Supreme Ruler Ultimate lets you supremely make the world your ♥♥♥♥♥. Play as any nation that existed in 1936, 1949, 2018 and beyond in a real time strategy game with so much depth you're gonna to be drowning in militaristic decisions......such as Do I as 1936 Brazil want to buy Japanese ship designs, produce Soviet Tanks or buy outdated artillery pieces from the french?

[Military Units and Diversity]
Every major nation has a ludicrous selection of nation specific unit designs from tanks, artillery, motorized infantry, special forces, marines, planes, ships, submarines, carriers etc. However a lot of these become outdated or are by the start of the game but are still cool..... Maybe you as 2018 Germany want to rebuild the Bismark idk. Lets say you don't want to play as the big fish in small pond Europe, the units don't actually mater because you can just buy the designs from other nations. If you want to play as Portugal you can just buy German or Soviet tank designs to produce yourself (As both countries by 1940 typically have 40+ tank designs and specialized variants. If you ally with a country you can just buy their units directly and have them shipped off to your country. As Mexico if you ally with the United States you can just buy anything they have in reserve..... for a price (This includes nuclear bombs and missiles and ICMBs too).

[How Wars Work]
So you as 1936 Sweden just mass produced a bunch of cheap Polish TSK Tankettes supported by Soviet Spetsnaz infantry , several Italian Conte Di Cavou class battle ships and a few Japanese Mitsubishi B5M bombers. what are you going to do with your large military? slam it into Norway of course. When you first declare war the AI (If it hasn't during peace time) will fortify each town, city, industrial center and military complex with a garrison. These garrisons are typically to strong for individual units to take on there own so you just need to go in full force with a lot of units, air support and if possible naval dominance. While you're battling it out the AI will try to use its standing army to beat you back, relieve a city being attacked or just defend the capital. The world is made up of tiny small hexagons that change hands frequently. Wars can be settled one of several ways, the most common is you take their capital, it changes and you take it a few more times, eventually they capitulate entirely and you have a choice to annex them, puppet them, or just install the same type of government (Liberate). Other than that if you make peace the borders at that exact moment stay the same. So if you're Japan and you invade the USSR if you wait long enough or increase your relationship with the Soviets after conquering the western Soviet coast you get to keep it. After you declare war though the AI won't accept any peace deals for a couple years regardless.

[Military Logistics]
Your units need fuel and military goods and supply to function. If you try to move a massive army of purely motorized vehicles down into central Africa they will run out of fuel and be stuck until you either send a supply truck or build things in the region to increase supply. This also includes ships and planes, if a plane runs out of fuel before finding a landing strip it falls out of the sky, if a patrol boat can't make it to port it will be suck until you send a cargo ship to refuel it. Before any major conflict you should stock pile these resources because your military wont function without them.

[Production]
So you got the military aspect of this game down, good on you I bet your parents are proud. but there's more to life than violently crushing the Fins as the USSR. In addition to military goods you also need to produce agricultural goods, rubber, metals, petrol, coal, electricity, consumer goods, and industrial goods. Industrial goods are used to build everything and are used to produce military and consumer goods. You build factories to produce these and these factories need electricity from plants that take coal or oil or hydro power etc. So its a huge interconnected system. A rubber shortage means an industrial shortage which means a military goods shortage.


[Economy]
Is easily exploited since nations you're on good terms with with buy goods from you at a higher price than they would sell to you. You need money to build things, fund the military and social programs. You can tax people, sell goods or units for money.

[Government]
Countries with the same government like you more. With taxes you can decide what your government spends its money on. it can be roads, education, researching units and tech, fighting poverty, culture etc but we all know you're just going to use your peoples money to invade weaker countries. Democratic nations have elections that if you lose you can just become a dictator and play on. (you will probably lose all elections because instead of paying for public housing you wanted to buy an aircraft carrier from the Chinese as the Dominican republic)

[Multiplayer]
Works but its best for lan parties or with people you know, you're not going to find random people waiting for strangers to join their game. It was a bit buggy a few years back but its much better now.

[Overall Pros]
- Variety of units
- Almost any country playable
- Wars are straight forward
- Major countries have their own neat music
- Dominate the world through means other than War
- Multiplayer
- Longevity (Battle goat Studious updates the game often...even in 2020)
- Can sink many hours into single campaigns changing the world one year at a time.

[Overall Cons]
- A bit buggy at times
- Extremely steep learning curve
- AI doesn't use a lot of complicated tactics, they usually just slam their army against yours
- Easily exploitative if you know what you're doing (although that in itself can be really fun)
- Graphics are a bit outdated but that's by design, you don't want the game to slow down because of many rendered units

[Conclusion]
Supreme Ruler Ultimate is a solid 8.4 / 10, don't take the negative reviews to seriously. it's well worth $20 - especially worth it if you can get it on sale (The WW1 DLC is cool too)