Ground of Aces

It is a relaxing game when you start. Granted there is much to learn after the "tutorial", and yes, there will be frustrations. The basebuilding however, is fun and you have to give some consideration into the planning or you will find that you need to redo things several times. The game runs fine even on my old piece of junk. I like the "cartoon style" and the sounds in the game is pleassant. Now the frustrations. Almost 60 hours into the game and YES, I did go through more than one upstart due to layout regrets etc. The most frustrating part is the fire update which can destroy you way too fast. If it was possible to specify zones of importants it might help, but seeing your crew trying to douce the fires in the tomato field while leaving the concrete fuel depot to burn is extremely frustrating. There are bugs and the Attacks you get thrown at you in standard settings without adjusting anything are overwhelkming - Mostly due to fires. THERE WILL BE FIRES and there is very little you can do about it. Some of the missions seems unbalanced and some seems rather random. In my latest game i send a bomb unit (3 lancasters....all i had) to do a 95% succes mission - None came back. Thats 24 VP gone and at the same time fires utterly consumed my hospital that was built in a bunker(Cement/Concrete) Add to that I am in Week 30 which is not too shabby, but that means that the intire map is vacuumcleaned from ressources like stone, mud and sand. So every time you need to rebuilt after a devastating attack you need to get supplies from HP and that is when the STRIKES begin(3 strikes and your game is over). I'd like to somehow feel that there was a way out of crisis situations after a bad attack, but some attacks just leaves you little other choise than to -Reload a save or start over. But I am having fun despite the occasional frustrations. Worth getting, but I really am looking forward to some balancing and some updates.

Great Game, active updates, devs clearly communicate plans

I like the game , its a very early version and i miss some QoL things but for some hours you can have a lot of fun building and mange an airport in WW2

This is another in a long series of games that came into early acsess too early. an easy way to tell is that if you play the tutorial and follow it to the letter your base is at risk of dying before you finish. The premise is cool, but the game ultimately detracts from itself. By trying to make you gather reserouces while building an airbase and sending out sorties it ultimately creates three seperate games bolted onto each other, sorta like rimworld but with an airbase. The game would be so much cooler if it leaned into one aspect, for instance base building. If it was made so that supplies came in a steady stream and made it up to you how much to prioritize comfort, infrastructure, or operations through that stream and managing workers it would be great and feel realistic. But when the game depends on this incremental growth i am constantly reminded that this is not how an air wing actually worked, and i am also constantly reminded why through the game mechanics.

The Game is Good, Ground of Ace's Game Mechanics are Great and can be really fun at times, However if you play long enough or you dont enjoy the era / aviation you could lose interest quickly

Hatte das Spiel schon seit längerem auf den Schirm und extra gewartet das die Entwickler genug Zeit hatten für Bug behebungen und Content Entwicklung. Nun habe ich es mir gekauft und bockt! Gefühlt genau die richtige Mischung. Also Bringt halt nichts nur den Flughafen auszubauen, geile Flugzeuge zu holen und Angriff. Du wirst regelmäßig angegriffen und musst für eine Verteidigung sorgen, zudem die Ressourcen einteilen, deine Leute ausbilden bzw richtig einsetzen. Edit: (aus faulheit optimiert mit AI: Bevor ihr es auf die harte Art lernt wie ich: „Terraforming“ heißt in diesem Spiel aktuell nicht Terraforming. Ich habe eine gigantische Landebahn gebaut und dachte: „Ja, dann terraforme ich das Gelände daneben später einfach für die großen Flieger und die Gebäude.“ Vergiss es!Die Bezeichnung ist total falsch. Ihr ändert damit aktuell NUR die Bodenbeschaffenheit (z.B. Beton statt Gras), aber ihr könnt das unebene Gelände und die Hügel nicht glatt machen. Ich habe mir damit ein episches Großprojekt komplett verbaut, weil die Hügel jetzt alles blockieren.Fazit für Neulinge: Plant eure Basis von Tag 1 an penibel um die Hügel herum, die Karte muss genommen werden, wie sie ist! Das Spiel an sich macht super viel Spaß und bleibt positiv, aber dieses Feature grenzt aktuell an Verarschung. Hoffentlich patchen die Entwickler das bald nach.

A nice, low-intensity game that lets you have fun building an airbase in 40s wartime Britain. While it does have moments where it feels rough around the edges, or not too user friendly, it's a charming game that has great potential as it works its way through early access. Well worth it.