Very good game, nice playing mechanics, a challenging game (achieving brilliant victory is very hard, at least for me) and very good graphics style and gaming music, it's the kind of game that seduces any strategy gamer and makes him love it.
Totally recommend it to all turn-based strategy games fans. I believe it's one of the standout TBS games that were released in the last years.

If you've never played a turn-based, operational-level strategy game before, this is the best starting point. The intuitive UI and the kind of cartoony art assets make for a game that feels very inviting. However, this game is hard, but in a good way. Your onus as the player is to be clever, to examine the situation and find weak points in your enemy's defenses and assess risk and reward. You end up thinking like a World War 2 general after you play a little bit, and that's really cool.

"MUH SUPPLY LINES"

This expression indicates Player's confusion and lack of understanding. When confronted with mechanic he cannot understand, Player mumbles "b-b-but muh supply lines" or "muh supply lines mutha♥♥♥♥a". This is usually followed by getting encircled and losing all his panzer divisions.

The good:
I like the simplistic gameplay, and the focus on keeping your supply lines intact while pushing forwards. That´s what this game is about. Capturing objectives while keeping your units in supply so they don´t run out of juice on the front lines. All within a tight turn limit.
It´s an intriguing and (to me) novel concept.

The bad:
It´s frustrating beyond belief. Not because it´s hard (it is) but because it´s to damn random.
+Pushing an enemy off a tile is random.
+Getting "Overrun" results, which allow you to attack again in the same turn, is random.
+A battle can randomly turn out to not go as predicted and you don´t defeat a unit that you needed gone.
+Bad weather which heavily favours the defender (you are never the defender) may randomly show up and completely screw over your push for the objective.
+Specialists (expensive and often crucial) within your units may or may not be among the casualties when the unit fights.

The problem with that is, the game does not give you the time for this kind of randomness. The turn limits are so tight that any one of these events can screw you over. Sure you might still beat the mission but the game differentiates between normal, decisive and brilliant victories. Many follow up missions are barred behind decisive victories and some even behind brilliant victories.
So you try over and over again, without any change in strategy (once you got it down) and hope that you get enough "Overrun" results with your armoured units and you hope that your push doesn´t get stuck in bad weather until you finally beat it in time.

Due to this, I can´t really recommend it as much as I like the concept of the game.

This game is by far one of the best strategic games I have ever played. I am in love with it.
The soundtrack gave me goosebumps and sent chills down my spine. The game can be played without a tutorial; it's that simple.

I seriously hope they make more additions to this, perhaps a North Africa or a Pacific add-on.

After well over one hundred hours invested, I can say I highly recommend Unity of Command to any gamer that likes strategy games. My congratulations and thanks to those that made this game for getting their history right. The individual divisions and corps that are in the battles in this game were in the actual battles as well, along with the correct opposing generals. Those involved in making Unity of Command really did their homework!! As a newbie, I appreciate the individual scenarios starting 'easy' and working their way up to difficult. It allowed me to learn the game, although for an old man, those 'easy' senarios were anything but. The game is well thought out. Like the real Eastern Front campaign, you fight the weather, supply lines, terrain and the Russians with panzer, motorized and infantry divisions. The original game features the Stalingrad campaign, the DLC features the Russian offensives of 1944, with additional DLC taking on the 1941 German invasion of Russia. My favorite is Operation Typhoon, the battle for Moscow. Like Field Marshall von Bock, you command six entire armies and over two million men, the largest land force under one commander in history. Unity of Command is a strategy video game and chess with panzer divisions all in one. It's challenging, frustrating, addicting, but most of all, it's fun. I highly recommend it!!

I was really missing Panzer General series and its operational level simulation. This game delivered but also gave me something new. The main innovation, suppy lines, has a big effect. One must think about encirclement and weak points instead of wiping out every unit in one's path. It's also important not to leave your supply lines exposed as having them disrupted even once can mean the difference between victory and defeat.

The mechanics are fairly easy to master and the game can tell you how many units you can expect to destroy/lose in any given encounter. There are many interactions to consider (terrain, weather, entrenchment) and since its an operational level game you can be winning individual shootouts yet lose the big battle because you are acting too carefully. The game takes about 20 hours to fully master but provides replay value as you can try to win every battle with a brilliant victory or just try a slightly different approach.

Unlike PG you can finish each scenario in one sitting. The size of the maps is pretty manageable. There's no such diversity of units as in that game but I didn't really miss it. Ultimately the most interesting thing about the game is making decisions of how many units to commit, where and for how long and doing it all without outrunning your supply lines, often this requires coordination between units.

My two complaints are: the AI is a little weak, enough to provide a challenge but not enough to really surprise you and often committing foolish errors; the other is that battles can only be played in a pretty strict sequence. So if you finish a campaign and want to replay a battle from near the beginning, the later battles will become inaccessible.

I loved the game enough to buy all the expansions and play them through several times.

My wish for the game would be that units carried over somehow. It was great to see my units in PG progress from green to elite and encouraged me to be careful and avoid throwing units into meatgrinders. Although bashing at a city while suffereing bad losses in order to achieve your objective is often needed in UoC and is an interesting part of the game since it forces you to take risks.

I'm still looking for a game that would combine this kind of battle simulation with an economic simulation since as they say WWII was won in the factories.

Though it has quite a bit of a learning curve, Unity of Command is an excellent turn-based strategy game, and is very realistic in the sense that spamming infantry simply won't work if you opponent is well set-up. The Supply Line feature is also very realistic. While it allows you to potentially thrust deep into enemy territory along the railroads, any enemy presence on those lines will cut off supply.

The game is good for both a defensive and offensive strategy, where units can entrench themselves, making a line of them near-impenetrable even with tanks, or by equiping your units with "specialists," or specific units, such as StuGs, T-34s, or Engineers, you can give them a huge advantage on the frontline. But above all, my favorite feature is the one that urges you to minimize loss of life. If a unit is destroyed, the overall morale will drop, and your troops will be less inclined to stand their ground.

Overall, this is a strong choice if you want a turn-based strategy game.

Broke through the Soviet lines, out ran my supplies, Russians counter attacked, quit before losing. 9/10

Awesome wargame. Well worth the purchase. The DLC's actually add substantial content to the game in the form of many extra scenarios and unit types, so i can recommend them aswell. Get it while it's super cheap in the Christmas sales and you won't regret it.

Turn Based Strategy game centered on the eastern front during WW2.

The game mechanics however feel more like a puzzle than a strategy game.

What can I say.A great game with great mechanics and many great missions and TONS of community created content.Seems like the perfect recipe for a great strategy wargame right?YOUR ♥♥♥♥ING WRONG,because the devs decided to use the Mein Kampf as a historical reference for the strenght of the armies in game,to the point where even in missions set in 1942 onward when the soviet and german units started to equal each other out you still find certain german units able to take on 2+soviet tank units and 4+soviet infantry...let's not forget how a german and a finnish infantry are supposedly the same.Yes apparently while moving out of it's defenses in finland a finnish infantry division has double the combat effectiveness of a soviet one.Wtf.Let's not forget how it's all the fault of the italians hungarians and romanians that germany lost the war and make their units have 1-1(attack-defense) stats!!*head scratching intesifies*.I cannot give the game a thumbs down tho,because the game itself is actually good,I just wish the racial profiling on units wasn't as profound and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Excellent. While it is very quick to learn to play, there is also an impressive depth and detail to the game. My only negative is that I wish there were more battles to play, so maybe the Red Turn and Black Turn DLC would be a good investment.

Easy and fun to play wargame of introductory level, though providing some depth and requiring to think quite a lot. AI acts a bit strange sometimes and some of the scenarios don't have enough details they should have, so 8/10

A beautifully crafted hex-based wargame with an intuitive control scheme and gripping music. Could serve as an introduction to wargames for masses.

Unity of Command is a simplified strategic turn-based look into the eastern fronit during WW2 - similar in many ways to the classic Panzer General, while adding some fresh ideas of its own (such as the concept of supply, which enables increasingly realistic maneuverig in the spirit of the historical blitzkrieg. Having said that, the game also suffers somewhat from oversimplification, repetitiveness and rigidity. When considering buying the game, consider:

Pros:
-Easy to get into, yet challenging enough to try and master

-Some tactical planning and thinking required, luck and chance is involved so there is some variety in gameplay.

-Quite immersive, the total seems more than the sum of its parts.


Cons:
-The AI seems quite simple: you make a certain set of moves and it always reacts similarly.

-Unrealistic winning objectives - sacrifice your army simply to gain possession of a few winning hexes for one turn and you suddenly have "won"?

-No air units available

-Only scenarios where offensive is to be taken (AI lacks the ability to launch a coherent offensive?) - some defensive scenarios would be welcome

-"Brilliant victories" often depend on chance (e.g., chancing in-game weather), yet proceeding in the campaign in some cases requires such victories - the game therefore makes you grind several scenarios over and over again.

-The scenarios always start the same - some alterate starting positions would be welcome for variety.

-After you win the campaign, there's a smiple "Campaign completed" message and nothing else - really?

-Music can get repetitive and the graphics are not the selling point of the game.

Overall, I tend to recommend the game for people interested in the topic and looking for some easy-to-get-into strategy gaming - not at the level of Metacritic (average 84/100), but rather at the level of the user reviews (7.2/10).

In other words, it's quite ok.

In terms of pure strategy, this game is as good as it gets.
9.5-10
Qraqy

Great turn based strategy... Secially good for WW2 buffs (or histroy in general:)

Not a bad game for the price tag. Standard hex based game that I remember in my childhood playing on the PS1. Though it is limited in the campaign there is the option to play user made maps.

The game had potential, I liked the units, interaction, and alternate history option but the game suffers form lack of strategy in that there is only the one way to win their way. No save option during scenarios so lose and start all over this can be a lot of time lost, lack of fun gameplay it just feels like a constant grind rather than playing a game, lack of decent tutorial and for as simple a game it is they could have added more options like more unit customizations and upgrades. I don't recommend this game there are better WWII games out there.