Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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War in the East 2 is the most comprehensive, most realistic, and most advanced wargame modeling Eastern Front warfare in World War Two.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 is a strategy, simulation and wargame game
developed by 2by3 Games
and published by Slitherine Ltd..
Released on December 10th 2021 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 372 reviews of which 343 were positive and 29 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 39.93€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for 22.44€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: 1.5 GHz+
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256MB DirectX 9+ Compatible
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: 16 bit DirectX 9+ Compatible
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Have been plaing WitE since it's predecessor released in 2010. Switched as soon as this release came out. WitE 2 is better than the first in nearly every area. I'm an off again, on again player. Will play a few turns, come back a few days later, etc etc. After playing this for several hundred hours (I have many offline hours) I can safely say that I still don't fully understand how to maximize a few parts of this game (Supply, air force) Play mostly as the Germans, with a handful of playthroughs as the Soviets. Learning curve is steep. Watch a few videos, keep the manual handy and delve in on some of the smaller scenarios to start. For campaign gameplay, don't be surprised if it takes you up to an hour to plan your move (per turn) to start for the first few turns. If playing Germany, bashing straight forward against the enemy will feel good at first, and then you'll quickly realize that's not going to work long term. This game forces you to think on an operational and strategic level. Fantastic, in depth detailed game of eastern front warfare in WWII. This title is not for a casual wargamer. It takes many weeks to a handful of months to play a campaign game. If you are interested in a very deep counter/hex simulation, price tag is worth it. If not sure, watch a lot of videos to see if this might be for you. Very complex engine under the hood of this title.
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Complex but deeply rewarding. Played as the Soviets, and those first few hours where you're coming to grips with the extremely detailed and in-depth systems as you simultaneously get completely overrun by a massively more powerful military really drives home the disparity. But it also made the turnaround later in the war more worthwhile - turn by turn as I built up forces in the Russian forest to eventually encircle Army Group Center in mid-42 felt like an amazing payoff. but even with major victories the AI is still able to hold you off and switching to offensive operations suddenly made me aware of how precarious my supply situation was, with armies I'd grown fond of because of their defensive courage now facing horrible loses to attrition in the Carpathian mountains. The whole game is much more than the sum of its (very many) parts and really achieves what it sets out to do. Incredibly carefully built, and highly recommended if this is your area of interest.
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Strategy Gaming Dojo has a quick start tutorial on youtube; it's almost 5 hours long. This is THE game if you have autism and likes WW2 eastern front.
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This could very well be the last war game I ever need to buy that deals with the eastern front of WW2. It wont, but it could be. I don't actually know much yet about the game. My hours are often offline and not tracked properly, but I am an absolute novice wargame general. I'm a tactical idiot, and not much of a historian. A lot of people said the Grisgby Series of games were complex and could be overwhelming. So, I naturally stayed away from them and played other titles. Less complex ones. Ones that always seemed to be missing or abstracting important pieces to simplify and make things less complex. But, often it was noticeable and would detract from the experience. What I have noticed often in wargames both PC and tabletop, is the documentation can really be poorly written or packaged. Often, in such a way as to make the process of learning difficult without a community. Wargames that have great supporting documentation and manuals can be a breath of fresh air. Gary Grigsby's WitE2 has a great manual and supporting documents imo. They spoon feed you information in the beginning, just enough to get you into a game and messing around, Understanding the large concepts at play, with later chapters digging deeper into certain topics. Theoretically, you never need to dig further to play. I assume to win will be a different story. Also if you play these games while trying to learn more about history, this game provides great in game resources called the "Witepedia" with links to Wikepedia articles you can also read. Before you know it, your down a wikepedia rabbit hole. Not to mention a ton of great content creators with tutorials, a ton of forum posts with a ton of useful information already available. If you are on the fence, I would read the manual a bit, see if the complexity is broken down enough for you. Surprisingly, it was for me. It's just a matter of figuring out how the puzzle pieces fit, right? Also, look for the one page guides in the guides tab in Steam. Also, included in the game manuals folder. 9 one page guides in all, basically break the game down. Enough you could theoretically only read that to play. I'll update this in a couple years and let you know if I ever become any good, lol.
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I will say that skipping the guides and just watching YouTube tutorials is way better. Makes the game better to understand 10 times faster. Really fun WWII strategy game. 10/10.
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Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 is currently priced at 39.93€ on Steam.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 39.93€ on Steam.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 received 343 positive votes out of a total of 372 achieving a rating of 8.51.
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Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 was developed by 2by3 Games and published by Slitherine Ltd..
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 is not playable on MacOS.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 is not playable on Linux.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There is a DLC available for Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2. Explore additional content available for Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 on Steam.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
55
Developer
2by3 Games
Publisher
Slitherine Ltd.
Release
10 Dec 2021
Platforms
Remote Play
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