I play from 2 years. 100% must buyed if you like ww2 and strategy games

I debated getting this since it's release. This review is what finally convinced me to pull the trigger on the purchase. And so happy I did. Subbed, looking forward to more content like this.

Are you considering Steel Division 2? Honestly, I think it's underrated and worth the attention of anybody looking for a new strategy game. What do you think?! Look out for my DLC guide to be released in the coming days...

This is perhaps the best quick overview of the game I've seen! The concise and to the point commentary with references to similar titles is very helpful. I've shared this with a few buddies who are deciding whether to jump in or not. I agree that it's an under-rated game as it doesn't have the visual spectacle of something like Company of Heroes or Total War which draws in many players. But the design is well done and rewarding for those that manage to stick with it. I haven't spent time with Army General mode which feels a little awkward to me at this point. But who knows, maybe in time that will grow on me too. Thanks for the video. Well done. Subbed ;-)

Im rather experienced in this game and I have to say your review is the best I have seen so far. If you play a bit, you will notice a lot of shortcomings about the game, but its still such an insane experience, especially combined with the active community on several discords. I highly recommend this game to the same kind of players you recommended it to.

I'm a new player with almost 20 hours in the game, and this video is a perfect summary for my feelings toward the game so far. well done!

A few weeks ago I imagined this game: a corps-level rts that I could zoom in and watch the units. I'm so happy it's real.

Hi Twiglets, thanks for this awesome review. It's very detailed and concise. I have already played some 300 hours of this game but it's great to hear some new feedback and opinions now that the game is 2 years old. I love everything about this game, but I just really wish that the player base could grow a bit more, not sure if that will happen.

That "thinking about the game on toilet" line was spot-on. Good work!

Only watched the first half - and I am already thinking: "Really good video, mate!". Thanks a lot!

A guy with a Brit or Australian accent with great grammar and mindful reviews. Not being one sided but also thinks outside the box to try and relate. Really helps to make a consumer make a decision. I subbed

at no point trough this video did i guess that you had only 1,34k subs, for the quality of it i assumed you had much more, awsome vid, convinced me to get the game too

Im going to buy this. I was scared that there was no tutorial, but now I know there is. Ill wait for a sale though. Thanks!! Great video mate

During the summer sale I bought this game and some DLC for $40 (which would have been $135) so I'm glad to see a nice review to get me going!

Great review :) I've got 3-400 hours invested in Wargame: Red Dragon (highly recommended if you're a fan of this game) and have been dancing around the edges of this game since it's release. I ended up finding Total War Warhammer instead and have dropped a tremendous amount of hours into that game instead. Steam's Summer Sale has brought this back to my attention though - Thanks for the review, subscribed.

Thanks for the review. I bought this game 6 months ago, played a mission of army general, got absolutely wiped, and never played again. I watched your videos on warno and decided before I make the purchase on that game, I’d learn how to play this one.

I actually got this on the current steam sale and all the DLC for the retail price of the base game and I’ve been honestly loving it. If you’ve played war game this is much more flushed out and a bit slower paced which add quality of life to this type of game. I honestly hated war game but this…I’m down with. Easily spend an hour and a half on an engagement and not even realize it

Very thorough and appreciated review. A section specifically on Enemy AI wouldve been nice, in my opinion one of the most important aspects in a good Strategy game. You mentioned a few things in segments but its own section is important.

absolute best overview of a game ive seen in a long while. on point for every group of players that may want to buy this game with the inclusion of some nice humor!

This is a pretty great overview; thanks! Just got it on sale & still a bit undecided coming off of CoH 2, Order of Battle & Unity of Command 2, but that’s largely just cos I’m overwhelmed & have no idea what I’m actually doing even AFTER the tutorials & my time to ask for a refund had almost expired. This video, though, has made me wanna explore it some more & come to better terms with it, as I’ve only heard & seen great thing. One big thing I’m missing, though, is something with a slightly deeper narrative arc, but let’s see.

This was a fantastic review, and answered almost everything I needed to know about the game. I still do have one question though - is it possible to create a private game with my friends and play the AI?

What a fantastic review, very thorough and answered any possible question I could think of, subbed and liked deserves more attention!

YOU and SD2 deserve more attention :)

Wow man, this was a REALLY good review. This game is amazing and I agree that it's one of the best WW2 single player strategy games on the market. I'd say it's kind of a WW2 Total War, for many Total War players out there - I love Total War (from Shogun onward, mainly Warhammer though) games AND Company Of Heroes (1,2 & 3 and various mods) and this is THE game that has brought me that juicy Total War style of gameplay in a WW2 version.

i loved the video and the way you said things , i am playing the first one and you are right i feel like general montgomery after 10x times trying to take all map from the germans.. hehe what a game what a game..

Alright your review style seriously deserves a million sub channel. I think you are a strategist. Great job, here have a sub.

I am a player from Blitzkrieg Anthology (good old game, must play) and wargame red dragon within others, I need to mention that like what i see. Now that is in sales it is coming home.

Great review :) One of the biggest advantages of SD2 is it's reprensations of nations other WW2 games gloss over. Romania, Hungary, Italy, new Zealand , finland, Estonia, Brasil and Greece, indians and south Africans all can be found

Still my favorite Game. I like the combined arms warfare in this scale. Nice review!

The biggest complaints of this game were enemy arty knowing exactly where all your troops were, even those in cover and battle timers forcing constant rush attack.

Great review! I've been waiting for a sale on this and Gates of Hell because I've missed the last few. I've been playing Men of War: Assault Squad 2 and Warno in the meantime which are fantastic but I want to add more WW2 RTS goodness to my library. Thanks for the comprehensive reviews on all of these strategy games! It's really helpful in deciding which ones are worth the time. I love trying out a bunch of different games which is fun but it also adds up money and timewise so I'm trying to be a bit more selective.

Well, I am late to the game on this, as I have just seen this video today. I have ALL of the Steel Division expansions (DLCs) to date (Sept 2023). As a WW2 fan(?)/historical freak(?) I found this game to be quite immersive. I have been playing conflict simulations since 1964, this is my first real WW2 computer game and it does remind me much of Advanced Squad Leader rolled into .... well ... one big frigging box like GDW's Europa Series. I know that might not make such sense to most of you, but I have a hard time describing how much I like this whole game set. I currently uninstalled all of my other WW2 games, Except War in the East and Pacific War, dumped all my fantasy games and only recently added Baldur's Gate 3. It looks like for the remainder of my years on this planet Baldur's Gate 3 and Steel Divisions II will be my go to game entertainment package. Well, that being said, I strongly recommend this game, these is sooooo much to learn and once you get the hang of it I am pretty damn sure you are gonna love it. I can't say enough abut this game. I have it on Steam on a rather new PC designed just for games, I have ZERO complaints. ZERO. And I 100% support Eugen Systems. Thanks for your time. and Thanks Eugen Systems for making this and keeping up on it.

This video had me at „This game is the child of company of heroes, Total war and Hearts of Iron“

Just bought it after watching your video(never heard of it, but I have loved HOI since it first came out. HOI 2 was my fav.) Got it on sale with all DLC for $39bucks..but it is a massive game; 84GB(Steam).

Excellent comprehensive concise review. I was thinking of getting this game, this video helped.

so i played warthunder, men of war assault squad 2, company of heroes 1 and 2, and hearts of iron 4. I can confidently say that this game is a child of all those together and done absolutley right. Though prepare for a bit of a learning curve with the battlegroups. I would absolutely recommend this game if you enjoyed any of the previously mentioned.

Army General has got to be the most underrated part of this game

I have to agree with everyone else, I think this is the best review of game I have possibly ever seen. It is 75% off now and I both love strategy as well as the WW2 setting. Thank you, I have liked and subscribed. Looking forward to more in the future.

Currently on sale for $9.99, bought it as soon as I got the notification

Amazing overview, this was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

Great review. I’ve been thinking about buying this game for a while and this review gave me the info I needed. I actually prefer having to manage an econ system and having the rewards of capturing and holding cities/regions. With that said though this game looks really intriguing and covers one of my favorite time periods. Looking forward to giving it a go.

FANTASTIC REVIEW! Jesus! I subscribed based solely on how well you did this video. Kudos mate, i rarely do this. You really helped me in deciding to get this game.

Holy Shit! Excellent Video!

This is a solid review, I'll likely plan to get this on sale.

Sold! Great review! Thanks and keep it up

The best war RTS game ever

Very well done 👏. I have listen to this at least 3 times

Absolutely fantastic review. Thanks a lot for your effort.

Great review!

I'm here because I watched too many recent Ukraine-Russia war videos with map footage in them and now i'm craving a game where you take territories piecemeal. If I had a beefier SSD (my storage is already only 239/476 GB of space free) I'd give this a whirl. But until I upgrade my boot drive to 2TB I'm going to have to try Gary Grisby's War in The East 2. By the way, I watched another review video you made and I really like your get-to-the-point approach to covering these games. You're great.

Absolutely solid review, especially for the style of game you're reviewing boss. Interested and maturely passionate voice without being exhaustingly high-energy. Great organization of review points, good comparisons, well thought-out and didnt overstay its welcome. subscribed.

Visuals actually look pretty nice to me. Classy.

This is a very, very good video. Besides the game i just found your channel and i very much like the more objective and constructive opinion you just offered in this video. With a good plan, good presentation, big picture at first and then dive in some details without going too far for most people, your work is truly enjoyable to watch. So just because of that, you earned a new subscriber ! With that being said, talking about the game even so i'll talk about it 6 months later but hey, never know who will read this. So beginner or still not sure about SD2 ? You can read this comment if you want to, as i'll give my opinion as a "veteran" player. First, for beginners : do not worry if you get destroyed by AI or another human, this game has a high learning curve. I would only quote this motto for you to sum up : "Easy to understand, hard to master". Why ? Well, first of all, as mentionned in this video, there's much more emphazise around units capabilities and strength than in Wargame for example. You can't just send 10 units straight into a town and expect to win. Well yes you can if you want to but i mean you will probably lose, because the game doesn't work that way. It does not rely on spamming infantry until enemy dead and that's it. From a tactical point of view, there's much to learn, around infantry units, armor, anti-air units etc. You have to LEARN and TRY every possibilities in order to find out YOUR sweet spot. I must agree with what was said about this game, don't judge by only seeing someone play, just play the game and you will find out how you will like the game, either from all division possible (there's actually a total of 70 divisions, means 35 divisions per side to choose from and in 3 days 8 more to come!) but also with all units possibles within a single division. Will you choose a more expensive unit rather than many small units ? Are they really that bad, since they have 12 rifles instead of 10 ? Those are the kind of question you can ask yourself when playing this game. If you are a new player and you are reading this comment and have question about tactical thing, units or anything, i would be delighted to answer your question here. Secondly, for uncertain people : the game has a lot to offer, currently 70 divisions in total (always more each updates) which sometimes gives new units or unique units. Unique units are units that are only available for one specific division, i would say that they are all interesting to have because they all offer different options. I would still recommend to buy this game on sale, as it offers a lot of DLCs and things, BUT DO NOT GET TRAPPED ! Many people have purchased things they didnt know exactly what it would be. For example, nemesis DLCs only focuses on 2 divisions that fought during the WW2, they are not including maps or anything more, which was the main complain about some DLCs ! Of course, new maps are provided in some DLCs : i recommend you to buy the History Pass DLC which in fact is a package of 3 DLCs. Those 3 DLCs gives a few new maps and of course, new divisions and new units. There will still be the Burning Baltics DLC and the Tribute to Italy DLC, and others DLCs, which gives "only" new divisions. Anyway, i just wanted to make sure that if anyone reads this would have a better understanding of those DLCs that are, let say it, pretty painful. If you have any question about content, DLCs, prices, or anything related to the game, please ask and i would be delighted to answer you. As a more personnal point of view, i love SD2 because of everything it brings to the table. The AI is very, very good BUT you need to find the sweet spot : you have to build the AI's deck, if you put too many units you will probably lose because the AI has buffs. If you put not enough units, this will be boring as hell. The way i play with the AI is very fun and most likely play like a human. I once played against a friend of mine + an AI and i hardly could see the difference in terms of deployements, placements and reactivity ! I'm not even kidding. (AI set on very difficult, which is the 4th/5 difficulty choice, the 5/5 is barely playable). And just a little note, i love playing this game with a mod ! Only one mod : Shatras Gameplay Mod Redux Extreme, as it gives more units, more time to play, changes some values to make them more realistic/enjoyable. Well this was a very long comment, sorry about that, i just hope someone will read this and find it interesting for you, please ask anything about the game and i will be glad to answer if i can.

You're a fantastic reviewer. Underrated channel. Subbed

If you still play leave you're units on hunt mode. So more easy as units automatically stops to engage instead of keep moving and die. Less micro heavy

Good review - always liked Steel Division, but got bogged down with what felt like micro-mgmt. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Thanks for the review. I wisht hey did more marketing it is a great strat. Game It is rough around the edges but overall solid. Only real issues beside some gameplay stuff, is the DLC divisons so much money has been spent (lucky I just waited on sales)

Good review. In campaign mode do you have persistent units who evolve over time or is that only in mp, or have I got it backwards??

CHERNOPIDZHACHNIKI translates as Black Jacketeers (Squad that wears a Black Jackets).

Great review. Much appreciated, Cheers

I am a WW2 pro-modeller and amateur historian and specifically bought an Alienware laptop for Steel Division Normandy and its DLCS. Never owned a PC and quite frankly I am having some fits with a mouse and keypad. I suspect it will take me a while to get the hang of it. Never used a PC and only adore MACS BUT they don't make games like these for it. To not appreciate the greatest conflict/war in Human History and BE a strategy gamer is absolutely ridiculous. lol, Anyways plan on getting this sequel when I figure out how to play the Normandy edition. which in my book had MORE interesting units (Normandy). By 44 the germans had pretty much moved all of their "sexy" units like the Waffen-SS and Fallschirmjagers to Italy and France.

great video man, appreciate it

Thank for going such depth of the game

An excellent review. Thanks 🙏

Awesome video, thank you so much!

Thank you for this. Well done. I'm gonna get it =D

Good Review Sir!

I just picked up this game on sale and my first impressions have been pretty .. "meh". There is clearly a steep learning curve and the reinforcement mechanic seems very gamey and artificial and not at all "realistic". On the other hand, there might be some depth there and your video has convinced me to dig a little deeper so thanks for that :)

It's on the steam lunar sale now 28/I/22. Only £7.29! GRAB IT PEOPLE!! I'm enjoying steel division Normandy now as well as warno.

Totally worth it, got in on Steam autumn sale; had Normandy 44 before and played for maybe 4h, whereas SD2 is just so much better, somehow the pace and the maps are just way better.

Yes, next. Why is this being debated?

Speaking of "deserving more attention," your subscriber count is far too low for the quality of your content. This is great work.

I find this game to be much less micro heavy than COH 2, despite on average there being anywhere fron 2-5 times the units present. The slower pace, lack of unit abilities and no objectives to capture/building means that actions per unit are satisfyingly low

Thank you for the review

I bought this game at one point, a couple of years ago. The tutorials didn't do too good a job and I got a bad first impression, so I refunded the game after a bit over an hour. Still am sort of eyeing it though, because I recognize that once I get used to the game more I'll probably like it more. In theory it looks a lot like something I'd enjoy, mostly because of army general. I got hooked on the strategic/tactical mix over a decade ago from games like star wars: empire at war and the total war series. Maybe I will get it, sometime in the future when I can get it and all the army general DLCs in one fell swoop for cheap on a sale.

Dope review

Love the game Love seeing other nations you dont usually see and be able to play as them I dont know how to use smoke or how it works, so my men will have to bravely face machine gun fire.

Thank you. This was one of the best reviews I ever saw. Because it says which kind of people this game relate to instead of merely saying if it is good. How competent is AI? That is achilleas' heel for strategy games so you should have addressed it in detail. Also this game faced criticism about having greedy content dlc. Like base game being robbed out with day 1 content dlc. How about now? Lastly, is this a good starting point or shall we start with first game, Normandy 44 ? Because maybe this one is wide in scope due to eastern front being too big.

Great video

Love this game, love this review thanks for sharing the word on its greatness!

Love the game but I wish Eugen had allowed any form of modding for army general. However, it would make their DLC pointless so it'll never happen. It does piss me off knowing that they're allowing extensive modding for warno but oh well.. I just wanted a Stalingrad army general campaign lol

You just referenced supreme commander New sub right off the bat lmao

Interesting looking game, glad taht found your video, good and detailed review

Tooo much bass on the mic brother, crank that treble up...

What are the videos that are playing in the background? Are those part of the game (cutscenes), or is that a documentary that you are using for filler material/atmosphere?

I really want to love these types of games but in the end it just becomes a massive micro managing click fest. Might as well play space invaders.

Got it in the sale the 13 quid version with dlc`s, downloading while watching your review ,i`m just assuming i will like it, love the total war games ,IL-2 sturmovik ,world of tanks and history about ww2

Excellent review. Game looks interesting except for the grahics, which look dated.

thanks for the video

You did so good job

I'm still on the fence with this game. The one thing I don't like is the speed the units are moving. It's seems unrealistically too fast!

Looks like fun but to complex at my age.

This game could have been so good, but the developer insist on having it time based, this is what brakes this game for me. you have to complete everything within a time limit, why! this is something strategy gamers generally dont want, we want looooong games. other than that, I think this game is a masterpiece, but it aint a masterpiece, its just a game you will get bored at after a few times, because you will not have time to do the things you want to do.

good review

No, they're still put buffs in the usa, seriously i play konigstiger and it took 3 beautifull shoots 2 destroy a sherman tank in close range and i hit in the weakspot not in the front armor.

How is the destruction model as far as buildings and vehicles and terrain?

And I'm getting it

Sold!!😃

My biggest complaint about this game is the AI artillery/mortars. They always know exactly where your units are and fire more quickly and MUCH more accurately then player controlled artillery/mortars could ever hope to.

Is the campaign mode in this comparable to a WW2 Total War game? Looking for something like that with a large map to conquer rather than just unconnected skirmish battles (and Hearts of Iron looks too complicated for my tiny brain)