Wargame: Airland Battle

It's funny to see 5 of my 8 Mi-24s carrying VDV be shot down, and then see helicopters spinning around near the ground firing rockets and hundreds of cannon bullets as their infantry unloads, and immediately fired RPGs as fast as humanly possible at the convoy I landed in the middle in. And I still won. This game makes no sense. It's ABSOLUTE CINEMA

AI that attacks immediately while I'm trying to find where to click...

No

Wir werden an den Stränden kämpfen, wir werden auf den Landeplätzen kämpfen, wir werden auf den Feldern und auf den Straßen kämpfen, wir werden in den Hügeln kämpfen; wir werden niemals aufgeben.

Wargame AirLand Battle is still a very good fun game, with bare to no bugs, the AI is much better than in European Escalation, however i prefer the campaign and some maps from European Escalation. MP is almost dead. I have 100h of AI skirmish and its still fun.

Overall Red Dragon is probably the best, i havent played it yet, but again this game is still very good and worth playing.

Catch it on sale though, i would only pay the full price for Red Dragon or Warno.

I like the ability to command and the units' ability to perform the commands. Not yet perfected, but a dang good try.

I play single player, so this is only relevant to that - the game has no way to slow or pause time, which means that you, the human, are busy fighting with the interface or micromanaging your troops, while the AI is just doing things. Overall, the game has promise, but honestly I lose half my choppers to them flying right into AAA while I'm busy trying to manuever my troops into a pincer or whatever. It's just a normal QOL feature that most strategy games offer, but I guess the entire Wargame line is really meant to be multiplayer, with single player just bolted on.

there is no brightness settings. brightness is WAY too high, couldn't see a fucking thing. do not buy.

Unable to create an account.
Screen almost unreadable by strange gamma default settings.

Was hoping for a World in Conflict type of game but I am going to refund this one.

I Couldn't run Wargame: Red Dragon nor could I afford it

Still fun tho

It does what it says on the box.
-> Wargame
-> Air
-> Land
-> Battle

It's pretty good but the difficulty is harder than trying to eat a 100% burnt charred chicken sausage.
Do-able, but really tough!

The best thing about this game was the multi-player. I just logged in on a Saturday night to find only 22 players online. There used to be 1000-1500 on a Friday or Saturday night.

The developers killed it by releasing Red Dragon. This was a better game, but without players there is no game.

Such a shame. There was a great community on here circa 2014. They could have built on that by making one unified Wargame community, but instead fragmented it.

Sniping enemy anti-air with SEAD aircraft is one of the greatest feelings in the world

A great simulator type game with realistic combat for example: infantry cant beat armor in the open field but in a building they can hold their own against most things. i have played for around a week and already like it a lot
would recommend.

In my opinion, best game of the Wargame franchise.

has good potential but it´s trush: AI exagerating on bonuses, CTD Crush mid campaign, no update anymore. Just garbage, not supporting these devs, they are just too childish

Almost 180 hours in, so thought it might be worth a short review to show my appreciation of this classic RTS. Second game in the Wargame series and one I go back too time and time again, only last week I managed a few more hours to my tally. The title of the game is taken from a strategy doctrine that was devised in the 70's and 80's to counter a Soviet backed combined arms attack in Europe (according to the US Defense Department).

A word of warning, if you've not played any of the franchise, I'd honestly recommend cutting your teeth on the first game (European Escalation) as the training levels are good and help you to familiarise yourself with the controls, units and tactics.

I absolutely love the European Cold War theatre setting and Airland Battle allows you to play a wide selection of countries not usually covered; Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Czechoslovakia as examples. This opens up a really awesome range of over 700 units. You'll also get access to certain prototype units (such as F-117), giving a nice "what-if" vibe to the scenarios.

I play exclusively offline, so the lack of players on servers isn't an issue and I'm totally happy with my decision 😊 - there's enough entertainment in the Campaign and Skirmish modes to keep me fighting for hours. If you're wanting the thrill of online multiplayer, then Wargame Red Dragon might be a better choice, as there are still a relatively high number of players to be found.

Due to the game being 11 years old at time of writing, there's an absolute ton of online references and Youtube videos that should answer any question you can think of. Despite its age the gameplay is good and the attention to detail and overall depth means it stands up well against more modern titles.

The game runs perfectly fine on both my older PC and bog-standard i5 laptop using Intel HD onboard, and with tweaks to the settings you could make this run on any modest hardware. I'd personally hang on until it is on sale, as it then becomes an absolute must-have addition to any keen wargamers library.

I'm very happy with this game. My ultimate fantasy is that this and Red Dragon are merged into one Ultimate Edition which would offer just about limitless playability, but due to programming differences between them this aint ever going happen sadly. Regardless of this Airland Battle hits the spot perfectly for those wanting some Cold War RTS action.

The best game of this kind, unfortunately the developers rushed to develop red dragon and left this masterpiece unattended. Would be great to see DLC's linke Nations packs in RD. Still more playable than RD!!

Love it!