Frontline : Longest Day

Very early first impressions after playing just a few turns. Very easy to play, much less complex than Panzer Corps. Manual tells you nothing, there's no tutorial. There are hints in Frontline: Road to Moscow before you start a battle, which basically tell you how the game works, but not in this game. Instead you get a pop up occasionally explaining things. Not very obvious how things work at first but I'm picking it up quickly. No fog of war, so you can see where all the enemy units are. Definitely seems to be a "wargame lite" designed for casual play, but strategy is still needed. There are several combat mechanics and special abilities that aren't obvious at first. These need to be explained better. I've already had several units wiped out. Well it is D-Day after all... Game is not very polished. Starts in a window (press Alt+Enter to fill screen), no resolution options (although it's running fine in 2560x1080), graphics are pretty but not very sharp. Found a couple of bugs already, landed some units and they've retained the landing craft icons (so I'm now moving and attacking inland with landing craft). Also the frame rate is insanely high (up to a totally unnecessary 1000 FPS) which was straining my graphics card, but I fixed that by running Bandicam in the background to cap the framerate to 30FPS. I've reported these bugs. Knowing Slitherine they'll be fixed. Warhammer Armageddon had the same frame rate problem and they've fixed that in the latest patch I think. Early conclusion: Pretty looking turn based wargame. Quick and easy to play (but with a certain hidden depth that isn't obvious), would suit casual players who don't want too much detail. A few bugs at the moment, but no doubt they'll be fixed. It's no Panzer Corps, but it would be unfair to expect too much at this price point. It seems like a fair price for what you get. Update: I've been playing this for a little while now, on and off, and I'm getting to like it more and more. It's really quite enjoyable. I haven't encountered any major bugs yet, and the landing craft icons disappeared after reloading. Another Update: Airstrikes are definitely overpowered, in the sense that you can do as many as you like, you're only limited by the points you have to spend. But I have a ridiculous number of points, so I can do as many as I want each turn. It's making the game way too easy, I can just bomb everything to oblivion and I don't need to attack with my ground units at all. In fact I've been purposely not using it just to give myself a bit of a challenge. This really needs to be addressed. Just like there's a limit on how many units you can buy, there should be a limit on how many airstrikes you're allowed each turn. Having maybe 3 or 5 airstrikes max each turn would solve this problem. Also, nearing the end of the first scenario, it locked up. It's done this several times before but it usually only lasts a short while then you can continue. This time I was unable to continue and lost all my progress. Obviously this should be fixed too (I'm using Win 7 64 bit), but as a safeguard, an autosave at the beginning of each turn would be nice. At the moment, you can deal with these issues by imposing a voluntary air attack limit on yourself each turn, and saving (save and quit) each turn, just in case of an unrecoverable lockup, even though it's a bit of a hassle to reload each turn. I still recommend this game, but it's more of a cautious recommendation now, on the assumption that these problems will be fixed. You might want to avoid rushing into a purchase until they are.

If you want turn based strategy get yourself Panzer Corps or Panzer Tactics HD but not this! Here you only get unfair and unhistorical map/unitbalance poor graphics and not even fullscreen support. Even for 5 bucks this is more than poor!

I was dissapointed with this game as I was hoping for a nice hex based old skool style game but instead I found this buggy game with a strange map style, for example tanks cannot cross certain areas and must go around trees and some rivers, you must find out which ones as the map gives no clues, the game also crashes and the saved games are often corrupt, Ive played 19 hours and would probably be more enjoyable if it wasnt for the bugs.

I've been playing the iPad version, so my counter doesn't represent the amount of time I have spent with this title. What I need to say is that the AirStrike exploit completely ruins this game. Of course that wouldn't happend if there would be any kind of AI in the game. If you don't care about spending the five Euros and you are curious, just grab the game, if you are on the fence, don't take it.

Basically it's a piece of crap. Buggy as hell and the "manual" you can click on in the opening screen consists solely of installation instructions for one of their other games so you're pretty much on your own figuring out how to accomplish all that stuff they say you can do. The user interface is pretty much like a scaled down version of those found in true turn based simulations and might be OK if there was some way of knowing how to activate the less obvious ones. Supposed to be a patch floating around but I couldn't find it. That being said, it's five bucks so I didn't expect it to be on a par with $50 new releases. My own personal feeling is that I'd want my money back if I had paid any more than $5 for it but $5 isn't worth the hassle. On a scale of 1-5 it ekes out a 2 IMO.

"Frontline : Longest Day" ist ein recht simples Hex-Wargame. 6. Juni 1944. Die Alliierten landen in der Normandie und starten damit die Befreiung von West-Europa. Die Operation hieß eigentlich Operation Neptune und war Teil der großen Operation Overlord. Über 5000 Schiffe und 8000 Flugzeuge waren beteiligt. An verschiedenen Stränden landeten praktisch gleichzeitig die alliierten Truppen. Utah, Omaha, Gold, Cherbourg, Sword und Juno waren die Codenamen der unterschiedlichen Landungsoperationen, an denen insgesamt etwa 170000 Soldaten beteiligt waren. Das Spiel nimmt diesen historischen Hintergrund und vereinfacht ihn stark und setzt ihn in klassischen Hexfeld-Runden-Kämpfen um. An sich keine schlechte Herangehensweise. Zahlreiche Brettspiele haben schon bewiesen, daß man das Thema spannend und taktisch interessant abstrahieren kann. Dieses Spiel vereinfacht allerdings fast zu stark. Zwar haben wir insgesamt immerhin 11 unterschiedliche Einheiten, die wir auch nachkaufen können, zur Verfügung, plus einen Airstrike, und der Gegner hat auch einige unterschiedliche Einheiten wie Bunker, Panzer oder Artillerie, aber trotzdem sind die taktischen Entscheidungsmöglichkeiten konkret erstaunlich beschränkt. Der bestes Zug ist meist recht offensichtlich. Die Karten sind dabei nicht allzu groß und auch nicht allzu abwechslungsreich. Aber auch so simple Einsteiger-Spiele haben sicher ihre Berechtigung. Wenn es nicht einige technische Probleme gäbe. Das Spiel konfrontiert den User mit einigen Bugs, die auch Auswirkungen auf das Spielgeschehen haben können. So kann es zum Beispiel passieren, daß Landungsboote sich nicht in Landeinheiten umwandeln sobald sie den Strand erreichen. Dann können wir fröhlich mit unserem Schiffchen selbst über die höchsten Hügel schippern. Allerdings ist das wenig produktiv, denn da auch das Spiel denkt, es sei immer noch ein Landungsboot, haben wir keinerlei Möglichkeiten mit dieser Einheit anzugreifen. Und das ist nur ein besonders ärgerliches Beispiel. Auch ansonsten gibt es einige technische Schwächen, die teils auch auf das Spielerische durchschlagen. Es wirkt alles so als sei das Spiel nie zu Ende entwickelt worden. Die Grundlage ist zwar recht stimmig, aber anscheinend wurde der letzte Schritt des Fehlerausmerzens geflissentlich übersprungen. Und das ist schade, denn der Kern würde ein unterhaltsames, simples Einstiegs-Wargame ermöglichen. Grafik und Sound sind nur auf Tablet-Niveau, passen aber durchaus. In diesem technischen Zustand aber kann man den Titel auch Anfängern nicht empfehlen. [h1]Wertung:[/h1] 6/10 Atmosphäre 5/10 Story 6/10 Grafik 5/10 Sound 4/10 Spielmechanik 5/10 Balancing 4/10 Spielspass [h1]Fazit:[/h1] Zu viele Bugs. [h1][b]5/10 Gesamtwertung

am finding numerous bugs and cannot complete gold beach. bugs are listed in forum, but the fixes that they claim are auto on steam don't seem to real. very disappointing.

typical mobile port cash grab from these devs they put the same games out again and again under different names then just walk away from them leaving a bug filled unfinished mess mindblowing that the same team put a diamond of a game like panzer corps or order of battle but leave a trail a mile long of utter crap they couldnt be bothered to finished

while i liked frontline moscow, because it was simplified and easy, this is very dissapointing sequel. Starting with map scrolling, map borders, continuing with land mines, air drops, airstrikes. It aint better than frontline (and when counting front line isnt for everyone, id excpect improvement, not getting worse). There is pretty much that could have been done with the story line, campaign design, in fact, if you could get inspiration in old Panzer General, with Moscow rules. But this, im sorry guys, usually i have nothing against developers/publishers, but this simply isnt worthy even few bucks. Its simply a money trap.

I would love to recommend this game but I just can't. To put this into context I have the similar title on Russian front and that is fine, but this one........ There is a great game in there, but smothered by bugs. I bought this game when it first came out, complained on the forum about ame killing bugs and over a year later some of the bugs still not fixed. Examples are Save and reload and cleared minefields reappear Units being stuck in resupply mode, all you can do for a couple of turns is rseupply them, not move or fight them. Potential game killing bug in that certain German units even when killed remain on map - you can move around them and even through them, but can't end your tuurn in that space. Bit of a pain when they stting slap bang on an objective. I left the game for about a year then restarted hoping the bugs would be sorted, some have - those above have not. Ther was a game breaking bug in the scenario I am now playing (and you cant access new missions until current one complete), I am just hoping they have fixed that now (unit on a hill that moves but leaves a ghost unit which cannot bekilled - but the game counts it as a unit and you need to destroy all German units.......) To give you a clue about how slow fixing bugs has been - the game originally shipped with bugs (I reported at least one of those) - update 1/12/15 fixes it. That is about a year after release on steam (I purchased it originally not via steam so my purchase might have preceeded that). That I still try this game shows I think there is something good about this game, it could have been a classic for the price, but , sorry Matrix this should not have shipped as it was released and it sure as hell should be fixed by now. UPDATE - tried the game again and unbelievably the bugs are STILL there - Really, really poor