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This is a super detailed battalion-level WW2 game. Everything except earthworks is destructible piece-by-piece. If the enemy is entrenched into a town, level the buildings with high explosives or incinerate it with white phosphorus. Ricochet a round off a stone wall to precisely hit a tank and cook it off to destroy a nearby AA gun with the falling turret. Micromanage squads and individual soldiers with realistic cover systems, an inventory system with battlefield looting, and accurately modeled ballistics/vehicles. It has Soviet, German, American, British, and Finnish forces in the base game/DLC while the super active modding community also added others. Modders have also changed the timelines across the entirety of the 20th and 21st centuries along with zombie apocalypse scenarios.

I haven't played the multiplayer since the loading times are long on my computer, but it has such a great damage and physics model. Definitely worth buying at this price or pirating.

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[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah somehow all of the mechanics really come together to create these really memorable battles that are far more interesting than just point and clicking unit groupings. I like how you get attached to stuff also, so that losses feel very impactful. Some of the defense missions where I’ve just been hanging g on by a thread, very fun stuff.