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1944 - Battle Of The Bulge (Win)

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This is an RTS game, not sure why the previous reviewer purchased it and then had to slam it for what it is not. If you enjoyed playing with toy soldiers as a kid, love WW II history, and fantasize commanding armies, this is a game for you. If you like Axis and Allies this is a must. The historical accuracy is amazing. I read that they took aerial photos from the time and meticulously built the cities, towns and geography to be a duplicate. The units and equipment are graphically so accurate it's scary! It's a fun game to play, and also frustrating, so I only got 4 stars. I wonder if anyone played this before it was released. In Axis and Allies there is a build order analyzer so one can avoid disparity between the sides. Most of the scenarios in this game violate the principle of war that to attack an entrenched adversary and win, you must have a minimum of three times the size of your adversary. In one scenario, three jagpanzers with fixed guns against 16 churchhills with rotating turrets becomes suicide. In another, again, two jagpanzers and 50 or so foot soldiers against six tank destroyers, 8 or so antitank guns with interlocking fields of fire and 50+ enemy foot solders leaves you screaming at the game. Finally taking a town with four shermans, two self propelled guns and about 50 foot soldiers against numerous jagpanzers, panther tanks, entrenched anti tank guns, and self propelled guns with longer range than yours, is pure frustration. Of course, it's a game and the trick is to outwit the opponent. What I have found is you have to think out of the box and violate the set up expectations. They have you attacking in two columns, you concentrate your forces and attack in one larger force. In the above scenario to take the town, you infiltrate with infantry and capture the opponents superior weaponry, eventually using it against them. You have to be clever and innovative. They don't give you enough equipment and resources or yours are inferior, capture and use theirs. In one game they gave you four panthers and 30 or so men to take four towns while the US had caliope rockets that spanned half the length of the whole terrain with seeming pin point accuracy. One could take barely one town without being ripped to shreds. Yea, alot of fun until it became apparent they couldn't hit moving targets very well. Racing a panther across several miles of terrain to knock out the caliope and then take it, repair it and use it against the enemy, was pure satisfaction. Unlike many games there are no cheats anywhere on the internet. Play the game in easy mode, assess your opponents strengths and weaknesses, then blunt their strengths and use their weaknesses against them. There are a few other problems such as units not responding to movement commands. It's difficult to watch some essential units get slaughtered an hour into a game because the unit appears stuck and cannot move. Overall, it's a fun game!

This is NOT "hand to hand" combat as I hoped. You have a aerial view of your troops and move them basically one at a time into strategic positions. I guess I didn't read close enough. My father fought in the Battle of the Bulge, so I thought this would be interesting. So far it's kind of bored me.