TL:DR:
> get Conflict: World at War - it's the same, offers the same impression of realism while having none and uses the game mechanics better way, and also has a story line.
Pros and cons, according to my expectation of realistic wargame style:
+ Really nice graphics
+ Really nicely done maps
+ No in-field insertions, all reinforcements comes more or less realistically from map 'entry' regions
+ Formations are sticking to cover - ordering a tank line to move to a line of trees makes them align with the cover
+ All units have custom - nation localized quotes
- Ridiculously small choice of maps, as well as their sizes
- Terrible unit cap + resource limitations that scales military deployment into neighborhood brawl
- Does not offer in-battle off-map support as artillery barrages etc. (only offers in-map light artillery)
- Tries hard to persuade you that it's realistic but fails spectacularly on many levels
- Unit quotes are just laughable
In longer words....
Graphically very pleasing, however the gameplay is basically the same as with Conflict: world at war, tries to look realistic but in the end, it's basically just Ground Control 2 with non-sci-fi setting, and in difference to C:WAW, has more limitations, such as no in-field drop zones or off-map artillery support, which is a con either for more game-like approach or for realism, sometimes it hurts both ways.
So it's basically C:WAW with more choice of factions (wide variety of units, all with localized quotes in their actual language, but also with Warcraft 3 level of seriousness) and so far has the same issues as C:WAW:
- small maps
- small choice of maps combined with lack of terrain editor
- attempt to look realistic while it fails on that
- limited resources to cut down the scale of battle, on top of that, player is limited two ways - not only 'deploy points' but also limited units 'in store', so even when player does have 'resources', he might not have the right way to spend them.
^^ For godsake, either go the 'realistic way' and limit deployment by having pre-battle set of units that can all be deployed as player wants but cannot buy more, or go 'gamelike' with use of resource points system to 'buy' units in-battle, but do not limit what you can buy. Using both, without option to turn off either limitation just plainly destroys any feeling of immersion, realism or, frankly, even fun.
Also - supplies... one of the features is that player needs to supply units by ammo / fuel. It is possible to do so with supply trucks but there seems to be no way to send empty truck off-map for re-supply or just not-to-take space and offer easy score to the enemy. The same seems to go with infantry deployment in trucks, as there either is not, or I did not manage to find, in 5 hours, a way to load infantry back into truck.
.. the game could be saved by some realism and map content focused addons or mods, but seeing that moddb page for this game is basically a desert, it kinda sums up the excitement it's worth of.
