to a motorized infantry is that the motorized has more movement points, in an actual combat as there are no stadistics you most probably won't see a difference, the only real thing is the organization levels, for example, if you trow an infantry batalion againts an infantry regiment, the regiment will quite obviusly win, and the only way to actually know that an unit will be better in combat is if you either stack it with other units, or if it is a higher organization than it's enemy. Apart from that, the actual content of the game is limited as there are few pre-made scenarios for us to play, and normally that should be it for me to give it a negative review to it, but, the editor of the game is something that i can only describe as fantastic, is simple, small, doesn't take a lot of time configurations or anything that most Mil-sim editors do, it's like the dream for every scenario maker in an strategy game, and because of it's simplicity you can recreate every historical battle which you can think of in some 10 minutes or less, or just create something basic and have some fun, this would be a great alternative for all of those overcomplicated strategy games out there. If i had to say what this game needs: Planes, almost all significant battles on WW2 had planes of them, and if i wanted to recreate how the us and britain had a lot of CAS and air superiority when they invaded France i can only replace that with giving them a fuckton of units as there are no planes. A little bit of historical acurasy would be good too, i mean, for example, i don't want to have just mechanized units, i want to have the soviet guards rifles or the german panzergranediers, and i don't want just any medium tank, i want a panzer 3 a panzer 4 a panzer 6, and i could keep on going with the historical acuracy problems but if i had to say the solution, is simple, let the player rename its units, so that everyone can be happy with that, and also, add the medium tank 1941 medium tank 1943 and medium tank 1945 so that there can be some actual historical fidelity, And some new special units could be interesting too, marines, paratroopers, mountanieers, and all of those special units which participated on WW2, because if the dev(s) were to give us the tools to do it, i'm confident that we could spend a lot of time in the editor just doing all of those battles and recreating things that in other WW2 engines would be if not impossible, they'd still consume more time and take more trial and error experiences to complete, and talking about tools, this game needs a workshop more than anything, giving the simplicity of the engine and the editor, and also the fact that i'm not the only one asking for a workshop to publish scenarios, and considering the lack of original vanilla content we really deserve to have a workshop, or at least a place like a forum to publish our scenarios and share user-made content. Apart from that the last thing it really needs is of course a damage system, like hard and soft damage, the logistic system that basicly ressuplys your units after every turn is really great to be honest, but it's pretty obvius that if an unit is encircled it shouldn't keep on recieving suplies and eventually should start to loose it's guns, infantry squad and strenght, in general, if all of the stuff i mentioned is added to the game, i think it'd become the cheapest, most accesible and fun modern strategy game in the market right now.

This game is empty. Don't even think to get it. There are mobile strategies that are legit more complex and better than this.

I really like this game. You can create a scenario from scratch and start to play it in less than 10 minutes. If you enjoy experimenting and designing your own scenarios without spending hours on it, this game is very effective. It remains at an abstract level. Like in real situation, no information is provided about how things are calculated ( logistics, terrain effects, reinforcement, combats etc) but they seem to have an actual effects on unit’s strength. Being able to customize the AI would add to the replay value. Overall, this is an interesting simulation, seemly simple but with a lot of potential.

It's playable - kind of. I know I don't have much time in the game but come on. For the price you can get a much better war game. I guess it's supposed to be abstract but there is no information given about the "units" in play or terrain on the map or if terrain even has any effect on play. You can choose from some different nationalities but the only difference between the different countries' units is the color. That's it. Otherwise, they're all the same. Finally, you don't get to see the AI move during its turn. You hit the end turn button after your move and it's instantly your turn again. If any of the enemy pieces moved they are just in their new positions now, you don't see them move or attack or anything. If you're curious wait until it goes on sale for 80% or 90% off. Don't pay $13 bucks for this thing. My apologies to the devs if I'm missing anything but if I am you really should include some information about game play in the form of a tutorial or quick ref or something. As it is I don't see how anyone is going to spend much time in this game when there is no indication it gets any better than it is at the start.

After I press "start" nothing happens. Unfortunately, the game is not working.

This is acutally pretty good but..... I kind of feel for the price tag is a bit much but I am really really liking this game. I am thinking with workshop this can be a really fun game.