Panzer Doctrine

Please don't be deceived by the graphics in this game. It models at least one parameter that GG's War in the East does not. My Steam list is the tip of the iceberg in terms of wargames, and I should be completely jaded by this title. But I can say that out of hundreds of wargames, there is something a little different about this one. Even on Easy maps, the AI is frustratingly adept at cutting your supply lines. Initially, the difficulty for me (a generally poor player) might have put me off. But there is an easy way to increase your spend points during the management phase. Yes, this is called "cheating" but it also allows one to experiment with a larger variety of units. If you are having trouble, just become my friend and contact me, and I will put you on to the cheat, if you haven't guessed it already. You may also want to play at 1/2 speed sometimes and be sure your supply HQ can "connect the dots" to your frontline units. I did not pay attention to this obvious fact at first, an...

It's a little hard to compare this to anything I've played before. Are you old enough to remember the Panzer General games? If so, you could say it's a sort of RTS version of that - a strategy game where you have certain scenarios and concrete objectives, with broad control over the development and equipment of your units. Panzer Doctrine accurately relies on the idea of encirclement and supply to win battles vs brute strength. It also includes all of the major weapons of the Eastern Front. It's immersive enough and developed by a guy who obviously knows the subject. For those of you who come from Land Doctrine, this may look similar but it's definitely more of a sequel than a reskin. Here, you have air units, weather affects play, and as I said before supply chains are now enforced, which totally changes the strategies that you use to win battles. I didn't encounter any bugs in my playtime, except for minor misspellings like 'aircrafts'. That said, it's still obviously in EA. The f...

I will start to say that this was to me the most pleasant surprise in the gaming world this year. I buy a lot of games every year specially when they are cheap and seem interesting, this game is a bargain and when i saw the store page the first time some images caught my eye, but the reviews were mixed and its from a small developer so i bought it wil low expectation. I was in for a surprise... The game feels like a mix of Panzer General Style with Hearts of Iron and Gary Grisby War in the East. The visuals are not impressive for 2018 but are adequate for this type of game, the gameplay is were the game shines, you have several Divsions at your disposal every one of them with detailed order of battle and table of equipments you can add new battalions and regiments replace their firearms, their support weapons, tank, mortars, infantry guns, AT guns and much more a great number of real WW2 equipment is present in the game. After managing your force you face a challenging A.I has you tr...

Reviewing intial release version 0.99 Okay thought I would get an initial impression up for those that are curious. To start resolutions go up to 1920x1080, would like 1440 but hey it's not like this is HOI4 with super fancy sprites. Game is made with Unity engine for those interested. There's currently only one option to actually play, "Campaign" you click it and you're brought to "Operation Barborossa" where you select which Sector (Front/Army Group) to command (North, Center, South) currently ony center is an option. You're then taken to a campaign map and there's several pages of strategic overview and briefings. First scenairio is an attack around Minsk area lasting 25 days. You then go to unit deployment, at this point I can't edit the loadouts or force compositions. Also commanders seem to play no role or grant buffs (Dev indicated this will be implemented later). The UI is fairly inuitive and units can stack on tiles. The game is played Real time however there is tactical ...

Game is fun during the early German campaign as long as missions are easy. Then, when You reach a Leningrad map You now have to sqeeze every trick out of the engine and at this point all the fun is lost. Because a winning tactic is to overrun all the infantry forcing them to retreat and then wait at the end of the "retreat path" to force them to surrender there and remove the division-counter from the game board. That's very much the same "node" mechanics as You have in "Hearts of Iron". The good part of the game is that there is an interesting division configuration screen and there You can change quite a lot of Your force structure and equipment. In my opinion - game is fun during first 3 - 4 hours and then You start to question Your decision to buy this game.

It okay i guess, i'm disappointed to, the only difficult part of the game even on the hardest difficulty is making the ridiculous low time requirement u have to finish a misson and i personally hate those kind of difficulty mechanics, it's very lazy. The AI is basically none existence. Not worth 10Euro tho.

This game would have been s*** 10 years ago ! What was I thinking ? Poor graphics and boring game play . lots of numbers for nothing ! Stopped playing after 40 minutes but forgot to ask for refund until it was too late . If Steam would have granted a refund I would left well enough alone BUT they did not so this review and this warning . STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THIS GAME ! The ads make it look interesting but its not its K*****. I do not like to be taken for my money !

Very Hard even on very easy

I wish I'd played the demo and saved my money. The only positive is the graphics are poor which I dont mind as for me its about game play... but... The game is buggy and freezes. There is no "back" button anywhere so if you choose a game then change your mind you have to continue through and start the game/scenario to exit. Plus it is slow to load and I have a high end new pc. Also it is one of those games that has little info on how to play but given it takes ages to configure/load a scenario I doubt I will have the patients to find out how. PS hint if you attack an infantry with motorised infantry or tanks and it retreats to an empty town you can beat it to the destination and it will die. Sometimes you can do this with a lightly defended town that is quik to retreat.

Edit: I can no longer recommend this game. I found a bug, at first rare, but then it happened twice in one battle. The only way past is to restore from save game and hope it doesn't happen again. For me this has made this game unplayable, and after providing save game file and report to Matrix/Developers, no action was taken, nor has been taken in over 3 months. To me this makes this a dead game and again, unplayable. The bug is that when engaging in a battle, the enemy forces will lose units, until they have zero units defending the objective, but the battle never ends. It doesn't matter how many units you throw into the fight, the enemy remains at zero defenders, and the battle goes on. This bug has been documented on the boards, and like I said, I provided a save game file to in my support request to Matrix. If they ever get back to me with a fix I will update this review. All that being said, I really would like to get back and finish the game. Up until the point I was stopped co...