WARNO

Personally I cannot recommend Warno in good faith, as whilst it is a great idea and can be quite fun, has an incredible lack of polish and balance around it especially around multiplayer. My primary issues with the game (Besides the AI generated content and loading screens of course), is the lack of overall balance, heavy reliance on RNG and terribly unbalanced divisions especially within multiplayer and skirmish modes, which I can best describe as spam > skill. Singleplayer and army general is decent enough, if a bit boring and repetitive in my opinion. The usage of unique real world divisions and battalions is a very nice touch alongside other minor details that make it feel more... Lifelike, I suppose? Regardless, there are clear balancing issues which I will now address. Eugen seems to want to add more reservist divisions every single update, leading to a lack of variety in multiplayer as everybody just plays the new divisions, which often powercreep the older ones and render them much more difficult to use. Some are incredibly overpowered, such as 119th and 7th Panzerdivision and I've noticed a particular leaning towards PACT divisions being overpowered, speaking as a mainly PACT player with a lot of NATO equipment lackluster in performance despite realistic performance stating otherwise. It isn't rewarding nor satisfying to play, considering your expensive 200+ point M1 Abrams can just get routed and shot in the side by some stupid AI self-positioning by T-72 that costs almost half the amount and a set of ATGMs that they bought with the extra points. Tanks, even the expensive ones, lose cohesion and miss several shots in a row incredibly fast. Helicopters sponge levels of damage that realistically should have brought them down ages ago, and infantry can sponge far, far too much damage and imo cost more than what they should. Artillery rework was a imo a great step in the right direction, and allowed for actual useful counter-battery fire and more skillfull artillery usage however powercrept self-propelled guns in favor of cheaper, less effective towed guns (Since they'd just get counter batteried anyway.) Certain units cannot be detected even when firing at units within buildings that just have to stand there and take it. Plane combat is incredibly RNG reliant and more often than not, SEAD is completely ineffective due to MANPAD / Infrared missile spam. Overall, it has it's niche, but I feel between the lack of attention to realism over 'game balancing' (Which in turn makes it far more frustrating to play) alongside the lack of polish or care given to actual game balancing regarding newer and older divisions, I just cannot recommend this game to casual fans of RTS anymore.