Steel Division: Normandy 44

Campaign just isn't fun with most all of the obj being time limit based. If you are looking for a more slow methodical positional tactical game this isn't it. You end up just having to spam units to combat the AI spam.

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Really wanted to like this game. The way it's setup with the units, battlegroups, etc is great. But it's just unrealistic to the point of maddening. Every mission is a repeat of the same thing: 1st half - make some good progress. 2nd half - get clobbered by 970 divisions that magically appear from offmap at the same moment. This flow just gets really old really fast. Back to company of heroes i guess?

The idea of a strategy game like this is really really cool. The maps are pretty good and the game is steeped in history. Amazing unit variety, though not really enough division types for both Allies & Axis, and little to no representation for press-ganged Czechs and Poles in Axis division, which is weird given that made up a large proportion of the enlisted Wehrmacht in Normandy IRL. I've played for nearly 200 hours and I have to say the game has serious balancing issues. Even on the easiest difficulty, the AI will still have some bonus's against you and BY FAR, the worst part of the game is the fact that it heavily relies...no wait, ENTIRELY RELIES on you micro-managing every single unit, which is absolutely not possible. It's such an odd decision given that the real-life military operates with huge decentralization and encouragement of initiative, but not in this game. One moment you will be microing your recon units far from the front line, the next your tank has been destroyed because it failed to take the appropriate evasive action because YOU DIDN'T TELL IT TO! It's honestly so poor, for me it does make the game borderline unplayable, since you are having to pause it longer than the length of the actual mission you are playing just to micro everything appropriately. Also, I find the game mechanics to be very strange and inconsistent. For me, using Recon is very difficult since they always get found, and never reveal enough about the enemy to warrant any use, but the AI recon is a damn nuisance that will uncover everything about you. Like I said balancing issues. It's also possible that I'm just really, really sh*t and this is all my fault. I doubt it though, since I am an RTS veteran.

Micromanagement hell compared to SD 2

Look man, I get it, everyone makes a ww2 rts at some point, but come on man. What the ♥♥♥♥ is this. Maybe I'm the crazy one, but if I tell a unit to go to a place, and perhaps even stay there, if I look away for ten whole seconds. It should be there when I get back. Not go gallivanting halfway across the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ map, chasing after enemy vehicles, or dragon eggs or ghosts or goblins or perhaps even gnomes with their pots of gold. Or retreating, not when they're stunned, but just in general. I don't get it, maybe steel division is actually really good, and I'm just retarded. Maybe this is just a conflict of personal opinions, but wargame feels a hell of a lot slicker, more polished, and units don't behave weirdly. Running off as soon as they're unloaded, or just driving ass first into enemy lines. I just don't get it. On the flipside, I get eugens idea to have more scripted campaign missions instead of just dumping you into a multiplayer map against AI. Most of all, I miss the tightness of wargames control, or at least the feeling of control, and while I don't like, the pinning mechanic, I understand why its there. And I hate it. Either stun my ass, or let me retreat the soldiers, please don't make me press another button. This game feels like an amalgam of Eugens other semi modern RTS offerings with a dash of company of heroes, with neither of the aspects that make those games enjoyable. I'm not gonna refund it because I'm not petty, but this is, in my opinion, closer to something I would challenge my friends to as an endurance test, than a real game. Which is unfortunate, but hey. Thems the brakes.

Another game with promise killed by bad mechanics. Enemy AT and Arty never misses and can engage well out of visibility range. Fastest tank can't seen to shake targeting. 3rd mission you have 3 objectives, basic infantry, and light tanks vs heavy tanks and op arty. Your "re-enforcements" blindly run into kill zones and your mighty 8th air force can't hit water if they fell out of a boat. Wanna try arty? nope. Can't hit anything either and will get blasted before they are in range. Oh, and don't forget the 20 minute timer that has you rushing units to certain death. More frustrating then fun after trying the same mission multiple times with same results.