Men of War: Assault Squad 2

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.

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.

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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.

If you came here because you love Company of Heroes, turn around and walk away. This game is far more about realism. Your units can run out of ammo, which must be replenished using supply trucks or looting corpses. Tanks and AT guns are glass cannons. Just like real life, there is no in-game tutorial except for some YT vids by the devs.

Some of the missions are fun, many of them involve stealth which is not fun in this game at all, and others are just downright evil. I mean I can neither recommend the game nor say run away, just set your expectations. Expect to micromanage units A LOT and know that there's a steep learning curve. This isn't what you play after work to shoot Nazis and relax; this is a job, but if you're into that then you may find this game very rewarding.

Update: I discovered there is a tutorial button in the game that opens what is probably supposed to be a webpage but nothing happens, black screen. So they tried, maybe? But seriously, I sunk another 14 hours into the game, learned some more mechanics, got better but it's still a struggle. Normal mode is you pushing up the map in a skirmish and everything is going great, but if you push at the wrong place or the wrong time then your army gets wiped. Forget about recovering because you can't get CP fast enough to build more units, so save scum it is. If you saved of course.

They took away single player skirmish against AI and placed it behind a 10 dollar DLC. I never write reviews but I will never recommend a game that takes content away that was already in the game when I purchased it just to have to spend more money to access it again.

A fantastic WW2 RTS that deserves to be called a classic. The game offers a great variety of units from 5 different nations. you've got everything from a massive selection of tanks to diverse infantry types and support equipment.

I’m more of a single-player person, so I can’t comment on multiplayer, but the campaigns provide 10 missions per country. However, there are only four mission types: defend, stealth, assault, and ambush. so things do start to feel repetitive after a while. Once you get to the second nation, you’ll notice the mission structure doesn’t really change much. That said, the well designed maps and solid AI keep things engaging, making each mission feel unique in its own way.

with deep tactical gameplay but with a bit of repetition in mission types, non the less this game deserved a spot among the classic WWII RTS titles.

Still Great after 10 years. Lots of hours worth of content in the base game and many mods to play.

men of war assault squad 2 a enjoyable game with our without friends it has an action packed environment historical accuracy and more and features infamous battles id say its a must try and even if you dont like it refunding is a thing so give it a shot!

Have you ever needed software that specifically lets you recreate large scale battles from Star Wars? I guess I did.

Thanks to a decent modding community, this game still manages to hold up over 10 years later.

Incredibly fun RTS game with a lot of different strategies. The artillery is a little annoying and you need to micromanage them but other than that amazing game. It has good single player campaigns as well as fun multiplayer PVP/campaigns that allow for some pretty great gameplay. The modding community is also pretty huge with decent mods like free for all deathmatch, Vietnam at War, and Star wars which should only be played single player because the droids are a little bugged.

Love this game for the Star Wars Galaxy at War mod which is great for epic Star Wars battle simulations.

Fun game, recommend getting mods like Galaxy at War to make the game more enjoyable, but the assists already in the game are great too.

I'm getting crashes pretty frequently on the first and second mission, that I'd pretty much gave up on the game after repeated crashes. Anyone have any experience with this issue and a possible fix?

+To behave like an adult and give MoW some positive reinforcement, it has 1 borderline redeemable quality which is the very extensive variety of WW2 era units. Both the mechanized and infantry unit designs seem to be what the devs spent the most time on because they are impressive to say the least. I feel many people are able to overlook the plethora of flaws because of this fact alone. Also each unit has its own inventory allowing the usage of many different items which can also be looted from enemies, providing some interesting strategic combinations. If controlling a cool German Jagdpanther unit along with the thrill of producing other historically accurate WW2 era units is enough for you to have endless fun, then MoW: AS 2 is definitely for you.

-If you want to play an actually fun, well designed WW2 RTS Strategy game though, CoH (Company of Heroes), CoH2 or even CoH3 are approximately 76 quadrillion times better than MoW: AS 2 and precisely 1 quintillion times better than MoW: AS 1. If you already have the CoH collection in your Library but are seeking another war RTS game to have some fun with, perhaps try out the Call to Arms games. They offer a much more dynamic experience with an interesting FPS mode that makes the game really fun I think. Map design for CTA and sequels is brilliant and win conditions don't feel like the same monotonous old trope. It has a bit of a learning curve at first but even struggling to figure things out and failing in CTA is 689 googillion times more fun than doing anything MoW games have to offer, which isn't much... like you get poopy campaign, no online, and skirmish with DLC purchase, like what an insult. Anyways, since I now feel like a cheap suit CTA salesman, I will end this review how I started it by saying these few simple words: COMPANY OF HEROES (1,2 or even 3) TAKES A COLOSSAL DUMP ON ANY AND ALL WW2 RTS GAMES ON THE STEAM MARKET SO IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THEM AND AREN'T SATISFIED, THEN RE-VISIT THEM AND LEARN TO CHERISH THEM. THEY ARE BALANCED, HAVE VERY FEW BUGS, SMOOTH MECHANICS, FUN SKIRMISH MODES WITH DYNAMIC GAME MODE SETTINGS, GOOD MAP DESIGN AND ONLINE COMMUNITY IS GREAT. I COULD THINK OF MANY MORE REASONS BUT THESE ARE MY TOP 6.

Hi everyone who is reading this! This game is amazing! The features of this game are incredible. Especially, the GEM editor. The realism of this game and the storyline is also good. Also, the game with mods such as Star Wars Galaxy at War improve the game completely by adding NEW characters and maps. I would rate this 8/10.

The game is awesome, the idea of keeping skirmish mode behind a paywall is insane though. Greed rather than business strategy.

This might be the best WWII RTS game I've played, and one of the two best RTS games I've ever played (alongside Napoleon: Total War).

The destruction is great and the combat is great. I enjoy looking at individual soldiers and listening to the randomly generated dialogue. Gives me ideas for conversation at my next reenactment. This isn't to say the game is without its flaws. The regular campaigns can get a little generic or monotonous after a while. But hey, that's what mods are for. I can't remember the last time I played this game without the realism mod to spice things up.

All in all, great game. 8.5/10 Would recommend.

very fun playing with others just a fun game in general

why is there no AI in majority off the offline skirmish gamemodes? it makes no sense and is incredibly poorly thought out... otherwise the game is pretty ok, similar gameplay to gates of hell ostfront but with muuuuuch cheaper dlc