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The Troop is a turn-based, platoon-level tactical game set in WW2. From the early hours of D-Day to Falaise, play as British and Canadian or German forces in desperate fighting across Normandy.
The Troop is a world war ii, turn-based tactics and tanks game
developed by Giant Flame
and published by PLA Studios.
Released on October 18th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 10 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Spanish - Latin America and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 648 reviews of which 555 were positive and 93 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz 3.70 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
- Storage: 8 GB available space
MacOS
- Requires an Apple processor
- OS: macOS Monterey
- Processor: Apple M1
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
User reviews & Ratings
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This has me absolutely hooked. As a long time strategic analyst for Australia's Defence R&D organisation, I have to admire the elegance of this game. I can use fire and manoeuvre, overwatch (without micromanaging it), combined arms, fixing (suppression) and flanking, and all at a pace that feels cerebral and not frantic. And for some reason it even feels like the slow grind of battle. I particularly appreciate the hidden depth. No calculating numbers, counting hexes or adding up fire power. Just use the right tactics, and win or die on your wits. Please, please, please make a follow on for the East Front or the Ardennes.
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Summary: The Troop is a turn-based tactical level WW-II era war game set in Normandy 1944. It's plays quite similar to a table-top miniatures game. In balance, overall, it's a decent game that I would recommend. Positive aspects: - Good graphics. - Very well designed realistic maps. - Accurate modeling of infantry & weapons systems. - Diverse sample of Axis & Allied weapon and infantry types from the Normandy Operation. - Simple well thought out UI. - Well designed scenarios. - Wide variety scenarios (skirmishes) and battle types that can be played as either the UK, US (with DLC) or Germans; these include a unique narrative driven string of battles, called "The Story" that represent fighting all throughout the invasion of Normandy. In addition, the game has a standard semi-historical campaign with persistent forces & dynamic campaign with randomized forces called a Battlegroup. - A rare game where designers accurately modeled characteristics of Allied tanks (the Sherman in particular) that exhibit it's strengths in the cramped bocage countryside which allowed them to out perform German counterparts, like the Panther & Panzer-IV H (ie. good modeling of the "soft" characteristics of armored vehicles). - Stable, no bugs or crashes. Negative aspects: (Concerning) - Enemy AI, although generally above average, can periodically act illogically or frankly, just plain stupid. Enemy units will sometimes leave perfectly good defensive positions to charge your troops or, if an armored unit, exit a good location only to drive out exposing its flanks. - Line of Sight can be a bit wonky. Some hexes that should appear to be visible to your troops are blocked. - Enemy indirect artillery & mortar fire is unrealistically accurate frequently achieving direct hits & kills on the first try. By contrast, your units will take several turns to have any effect on an enemy unit even when that unit is well spotted. - Ordnance unable to track moving targets. If a target moves, the attacking unit has to re-acquire it each time it does so. - No button to save action points for over-watch. Unlike other games which actively set over-watch, in this game over-watch is passively activated by having a unit NOT performing any actions during its turn. So there's no way to lock your unit into over-watch to prevent accidental movement or fire. - Sometimes your units using over-watch fail to fire at enemy units when they cross your unit's line of sight even if the enemy unit is clearly in the open. - It's too easy to spot and shoot at units in forests. (Minor Concern) - Although a battle can be theoretically won by capturing victory locations, nearly all scenarios end because one side or the other loses morale. I find this to make battles slightly repetitive. - Campaign can be imbalanced. - Tanks can only rotate turret by targeting specific hexes on the map. It would be nice to be able to rotate the turret freely without having to target things on the map. - No manual save. The game only saves automatically when you leave the game. - No way to move units up and down levels in multi-story buildings. If a unit enters a multi-story building, it's automatically considered on the top floor. - Camera has fixed vertical angle of roughly 35-40 degrees (unless at ground level). This can be annoying since it forces the player to move the camera around the map in order to see units or actions farther away. Instead, the developers should allow the player to elevate the camera in order to see such objects. - Can't zoom camera during the enemies turn which can make it difficult to tell what's going on in some circumstances. - No weapons encyclopedia. Not a major thing, but, typically games of this type have some catalog or list to view all the various units and their stats. So it is odd in such a detailed game like this that it's not included. - No kill counts for units after battle. Unlike games like Combat Mission or Close Combat, there is no record of each units kills. Again, not something that ruins play, but it's a missing feature typically found in similar games.
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This, by far, is one of my favorite turn based strategy games. Its gritty, its hard, but when you pick up a battlegroup campaign and am playing with your back to the wall, you'll get it. It doesn't hand you wins, the game rewards adaptable, quick thinking, flexibility and when you engage with it, and think through your moves it rewards you. Protips, artillery spotters and snipers are a good team to pair. Armor works in teams, always. Don't cross open areas without a squad on overwatch, use your LOS tool and understand that concealed routes mean survivable routes. Your tanks all have smoke shells, your mortars have smoke shells - use them. This is one of my favorite turn based strategy games, I really hope the team goes on to do great things, as I'll buy whatever they publish next. Good tactics will always be good tactics.
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Okay, enough is enough! I almost never write reviews, but I have just got to for this game. The Troop gets some negative reviews from people that just don't know how to play it effectively. It has a challenging AI, and some of the concepts (ie: the gunnery points that determine where your tank's gun is pointing, Line of Sight, and Spotting rules etc) are innovative and tricky to master. But if you spend some time learning the game you will be rewarded with an superb exciting WW2 wargame, that will be keep you engaged for hundreds (or thousands) of hours. Who wants a game that is easy? You would play it for 10 minutes and then forget it. The AI is good, but it DOES NOT cheat! I have reported on hundreds of my battles on the forum, showing that the AI does not have any advantages over the player, as long as that player knows what he/she is doing!
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What’s to like about The Troop… If you liked Steel Panthers for it’s attention to detail and the challenge of fighting asymmetric battles with a large range of interesting units - you will like this game. If you liked the Close Combat: series because of the nice maps, models and animations - you will like this game. If you liked Battle Academy for it’s simple elegance and the clever distillation of important tactical decisions, making adherence to historical tactics vital – you will like this game. If you play table top miniatures like Blitzkrieg Commander or Bolt Action and you like to see nicely detailed models getting shot up on nice terrain - you will like this game. But, if you’ve never played any of the above games and you are looking for a WW2 tactical game with a nice Interface, competent AI and enormous replay potential - you will like this game.
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The Troop is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.
The Troop is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 33.99€ on Steam.
The Troop received 555 positive votes out of a total of 648 achieving a rating of 8.06.
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The Troop was developed by Giant Flame and published by PLA Studios.
The Troop is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Troop is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Troop is not playable on Linux.
The Troop is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for The Troop. Explore additional content available for The Troop on Steam.
The Troop does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Troop does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Troop 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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Developer
Giant Flame
Publisher
PLA Studios
Release
18 Oct 2023
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