All Quiet in the Trenches

By the time when you've actually built your squad up, it can be fun. But then it just goes down hill, constant jobs when everyone is ill, suffering from illness. Even if you've only got 2 men that semi okayish, whilst every one else is in the field hospital. The lieutenant gives you a job for 3 people, which you won't be able to complete since everyone is nearly dead or not ready to do jobs and then you lose standing with the lieutenant. Honestly, either the game difficulty needs lowering a tad, reduce the job load or increase the amount of soliders you can have under your command. I take back what i said just don't like Kummerbaunt.

There are a lot of good things going for it. Like: atmosphere, the camp system, meeting your squads physical and mental needs. Resource management and so on. Thing that don't work: -Combat I have no idea how combat really works there are no stats, only danger levels that sometimes don't work. I flanked enemy squad on low danger level and got 2/3 of my squad dead or wounded. No idea how effective suppressive fire actually is. Grenades are very weak. throw one directly to enemy trench and it injures on of them. - movement It is hard to plan ahead when you can only see one to two movement locations ahead and sometimes places that you thought were accessible turns out to be blocked -friendly AI sucks during combat they block your advancement and don't support you in combat. It would be nice if they could suppress enemies while you advance or vise versa. -morale officer yelling when company gets defeated and its supposed to be your fault that your guys got injured/dead while defending. Things just spiral out of control while officer just keeps piling more work for you while half of them saw their mates blown up and are demoralized. I get it that it's supposed to be real but even the stupidest officer can see that combat ineffective squads due to casualties can't do anything. things just get out of hand real fast with no way to bounce back. There are also too few ways to bring back morale. Need more dedicated activities to bring back squad morale. Now your guys just keep deserting and officers are unhappy. Morale should improve on vacations. One month off the battlefield should make wonders to soldiers fighting spirit instead of them being as depressed as before the leave. - your character missing Now you are a squad leader without being a squad leader. Game would so much interesting and intimate if you yours self were part of the squad. -UI everything is light brown. Graphics, text boxes, objective etc. little more variations makes the game more visually appealing and easier observe what's what.

fun game but the objectives are pretty much just suggestions, i get the deal is you cant always do everything right but a lot of the time it doesnt matter how well you perform, + the surrendering system is AWFUL

Its a fun enough game to play and I especially like the battle levels but the commanding officer is too much. Constantly giving tasks so your soldiers get zero rest which means they do even worse on their tasks. This makes the officer upset so he gives you even more tasks, causing an unstoppable downwards spiral. I can only get to mid 1916 before everything falls apart and my soldiers die because they are overworked and no one can be spared to watch over them in the field hospital. Its just too much and makes the game impossible to play.

I love this game. I've played it all the way through almost since it first came out, then again as they keep making great updates. It's a unique game with the best approach to WWI in a video game that I've seen. It might seem hard at first, but keep playing and it gets easier. Remember that you can load older saves to, the RNG changes so sometimes if something bad happens you can reload and it won't happen. Or play it all the way through to whenever it naturally ends and then play it again. I get a serious "just one more turn" addiction going each time I play. It's on version 0.12 now and it's already amazing, I can't wait to keep playing it as it continues development, I expect the final game to be absolutely incredible, and still unique.

I have played this game so many times and have been playing since it came out it is an amazing game that you can just sit down and have some fun, with every update i play a new run and i cant wait for the came to be fully done.

Desperately needs more content, but a fantastic squad-based tactical simulator as well as survival game. It's a nice twist that your real job isn't winning battles or even following orders, but instead trying to keep your men alive while doing *just enough* that your superiors don't fire you. If you get ordered to take a trench, feel free to cower behind the line if you don't think there's a safe opening—the Lieutenant will yell at you and the attack may fail, but if your prestige is high enough from a previous mission or because you overachieved your tasks in the base beforehand, you can take the reputation loss and make up for it later.

spend months getting close to your soldiers just to see each of them traumatizingly die one after another cool game

Tried it out for an hour and a half and though the idea is nice and everything the combat is just so underwhelming and frustrating. Despite orders the soldiers are not firing or doing anything most of the time, it all feels heavily scripted and choices have little consequences. And I wanted to enjoy it as I like very much the setting and the systems but I can't care for the soldiers if the climax of the game is just this uneventful slog with no fireshot but a lot of ammunition spent... I might try later in development to come back to it but the devs need to implement "fun" stuff for the player I think. Management of scarce ressources and tough choices are hightened when you get some sort of rewards or bad consequences from time to time and I would enjoy a game between rest at camp and action if... there was a little action.