Cauldrons of War - Barbarossa

Good wargame, where a full Barbarossa campaign can be played through in as little as 3-4 hours. The abstractions and scaling of the game are clever enough, however, that it does not feel too "wargame lite" - it still feels like a serious, weighty experience that requires serious history knowledge to fully enjoy. On that note: this game deserves the highest praise for a good grasp of up-to-date historiography of the German-Soviet war! It dispenses with a lot of myths and legends, does not shy away from the ugly atrocities, and most importantly - has a realistic big-picture understanding of the causes of German defeat, which is impressive given how much it abstracts. "Wehraboos" will not be happy with this one - the German war machine is not only unwieldy and flawed from the first turn, but more importantly it is not going to be defeated by "General Winter" or any other mythical figures here; rather by a complex interplay of factors, the biggest of which is by far the tenacious and aggressive fighting by the Soviet forces throughout the campaign. It is a very difficult play from the German side - a bit easier from the Soviet side, but only through lots of difficult decisions. Both sides are worth playing. In terms of negatives, the one thing that was difficult in this game is that even with the tutorial and in-game wiki, it is very hard to get a sense of what results to expect from your choices and orders. You have a very limited number of "command points" per front/army group every term, and an extremely limited save game system - so while learning the interface and basic concepts is easy enough, learning what you actually want to choose to get the results you want requires a lot of trial and error in a "live" campaign game. In reality, this means that you'll have to play 2-3 unfinished campaigns and spend maybe 3-4 hours just figuring this out - and in the process, you'll see a bunch of scripted events and decisions. By the time you finally know what you are doing and are playing a campaign "for real", a lot of those events and decisions will lose their dramatic effect and will just be a routine. I guess that is a long way of saying I wish this game had a somewhat better tutorial and documentation, so I didn't have to spend 4 hours having no idea what I am doing before I finally figured it out and was enjoying the game "for real". If you don't mind putting in that time to figure it out - and frankly, if you play wargames, that is small change compared to most titles - you will find an elegant, historically competent title where you can fight an entire campaign in just an evening!

正常难度巴巴罗萨剧本德国14分思路：莫斯科3+列宁格勒3+乌克兰2+罗斯托夫1+芬兰汇合1+重创红军1+条顿海滨（敖德萨+塞瓦斯托波尔）2+摩尔曼斯克1。其中摩尔曼斯克的1分看运气，条顿海滨2分操作不熟练不算容易，熟练之后没问题，莫斯科如果运气太差一路下雨补给运不来又没法用空军也会差1-2回合。 先说一下整补和突破规则还有一些小技巧，阵地战期间比如说有2点铁路运力，意思是下个回合可以自动运送2点补给，但是如果你整补2次把这2个铁路运力用掉，下个回合就不运送2点补给了，所以整补和卡车补给要结合起来用。另外比如2点铁路运力整补第1次是会送2个补给，还是比较划算的。阵地战要突破不要选全面总攻和包围战，就选突破，选其他的铁路运力不够，补给不够。 核心思路和一些小操作就是开局南北线不急着用坦克部队突破，坦克只炮击，第一线不太下雨，合理运用轰炸。用步兵在第一线把苏联大部分部队吃掉。因为第一线补给有3-4点。如果南北线第一道战线不能吃掉大部分苏联部队后续会很难打。另外7-8月会连续2个事件扣大部分部队2点组织度，中线和南线可以卡着点进阵地战整补，省去几个预备队和到前线的指挥点数。 北极这里目标是摩尔曼斯克的1分，可以先把部队调到北极狐行动进攻几次，把苏联预备队骗到北极狐战线，再部队都转到银狐战线突破，这样可以拿1分。另外一分太困难，我直接放弃了。这个看一点运气，如果预备队不去北极狐战线，强攻有一点困难。 芬兰这边芬兰军很强，但是推进的时候不急着点进度，因为电脑会一点一点增援，可以利用几只芬兰部队几乎无损吃掉大部分苏联列宁格勒的预备队。最后再和德军汇合。 北线在第1线消灭大部分苏联军队，然后列宁格勒围城战战线不急着推，跨越洛瓦特河这一条战线是可以完全忽略的。等苏联预备队都上来，消灭掉再点进度。如果之前列宁格勒苏联预备队还是太多，突破斯维里河可能受阻。围攻列宁格勒的时候记得抢制空。北线这个打法打了几次没有失手过。如果其他线受阻，北线留芬兰部队，其他部队可以支援。 中线之前尝试在第1线吃掉大部分部队，但是苏联西部还是会有很多新的部队，效果不好。所以中线重点放在坦克突破，配合步兵的进攻。尽快开启台风行动。中线战线苏联有各种防守BUFF，可以先用步兵进攻，再用坦克突破，或者在阵地战阶段炮击和高空轰炸几回合。每到一条战线优先把所有部队整补一下消除一下疲劳，再用卡车补给补满再进攻。不能出现弹药不足的情况，中线相对来说推进比其他线要困难。中部5个集团军群试下来是够打莫斯科的，不需要从其他地方调部队过来，当然集团军不能被打散，所以补给在进攻时候注意保持。另外向东进军的事件可以带掉几只苏联部队，部队整补完回斯摩棱斯克。最后不要绕道加里宁，加里宁的苏联预备队瓦图京作战大队会凭空刷出来，12月左右进莫斯科后，莫斯科除了本身守备部队，可能还有3个左右的集团军，如果进入巷战，抢好制空，注意补给，在正式开打前就整补好。 南线也是开始先把大部分消灭掉，战线到了进军基辅之后会同时开2条战线，进军基辅和乌曼计划。南线重点在于乌曼计划。不开乌曼计划条顿海滨2分几乎等于放弃，靠着罗马尼亚军队不可能打下2个地方。但是相对南线部队很有余裕。既可以在中线受阻情况下从南线往北打莫斯科，也可以放到预备队里，从预备队增援中线，但是放弃这2分也够11分，不开乌曼计划罗斯托夫调一个机械化军队，再加上意大利远征军或者西班牙蓝色师就能打下来，只掉一个机械化部队进军，补给就等每回合自动补给，时间够的，多出来点数和部队用来支援中路。这种方法也可以开乌曼计划后把乌曼的部队调回基辅，这样可以调走2个苏联集团军。 南线如果开乌曼计划，基辅一路是一个步兵集团军，乌曼战线是一个步兵集团军加上一个装甲集团军，同时会把基辅道路上的敌军带到乌曼合围战线。兵分两路后基辅一路不着急推，先进攻乌曼，帮罗马尼亚军队进攻。在乌曼战线完成之前，罗马尼亚军队跨越普鲁特河战线前的罗马尼亚军队甚至不需要突破，只需要整补到满状态，每回合炮击加高空轰炸，并且罗马尼亚第三集团军拆分开来，会有一个骑兵师，这个游戏步兵推进不需要燃料，这个骑兵师就是点进度的最佳部队。乌曼合围之后指挥点数算在南方集团军里，这一阶段南方集团军会很缺点数，持续两条战线，迅速用骑兵推过罗马尼亚第一和第二条战线，苏联增援用2支德军部队消灭。罗马尼亚这里第二条战线出现同时会出敖德萨围城战。敖德萨围城战算在罗马尼亚指挥部点数，用2个罗马尼亚集团军围攻敖德萨，先抢制空慢慢炮击和轰炸。跨越第聂伯河是第二道战线，算南方指挥部点数，用骑兵迅速突破，直到克里米亚战役，克里米亚又算在罗马尼亚指挥部上，还是选择用罗马尼亚骑兵+德军一路推到塞瓦斯托波尔。这样条顿海滨2分就到手了。同时南方指挥部不用管克里米亚了，一路推进到基辅、哈尔科夫、库尔斯克，这一路应该是几乎没有阻挡的，如果不行可以调意大利、匈牙利、斯洛伐克和西班牙的辅助部队来。推进罗斯托夫还是选择把罗马尼亚骑兵调过来推进。

[b]Я в бинокль ясно видел стены древнего кремля Но не знал, что за Москвою не кончается земля Говорят, по всем приметам ей конца и края нет...[/b] Необычная стратегия, я давно искал такую. Игра дает испытать себя на месте верховного командования тех лет. Сможешь ли ты реализовать план барбароса и взять Москву до зимы ? Или наоборот, играя за СССР, удержать немцев на границе-сломать хребет вермахту в самом начале наступления ? Конечно в игре есть некоторые шероховатости(например танковые воиска легко берут город, когда там держит оборону пехота), что в целом не мешает получать удовольствие от игры. В игре есть мультиплеер друг против друга на одном компе или игра по почте XD [spoiler]Мифическая оценка игры: 76 из 100 мифических баллов.[/spoiler]

This is one of those reviews where I wish there was some in-between yes and no for a rating, because... well, Barbarossa is a good game. I had fun with it. The problem is that the sequel, Stalingrad, blows this game out of the water; with major quality-of-life improvements, dev notes, more operations, mechanics... and since they're the same price, suddenly it becomes very hard to recommend this game, because Stalingrad's breakthroughs haven't been ported over. So I don't see much reason to play this one once you have Stalingrad. Get it on sale or bundle it with Stalingrad, otherwise, I'd advise not to buy this one.

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好玩

An interesting take on the War in Russia that fails to achieve its potential. You order units to move and attack with command points. These command points run everything including air operations. Each Front or Army Group has a specific number of these points. Playing the Russians is relatively easy. On normal setting in my first game I achieved a minor victory. All I did was retreat until the start of winter. The German side however is more difficult, since tutorial is pretty short on explaining how selecting different attack options play out. There are a couple of guides that help with this on steam. My biggest complaint is you can split armies, but It is impossible to reform them. The developers are under the false notion that this accurately depicts a widening German front. This is very ahistorical, since the Germans often formed new corps and Armies. (Even the 6th Army was reformed.) Considering It costs the same number of command points to operate a division as it does an entire army things get surreal very fast if you split an army or one splits due to combat. Don't get me wrong this is an interesting game if you can get past the one way valve unit breakdown system. A total lack of being able to assign units to armies or corps or even move them from one to another. And of course a Finish army that does almost nothing outside of its pre-1939/40 war borders no matter how well the war goes. I purchased this game for $15 and I got what I paid for, but not a cent more. I have uninstalled the game.

这兵棋有意思，好玩

To confusing. Not balanced because its historical so you cant win as Germany or Russia by the time winter comes and timers end.

Very good, would recommend, quite easy to get into, various decision making, eg abiding by Geneva convention or not !!!!, Excellent, as said very easy to get into, no micro-management, makes a change from the smaller tactical battles, this is about Armies, Panzer groups, Divisions. WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!!