I wish I could give this a neutral review.

== The Good ==

Gameplay is excellent. Is plays really well, is fun and well designed. Every unit serves a purpose and all of them feel good to pilot and use. The pathing is sometimes weird, and there's the occasional bug but nothing gamebreaking.

You have a HUGE amount of freedom to create decks and customize your army. Really awesome. You can go for multiple different playstyles and they all work out one way or another.

The balancing is excellent in my humble opinion. No side feels OP. Russia I believe has a very minor advantage over the US but it's so minor, it shouldn't be an issue. This ties to the previous point where you really can play whatever you want and you can make it work. There is no "standard meta" (looking at you COH 3)

Multiplayer is great when you get into a good match. The 5v5 grand battles are amazing and there's so many things to do.

== The Bad ==

Pretty much everything else except the gameplay is... bad.

Regarding multiplayer, there is no punishment for leaving/abandoning a match. Therefore, you can do it freely and people do it; ruining the MP game in the process.

Performance is here and there. I had to drop graphics quite a bit to sustain stable 70 FPS on i7 13700k, RTX4060 and 32 gigs of ram.

The worst part about this game is the almost total lack of singleplayer.
There is a campaign which IDGAF about so I'll talk about the rest.

You can't get friendly AI to do 2v2, 3v3 et.c. Only 1v1.
You can't save in Skirmish AI battles.
The AI is wildly unbalanced. Feels like it's cheating. Constantly spamming units everywhere and going full zerg on you. Nightmare to play against.


== Overall ==

Great core gameplay, great balance, very fun mechanics and good multiplayer but held back by abysmal singleplayer, lack of leaver punishment and missing quality of life features.
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