Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front

Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front is a turn based tactical strategy game from Slitherine (how has JK Rowling not sued these guys?) set in WW2. You are given relatively small maps and set unit numbers and must direct your units to capture objectives and satisfy other mission criteria to complete each level across a number of campaigns, pitting the forces of the USSR against the Third Reich. There's no problems at all with the premise of the game... the problems are more to do with specifics of game design. For starters the game is very unrealistic... from unrealistic depictions of battle strategy (the USSR fielded a heavy artillery army and that's absent here) to unrealistic, "bad" maths and probability where you can be in a position of overwhelming advantage numerically, but lose anyway due to "cheap" imbalance cludged in by the developers... this makes for a very poor gaming experience if you're an enthusiast in this genre. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the mid 2000s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with. There's also a bit of an issue where a lot of the UI elements are obviously stretched badly from a 4:3 ratio... quite jarring. But the game in general does "work" (despite a few reports of serious bugs), and could almost get a pass... but Slitherine have slapped a ridiculous price tag on a 10 year old game that makes this utterly unacceptable in terms of recommendations. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front has the utterly unrealistic price of $40 USD, for which you could easily get any number of contemporary AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic, nay, insulting price, this is impossible to recommend.

Satisfying the Strategic "Itch"... For decades now I have been looking for a game that can and will hopefully match up with the game called "Steel Panther" that was created for Windows XP and to this day, I have been looking for the game that can hopefully and willfully match up to the game itself, I do not care for the graphics. That is something that doesn't make a good game in my opinion. I loved everything that Steel Panthers brought to the table. I believe that this game is almost hitting it on the head of the nail with what they have here. A turn based strategic game that is more or less a game of chess and mindfulness of troops and movement. This is something that will take strategic thinking and troop movement and placement. This game is really enjoyable, I know about the playtime that I have is not the most enticing. As said before I am on the lookout for a game that was released decades ago and trying to find the exact match. In my opinion, this is a really good strategy game based in the WWII era, and do recommend this game. However due to the shelf life of this I would wait for a sale when they have one for this.

This a great little, simple game. Can get a little addictive! But in a good way. Turn the difficulty up to get some really nail biting battles. If you're a fan of tabletop wargaming IRL, this is a great little game to pass the time between real games!

I love games where you get to configure your force prior to the scenario, this is one of them.

the best turn-based strategy & tactical war game i have ever played

作为一款冷门游戏，我从2014年游玩至今。不知为什么，就是有一种魔力，让我一直玩下去。记得当初玩这个游戏，没有中文，用自己蹩脚的英语玩了苏军1942战役第一关，真真切切感觉到了震撼和史诗感，以及二战的残酷。之后玩的库尔斯克DLC，只能说，特殊的策略感，以及指挥伟大战役的史诗感。

Very very fun game. Rewards good moves, Punishes mistakes.

tengo el battle academy 1 y 2. si te digo la verdad si tuvieras que elegir entre el 1 y el 2 elijo el 2 ¿por que? porque puedes jugar escaramuzas aleatorias con mods aparte de los rusos tienes los britanicos los estadounidenses eso si en mods que estan dentro del juego no tiene steam workshop pero trae sus propios mods para descargar dentro del juego Edito: tambien trae la guerra civil española en forma de mod

I enjoyed this pretty similarly to the original Battle Academy. Pros I think the basic game + mechanics are very good and there is an excellent variety of units (each with their own strengths and weaknesses), and of course each mission makes you think about how to use your troops, when to tell them to hold fire (if you are on the defensive), when and where to use resources like artillery support etc. Think there are some minor improvements/additions in BA2 though it is still very similar overall to original BA Cons I thought that some of the campaigns became very difficult in terms of what you are expected to achieve with the resources you have and eventually a couple of the campaigns I gave up as I felt it was no longer fun. Which is fine - there were still a good number of campaign missions which I very much enjoyed. Neutral As with the original BA, there is definitely an element of luck - you have to live with the fact that (for example) you can have a shot on a tank which has a 80% chance of knocking out the tank....and you can miss...or the enemy can take out one of your tanks on a very low-% shot. But for me this actually hasn't bothered me too much as for most missions you have a decent-sized force, and the occasional bit of bad/good luck usually isn't decisive (in my view), and I just tried to enjoy playing through without tons of saves etc. Overall I do still enjoy this game same as BA, just a bit less convinced by some of the campaigns / missions in the Eastern Front. I thought the original BA campaigns were better balanced. But still a very good strategy game in my view.

I've had a lot of fun playing the skirmish mode - which is well thought out and the generated maps and unit composition keeps it fresh. Works fine on the steam deck (beta software track) - took a couple minutes to start up the first time and after that I had zero issues. The AI is honestly not bad to play against. It is more fun than the close combat games for sure