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[Hide] (256.6KB, 1280x720) I wanted to talk about Soldiers Heroes of World War 2 and there wasn't an RTT/RTS thread so here goes I guess.
>what is it?
The grandfather of the Men of War franchise, everything begun here. You control a small squad of soldiers and you have to complete objectives in missions where your men are usually outnumbered about 16:1, not including the enemy tanks and armored vehicles they may also have to push your shit in. There are no unit reinforcements, what you start with is all you have so you have to be careful. Each soldier (including enemies) has his own inventory and every weapon, item or munition takes up a certain amount of space. Weight is also taken into account so if you don't want your troops to walk at snail's pace then you need to drop some shit. There are 4 campaigns, Soviets, British, Americans and Germans.
This may sound similar to Commandos but it isn't, SHoWW2 is not about stealth at all, the surest way to victory is going in guns blazing and blowing shit up, capturing enemy vehicles and using those against them. Stealth is only to be used for getting close enough to the enemy and blowing them up with a grenade.
Buildings, fences and other objects are fully destructible, anyone who's played MoW will feel right at home (In fact, I noticed that destruction works better in this game. Tanks don't tend to get stuck in rubble and other debris like they like to do in the newer games). Speaking of destruction, tanks have a semi-realistic damage model where armor and penetration matters. You can destroy tracks, guns, turret rings, engines and of course the entire hull of a vehicle. Protip: Wheeled vehicles are susceptible to regular grenades. They can blow their wheels off and render the vehicle useless. Be careful though, you cannot repair vehicles that have lost their wheels. So if you're planning on capturing an armored car, you need to snipe the gunner with a rifle.
>Sounds pretty cool, what's the catch?
Some missions suffer from classic slavshit difficulty. Enemy squads will spawn around your men because you stepped into an objective area from the "wrong" location. Armored convoys will show up at the worst moment possible and you will be effectively screwed and will have to start over from an older savepoint (and if you only use 1 savepoint and that one happens to be too close to that enemy spawn, you are fucked. Gotta start over). Thankfully savepoints are infinite so as long as you save often you can simply roll back and deal with it.
Also, just like the MoW franchise, your AI is braindead. Their accuracy is dogshit and they have 0 target prioritisation. They'd rather shoot all their ammo at some guy behind cover 20m away than the grenade-wielding suicide troops charging them. They'll also never switch weapons by themselves, so if you found a rare panzershreck, instead of switching to their SMG the AT man will waste a rocket on mere infantry. But you only get at most 5 soldiers per mission it's easy to babysit them and avoid most of these fuckups.
The British campaign sucks donkey dick. Every bad idea in the game was forced into it. From timed missions to marshes that kill your men if a pixel of their foot dares touch the water.