Men of War: Assault Squad

All the game does is showers the player with INFINITE waves of enemies. Boring and stupid.

it crashes a lot but when it doesn't, its a good game

crash when you are winning the game

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The men of war series are legendary for their tactical depth and epic battles. Assault Squad is no different, but it is more focused on multiplayer than its predecessor and brings a bunch of quality of life improvements over the base game, making it easier to manage the large-scale battles. In single player it offers some basic campaigns with missions that vary from capturing points in a linear fashion to a "last stand" style thing where you defend your base against waves of attackers. The "story" is paper-thin and the dialogue or terrible, but you aren't here for that - you are here to obliterate tanks :) The engine also has some improvements with graphics being slightly better and animations smoother. And Japan becomes a "proper" faction with voiced units and a campaign. One downside is lack of variety in units: because the game is MP focused all factions essentially got "gamified" - they have the same "classes" of equipment (infantry, light vehicle, tank, artillery, etc) with a couple of choices per class that fall into a normalized army list (light howitzer, heavy howitzer, self-propelled light howitzer...). They still have their own particularities and uniqueness but it feels a lot less "asymmetric" and realistic. The AI is still dumb as a brick: they send masses of troops straight into your defenses in a haphazard formation only to get massacred, eventually overwhelming you with numbers or a some big tank like a Tiger (if you let them that is). Thankfully there are SP mods that bring more interesting missions with better structure and slightly more intelligent AI that makes good use of artillery and things to give you a run for your money. Disappointingly, there are no bots in MP. You still need to convince a few friends to play. This game is still great. However I still prefer the original MoW because there are more mods and more community content for it. Strongly recommend this one but grab the original MoW too - they are usually cheap.