Gary Grigsby's War in the East
2by3 Games · 2015 · Strategy, Simulation, Wargame, World War II, Grand Strategy
PC
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About Gary Grigsby's War in the East
War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale. Gamers can engage in massive, dramatic campaigns, including intense battles involving thousands of units with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results. As with all the award-winning titles made by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supply, fatigue, experience, morale and the skill of your divisional, corps and army leaders all play an important part in determining the results at the front line. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East comes with 4 massive campaigns as well as many smaller scenarios all with different strategic and operational challenges.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East represents a truly epic representation of the Second World War on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in its scale, detail, and ambition!
Features
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale. Gamers can engage in massive, dramatic campaigns, including intense battles involving thousands of units with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results. As with all the award-winning titles made by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supply, fatigue, experience, morale and the skill of your divisional, corps and army leaders all play an important part in determining the results at the front line. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East comes with 4 massive campaigns as well as many smaller scenarios all with different strategic and operational challenges.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East represents a truly epic representation of the Second World War on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in its scale, detail, and ambition!
Features
- 5 major campaigns starting at 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1941 (Alternate victory) all extending to Summer 1945
- 11 scenarios range in length from 10 turns to 25 turns
- Map stretches from 100 miles west of Berlin to Ural mountains and from 150 miles north of Leningrad in the north to Bulgaria and Baku in the south
- 10 miles per hex with weekly IGOUGO turns
- Play against the AI (either side) or watch the AI simulate the war by itself, with 5 categories of help levels for each side to adjust the difficulty level
- Includes traditional Play by Email and Server based PBEM+ systems
- Full service scenario and data editor with CSV export/import functionality
- Detailed stats of ground elements and aircraft affecting in game performance
- Up to roughly 4000 units in the game database with the ability to create many more! Division sized maneuver units with thousands of battalion and regiment sized support units
- Many different classes of support units like artillery, engineer, ski, anti-tank, pioneer, tank destroyer, and much more
- German Corps/Army/Army Group HQ's and Soviet Army/Front HQ's
- Air units are generally organized as groups and can run both night and day air missions, complete with night fighters
- Manually upgrade aircraft within units or automate new aircraft allocation
- Detailed production with Russian factory evacuations realistically modeled with production penalties and rebuilding delays
- Extensive spreadsheets and reports representing tons of data and information
- Detailed yet automated accounting for support personnel and supplies/fuel/ammunition Losses in individual vehicles and squads Display of the various modifiers affecting how efficiently units receive what they need
- More than 500 historical commanders with a detailed promotion and rating system
- Leaders can be dismissed, executed, fired, killed in action 8 rating fields measuring different attributes from combat skill to political rating
- Very detailed system to account for troops/vehicles that are disrupted, disabled and fatigued Accurate modeling of the need for training units before entering combat
- Detailed weather zones and ice levels for rivers with the option to randomize or fix weather patterns for each scenario
- Intricate Fog of War rules and unit detection levels - units are rated based on their ability to conceal themselves and their ability to recon other units
- Includes two major optional rules allowing you to adjust the First Winter Blizzard Effect and the Soviet Combat Doctrine.
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What Steam players say
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A much easier game to play than it's successor, Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2.1 found this helpful
damn son this game expensive af lol i do have to say it is currently the most in depth grand strat game i own.. but tbh its not really that complicated, but its def not hex of steel"great game as well btw" its very very in depth. im kinda disappointed that i have to use the arrows instead of wasd and also figured out to zoom in a particular spot on the map u need to click or highlight a hex in that area. i got it for like 25. worth every penny. but $80? idk man.. thats a lot of money lol but def an awesome must have if u can afford it
hardcore eastern front game, v realistic and loads of depth, thoroughly recomended
It might not make economic sense, but this game could be made much more playable. What one needs is a more player-controlled way of observing the entire front. There are too many glimpses of actions, one after another. That is not enough. Time needs to be effectively stopped.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East is a monumental operational-level World War II wargame that stands as one of the most detailed and demanding strategy simulations ever released on Steam. Developed by 2by3 Games and published by Matrix Games, the game focuses entirely on the Eastern Front conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, spanning from the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 through the final collapse of German forces in 1945. Rather than offering a streamlined or cinematic interpretation of history, the game commits to a near-academic level of simulation, presenting warfare as a vast, exhausting contest of logistics, manpower, terrain, weather, and long-term planning. From the very first turn, it makes clear that this is not a casual strategy title but a deep, uncompromising war simulation designed for players who want to engage with history at a granular operational scale. The scope of War in the East is staggering. The map stretches across thousands of hexes, covering nearly the entire Eastern European theater, with each hex representing roughly ten miles of terrain and each turn equating to a week of real time. Players command thousands of units at th…
great game - extensive units & maps
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