War in the East 2: A First Look | Tutorial Gameplay – Part 1

The Eastern Front, the most decisive theatre of World War II and the largest land battlefield. A fight to the end, Total War between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, each commanding millions. The legendary wargame team at 2by3 Games has spent years revisiting this titanic conflict to once again establish a new state of the art.

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2 is a complete overhaul and improvement of the original War in the East, with no stone left unturned to provide a more realistic, more historically rich, and more challenging strategy experience. War in the East 2 comes with a wide array of scenarios ranging from the short tutorial on the Battle for Velikie Luki, to the four-month Destruction of Southwest Front, up to the immense full 1941 – 1945 Grand Campaign of the entire Eastern front from Operation Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin. A total of seven Operational Scenarios and three Full Map Campaigns await you with hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of historical gameplay.

Years of new development have resulted in the best AI opponent ever made by 2by3 for any of their game. Also included are a much more accurate map including a full single and double rail network as well as the historical road network, a detailed and expanded Order of Battle, new realistic movement and combat models, an advanced Logistics system, a vastly improved and easy to manage Air system and many other improvements in the interface and game management, as well as a built-in encyclopedia of the weapons and units of the Eastern Front. This is just scratching the surface of the many new features and improvements, all of which are explained in a fully comprehensive manual, also available as a physical copy.

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[mathewm]

It's not just a game, it's a career.

[GamerGuy]

I always want to play games like these, and then I see actual gameplay and I realize I'm too stupid to play games like these.

[chrismunson]

Great intro to the game. I was an unpaid tester on this game for 3 years. To me this is a must have game. Best unit historical research ever and includes such obscure units as the 500th zbv Penal Bicycle Recon Battalion. Interface is much improved over WitE. Can't argue with comments below that campaign games are a big time commitment but I enjoy every minute. Really though, gameplay is very intuitive and manual dives are for things like what event triggers a Romanian surrender. Things like air unit rebasing are drag and drop. Hope everyone gets to enjoy the game as I have.

[robertsantamaria]

Wow, and I thought the original was an imposing monster of a game. Seems like Mr. Grigsby looked at his original work and thought it was much too light and wasn't complex enough. At $80 it's a steal for what it is, but I still haven't finished the first game so I feel like I should finish that first. See you in 10 years WitE2.

[jeffjensen]

To those wondering, War in the East (WitE) is a game where you're supposed to start by reading the manual before touching the game. In the original game, even when doing the tutorial it suggests you have read most of the manual. I think you can even get a physical copy of this with a girthy physical manual

[Ghost]

Now that is how to perfectly explain the game mechanics and a scenario.
Great work ... very informative and extremely useful.
Thanks so much..

[deelingerTV]

Hi, Velikiye Luki should sound like Velee-kee-yea Looky. And the meaning is kinda “the great meadows” in ancient Russian.

[general-cromwell]

I played a couple of the GG's board games back in the day...I had to play solo because they were beasts and I couldn't find any other gamers willing to play such an immense commitment...the map covered a significant portion of my floor.

And there were thousands of counters, I think there even rail gauge counters.

Anyways, that was in the "classics" time.

All the best.

Cheers

[angiesoncrant]

Not detailed enough. I want to have information on inventory of steel, glass, concrete, parts and components, and allocate them down to the individual rivet. I want to be able to spend an entire lifetime on the very first turn.

[jeffjensen]

2:26 "SparkleyTits" may he be forever remembered.
(3rd from bottom row, 3rd name in)

[Blueqoose]

I love hex and counter games on the computer. It's a shame they get glossed over by strategy players because they aren't nice and shiny to look at. I will take depth and mechanics over graphics and smoothness any day.

[andrewcronin]

This looks as amazing. I have been enamored by their games since buying the original Gary Grigsby's War in Russia the earliest version and then sneaking into my universities school of business computer lab, after 5pm on a Friday (They had top of the range IBM 386DX100 systems, with EGA monitors) to play it until the cleaners finally kicked me out. For me the Holy Grail is a game depicting the entire European conflict from 1939-1945. The team have mentioned it as a eventual goal previously and the presence of a map and oob for west and southern fronts, makes me think that dream may be close.

Btw...
Allmost EVERY wargame is exagerating the effects of snow. I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m a veteran of the swedish army but snow doesn’t really affect military operations all that much. Not to the absurd extent that most strategy games would have you believe anyway.

The darkness is probably the most prominent feature of winter actually. The sun rising at 9am and setting at 3pm is far more influential than the fact its cold and the ground is white and fluffy.

[gohibniugoh]

Awesome, brings back memories of playing SPIs War in the East boardgame. I have enjoyed many of Gary Grigsbys works.

[angelfan]

I just got into Shadow Empire, and I really like it. Stumbled on this as well.

Good heavens.

[bremnersghost]

Respect to the OCD Creators of this, Just watching THG makes my head hurt.

[dcsmall]

I've been waiting for this game, wanted to get WitE but was advised to wait for this, glad it's finally here!

[dutovdevlich]

Hard copy not to start mailing till April 16th. Strategy Guy dojo has a let's play running he very familiar with GG games and is trying to teach how to play though is planning tutorial videos soon once he's played enough.

[khurramwadiwalla]

Booted game up to relax after work.
*20 minutes* later drafted into labor battalion outside Stalingrad.

[blackedelweiss]

Being as the first one took me like over 2 years to do one play through... not sure if I can commit again lol