Graviteam Tactics: Tunisia 1943

Amazing depth , design , and quality of content. Over 500 hours worth of content to be played if not more. If you are a new player I would only worry about the default movement wheel and having fun. You can turn up and down settings to suit your needs. Mius Front allows for natural emerging gameplay , combat , and beautiful landscapes. If you are this far I would suggest buying the game and playing through some of the shorter campaigns.

My company of lardheads gathered in the name of our great moral mission from all the finest bedrocks of military thought in the New World – from Pima County to Flemington, New Jersey – are storming a nameless douar under the cover of night.   Infantry reconnaissance - complete. Attack direction - set. Orders - given.   The enemy has no AT guns, and we have T. Plus, the element of surprise.   Nothing between us and them but a thin man-height sandstone wall, a patch of prickly shrubbery, night desert chill and dried camel manure mines.   Charge!   Half an hour later.   Both tanks flipped when trying to breach the wall, and are now dry-running their tracks into the Milky Way above while their crews thoughtfully crawl out from underneath them.   The infantry is shaking in the shrubs from the total of five enemy shots fired across the fight.   The enemy has retreated in an orderly fashion.   They shall counterattack the next operational turn.   I am now a believer in ritual suicide.

I wanted to call it a "WW2 themed Total War game with a huge chunk of autism thrown into the pot" at first. But that just wouldn't do this game justice. In fact, calling it a game feels belittling. This is straight up a battle simulator for dudes that hate video games, with a heavy focus on logistics, comms and all the other brainy stuff that I know nothing about. Don't expect the instant gratification or even any sort of fun in the first 5hrs at least. Not unless you skim through a 84 page manual first and watch a couple tutorials on YT. I did just that, but its still all pretty much just a gamble with me clicking everything I see in the UI till my tanks finally start shooting at least at something, let alone the priority targets. BUT. When they actually DO, and once you start feeling like you got the hang of it, that's when the real magic of this game reveals itself. - Seeing your carefully guided units (you don't want your tanks to throw tracks in a sand dune or flip over, believe me) actually listen to your commands and pick off the enemy tanks with some turbo simulated ballistics - that account for wind and temperature and a bunch of other autistic stuff - feels satisfying …

Has less content than Mius Front but just as good and engaging, very rewarding to those who are patient enough to learn how the game works.

like the concept but the UI SUCKS. takes forever to figure stuff out.

good