The greatest WWII strategy game ever. Buy it..... buy it now!

I wanted to comment to anybody not liking this game due to it being "unfair" or because the pathing sucks, or because of this, or because of that. That fact of the matter is that you're dealing with total, brutal, and almost perfect simulation of a battle. It has its quirks, and its weak points, but not buying this game is really forcing you to miss out on one of the best WW2 strategy games ever created. Below is a rant and roast of persons saying this game sucks:

Firt, You realize how deadly a fight really is, right? I mean, 80 percent of your casualties are going to be from indirect fire, shrapnel, and explosives anyway. That's a HISTORICAL STATISTIC you can look up. As far as pathfinding, I agree. It is pretty irritating, but that's why you should be using the shift key to manage the path your units take.

Even so, I don't find your review fair, in and of itself. Despite what games like Company of Heroes will display, a tank is not going to bulldoze a damn tree, so not being able to drive through a forest is realistic, open ground means death, cover is an absolute requirement for survival, and stationary tanks and guns are incredibly accurate. A tank or AT gun is essentially a giant rifle, as the grooves in the barrel are pretty much the same as the grooves in a rifle barrel. I found the deadly aspect of weapons refreshing. If you get shot, you're going to die. That's just the way it is. If a round busts through a weak point in a vehicle's armor, its going to be destroyed. Again, that's just the way it is. On some tanks, particularly the German Panther, the armor in the rear is only a few millimeters thick. If that thing gets hit in the rear, either the engine is doomed, and the vehicle is pretty much screwed, or that round is going to travel the length of the tank until it stops. There have been accounts where a bad enough hit on a tank carries enough force to blow the turret off the top of the tank. The HEAT rounds from a Bazooka, PIAT, or Panzerfaust are shape charges, meaning it is designed to literally burn through the armor of a tank and get inside, killing every man in there.

Furthermore, the allied tanks during the war toted weaker armor, less effective weaponry (until high caliber AT guns were placed into them, boasting faster velocities and better ballistic characteristics). Even more, the Germans had the BEST ENGINEERS IN THE WORLD at the time. Most of their military equipment was better in almost every way. The allies won due to sheer numbers and better tactics/strategy. The game boasts encyclopedia knowledge to orient you to the time period and situation, fulfilling a stronger level of immersion. The game's historical accuracy is almost uncontested in comparison to its sequels, and similar games of the time period.

I want to reiterate that you need to realize just how DEADLY combat is. If you make a bad tactical decision, you are going to get your a** kicked. A good tactician takes their disadvantages and turns them into advantages, anyway. Or, he/she mitigates their disadvantages as much as possible to make victory possible.

Although, I do, again, have to agree with you about the pathing. It's really heinous, which is why I downloaded a new ailogic.dll I found online, derived from games based on the Blitzkrieg engine, that fixes the problems the AI is having, and many more mods exist in Blitzkrieg communities to make the game better still.

Your review lacks a realistic point of view, thus I must disagree almost entirely with it. You're dealing with an entirely new breed of strategy game with this one. That's why it's so popular with strategists and WW2 grognards alike. Buy this game. NO, SERIOUSLY, BUY IT...

I first played Blitzkrieg way back in 2002/3 and played it now and again over the years, and I loved it. And the same is now! Eventhough it may look a bit old, the gameplay is still great. I still need to try multiplayer, but for the singleplayer, it is worth it!

Blitzkrieg is easily, one of the best WW2 RTS games to ever exist. Although Steam shows that I only have a few hours playing, this game has literally sucked up hundreds of hours in gameplay throughout the last 10 years.

I'm glad we can finally experience Blitzkrieg and its addons through Steam. I'm not sure how much life is left in my 5-disc Anthology package.

This game was a gift from a very good friend here on steam to me. I played this game when I was younger but I lost its installer. Now that I have it again. I'm sure that I would play it for hours and hours again!
This game is an RTS game without building bases and stuff. What you have is only what you have and you have to beat the enemy with what you have. The AI was quite intelligent for its time, when you use artillery, the enemy reacts with counter battery fire. When you call air support the AI tries to counter it. The battles are very realistic unlike normal RTS, I think they based it on real life data of the weapons used here. There are many more to say but I don't want to give you the reader a wall of text so I'll just say: "If you want a realistic RTS game without building bases and has very limited resources that is set in World War II. Then get this game!"

I hope this review helps.

I bought this game in 2003 just after it's release, now in 2014 I find myself still playing it just as much. A few things to know about this game:

THERE ARE NO BASES - There is something awfully appealing about having a certain ammount of units and being told to capture an area without reinforcements.

The Campaign is fairly repetitive after a while. Essentially you will end up doing similar convoy missions, town clearing missions, defend the gun emplacement missions etc to get upgraded tanks and artillery.

Without fail i have hit a point in every campaign where i need a break - Everytime i have played though it (more than two dozen times for each side) I will find that the missions get too repetitive and i need to play something else. I find that this game draws me back like a wasp to jam, and i need to take my units though the campaign so they can go home.

This game is a relic, it is from 2003, so don't expect fancy graphics, or elaborate game plots. This is exactly what it says on the tin, and without fail i would say that it is the best strategy game I have played. True, it has it's bad points, but every game does, but the magic i got when i first played this game is still there, and it's still worth playing!

I notice that i doesnt have much play time on record, truthfully i have sunk well over 1500 hours into this game, but having just bought it on Steam, i have yet to match this.

Amazing game! I used to play this when i was young :), dont be fooled by the graphics this game gets very addictive and is one of the best ww2 rts strategys out there. Takes into account the armor of tanks and the mm of the tank cannons its so awsome and realistic. When you first start playing it youll find it hard so i recommend binoculars and artillery :D just dont rush in there ;)

I never picked up this game when I was younger, but man am I sad that I didn't. This game is great fun, and has a diverse array of campaigns and missions. The graphics are for sure quite dated, but I actually really like them.

Pros
+5 Campaigns
+Many single one-off missions in the BH-RT menu
+2 Small extra Chapters in the BH-RT menu
+Diverse array of Random and Historical Missions
+Large Replayability factor as there are many ways to do each mission
+Diverse array of units
+A campaign that follows Patton through the war!
+A campaign that follows Rommel through the war!

Cons
..........................(I can't find any.)

One of the best games ever.

I remember skipping school just to play this game when it first came out in 2003. Though I liked more the game "Sudden Strike", this was a close second. In 2003 I was 17 years old and already understood all the three main languages (German, Russian and English) that were spoken during World War 2, so my enjoyment in watching movies and playing games about WW2 was and still is very high. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=711315661 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=710506981