Recent reviews by Mr. Santa Dino

Make a difference in the galaxy!

Drop into dangerous enemy occupied areas with a squad of up to 3 others to fight the bugs or bots and accomplish objectives. Explore the map to find side objectives to pad your team's score. Choose your battles across a massive galaxy, watching as the entire game's population comes together to liberate planets from Bug or Bot Tyranny! And remember to always watch your fields of fire!

And most importantly, fight for Liberty! The Helldiver Corps made me into the man I am today, imagine what it can do for you!

For Super Earth! For Victory!

Oh, where to start with this game?

This truly is an RTS with few comparable equals. Forget everything you learned from RTS games like base building strategies, APMs, and abilities. In Wargame, your army composition is determined long before the game starts and all units are equipped as theywould have been historically. There are no upgrades or bases. It's also a must-have for anyone interested in the Cold War era. Wargame: Airland Battle beautifully recreates the fast-paced and incredibly deadly environment of the world war that never happened, but with fewer nukes.

That being said, expect your troops to die. A lot. Even though each tank and squad is individually named, don't get attached to them. Sergeant Voldauer will take a missile through his tank and die. Sergeant Adams will burn to death in a napalm strike. And Captain Bond's plane will become a firey comet after that SAM strikes him. At a scale of this size, individual units are, with few exceptions, very expendable.

You'll also find out that the game is not all just "America, ****yeah!" and "Soviet Union, **** yeah!" Each nation represented has a distinct feel. French are very mobile but very fragile (by Wargame standards), Eaast Germans overwhelm their enemies with massive concentrations of slightly older technlogy, West Germans are elite and expensize, assuring that they're often outnumbered, Poland can put lots of versatile helicopters on the field, Sweden has amazingly cost effective units, etc. Additionally, don't expect to win just because you have the most expensive or coolest statline unit, because everything out there can be killed by something the enemy has (even if it's just a deluge of cluster bombs).

The game, through its system of historical hard counters (SAMs wil wreck aircraft all day long, infantry is the king of towns, ATGMs stop vehicle rushes cold, etc.), highly encourages combined arms tactics. That may be a buzzword, but forces that are severly lacking in a unit type will suffer heavily. Your tank heavy force will die to airstrikes unless you have AA and/or interceptors and will die from infantry or ATGM ambush if you don't have recce units scouting the terrain they're traversing, for example.

All that being said, the game is incredibly fun to play. Some of my highlights of playing this game include:
-defeating a numerically superior Warsaw Pact invasion of Scandinavia as NATOby tactically retreating and funneling Pact brigades into killzones where I could surround them and smash them into submission with my concentrated forces
-burn entire forests to the groundwith napalm strikes
-listen to Russian helicopter pilots sing "Ride of the Valkyries" at random
-goading my enemy into sending his best aircraft into the teeth of my air defence screen and racking up kill points from it
-playing a goofy army of nothing but helicopters, airplanes, and infantry in helicopters (imagine Blackhawk Down x50)
-playing a goofy army of T-34-85 tank rush (yes, the WWII tank is in this game)
-storming a Norwegian beach as the USMC
-storming a Swedish beach as Soviet naval infantry
-pummeling an East German armyto death with a Swedish artillery park of 16 155mm cannons
-forcing a battle to a draw by barely hanging on to my last reinforcement point until the time limit while being overrun by T-72s
-chewing up a brigade in constant combat until it had nothing but support weapons and logistical vehicles left
-watching the Russians nuke their own rear areas to attempt to stop my breakthrough
-knocking out tanks with a cannon designed to blow up obstacles like barricades
-HOLDING THE LINE!
-etc.

Overall, this is a very fun game and a must have for history buffs. Also, check out Wargame: European Escalation (the original!, has more narrative-driven campaingns but fewer factions), Wargame: Red Dragon (adds Asia-Pacific factions to the game,as well as boats)and their upcoming joint release with Paradox, Steel Division: Normandy '44 (WWII, very similar game).

The game is fun, and looks super duper amazing, but DLC is too expensive, Valve please nerf

Fun game, but REALLY hard. also, when i went to online, there were no games. so i just did offline practice, which i had to retry 2 times, still it was fun, so play it if you like.