Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa

Bought the Game quite fresh. Thought it looks quite good, exactly by my Genre, it has good Ratings and it was in the Sale. So give it a try. First Campaign: Attack on full Front, running. 700,000 Red Armed Forces taken out of the Game in the first Month, one Group of hostile Divisions after another encircled and lost only 150,000 Men themselves in the process. Minsk, Riga taken and on their Way to Tallin, Smolensk and Kiev. Suddenly there is a red Wall in front of me everywhere, my Tanks are not in anywhere without Petrol, my Divisions are exhausted and I don't see any coming through. The Number of enemy Troops increases by 100 or 200 thousand Men each Round and my Losses increase in each Battle. Well what, was the first Attempt. Some learned, restart and do better. Second Campaign: It's going even better. 900,000 Opponents encircled in the first Month and lost Only 100,000, the Gasoline better managed, running in the south also better this Time, in the North virtually no longer see a single enemy Division. Only before Smolensk enemies gather again, but what-the Tank groups are ready to strike. But even this Time, my Offense is collapsing. The Tanks lose Strike Power, are only at 60% of their Initial Strength. No breakthrough in Sight anymore without a longer Rest. Mega caustic. Got to the same Place two times, better the second Time than the first time and still it's not enough. And Morning? Well Morning I start the third Round-what else? The Game, after all, is addictive. Excellent Game after the first just under 20 Hours. Rarely such a good thing for so little Money has been bought (as I said in the Sale). But The Game is always worth the full Price.

Finally I managed, after a dozen Attempts, I finally managed to finish Operation Barbarossa Victorious. On November 17, 41, Moscow, Leningrad and Rostov were occupied and The Victory was won. The Game offers hardly any Weaknesses. However, the Entry is extremely steep, I had the first 5h frost and persistent Headaches, but it was worth it! The Russians occupy the Swamps east of Brest too strongly for my Taste And then hardly allow themselves to be expelled, even after the Encirclement! I'm not sure, but historically correct I don't think so. Another point of Criticism is the lack of a lack of Language, which further complicates political Decisions, which are already complicated with sound English skills. In my victorious Game, Moscow fell too easily, it was not defended at all (except by the Garrison)! But This may also be because I reached Moscow very early and the Russians already had very high Losses and probably didn't have a Replacement Phase before my happy and unexpected Breakthrough. What is positive, however, are the political Decisions already mentioned, which have a significant influence on the War and are not comparable to any other Game known to me. The Fatigue System, in the Beginning I hated it, is simply awesome. The System with the upstream Supply items, which are supplied by Rail, great! I lost the first two Games after only a few Weeks, because I put these Depots forward too soon and I didn't get any Fuel for some Time because of that. Draw Depot forward and dispense with fuel Supplies in the Conversion phase or overload the supply trucks. With so many Things, you have to decide exactly what you're doing in this Game. And that's exactly what makes this Game much better than comparable Games, such as War in the East. In Decisive Campaigns Barbarón'S Barbarossa, unlike WitE, it doesn't make sense to move every Unit in a Game round ... And: The AI in DCB is very challenging!