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War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East! Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale.
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437 reviews
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- Developer:
- 2by3 Games
- Publisher:
- Matrix Games
- Release date:
- 09 July 2015
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- Recent Steam reviews:
- Not specified
- All Steam reviews:
- Very Positive (437)
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War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale. Gamers can engage in massive, dramatic campaigns, including intense battles involving thousands of units with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results. As with all the award-winning titles made by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supply, fatigue, experience, morale and the skill of your divisional, corps and army leaders all play an important part in determining the results at the front line. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East comes with 4 massive campaigns as well as many smaller scenarios all with different strategic and operational challenges.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East represents a truly epic representation of the Second World War on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in its scale, detail, and ambition!
Features
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale. Gamers can engage in massive, dramatic campaigns, including intense battles involving thousands of units with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results. As with all the award-winning titles made by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supply, fatigue, experience, morale and the skill of your divisional, corps and army leaders all play an important part in determining the results at the front line. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East comes with 4 massive campaigns as well as many smaller scenarios all with different strategic and operational challenges.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East represents a truly epic representation of the Second World War on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in its scale, detail, and ambition!
Features
- 5 major campaigns starting at 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1941 (Alternate victory) all extending to Summer 1945
- 11 scenarios range in length from 10 turns to 25 turns
- Map stretches from 100 miles west of Berlin to Ural mountains and from 150 miles north of Leningrad in the north to Bulgaria and Baku in the south
- 10 miles per hex with weekly IGOUGO turns
- Play against the AI (either side) or watch the AI simulate the war by itself, with 5 categories of help levels for each side to adjust the difficulty level
- Includes traditional Play by Email and Server based PBEM+ systems
- Full service scenario and data editor with CSV export/import functionality
- Detailed stats of ground elements and aircraft affecting in game performance
- Up to roughly 4000 units in the game database with the ability to create many more! Division sized maneuver units with thousands of battalion and regiment sized support units
- Many different classes of support units like artillery, engineer, ski, anti-tank, pioneer, tank destroyer, and much more
- German Corps/Army/Army Group HQ's and Soviet Army/Front HQ's
- Air units are generally organized as groups and can run both night and day air missions, complete with night fighters
- Manually upgrade aircraft within units or automate new aircraft allocation
- Detailed production with Russian factory evacuations realistically modeled with production penalties and rebuilding delays
- Extensive spreadsheets and reports representing tons of data and information
- Detailed yet automated accounting for support personnel and supplies/fuel/ammunition Losses in individual vehicles and squads Display of the various modifiers affecting how efficiently units receive what they need
- More than 500 historical commanders with a detailed promotion and rating system
- Leaders can be dismissed, executed, fired, killed in action 8 rating fields measuring different attributes from combat skill to political rating
- Very detailed system to account for troops/vehicles that are disrupted, disabled and fatigued Accurate modeling of the need for training units before entering combat
- Detailed weather zones and ice levels for rivers with the option to randomize or fix weather patterns for each scenario
- Intricate Fog of War rules and unit detection levels - units are rated based on their ability to conceal themselves and their ability to recon other units
- Includes two major optional rules allowing you to adjust the First Winter Blizzard Effect and the Soviet Combat Doctrine.
Recommended system requirements
minimum*
- OS *:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10
- Processor:
- Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
- Memory:
- 1 GB RAM
- Graphics:
- 128MB DirectX 9+ Compatible
- DirectX:
- Version 9.0c
- Storage:
- 2 GB available space
- Sound Card:
- 16 bit DirectX 9+ Compatible
recommended*
Not specified
User reviews
Jagbabe
Recommended | 14 Sept 2024
4951h played
unbelievably detailed and complex game. Great historical accuracy and far from easy to win but nevertheless keep playing it. God knows how Germans got as far as they did in real life. Having said that of course they did
Helpful: 10
karolinerna2000
Recommended | 07 Jan 2025
228h played
What can I say ? Probably the most advanced strategy game ever. The attention to details is stunning. Every single vehicle and aircraft is modelled and rated including all division leaders and upwards. The game is easy
Helpful: 11
iSapiens
Recommended | 04 Jan 2024
271h played
How can I recommend it when I only played one game? It only took 270 hrs to finish it, though. On my first (and only) game I won by Decisive Victory, but maaan... I had some close calls. Like when after taking Moscow
Helpful: 9
Daanscheet
Recommended | 16 Dec 2022
8.8h played
For when HOI3 doesn't give you enough headaches. 9 hours in and i'm starting to grasp the basics. Easy enough to get into. You click on cubes and right-click on other cubes to attack. The complicated nature of the game
Helpful: 10
Master Piglet
Not recommended | 19 Nov 2023
3.1h played
This is more a neutral review: I played a lot of Gary Grigsby's War Between The States back then and that game still holds up today but i can't understand the "HYPE" of WitE. Yes you have a super detailed front and
Helpful: 11
The Impractical Engineer
Not recommended | 03 Jan 2024
2.0h played
What a shame this review is thumbs down because I can see the developer has put a lot of work into it. Unfortunately, it just isn’t what I anticipated. I’ll start with what I liked. I think, while the game is complex,
Helpful: 11