Slitherine

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Control both the Axis and Soviet forces in more than 30 missions across 4 single player campaigns and corresponding multiplayer missions.

More than 130 units storm across the battlefield. Learn the hard lessons of the early war in Panzer III and BT-7, or feel the ground shake to fury of the Tiger, Panther, T-34 and IS-2.

New gameplay features include smoke, infantry dash, fighter cover, partial damage, and trenches – along with a detailed combat model that’s second-to-none.

The seamless multiplayer experience has been expanded with the addition of cooperative support – can you and a friend work together to defeat the enemy?

An already fearsome modding flexibility has been further expanded with editor improvements including automatic edging, achievement editor, and reinforcements. All atop a powerful scripting system giving complete control of all the game systems.

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ORIGINAL: jglazier

Yes, I understand the vehicle can still move with its gun knocked out. I was wondering what use modeling this has in the game.

But, thinking about it, you could still use the vehicle to take a victory location. Other than that, it is useless. That was my point. What is the use of a vehicle with its gun knocked out?

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ORIGINAL: TheWombat

One thing that I see seems to be carried over from BA1 is that, in single player at least, when the enemy turn is processing, you still see which units the enemy has as each gets cycled through for orders by the AI. It seems like a no-brainer to instead have the game display a generic enemy image (lower left of the screen) while it cycles through the AI units. As it is, you end up getting a pretty good idea of what is there, and what is not there. Just seems weird. Not a huge deal, but odd.

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

There are literally hundreds of improvement. Here are a few off the top of my head
* Random map generator
* Skirmish mode with random sides on random maps for single and multiplayer
* Army list system where you can specify which force fights which force - e.g. 1941 Pz Grenadiers vs 1941 Tank Army
* Co-OP mode - play all single player scenarios in Co-Op mode
* Integrated air model. Call in fighter support, gain air superiority and launch air strikes
* Smoke - smoke bombardments, mortars lay smoke, tanks lay smoke
* Trenches - trench systems allow LOS down the trench line but not in to it from outside
* Partial damage - tanks can be immobilised, weapon systems knocked out, accuracy or movement reduced
* Open topped armoured suppression - infantry can now suppress armoured vehicles if they are open topped
* Green units - many early war Russian units are green with limited shots and reduced accuracy until they gain some combat experience.

There are hundreds of other changes but these are the ones that I remember right now :)

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ORIGINAL: jglazier

Yes, I understand the vehicle can still move with its gun knocked out. I was wondering what use modeling this has in the game.

But, thinking about it, you could still use the vehicle to take a victory location. Other than that, it is useless. That was my point. What is the use of a vehicle with its gun knocked out?

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ORIGINAL: kaburke61

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ORIGINAL: TheWombat

One thing that I see seems to be carried over from BA1 is that, in single player at least, when the enemy turn is processing, you still see which units the enemy has as each gets cycled through for orders by the AI. It seems like a no-brainer to instead have the game display a generic enemy image (lower left of the screen) while it cycles through the AI units. As it is, you end up getting a pretty good idea of what is there, and what is not there. Just seems weird. Not a huge deal, but odd.

+1 to that. I myself don't look down in that corner when the turns are playing out.

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ORIGINAL: nim8or

Appreciate the responses. I hope it isn't a case of an underwhelming release in terms of content where you have to purchase scores of DLC extras or expansions. I suppose I'm getting old and cheap.

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

Kursk is being worked on at the moment but required more special attention than we had time for in the base game. Stalingrad is also something we'd like to do but needs some careful thought about how to handle a city based campaign. So these are will be filled in later but it was too much for the initial release. It already has 33% more campaigns than the original Battle Academy, includes campaigns from both sides (a big request from payers), plus skirmish mode and random map generator so contains vastly more content.

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

It is the urban fighting we really need to focus on to do Stalingrad right. We think we need multi story buildings and that's pretty hard to get right so is the stumbling block right now.

It woudl be easy to do the setting int eh engine but we didn't think it would feel right without some additional mechanics and we haven't got consensus on how they would work right now.