Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2

Das Beste und tiefgründigste Spiel seiner Art. Ich bin begeistert!!!

非常优秀的游戏，满足了我对二战战棋的一切想象，期待下一部实现全欧洲战场

Overbloated mess of a game, half of the mechanics are meaningless and its highly overrated.

perfection

I wish they would add more "delegate" mechanics like the Air/logistic AI but for for generals, it takes so long to micro manage every general's troops. If you feel like paradox games are too easy then try this.

dobra gra xp

advice for the decision whether or not you should get this game: there's a general contradiction regarding how realistic this game is. from a perspective of game theory, one has to ask the question what acutally is to be modelled, and while this game here is chosing a great amount of detail, such an amount of detail is entirely contradicting the notion of a "wargame". war as a game is never to be played turn-based, but real time, because events happen real time and cognition happens real time, and that's giving you a perfectly fine ratio of the amount of detail a game can at maximum contain in order to be a genuine "war game", simulating war from a perspective of game theory, because obviously the detail you have to attend has to fit into real-time evolution of events and decisions to be made. in that sense, wite2 is not a war game, but an optimization game about what might or might not be the case regarding such and such topological transformations under uncertainty. one has to keep in mind that it's not the case that a game with a lesser level of detail but real-time wouldn't make this game less complicated, because the cognitive workload would still be entirely the same, the difference being that you would have to think about what you could get under time constraints, while in wite2 you simply have to think about mental exhaustion without time constraints, on the dimension of the turn in question. so while wite2 might or might be the hexgame with the most detail, it's certainly not a war game with the most detail, because it doesn't try to simulate the game-theoretical level of conducting war. if you want a realistic simulation of conducting war, you would have to look for a game based either on real time, or at least we-go turns with a time constraint, which, in the end, might or might not be considered as equivalent to real time. that does by no means invalidate wite2, and it's obviously usefull to get into the amount of detail in order to have understanding for what actual war-conduct-simulation might be mapped onto.

I thought this was going to be a hardcore spreadsheet wargame about moving counters around Eastern Europe. Instead, it turned into one of the most immersive operational warfare simulations I’ve ever played. At first you focus on battles. Then slowly you realize the battles are almost the least important part. You begin worrying about rail conversion speeds. Truck attrition. Depot placement. Whether your spearheads are outrunning fuel delivery. Whether your exhausted rifle divisions can survive one more turn before reserves arrive. You stop seeing the map as territory and start seeing it as arteries, logistics corridors, operational depth, and collapsing fronts. And that’s where the game becomes incredible. A breakthrough in this game does not feel scripted. It feels earned. Weeks of preparation suddenly explode into motion: artillery divisions in reserve, tank corps waiting behind the line, railheads creeping forward, infantry grinding down fortified sectors until finally one section of the front ruptures and the entire enemy position starts unraveling operationally. Not tactically. Operationally. That distinction is what makes this game so unique. The most fascinating part is that victory rarely comes from brute force alone. Sometimes your offensive fails not because your divisions were weak, but because mud destroyed your logistics chain, combat delay stalled your armor, or a single rail line could not sustain the advance. Sometimes the enemy front looks unbreakable until fatigue, reserves, and attrition suddenly cause the entire system to crack open. Very few games simulate warfare at this scale while still making individual operational decisions feel meaningful. You begin to understand why historical commanders obsessed over railroads, weather, reserves, artillery concentration, and timing. You start planning offensives in echelons. You create breakthrough sectors. You rotate exhausted formations. You think less like a gamer and more like a theater commander trying to keep an enormous machine functioning under impossible pressure. And somehow, despite all this complexity, the game constantly creates unforgettable moments: desperate encirclements panzer spearheads outrunning supply Soviet artillery hammer blows emergency reserve commitments winter collapses shattered fronts reforming behind rivers exhausted divisions holding one final turn This is not a casual game. It is demanding, sometimes overwhelming, and occasionally exhausting. But when everything comes together, there is honestly nothing else quite like it.

Absolutely amazing fun

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