Men of War: Assault Squad 2

Good WW2 RTS simulation game. But REALLY more fun playing multiplayer, especially with and against friends

9 out of 10 would bite every existing tree bark in the world again

I play with dlcs you need one of them to have bots suggest that one. I basically play players vs. bots assault zones and on that alone I suggest the game if you can get some lads in to do the same. PvP is where most people play but just trust me I enjoy coop a lot more.

good but camera stuck on editor

its men of war thats squad assaulting 2

This game is very good and is easy to learn how to play.

Fun game, very moddable so it is very replayable but the it requires a DLC to play skimish so thats annoying.

But overall this is one of my favourite RTS games

Old game. Still fun but shows its age.
If old games aren't your thing, best to skip this one.
If they are - its still fun.

Mechanics are decent and intuitive. Albeit take some getting used to to be good at.

The best and the best.

vehicles have trouble turning around. its just hard to learn, and unituitive

If you Care FOR YOU MENTAL HEALTH DON'T PLAY THIS GAME. 👽

unless you are playing with mods do play. 🙂

Needs mods. But with mods it really has endless possibilities :)

played 1234 hours been great so far i like to play skirmish heroic if anyone wants to join me add me. lots of miucro managment in this game. always make sure you are focused on the most important part of the battle or you could loose a good tank or an infantry squad from a grenade. set up defense and prepare a assault group. this game requires a lot of focus and detailed movments of hundreds of troops. every troop and vehicle has an inventory. overall very fun and addicting endless birdseye view ww2 battles

IF YOU LIKE GAMES WITH STRATEGY OR CREATIVE TOOLS THEN THIS GAME IS FOR(INCLUDING IF YOU LIKE HISTORY)

This is like gates of hell, and has awesome mods and campaign. The only bad thing i don't like is that everything is dlc.

actually good game for real time strategy lovers

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 – Singleplayer Review

Hello everyone, hope you're doing well! As you can see, I’ve spent quite a bit of time on this game, and I thought it was finally time to share my review.

First, a quick disclaimer: this review is focused exclusively on the singleplayer aspect of the game. I haven't touched the multiplayer, so please keep that in mind—my evaluation is based almost entirely on the solo content.
I know the Men of War series is often recognized for its multiplayer, but I’m a campaign player at heart. Also, I won't be covering any of the DLCs, as I don’t own them. So again—this is a base game, singleplayer-only review.
For me, the Men of War series has always been about the solo experience, even if Assault Squad 2 clearly shifted focus toward multiplayer. That said, let’s dive in.
Introduction

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 is a World War II real-time tactics/strategy game released in 2014. It was developed by Digitalmindsoft and published by 1C Company. It serves as a sequel to Men of War: Assault Squad (2011), and to be honest, the two games are extremely similar.
In fact, I’d recommend skipping the first game entirely—Assault Squad 2 contains nearly everything it had, and more. That said, I don’t own the first game myself, so take that with a grain of salt.
Overall, the critical reception has been decent—not amazing, but not terrible either. I’d say that sentiment matches my own. I enjoyed my time with the game, but it has its fair share of frustrating moments.

---Story and Setting---

Let’s be honest: there’s barely any story here. The "campaign" is simply a sequence of missions with no narrative thread connecting them.
Each mission begins with a short line from a random soldier saying things are going badly—and that’s about the extent of the storytelling.
There are no named characters, no meaningful plotlines, and practically no surprises during the missions themselves. There’s also no lore or historical background to speak of. In this regard, it’s definitely disappointing.

---Gameplay---

This is where the game shines. As a real-time strategy title, the focus is on managing infantry, vehicles, and support units. You have access to anti-tank guns, mounted machine guns, support trucks, and a wide variety of vehicles.
The vehicle selection is a strong point—ranging from light scout cars to heavy tanks. There are five playable nations (USA, Britain, Germany, Japan, and the USSR), each with its own mini-campaign.

Micromanagement is a core element here. You can loot bodies, steal enemy equipment, repair vehicles, and even manage fuel. It’s quite demanding in that regard.
Another plus is the destruction system. While terrain isn’t deformable, buildings and props can be impressively destroyed. It’s not flawless—some debris behaves oddly—but it adds immersion.
Each unit can be controlled individually, which is important since the AI can be unreliable. Pathfinding isn’t great, and micromanagement is often essential to avoid units doing something dumb.
You can also slow down or speed up time, which is helpful during intense or dull segments.

---Mission Design and Progression---

The five "campaigns" (again, just a set of missions) offer minimal variety. Most missions follow one of a few templates:
- Push missions: Capture three lines of enemy points, culminating in a final objective.
- Infiltration: Use limited troops to sabotage vehicles or take outpoints scattered across the map.
- Defense: Hold one or several positions against waves of enemies.

That’s essentially it. Some missions offer side objectives—like stealing an enemy tank—but the overall variety is low.
You start most missions with a basic squad that’s usually not strong enough on its own. As you capture points, you earn "MP" (manpower points) to call in reinforcements.
New units unlock as you progress through a mission. The callable unit roster depends on your nation, but within each campaign, unit variety is limited, with occasional special vehicles. So, it's quite a dissapointment here as well.

There are four difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, and Heroic. Easy and Normal are manageable, Hard offers a fair challenge, and Heroic is... brutal. Good luck.
Fog of war can be toggled on or off before missions. Turning it off can make things significantly easier.
There are around 40 missions, and depending on your skill and difficulty level, they can take a while to complete. Add in Steam Workshop mods, and the content expands even more.

Note: Using mods disables achievement tracking.

---Graphics and Performance---

Visually, the game has a nostalgic charm, but by 2025 standards, it’s clearly dated. Even in 2014, the visuals weren’t top-tier.
The color palette is muted, which fits the WWII setting well. Environments include plains, deserts, snowfields, and urban areas—fairly standard fare.
However, visual consistency is lacking. Some vehicles have HD textures, others look pulled from older games. This gives the game an uneven, sometimes unfinished feel.

---Performance---
- GPU load is light—most modern PCs (even from 2013) can handle it easily.
- CPU load can spike, especially during intense destruction scenes. I’m using a Ryzen 5 5600G, and even it saw dips during larger battles.
The game ran fine on both an SSD and an HDD during testing.

I experienced two crashes over 80 hours of playtime (without mods). Not bad, but I still recommend saving regularly.


---Audio and Music---

I’m no audio expert, but the gunfire sounds are punchy and loud—satisfying overall. Nothing revolutionary, but effective.
My main complaint is the lack of variety in vehicle engine sounds.
The music is present, but largely unmemorable.

---UI and Controls---
The UI can be intimidating at first, but once you get used to it, it works well. You can assign shortcuts, and the icons are generally clear.
The minimap is simple and effective—friendly and enemy units are easily identifiable, which helps prevent surprise attacks. You can form squads and select them quickly. However, one annoyance: the unit silhouettes in the bottom-right corner (used to select specific soldiers) doesn't work properly.


---Multiplayer and DLC (Brief Note)---

The game offers multiplayer with multiple maps and modes, but as mentioned, I haven’t played it. From what I’ve heard, the online community is full of experienced players—newcomers beware.
Also, you need a DLC to play against bots in skirmish, which is a frustrating decision from the devs.
The game features several DLCs. Some add single-player content with new mechanics, others add multiplayer units. I don’t own any of them, but reviews are mixed, so I recommend picking them up on sale if you're interested.
Conclusion


Overall, Men of War: Assault Squad 2 is a solid game, with a repetitive singleplayer experience that should be grabbed if possible on sale. The developers often discount it heavily, and that’s when it’s really worth grabbing.
The game offers a huge variety of units across five nations and provides a decent challenge with lots of micromanagement. However, mission variety is lacking, and the AI (especially pathfinding) can be frustrating.
The visuals are totally functional but dated, and the audio does the job. Performance is decent overall, though large battles can stress your CPU.
The UI is effective once learned, and the game is reasonably stable. There are bugs and clunky mechanics—trenches and vehicles don’t always mix well—but nothing game-breaking.

In short: a flawed but enjoyable with short sessions strategy title which has a lot to offer if you're into tactical micromanagement. Definitely one to grab on discount.

Thanks for reading! Let me know if I missed anything. Please bear with me, this is my first long review. Note that English is not my first language, so I needed some help.

The game is really hard but very realistic. I don't like how repetitive all the missions are but seeing so much WWII armor is cool. Don't compare it to CoH because this is different, more realistic, less arcadey, a lot more tactics envolved. Definetly buy it!

Doesn't Live Up to the Hype — Here's Why

While this game might appear polished at first glance, especially when compared to something like Gates of Hell, it quickly becomes clear that the polish is surface-level — almost to the point where it feels sterile and cartoonish. It lacks grit. It looks too clean, too vibrant — like a kids' game, not a gritty war simulation.

One of my biggest gripes is the third-person perspective. It's terrible. It’s not true third-person in any meaningful or useful way. I used to love the ability to control individual units like infantry or vehicles — it added a layer of immersion and strategy. Gates of Hell: Ostfront nails this. Without any mods, you can jump into a soldier's boots and control them like you're playing GTA its responsive, accurate, and fun. This game tries, but fails miserably.
The view is zoomed in way too much, making it claustrophobic and nearly unplayable, especially for a game that's meant to simulate large-scale warfare.
The tactical map is another letdown. Being able to zoom out and get a clear understanding of your unit placements and battlefield layout is essential. In this game, it's limited and clunky. You constantly feel lost.

Vehicle options are disappointingly basic. Compared to Gates of Hell, which offers a variety of artillery types and even lets you control them in first-person, this feels watered down and “vanilla.” There’s just no depth.

And then there's the sound design and atmosphere — or lack thereof. The battlefield doesn’t sound or feel alive. Explosions are weak, gunfire is flat, and the overall combat experience lacks intensity. Gates of Hell delivers a far more immersive and realistic war experience that keeps you on edge — this just doesn’t.

If you're after large-scale, gritty realism and immersive combat, skip this. Go play Gates of Hell: Ostfront instead. This just doesn’t cut it.

This truly is a Men of War: Assault Squad 2.





Fuck you devs though for locking Skirmish AI behind DLC.

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 is a must-play for fans of hardcore real-time tactics. The sheer depth of its combat, from commanding hundreds of historically accurate vehicles to micromanaging individual soldiers, is staggering. Direct control of units (TPS-style!) adds a fresh layer of immersion, letting you personally steer tanks or snipe enemies—a brilliant touch.

I played this on a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 (Windows 11) with the game installed on a Micro SD card, and it ran fine. The Steam Workshop mods are a game-changer, injecting endless replayability with custom single-player missions. That said, the steep learning curve and occasionally finicky AI (looking at you, pathfinding!) might frustrate newcomers.

While the depth is impressive, the UI can feel cluttered, and the single-player narrative is sparse compared to competitors. Still, if you crave tactical realism and mod-driven chaos, this is a WWII RTS gem. Highly recommended for strategy veterans!

graphics are dated, it seems like addon supporters have probably moved to more modern versions, i have yet to find those versions, i also have yet to find the money for those versions, but it's a grand game with a lot of good memories

One of the best ww2 games out there
a squad leval games
you have a platoon of men at best an support weapons
if you have tank support there few and precoius
you have complete control over your men
but this also means the pathfinding is utterly incompotent
you can play as all major countries
there are a wide range of units to use but its often hard to use more than a few
plus there is a nearly unlimited range of mods
overall look at this and gates of hell an decide your favorite
ill see you out on the battlefeild commander

mod destoryed the game.. can't fix again and again.. old and new computer. thecheatmod

Actually a pretty good game. tho crashes quite often when playing multiplayer or Skirmish. BUT other than that it is decent. :3

I love this game because it has all the real things that they used during ww2 but I feel like when you become the unit it should be a first person shooter

Alot better than men of war 2 in almost everyway however the AI is dumb asl and the game is a little old which so far are my only complaints.

its ridicolously fun and an amazing game!

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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---{ Author }---
☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

if your looking for a RTS game not only for ww2 but also for modded RTS without waiting for an actual game it's pretty good

quite liked the part where my graphics settings get reduced after an explosion

I love the grafics and the historical content of MOW!

Great RTS set in WW2, it story is great and good music.

Great game, but the co-op forced unit sharing mechanic ruined enjoyment of it with my buddies.

Yes, I'm just petty enough to not recommend this game solely because of that fact. I can clearly see how Men of War 2 ended up the way it did with this kind of silliness.

Campaign was fun and gameplay is great. Such a great game that thrives in so many places

its a fun and exiting RTS game, i've played plently of RTS games in my life and this is one of the best

This game is very good but to skrimish in the game you have to have a DLC so you have to pay to play a game mode.[pls upgrade!]

Terrible game, janky controls, poor graphics and inferior in every way to it's competitors

DON'T BUY!

I've got a new gaming laptop.
16gb RAM, RTX 4060 8GB Graphics card, an i7 processor and I still can't start this goddamn game because as soon as I try playing a custom match over LAN or just even trying to start a skirmish, the game just crashes and says there wasn't enough memory.

I tried every possible fix, nothing worked. This game is trash, not worth your money even when on sale. Just buy 'Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostrfront' instead.

mods
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100% buy

prob the best WW2 RTS game, yeah gates of hell is cool but that one is a bit too "realistic" for me

I've wanted this game for 4 years and it far exceeded my expectations when I opened it for the first time yesterday

Great game IF it wouldn't just randomly crash after an hour of playing EVERY time...

My pc (RTX 3080Ti + Ryzen 5900x) is not the problem for sure.

amazing game in multiplayer and singleplayer you actually have to strategise and the game is well balanced but it would be good to extend the campaign

Good base game and DLCs and the modders and/or steam workshop makes the game have very many different stories to tell and play.

A more involved RTS allowing you to micro little things like infantry stances and inventories, as well as getting in the fight yourself with direct control. The modding community alone is worth the investment

the best game ever and one of my favourite youtubers play it daley tactics

[Verse 1]
It's taken a lifetime to lose my way
A lifetime of yesterdays
All the wasted time on my hands
Turns to sand and fades in the wind

[Pre-Chorus]
Crossing lines, small crimes
Taking back what is mine

[Chorus]
I'm fine in the fire
I feed on the friction
I'm right where I should be
Don't try and fix me
I'm fine in the fire
I feed on the friction
I'm right where I should be
Don't try and fix me

[Verse 2]
So lost for so long to find my way
I failed to follow, I'm out of place

[Pre-Chorus]
Crossing lines, small crimes
Taking back what is mine

Make the Uncle Sam proud.

Don't forget the incredibly good mods, you got ton's of gamehours to spend with ton's of different mod campaigns.

pathing is ass and unit responsiveness to commands is cancer this game could have been amazing but here we are

It's actually a very good game especially with regards to controlling individual soldiers and the best part is when you can micro-manage them, LOL.