I picked up this Russian made RTS game in the Steam sale.
The game is a tactical level RTS that follows the the 9th Company of the 345th OPPD through 9 years of warfare in Afghanistan against the insurgents and yes it is the same 9th Company in the film 9th Company. The game even has clips from the film.
The campaign is good but short and you do a nice variety of missions. The tutorial at the start is comprehensive enough for you to get a quick grasp of the controls.
It also has some nice realistic elements. Soldiers can get injured and can't fight until attended by a medic and if you're not fast enough may die from their injuries. You also get off screen support fro missions such as D-30 artillery strikes, rocket artillery and Hind CAS (all of which are extremely deadly) and so on. If you lose your radioman you lose your access to support. For some missions you get armoured vehicles to control and if these get hit you can bail the crews before the vehicle brews up. It's best to take care of them as they provide a great fire-power advantage over your enemy.
The game does have issues though nothing severe. You can't map your own controls and moving the camera around is quite sluggish. The AI have a tendency to wander off and attack enemies though this may be down to me not knowing the best way to control the troops. For some reason all of your soldiers are privates apart from a couple of warrant officers. There's also some translation errors but this is forgiveable. There are also two missions with some bugs that force you to reload in order to get through them. also there is a mod for the game that improved it a bit .
Overall I think it's a good game. when I think of a game that I purchased and I write about it. I always ask myself "Would I buy this again?" In this case I probably would.

The only game about the Soviet-Afghan war that I know of.

I just wish this game is a bit more polished with less bugs.

There are a whole bunch that you will meet when you playing though the story and if it happens you have to load from preivous saves.

The graphics for this game is actually pretty good with movie clips in it too.
The music is fine but not super.
The control is a bit wacked but manageble.
The fight is actually really fun. You have to fight enemy of over whelming numbers.
IT's a RTS that in will keep you pretty busy.

I guess for a low budget game it's pretty fine in it's own right but if the game company had more money i am sure this game can be improved much further.

7/10 for scoring.

I don't recommend people to buy this game unless it's in a discount or in a package.
IF you already own it.. give it a chance and try it out. ignore the low rating.

9th Company: Roots of Terror is a good game. As a low budget game it has its lot of shortcomings but the overall feeling is positive.

The controls are a bit difficult to master and the camera movement is a nightmare, making command and control of the your units quite difficult. The sound is supposed to start at a calm and boring theme and goes to a sudden agitated attack one when you make contact with the enemy, in order to convey the feeling of a low intensity guerrilla war - where dangers lurks at every corner and the "Dukhi" can hit you at any time. The graphics are good and the uniform and equipment are expertly done. The game mechanics are realistic and give a proper feeling of the tactical abilities and limitations of the means employed by the player on the map. Like the difference of using a wheeled vehicle to a tracked one.

You have to save often, because this is a difficult game, but the experience is worth it. Russian games lack the polishing of Western games and "9th Comapny: Roots of Terror" is no different; with some patches this game could be brought to a better status, more close to Company of Heroes.

This is basically a Russian made Close Combat. Production value is more like really early Close Combat games, but the structure is there, and it is pretty good so far. I have done basically the tutorial, but I think it will be enjoyable, especially for something that was in a bundle and thus very low cost.

7.5/10 in a bundle for <US$1
5/10 at full price, but You will want to be a big fan of the RTS/close combat genre, and appreciate the quite rare Russian invasion of Afghanistan setting.

I would only recommend this game for the genre and setting - RTS about the 9th Company in the Soviet-Afghan war. The gameplay itself is not to my liking ... just couldn't get used to the game mechanics, controls, AI and UI. It felt more like it's in alpha build stage. There's a funny typo in the main menu (see screenshot below). The movie was great though! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2845790268 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2845789787

has a good potential yet the balance ruins the experience.

the afghan militias are highly trained soldiers that simply
overcome our highly trained soviet neighbors which I find pretty unrealistic.

sure they were trained by US special forces, but does not immediately turn themselves as US special forces.
I was thinking more of outgunned, outnumbered angry militias and we get to assault, or defense, but instead I get to face
expert shooters sometimes even better than our friendly red army.

Aside from difficulty, I would recommend it.

Liked the movie it was made after and I like the game too, as it conveys a lot of that dark humour and tension from the movie (btw, you can see the whole movie with subtitles on YouTube)

The game takes your company of Soviet rookies through their tour of duty in Afghanistan, by making it through a bunch of missions. You can only take a certain number of them on a mission, so it's good to rotate guys a bit, to give all the experience they need for the hard final battles. It has nice pre-battle squad equipment management options and off-map close support options, which get better if you complete missions well. Interesting and rather difficult missions also teach you a lot about history and the nature of guerilla warfare in Afghanistan.

It's possibly a bit too short so not all that much replay value, but if you play through it once every couple of years it'll be fresh enough. ;)

Great RTS game. I enjoyed every aspect of this game. Some of the missions were actually difficult to complete, especially when you get ambushed while trying to clear a mine field. Some might find the fact that your reallly need to keep close watch on all your troops movements at all times, especially if you split them up into 2 groups for a 2 pronged attack, a bit tedious, but I liked having to be constantly aware of my soldiers because you never could tell where the enemy would hit you next or when you would run into a MG nest. If I had to pic anything that was annoying, it woul dbe the AI's constant targeting of my medics, but to be honest, that made it that much more challenging and realist, 'cause the enemy probably would target medics if RL anyway. Anyway, great game and I would recommend getting it if you like rts style games.

Very very good game, it's like Threates of War but may with a lil less quality, but it's a very good game at 10€, and a very good RTS game aswell.Recommend it to all RTS fans.