Gary Grigsby's War in the East

Yes, I recommend this game! If you want something more in depth and realistic than HOI IV, you can't go wrong. I'd also suggest the sequel which is an all round better game! Don't pay full price though...check for steam keys on the interwebs.

Ya, it's a good game alright. However, it stopped launching on my machine. So I've been going to grab the new version, but that changed for me today. I had a really lame interaction with customer service today so I'm out. No more games from Slith for me, sadly, since I've a lot of titles from them in my lib. What was funny to me is I sent mail to a differing publisher after the fact, telling them I had a budget now of $116 since Slith turned me down on my offer of 2x for the price of 1 on one of the titles.. This other pub made a great offer and now a pal and I are trying to decide what titles we want to play with. Meanwhile, I've gone back to my steam lib. and I'm leaving reviews that say "ya, good titles but the biz? they are losing long-term clients because they have a lame approach to customer service..." -- Its sad. No one wants to lose clients these days. I was all up for sending them my bread. Now? Now I wont be playing anything from them, for at least a long while.

A much easier game to play than it's successor, Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2.

I really appreciate games like this, which resemble the old hex style games from Avalon Hill and SSI, etc., I remember playing games like this with paper markers and maps, and all the rest of the physical artifacts that come along with such games. Just trying to figure out how to play the game was a marathon in itself. This is one of the few games in the upper echelon of visually static war games, if that makes sense (non-FPS).I like to read about history, and war gaming is a great way to get another perspective. I have finished the campaign once on the Axis side on something like medium difficulty, if I remember correctly. Made a lot of progress on an Allied campaign, but I don't think I finished. It gets to be a grind after awhile, because of the sheer scope of it, but I had to finish at least once. Anyway, if you enjoy reading about this period of history and engaging in war gaming that isn't necessarily FPS, I would recommend this one. Not saying I don't like other styles of games, but this is not one of those. Many would find this type of game boring as there aren't enough flashing lights and whistles. I dig it.

Greatest Strategy wargame ever.

deep dive into war in Russia. Steep learning curve but worth it.

Always enjoyed large strategy games and this is huge. Whole eastern front from start to end, get it on sale. It is a steep learn as so much to it but it does have simpler air rules than WITE 2. Computer opponent not to bad mainly played as germans and has certainly been enjoyable as up their level starts getting tricky. get the map mod so it looks a lot nicer (look in discussions it is highlighted there). May be simple but takes a while to master, plenty of articles and guides out there to help.

pure cosim game. fins are useless as in reality. they just bind some cheap russians. micromanagment if u r into it.

El juego es de lo mejor de la estrategia a nivel operacional pero teniendo que pagar en su dia mas de 60€ por él , aprender las mecánicas y empezar una campaña en serio a gran escala. no entiendo como la IA no está pulida a estas alturas.... me encontré una aglomeración masiva de divisiones aereas sin sentido al norte de Kiev desprotegidas donde solo tuve que ir destrozando con una división motorizada de reconocimiento. Pensé que era un bug o algo del desarrollo de esa partida y me desanimé por lo absurdo, lo dejé un tiempo y a los meses volví a empezar otra campaña con la esperanza de que se desarrollase de manera distinta... Cual es mi sorpresa que al llegar por la misma ME PASA EXACTAMENTE IGUAL... Tanto nivel de detalle y desarrollo para esto? lo dejo aparcado porque no merece la pena dedicarle tanto tiempo a una campaña y su desarrollo minucioso para luego encontrarse tonterias como está a nivel IA por no ester bien optimizada, una pena... ya que el juego es bueno pero encontrar a alguien dispuesto a desarrollar una campaña 1vs1 con tiempo y un nivel minimo de conocimiento del juego asi como de compromiso es practicamente imposible.

Esperaba mucho más del juego, la profundidad de información que aparece, no se traduce en variables para la jugabilidad y elecciones del jugador, por lo que resulta redundante y sin aplicación. La IA cuando la estas doblegando otorga al enemigo valores absurdos para no caer en derrota, lo cual aburre. No tiene variantes que permitan al jugador sumergirse es estrategias y se transforma en un simple arcade. Creo que le falta bastante para ser un gran juego de estrategia 2da. guerra mundial.