Wargame: Airland Battle

Yes Because this one actually has playable tutorials. No because you shouldn't have to buy the old game to figure out how to play the new one. These gradiated difficulty missions allow new players to get used to the gameplay. Completely missing from Wargame: Red Dragon. Wargames alternative title could be Force Recon: FTW. In the main line Jack Ryan Tom Clancy novel series(the ones written by him) the Bear and the Dragon, Clancy depicts a war between two modern militaries. Most of it hinges on the delicate dance of cat and mouse that reconnaissance teams play in advance of main forces actually making contact. Its cool to see this implemented on a large battlefield in a strategy game. Everything hinges on your ability to place eyes in a position that gives you strategic advantage. Of course you enemy knows this and vice versa. Because of the pace of battle and unit movement is relatively fast this means the margins from detection and all out engagement are slim. Its just tricky to get into and understand what it wants - and throws you into the deep end way too fast (I got utterly obliterated on the second campaign mission). My solution was to just repeat the tutorials with varied tactics to see what works and what get my people killed. Aside from recon and the massive distances and the weird ui/x is a little obtuse. (I play games like Dangerous Waters and Fleet Command DCS ARMA so I know some mil style iconogrophy but i also have to unlearn some standards of the genre here). Sound design, aside from the shrill warning alarm when units are off screen, is pretty awesome with thoroughly loud booming explosions giving energy to the battles. Also be sure to close the games text chat immediately as out of what i can only assume is laziness on the devs part they haven't implemented profanity filters. Its just a global chat room taking up roughly 1/2 the main menu when you start. I was immediately spammed with 5 line tall ASCI N-word repeatedly... classy. so just a heads up. after seeing this as the first prompt from a youtuber how to vid I feel its necessary to make folks aware of it too. ...uh devs do something about the trash on your platform - not a good first impression. Decent folks should have the freedom to not have that garbage shoved in their face.