Tasteless war poem pun
I keep alternating between wanting to play more and feeling weary at the prospect.
But I still feel a little mixed.
TGW is neither jingoistic or moralistic, nor is it coldly dispassionate.
Your influence is contained to the front.
That’s not a complaint.
Some units and buildings give free supplies to the local province, sparing your global supply pool.
National will inevitably trends downwards, but if the enemy’s hits zero first, you win.
No one battle can change everything.
you could have a Somme or Amiens, but each province must be won multiple times to be occupied.
Deplete every star and it’s yours.
But a sluggish UI compounds a need for frustrating micromanagement.
Enemies occasionally waltz along a line and hang out unbothered in the middle of your army.
One used this temporary invincibility to wipe out four surrounding companies with a flamethrower.
Even if these are pre-release glitches, performance was really quite sluggish.
Although the map layouts persist, held territory does not.
And taking a whole map does offer satisfaction, even if it doesn’t last.
This system feels like a necessary compromise between realism and enjoyability, basically.
I don’t know.
I like Western Front, for sure.
