Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa

If Your into Accurate Historical War Games, this is for you, not initially easy to get into, but it bites you hard, and pulls you in, so much, you cannot help but want to learn and play, from the historical fall outs of the high command, and subordinates, about logistics, fuel, transport etc, way of waging the war, to the battlefronts, where the battles take place, if you love reading the reports, as I do, from disciplinary measures, in the HQ staff, to all the things that run a campaign, where YOU CAN MAKE DECISIONS, or NOT AT ALL( leaving it to your Head of Staff, if you so please, as you can pick and choose which you think are the most important, helped by your HQ Staff Officer), of course, Hitler, CAN, not always interfere. I LOVE IT, AS THE PEOPLE, DOCUMENTS ETC, ARE TAKEN FROM THE TIME. If you want to know, how operation BARBAROSSA, worked( or didnt ) this is the War Game Sim for you. FANTASTIC, BEST GAME PLAYED IN YEARS, and been playing Historical War Games, since early 1980's. 10/10 Would Thoroughly recommend %110 Steve

Field Marshall - You are needed at the front. We are going to invade the Soviet Union. They are expected to crumble quickly when they taste our steel, as they did in the last war. Your objectives: Leningrad in the North, Moscow in the Center, Rostov in the South. It should be a piece of cake. Like management challenges, war games, and dealing with prima donna generals? Go for it!

This has got to be the most innovative strategy game on the market. The decision and relationships mechanics are a stroke of genius, and you will quickly find yourself building up both rapport and enmity with your colleagues as they collaborate with and against you (and you them). Will you be Hitler's boy and ignore the bleating of the spineless von Brauchitsch, or will you enlist Brauchitsch's aid to undermine the will of the Fuhrer and follow the Wehrmacht's own plans for the invasion? Will you endorse the murderous policies of Himmler, and all the trouble they entail for your rear area, or will you vehemently oppose the Einsatzgruppen lest you find yourself before a war crimes tribunal? How about Goebbels and his propaganda news crews? Do you bathe in the spotlight like Rommel, or do you cast them from your command tent with undisguised contempt? You'll have to deal with all these matters and more, all whilst establishing positive working relationships with your army group commanders, and not forgetting Generals Gercke and Wagner - they're in charge of your supply trains and truck columns respectively, and unfortunately for you they have a habit of clashing with your senior commanders (and each other!). If all that wasn't enough of a headache, there's still the matter of actually fighting the campaign. Carry out swift encirclements, dogged defences, and desperate counter attacks all whilst the brutal Russian winter creeps ever closer. And that's only half the game! You can, of course, also play as Uncle Joe himself; grappling with your own crippling paranoia and casually executing any upstart Marshal who so much as looks at you ♥♥♥♥-eyed. Trade land for time as you throw countless conscript divisions into the path of the advancing Wehrmacht, whilst you build up your mobile forces for an overwhelming counter-attack that will sweep the fascist beast from the Motherland once and for all. And if your Generals don't show the requisite fighting spirit that all good communists should possess? Well, you can always dispatch old Nikita Khrushchev out to the front to instil the necessary backbone. Every military strategy buff should have this game in their collection. The idea behind it is inspired and the execution is sublime. There is an enormous amount of depth here, but it's far easier to dive into than WWII epics like War in the East or Hearts of Iron. Be warned though, like the aforementioned games it is also very hard indeed. However, there are more than enough customisation options at the start of the game to perfectly tailor the challenge to suit your own tastes. Outstanding.

Strategy game requiring many choices for logistics and politics. Also get to maneuver armies.

After 50 years of playing wargames I have finally found a gaming system that replicates many of the actual decisions and problems of Barbarossa in a way that is 'realistic' and yet does not get bogged down with detail. I loved Russian Campaign as a kid playing board games and this game is far better, more challenging and real.

Just the right balance for me, a casual gamer. Not too complex, and just the right amount of strategy and challenge. Watch the tutorial videos and you're pretty well set to go. 20 hours is about all I can do for most games, but this one kept me engaged for 70 hours, no problem. A great buy, replayable too.

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Any army that just keeps growing in size supply which run out very quickly . Messages from Berlin about nothing using up PP so there nothing left for you to spend on supply or air support est, Two few divisons to cove the front and conscript divisons that don't die even when you attack them with full panzer corps .