The Best Strategy Games To Buy During the Slitherine Winter Sale

7 – Gary Grigsby’s War In The East 2

The best, most realistic and most complex World War 2 ever created, Gary Grigsby’s War In The East 2 is hard to learn, and hard to master, but it’s also the ultimate challenge for those kind of players that want to experience what managing a very complicated war machine in the largest conflict of human History, in the bloodiest of war theatres.

6 – Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War

Remember how I told you that Shadow Empire had all of these elements to its strategy? Well, Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War ditches everything in favor of the only constant that exists in the 40K Universe: War. The true 4X game, where the 4X of Exterminate really takes center stage, and for 3 dollars, you’ll have to look really hard for a better deal.

5 – Field of Glory 2

I have already written so much about Field of Glory 2 in Strategy and Wargaming that the only thing I’m going to say is that it’s the best turn-based strategy game if you want to relive battles from ancient History. That’s all, no argument, no other competitors, if you’re looking for the best, you got the best. For 5 dollars, Total War could never.

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7 responses to “The Best Strategy Games To Buy During the Slitherine Winter Sale”

  1. While I agree that War in the East 2 is very complex and an excellent design, I would not agree on “most realistic”. There is always a problem when people equates details with realism with no additional context.

    1. I think that at that scale, it is. Any other game you think does it better?

      1. In my opinion Decisive Campaigns Barbarossa does it better, albeit only focusing on the opening stages. As for War in the East, the ultra detail level does indeed make it slightly unrealistic. Beside the argument that at the core its combat system is lanchestrian due to its tracking of individual vehicles, I am not persuaded that a game covering the whole front has to go down that level to be realistic. At OKH/Stavka level you will receive data on the combat effective status of armies and corps, and possibly record division positions. Yes both supreme leaders loved to meddle in the details so you can have divisions. But certainly a step strength approach rather than the obsessively count of individual vehicles would have made the game more realistic. As I said detail does not automatically equate to realism. At this scale I think Clash of Arms War Without Mercy, GMT The Dark Valley, and Avalon Hill Russian Front does it better. If you want divisions XTR/Compass Proud Monster/The War In Russia are also valid alternatives.

      2. Thank you so much for your recommendations! Those are some amazing suggestions and I’m sure the readers will appreciate them!

  2. Terminator dark fate defiance is such a challenging but immersive strategy game.

    1. It is indeed. Such a great RTS. I’m glad Slitherine is able to do this kind of game. Can you imagine if Starship Troopers: Terran Command and Terminator: Dark Fate- Defiance had come out in the early 2000s? They would be considered classics today!

  3. Picked up all FoG2 DLCs. I have already played both FoG2 and its grand strategy brother, FoG: Empires before, but this great cut in price has finally convinced me to make my collection complete. Couldn’t agree with you more, it is the only battle simulator of the era it represents that comes close to being accurate.

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