Gary Grigsby's War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945
A war on an epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is the War in the East!
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is the spiritual successor to the excellent Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based strategy game set during World War II at the division and brigade levels, spanning the entire Eastern Front at a scale of 10 miles per hex. Players will take part in massive, dramatic campaigns, including grand battles with thousands of units on realistic and historically accurate terrain, with weather factors, battle order, logistics, and combat outcomes. As with all award-winning titles created by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supplies, fatigue, experience, morale, and skill of your division, corps, and army commanders play a vital role in determining the outcome on the front lines. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East features 4 massive campaigns, and many smaller scenarios with different strategic and operational challenges.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East shows a truly epic representation of World War II on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in scale, detail and ambition!
Game Features
- 5 major campaigns starting in 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1941 with an alternative outcome, and all lasting until the summer of 1945
- 11 scenarios ranging in length from 10 to 25 turns
- Maps stretching 100 miles west from Berlin to the Ural Mountains and 150 miles north of Leningrad in the north to Bulgaria and Baku in the south
- 10 Miles per Hex with Weekly Turns
- Play against the AI (on either side) or watch it simulate war on its own, with 5 support level categories for each side to adjust the difficulty
- Includes traditional Play by Email gameplay style and support for PBEM+ server
- Full Secondary Scenario and Data Editor with CSV Export/Import
- Detailed statistics of ground elements and aviation influencing the results of the game
- Almost 4000 units in the game database with the possibility of creating many more! Division-level maneuver units with thousands of battalions and regiment-sized support units
- Many different classes of support units, including artillery, engineering services, skiers, anti-tank weapons, scouts, tank destroyers, and many more
- German Corps/Army/Army Group Headquarters and Soviet Army/Front Headquarters
- Air units are most often organized as groups and can perform night and day flights, including night fighters
- Manually upgrade the air fleet within units or automate the allocation of new units
- Detailed production lines taking into account the Soviet evacuation of factories, nicely modeled taking into account production penalties and reconstruction delays
- Detailed spreadsheets and reports representing a wealth of data and information
- Detailed but automatic accounting of support personnel and supplies/fuel/ammunition losses for individual vehicles and teams
- Presentation of various modifiers influencing efficiency in meeting the needs of individuals
- Over 500 historical commanders with a detailed promotion and rating system
- Leaders can be dismissed, shot, fired, killed in action
- 8 assessment areas examining various attributes, from combat skills to political rating
- Extremely detailed system for counting soldiers/vehicles out of order and tired
- Faithfully modeling the training needs of units before entering the battlefield
- Detailed weather zones and river cold levels with the option to randomize or correct weather patterns for each scenario
- Complex Fog of War and Unit Spotting Levels Rules – Units are rated based on their ability to hide and detect other units
- Includes two overarching optional rules to customize the effect of the First Winter Blizzard and the Soviet War Doctrine
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