Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
VR Designs has been complemented by designer Cameron Harris to create a never-before-seen war experience: Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa.
This revolutionary war game on the Eastern Front shows the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. It combines the latest evolution of the hexagonal gameplay and engine of the Decisive Campaigns series with a deep narrative, RPG-style human management, and an in-depth, semi-random decision system.
You have full operational command.
Can you make the right decisions to turn the tide of the war?
Game Features:
- Manage real operational structures. Can you balance and prioritize three different theaters of war to achieve your goals?
- Will you be able to operate in a command hierarchy with superiors and subordinates in an environment where strategy and policy often contradict each other?
- Focus on what’s important, ignore what’s not, and devise a winning strategy to defeat the merciless AI. Or a cunning live opponent.
- Deploy Army positions, assign Artillery to the Theatre of Operations, allocate Tactical Air Support, and give orders to your Theater Commanders to provide specialized battalions and headquarters for the Panzer Group or Army of your choice. Don’t worry if they refuse.
- Detailed systems for mechanical breakdowns, vehicle mileage and fatigue. Realistic climate model. Every degree below zero matters. Experience the effects of frost and snowstorm on people and machines. How far will you want to push them forward? Take the Panzer Group from the front lines or give the Army a rest. Will you keep up the pace of the Blitzkrieg, or slow down to maintain a steady pace of advance and save fuel?
- Face the dark side of war. Choose between ethics and operational necessities. Stand trial at the War Crimes Tribunal if you lose. Or have both sides abide by the Geneva Convention and fight a gentleman’s war.
- Will you be able to resist the Führer? Are you willing to put everything on the line, demanding Military Independence and risking being fired? Or do you prefer to submit to and support the Führer in whatever goal he is currently focusing on?
- Get accurate High Command assessments of your Command Potential with each turn. You are being watched and evaluated. Undergo a full analysis of your actions at the end of the game.
- Experience a realistic combat engine created and improved over many years in the previous 3 games. An engine that takes into account hundreds of possible variants and is optimized for combat on the Eastern Front.
- Fight to get winter clothes and equipment for your people. Argue with Göring about fuel allocation. Mandate each division to report status one at a time. 50 different stats and values to keep track of everything.
- Keep an eye on your supply lines stretching across the vastness of Russia behind your advancing armored columns. Decide when to temporarily halt and move your Forward Supply Bases closer. Assemble your precious columns of trucks and count on your locomotives to withstand the downpours, collisions, guerrillas, lack of signals, poor quality tracks, and frozen water pipes typical of the Eastern Front. Order the Luftwaffe to carry out supply missions when things go wrong.
- Switch sides and take on the role of a ruthless Soviet dictator, backed into a blind corner and armed only with a rusty knife. Will your morbid ambition to win be enough to overcome your inner demons and save yourself by stopping the world’s most professional, invincible army from conquering Moscow? Remember who left Moscow undefended?
- Get ready to take down your marshals. Toss your peacemakers from one crisis to the next. Count on them not to be delayed along the way. Ruthlessly throw your armies of conscripts to the slaughter as you fight for time and space, desperately awaiting Rasputica and the cold of winter. Prioritize some Fronts at the expense of others. Gather your Siberian divisions and get going.
- Take control of historically carefully designed org charts that cover a wide range of unit types and nations, but also ones that allow you to manage unit numbers and play the game in days, not weeks.
- A deep, immersive experience with reduced micromanagement. Make hard, meaningful decisions with tough trade-offs with just one click.
- Instead of providing a long list of lousy and repetitive scenarios, the game features a single, carefully crafted campaign that has significant depth and is made for intense replayability.
- Operation Barbarossa. The largest military conflict in history. From June 1941 to February 1942. Hitler’s attempt to destroy the Soviet Union. Division scales. 30-kilometer hexes. 4-day tours.
- Above all, experience the myriad conflicting challenges of OPERATIONS COMMAND in unlimited, ruthless combat.
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