- ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR HOW TO
- ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR FULL
- ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR LICENSE
- ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR SIMULATOR
- ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR FREE
Tell me if you like it and want to see more.Ĭase Blue, the German 1942 summer offensive has started almost a week ago with the aim to advance towards Stalingrad and the Baku oilfields. It is the first round of the Shilovo 1942 campaign so it isn´t super exiting yet. So, I played a bit of Graviteam tactics and decided that I could do some AAR like stuff. It´s simply the most realistic WW2 RTS I ever played and a whole lot of fun once you understand what you are doing. The Steam price is quite expensive (I was able to get everything with 85% off during the summer sale, so less than 30€ in total) but you may be able to find it cheaper elsewhere. The additional campaigns that are available mostly focus on other eastern front battles, however there is also one about the 1969 Soviet-Chinese Border incident at Zhalanashkol, one set in 1979 during a fictional Soviet-Iranian war in Afghanistan, and one set in 1988 Angola.
ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR HOW TO
The game itself doesn´t tell you that much on how to play so you will have to look at some tutorials on youtube.
ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR FREE
It certainly isn´t a game for everybody so you may want to give the free Demo a shot before you decide to purchase (although I don´t know how up to date that is). This game is HARD and confusing at times, the learning curve is quite steep. AT weapons might not always be able to outright destroy a tank, but immobilizing it might be just as valuable because it takes a few hours to repair it. Every soldier has his own basic parameters such as experience, morale and fatigue that determine how effective he will be.Įvery weapon has realistic ballistics and penetration abilities and every vehicle has realistic armor values. Telephone and cable squads are available, they lay down wire cables between command posts to speed up the communication. Orders are passed down through the command chain and won´t be executed until they reach the unit. You control squads and idividual vehicles, not individual soldiers. The attention to detail is amazing, I was quite pleasantly surprised when a immobilised Tiger 1 fired off proximity grenade launchers to get rid of infantry that was sneaking up on it, a feature I didn´t see in any other game. Speaking of time, time progresses during the operation and so you will have to deal with day and nighttime fighting, wich brings its own unique challenges (like not beeing able to see shit until all of a sudden all hell breaks loose and flares and tracer fire illuminate the night). Your tanks that were quite happily advancing over flat gras terrain might be stuck in mud just a few hours later.
The Weather is dynamic and can change during battles. If a village has been fought over multiple times it will look like a really shitty place after a while. Houses that are blown up, trenches dug (yes terrain will be deformed by digging, explosions, tank tracks), tanks destroyed, all stays on the battlefield and carries on into the next turns and battles. If one side attacks the game switches to the 3D battlefield where you and the enemy first deploy your troops during the Deployment and Initial Orders phase, and then battle it out in a real time fight.Ī very nice feature: You shape the battlefield during the fights. The game is a RTS/Turn based Strategy Hybrid.įirst you move your platoons in position on the 2D Operational Map, where you manage your platoons, their supplies and plan attacks, your enemy does the same. Over 60 Units of the Wehrmacht/SS and the Soviet union are available. The maps are very large (over 260km²) and detailed, modeled after topographic maps and photos of that time. Updates with new features are still beeing developed for it and the next campaign "Mius front" will bring quite a few very nice looking features into the game.
ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR LICENSE
They lost the license to their own game and were no longer allowed to work on it, the publisher also did nothing to fix the issues.ĭespite this Graviteam continued to release "unofficial" patches for their game and recently they were able to get their own game back in their hands. The game had some serious bugs and Graviteam also had trouble with the Publisher. This game was originally released in 2011 by the Ukrainian developer Graviteam as Achtung Panzer Operation Star.
ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR FULL
The troops under your command can range from a few squads to a full division, battles can get quite massive with all sorts of weapon systems involved.
ACHTUNG PANZER OPERATION STAR SIMULATOR
When I say Battlefield simulator I mean it exactly like that. It is a very realistic real time strategy battlefield simulator set on the eastern front during WW2 (although other scenarios are available too).