One of my favourit Developers is FRONTLINE GAMES SERIES.
This Dev brings back good old Memories with his PANZER GENERAL and BATTLE ISLE like Series.
He made 4 great Games about World War 2 in different Places of this War and also with different Factions.
I already played and reviewed 2 of the 4 Frontline Games, so don`t wonder, i used Parts of my other Reviews.

Welcome to FRONTLINE: THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

This Time in the FRONTLINE Games we play with the Soviet Side. Walk the long Way from Moscow to Berlin and fight your Way through.
Like in the other FRONTLINE Games a fine tactical Challenge is waiting for you.
Old School Round by Round Maps in Hexagon are waiting for you, sorted in Campaigns in a Real Events Timeline from 1941 to 1945.
The Graphics are again nice done and every unit very detailed shown, so that you have never Problems to differ them, no matter how many you are commanding.
Not every Unit is available from the Beginning. Like in the Real War some came later. But for all one thing is important. Lead them wisely through the Maps and raise them to get more and better Abilities. Know your Units and let them work together to get the maximum Effect on your Way.

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Once again you will also fight Historical Battles and it is up to you, how you do this. You have the Tools, the Way is yours. Plan your Strategy and use your Units carefully. With Experience they will raise and are bale to get new abilties that will make your Way much easier.
Keep in Mind that your Enemy will not sleep. Take care of your Units.

The Gameplay feels again like a wonderfull Mix of PANZER GENERAL and BATTLE ISLE, two Games of the Past i really, really like. You move your units Round by Round and have always an eye on the sphere of influence of your Units and of course the Enemy Units. Don`t stumble with a weaker Unit into Artillery Fire. Please not. Also have an eye on your Mission Targets.

The Music is again very atmospheric and as someone who really likes Game Soundtracks, i like this one. Well done again.

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A big thanks to the Dev, who did as a one Man Team again an amazing Job.
I´m looking forward for your next Games. Thanks.

And thank YOU for Reading.

This is another great Frontline series game. You play the role of the Soviets fighting the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. I played the first scenario in Frontline: The Great Patriotic War Campaign and I really like the map, military units for both sides, the graphics and the zoom in features. The military units are really well done and the game also has a great tutorial for new players. Plus the game also has a sandbox feature and you can play the game in several different languages.

I also like the campaign menu that goes by not only by the actual battles fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, but also by the year (1941 - 1945) each battle is fought so that you play them in order. It is a nice little touch to a great game. Well done!

You get a lot of content for the price of the game. I highly recommend this game to check out if you are interested in battles fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. It is sort of a coincidence that this game is coming out where you play the Soviets at the same time that Order of Battle: World War II (another great World War II series) is coming out with new DLC's where you play the Soviets on the Eastern Front. It is sort of nice to play the Soviets instead of the Germans for a nice change of pace in these great World War II games.

This game developer is great bunch of guys. They personally notified me when the game would come out which I really appreciate. Thank you guys for putting out another great Frontline series game.

Cheers!

Steve

After playing the first part of this game the "Western Front" i assumed that "The Great Patriotic War" will give me the same gaming experience because it is almost the same game only with different unit models. But i was wrong. This game provides far more worse gaming experience than its predecessor. It is unfinished with lots and lots of bugs, such as units spawning outside of playable area or being unable to finish the turn bacuse the button suddenly stops working and you have to save/load in order to continue playing. Some of the bugs from the "Western Front" have also been carefully brought in The Great Patriotic War". There is no mission descriptions, no in game tutorial, no description of game mechanics. There are some numbers that describe unit strength against other units but they do not mean anything. The RNG is so crazy that you cant predict even remotely close the result of battle between two units. Even fully surrounded units will avoid damage with consistency and rout your full squads surrounding them. The dumbness of AI which was not very noticeable in the first part now is in its full grace. It can only stay and shoot with its artillery or slightly move forward if you get close enough to it. That makes this game even with this wild RNG very easy. The choice of music for battles is pretty strange, it would more suit the main menu theme. Hearing "Katyusha" or Soviet anthem for 10 times in one mission makes you want to turn the sound off. These compositions are not bad, its just that constantly hearing them doesnt add anything to the game.

Frontline: The Great Patriotic War falls into the Simulation / Strategy Genre, which was developed by Frontline: Games Series.

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In this part of the series you take control of the Soviet Army, this was the official name for most of the armed forces of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. Until 1946 it was called the Red Army.

According to their own understanding, the Soviet Army was the most important armed power organ in the Soviet Union. During the Cold War it was part of and the main force of the Warsaw Pact and thus of the Eastern Bloc. It comprised the four armed forces Strategic Missile Forces, Air Defense Forces, Land Forces and Air Forces of the USSR.

During the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the Prague Spring 1968, the Soviet Army took over the function of securing the rule of the Communist Party in allied Eastern Bloc states. During the Afghan war from 1979 to 1989 she was confronted with the task of supporting the local satellite state against an Islamist guerrilla movement supported by the West.

In 950 the Soviet Army was the numerically strongest army in the world. It counted 170 infantry, 35 tank and 58 artillery divisions with a peacetime strength of nearly four and a half million soldiers. The reserve potential of the Soviet Army, including the ideological-paramilitary formations of the working people, is said to have been nearly 30 million men. By 1955 the active Soviet armed forces had increased to about 5.7 million men. The official dissolution of the Soviet cavalry took place at the end of 1953.

When starting the game, it is immediately noticeable that the user interface is kept simple and you immediately know where to click with the mouse, this makes the whole thing institutional. The gameplay is easy to understand, understandable and the game mechanics are easy to understand because they have been implemented very well. The audio and background noise are well coordinated. I think that in this genre the sound of the vehicles or weapons simply has to be right, because that's the best way to develop a feeling in the situation. Units can only be bought from a pre-made selection in each battle, so you cannot make them yourself. But this is not really tragic, because you still have to proceed more strategically, because you only have a certain number available, this also gives that certain something. Advantages such as digging in, ambushing or using guns should be carefully considered in advance, because each is valuable. Each unit has its advantages and disadvantages, so you should consider which one to buy, because resources can also become scarce. There are a total of 14 campaigns to master and each of them is unique and requires its own strategy.

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+ History
+ extensive campaign
+ nice effects and background noise
+ good AI
+ World map
+ Many unit types (such as tanks, guns, infantry)


- well-known mission objectives


Frontline: The Great Patriotic War offers you an Experience to see the War from a new Perspective and gives you the feeling of Goosebumps what happened back then.

PS: First of all, many thanks to the developer who provided us with this key for the group. Here you can find more good reviews from others and me at https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26335619-Adult-World-Gamers/.



Frontline: The Great Patriotic War fällt in das Genre Simulation/Strategie, welches von Frontline: Games Series entwickelt wurde.

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In diesem Teil der Serie übernimmst du die Kontrolle der Sowjetarmee , diese war die offizielle Bezeichnung für den Großteil der Streitkräfte der Sowjetunion von 1946 bis 1991. Bis 1946 hieß sie Rote Armee.

Nach eigenem Verständnis galt die Sowjetarmee als das wichtigste bewaffnete Machtorgan der Sowjetunion. Sie war im Kalten Krieg Bestandteil sowie Hauptkraft des Warschauer Pakts und damit des Ostblocks. Sie umfasste die vier Teilstreitkräfte Strategische Raketentruppen, Truppen der Luftverteidigung, Landstreitkräfte und Luftstreitkräfte der UdSSR.

Die Sowjetarmee übernahm beim Ungarnaufstand 1956 und dem Prager Frühling 1968 die Funktion die Herrschaft der Kommunistischen Partei in verbündeten Ostblockstaaten zu sichern. Beim Afghanistankrieg 1979 bis 1989 war sie mit der Aufgabe konfrontiert den dortigen Satellitenstaat gegen eine vom Westen unterstützte islamistische Guerillabewegung zu unterstützen.

950 war die Sowjetarmee die zahlenmäßig stärkste Armee der Welt. Sie zählte 170 Infanterie-, 35 Panzer- und 58 Artillerie-Divisionen mit einer Friedensstärke von knapp viereinhalb Millionen Soldaten. Das Reservepotential der Sowjetarmee soll, die ideologisch-paramilitärischen Formationen der Werktätigen eingeschlossen, fast 30 Millionen Mann groß gewesen sein.Bis 1955 waren die aktiven sowjetischen Streitkräfte auf etwa 5,7 Millionen Mann vergrößert worden. Die offizielle Auflösung der sowjetischen Kavallerie erfolgte mit Ablauf des Jahres 1953.

Beim Start des Spieles fällt sofort auf, dass die Benutzeroberfläche einfach gehalten ist und man sofort weis wo mit der Maus zu klicken hat, dies gestaltet das Ganze institutiv. Das Spielprinzip ist leicht zu verstehen, verständlich und die die Spielmechanik geht gut von der Hand, da diese sehr gut implementiert wurde. Die Audio und Geräuschkulisse sind gut abgestimmt. Ich finde das in diesem Genre der Sound der Fahrzeuge oder Waffen einfach stimmen muss, da man am Besten so ein Gefühl entwickelt in der Situation. Einheiten können in jeder Schlacht nur aus einer vorgefertigen Auswahl gekauft werden, also keine eigene Herstellung dieser. Dies ist aber nicht weiter tragisch, da man so noch strategischer Vorgehen muss, da man nur eine gewisse Anzahl zur Verfügung hat, dies verleiht auch das gewisse Etwas. Vorteile wie des Eingrabens, Hinterhalt oder auch das verwenden von Geschützen sollte im Vorfeld gut überdacht werden, denn jede ist kostbar. Jede Einheit hat so mit ihre Vor und Nachteile eben, also man sollte überlegen welche man sich anschafft, denn Ressourcen können auch knapp werden. Es gilt insgesamt 14 Kampagnen zu meistern und jede davon ist einzigartig und benötigt eine eigene Strategie.


+ Geschichte
+ umfangreiche Kampagne
+ schöne Effekte und Geräuschkulisse
+ gute KI
+ Weltkarte
+ Viele Einheitentypen (wie Panzer, Geschütze, Infanterie)


- altbekannte Missionsziele


Frontline: The Great Patriotic War bietet dir ein Erlebnis, den Krieg aus einer neuen Perspektive zu sehen und gibt einem das Gefühl von Gänsehaut was damals passiert ist.

PS: Zunächst einmal vielen Dank an den Entwickler, der uns diesen Schlüssel für die Gruppe zur Verfügung gestellt hat. Hier findest du weitere gute Bewertungen von anderen und mir unter https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26335619-Adult-World-Gamers/.

okay played 1/2 way through the game , read the Blitz game bought in bundle , this game put out after fixed some of the issues with it also went more into depth of the attack defense issues . the progression in the Campaign is also marked out once won can play those over again as well
Bought 4 games for 16 USA in change for the money got my money out of it as well so purchase on sale and well worth a beer /pretz. game with some challenging play
enjoy it

Hex-based strategic combat simulator. Covers the Russian side of the Eastern Front of World War II. Easy to learn, hard to master. Decent enough to purchase.

This is a great strategy game that I have not seen in awhile. It is refreshing that they still make these kinds of games. Its good as it gets for this type of game, which is fine for me. I played it on easy just to get a good feel for the game and I'm curious to see how it is on more challenging levels. There are several levels that are not always the same map and there are several missions per map before you finish if you wish to do them giving you more opportunity to do something each play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htOjGDf_gbc

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Enjoyable, low price, wargame light (compared to Order of battle or Panzer General).
Nice graphics, all the way to the Reichstag building.
Must adopt correct tactics and direction of assault to win. Artillery is great defending and attacking. Kill those 88mm with sneaky snipers.
Clear roads so your HQ can go from one flank to the other - it is vital.
Replay is enhanced by difficult secondary objective.
Developer shows interest in improving game.
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Can't move troops through each other, so think ahead or you will get stuck among bad terrain...

This is still a fun little game.

Love this game. I used to love playing PanzerBlitz , the board game, and this game seems like an improved digital version of this classic. I intend to buy more from this franchise. Thank you to the developer for creating the game I have been wanting for years!