Dear developers,

I gave you a positive rating to support you but please for god sake fix this painful fiddly control system and bring this game to the level it could be. I would love to focus on the strategy part of this game but most of the time I'm buisy with working around controls and bugs.

To name the most important issues:

- fix examining command (inventory does not always open)
- increase the hitbox size of wounded soldiers when medic is selected
- make wounded soldiers or the symbol more visible (or emphasize by pressing V)
- make abondened MGs and Mortars more visible (or emphasize by pressing c)
- Automatically select the crew after unload command
- Introduce a "drive backwards" command for vehicles
- repairing crew should not leave the tank if no repair tools are available. Provide audio feedback.
- provide audio feedback when unit cannot execute a command for some reason
- provide a sight and shooting cone tool for cannons and units
- at least provide stats showing the range of a cannon
- provide an option to configure a seperate hotkey for first person and third person view.
- use right click only to execute commands. left-click for canceling only.
- let infantry face a single direction when right click + drag into cover
- give me a chance to select more than one squad at once
- provide a comfortable way to quickly select single squad member without destroying the squad organiszation (eg. by pressing tab or shift+tab to switch )
- selecting a single squad member icon should not remove him from the squad (use special hotkey instead)
- box-Selecting units should not destroy predefined squads
- use hotkey + box-select to reorganize or create new squads
- fix the pathing system
- give me a chance to hide abondened vehicles/weapons from the mini map
- provide more quality of life eg. show a status symbol when tanks are out of ammo or fuel
- make AI voice warnings less anoying (Like don't warn every 3 seconds that there is an MG somewhere in the fog of war)
- oh yes.. Let me load a save game without showing the campaign video everytime upfront

Simply the most in-depth military simulation RTS ever made. The attention to detail is astounding, the immersion total and the possibilities endless.

Exemple scenario:

Your squad is reduced to 6 men barely holding on to a destroyed church. Your bazooka operator is dead, a panzer IV just showed its nose around the corner to the west and 2 squads of fresh infantry are running in the field to the east. In most games you'd be done, but not In this one.

You can have a medic throw a smoke grenade on the deceased bazooka operator and send an infantryman to pickup the weapon and ammo on the corpse, shoot the panzer then have 3 others rain AT and AP grenades on it while the crew is shocked, while another soldier grabs the MG42 a dead german left and repositions it in a window overlooking the eastern field, allowing him to wipe out most of the enemy infantry. The window gets blown up by a mortar but this bought enough time for your Sherman and extra squad to show up and clear the rest. You place the tank aiming down the street behind a downed truck and scatter your men around the buildings to catch the counter attack.

you'll never get as much dopamine as you will when you hit a BT-5 with a 120MM HE shell.

Um dos melhores jogos dessa categoria, muito bem feito.
Dá pra passar uma boa raiva de inicio no modo Campanha mas depois de 100 horas comecei a jogar no Brutal e o jogo parece "fácil".
O modo conquest no Brutal os bots te comem com farinha.
Dá para fazer a campanha só usando as granadas, granadas antitanque e granadas de fumaça, só indo deitado.
Na campanha no modo de defesa de pontos é só colocar todos os obuseiros, metralhadoras, morteiros, trincheiras e tanques fazendo uma linha ou semi-circulo com sacos de areia e MUITAS minas.

I bought this game for one reason only and that is to treat it like a FPS. I know that's weird for a RTS/FPS hybrid game, but for myself, I love having boots on the ground and feeling like I'm part of an epic battle. So, I simply choose a map under multiplayer and do local play. The map size has to be 2 vs 2 or 3 vs 3 for this to work right. I play with 1 or 2 AI team mates and here's the kicker - I let them do all the heavy lifting against enemy AI while I form up a squad, or jump into a tank and away we go, one big battle. I know for all the strategists out there who love multitasking and looking at things from a bird's-eye view would cringe at me playing this way, but I absolutely enjoy playing like this. It doesn't give me any XP but I'm not interested in getting that since I don't play against humans as I know they would kick my can, and I wouldn't be able to play constantly in first-person. So, for the few people out there like myself, I'd highly recommend the game. There are some sweet mods out there that really make the game look/play great. I got it on sale for $10 so I really wouldn't complain about much.

PTSD simulator

Gameplay: Same as "Call to Arms" and the "Men of War" series. The weapon and vehicle damages are a bit more realistic, akin to the mod "RobZ" for "Men of War: Assault Squad 2".

Graphics: Very realistic, but also immersive and cinematic, successfully giving out a grimdark atmosphere! Can be toned down in the settings menu for less potent computers.

Features: Has multiplayer, cooperative and competitive. Has an Editor. Has Steam Workshop. Realistic combat and particle effects (explosions, debris, etc.). Weapon and vehicle sounds are very realistic. Immersive and movie-like orchestral sountrack (and I think it's situational as well, like "Company of Heroes 2", but I'm not sure). Singleplayer campaigns for each faction in the game (including Finland with the DLC) full of historically-based scenarios (a handful more with the "Scorched Earth" DLC), including one for the Blue Division of Spanish volunteers! Skirmish missions for each faction with gameplay reminescent of "Men of War: Assault Squad". A well-animated and professionaly-made animation plays before each mission summarizing the historical background, the context, and the duties of the player.

My criticism: The Soviet flag used in the game is not authentic and the politically-correct removal of national-socialist iconography harms the game's immersion.

My suggestions for the developers: Add the Waffen-SS (the campaign can be based around the memoirs of Leon Degrelle), Balkan and Italian factions. Consider a Spanish Civil War DLC. Use a historically-correct version of the USSR flag and de-censor national-socialist symbols.

My first ever love in gaming was the Men of War series (Men of War: Assault Squad is the best entry), that game still holds some of my foundest childhood gaming memories. Some of the missions from SirHinkel are some of the best made for the whole genre, imho.

[hr1]You may wonder, how does this trip down nostalgia lane has to do with Gates of Hell?[/hr1]

Gates of Hell is a Men of War: Assault Squad enhanced, better graphics, gameplay, a dynamic conquest mode (yes, you heard right WITHOUT having to download a mod to have it in the game!!), a somewhat wierd first person (solved by applying a must-have mod Improve First Person), a modding community only second to some of the Company of Heroes and Men of War: Assault Squad back in the ModDB days.

I totally recommend this game, not only for it's emotional damage , countless hours of fun and of course cursing the AI over it's spam, your friends who one shot your infantry with their arty. The modding community is very active, so are the devs, so if you're looking for a good time you need this game!

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Best WW2 RTS in the market at the moment :)

The AI understands how to use artillery.... That was unexpected and it hurts 10/10