About This Game Men of War: Assault Squad 2 features new single player style skirmish modes that take players from extreme tank combat to deadly sniper stealth missions. Commanders can now faceoff against opponents on various new multiplayer 1v1 – 8v8 maps. To truly bring the battles to life though there is the new extreme game mode designed for huge battles on spectacular maps. This new Assault Squad game brings significant game engine and visual improvements as well, with special attention paid to ones that were highly requested by the players.

Is for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Please look over our and before posting. If you're looking for 'lighter' gaming-related entertainment, try! The goal of is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers. So this game is fairly interesting and unique in my opinion. It's an RTS (real time strategy/tactics) genre set in World War II.

Developed by a German company. I've been meaning to write a review of this game since I bought it, but I kept pushing it off.

Well now it's on a Steam Sale ($7) and a Free Weekend trial so you can try it out before you decide to spend money. Things I enjoy: As I stated earlier, this is a unique game. While it is the most comparable to Company of Heroes (by Sega), it's nothing like it. This game is based around Realism.

The physics in the game is amazing with how it interacts with bullets and shells. Hull strength on tanks and angling of shots matter due to how weapon penetration works in this game. It also allows players to Directly Control a unit to finesse some maneuvers such as cooking grenades, shooting through thin walls to hit targets behind them (with tanks or AT guns), to scan with a sniper for areas without Line of Sight, etc. Weapons do damage.

A shot from a rifle to the head of an enemy will blow his head off. A 20mm cannon will make short work of any infantry, no matter how expensive they are. A molotov cocktail to the engine of a King Tiger will destroy it just as well as tracking its treads and calling an artillery strike on its position. The Skill Cap for this game is fairly high.

Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing for people, but I personally enjoy it. Knowing when to direct control a unit and when you need to be looking at the battle from a macro position(looking at entire map) is something that comes from playing for awhile. Knowledge of which units have 0 chance of countering the enemy unit also takes awhile to learn. Balancing your CP and MP (points you spend to buy units during a match) usage is very important. It can be a bit complicated at first to understand, but once the concept is understood it is simple enough.

There's a whole lot of depth to this game. The fact that 1 infantry man(if properly equipped) has the capability of taking out an unwary King Tiger/IS-2/Churchill/etc makes the multiplayer matches intense. There is no propaganda tied to this game. Everything is built around pure combat.

Nobody is evil, nobody is humanity's greatest savior, etc. It's purely based around fighting 1 nations military vs anothers. Modding is really huge in this community. The Singleplayer campaign that comes with the game is alright. Nothing amazing.

However, the things that the community have created are outstanding. Sir Hinkel's Mods for Men of War is an example of how a modder can surpass the developer in mission design.

Things I Dont Like: It can be buggy. Currently there is an issue with de-syncs happening in the Multiplayer games. Luckily, the developer's next game is based on the exact same engine as this one, so they are very committed to working out bugs and updating. The Multiplayer community is sparse when compared to triple A title games of course. But at 500-1000 people online from all over the world, it can seem that only a a few games are being played.

Many only enjoy the Singleplayer portion of the game due to the vast array of mods. Europe has the most players with games being hosted and filled all day and night. America is all day and night only if you dont mind being at a 200 ping disadvantage. For less than 100 ping, usually the evenings have some US hosted games. Aussies seem to love this game too, but I'm unsure of how often people host there.

Some Veterans can be a bit harsh at times. This is game is from an old series.

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So some of the players are extremely experienced. Think baby vs mike tyson. They will beat you to a pulp, bite your ear off, and then laugh with your blood dripping down their face.

However, there are many polite and very patient experienced players too. Just depends on who you get.

Lots of people have potato PCs. You don't need to have a great PC to run this, but so many people seem to want to play this game on their 2005 Dell Inspiron Laptop. PC performance bars help you spot those players in the match lobby. 4 bars is great, 1 bar is extremely poor. No bars and only a dash means that player has not played enough games to have his computer measured. So avoid people with 2 bars or less.

Conclusion: I suggest everyone who either likes RTS or the WWII genre to try it out for the Free Weekend Trial on Steam. For purchasing the game, at $7.50, it's really not a purchase that will break the bank. Many players have hundreds of hours spent in this game. You can definitely get your bang for your buck even with just playing the singleplayer or just the multiplayer. Long review, I hope this interested you guys in this game. I don't ever write these, but I felt like this game deserves it. The company is a small indie developer that's publishing on their own for the first time in this series I believe.

I don't believe they marketed this game well (or at all) and I was hoping I could help spread the word. Here is a Live Commentary on a 1v1 Tournament match hosted by Strat29 (a pro player from Australia) TL;DR Everyone should try the free trial on Steam. Buy for 7.50 if you enjoy. Annoying thing about multiplayer is you will frequently get kicked from lobbies because your rank is too low. It's funny, because I played a ton of the first men of war and I'm pretty god damn good at this, but because ranks don't carry over I look like a noob and noone's willing to take a chance. I don't even really try playing much anymore because it's so difficult just to join a game.

Would be nice if game makers didn't find it necessary to add in these superfluous leveling systems, but I guess that's just where we're at these days.