Reviews and Awards for War in the East

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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RE: Reviews for War in the East

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There is a new review in the recent issue of Armchair General. They said this game just might be the definitive game of the Eastern Front.

Great job Matrix!
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1st - not 2nd!

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I thought it would be noticed sooner or later by yourself.

Gary Grigsby's War in the East awarded the gold medal from Gamershall.de.

However, you showing the silver medal! [:-]

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Military History Online.com Review

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MilitaryHistoryOnline.com Review

http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/re ... eeast.aspx

Summary and conclusion

You take on the role as the supreme commander of the entire front, and so will issue orders to all combat and support units on the map. If you want you can delegate responsibility to individual commanders in the field, in that you designate an objective for a Corps or Army, and the commander will then utilize his resources in the best way to try and reach that objective. This allows you to develop your own style of play; either focus on the big lines, draw up the big plans and let your corps/division commanders execute your plans to the best of their ability, or get your hands dirty and direct the attacks yourself from the front line. You can choose to be a logistical genius and focus on production and supply of your units, or you can be the air general, commanding swarms of Stukas onto the unsuspecting Soviets. The choice is yours in Gary Grigsby’s War in the East!

In my opinion the game is excellent for anyone interested in WW2 in general, and Operation Barbarossa specifically. With the combination of detail and playability I believe 2By3Games has created an excellent war game that should be attractive to both the experienced war gamer and the more casual gamer looking for a challenge.

!!!And finally remove the "Gamershall silver medal" in the first post!!! [:@]
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First posted August 23, 2011:


Yet another trophy in the the 2 by 3 Games award case comes from the Charles S. Roberts Awards

Matrix Games and Slitherine are thrilled to congratulate the 2 by 3 Games team for winning awards in both "Best 20th Century Era - Modern Computer Wargame" and "Best Computer Game Graphics" from the Charles S. Roberts Awards! Matrix and Slitherine would also like to congratulate several other developers who won runner-up honors:

Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge / Best 20th Century Era - Modern Computer Wargame
Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris / Best Computer Game Graphics
Revolution Under Siege - Best Computer Game Graphics

The 2 by 3 Games / Gary Grigsby award track record is nothing but astonishing. Since 2000, the 2 by 3 / Gary Grigsby team has put out 5 games that have won a CSR award:

Steel Panthers World at War (Matrix Edition)
Gary Grigsby's World at War
War Plan Orange
War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition
Gary Grigsby's War in the East

5 games in 11 years? It doesn't get much more impressive than that!

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Gold award. Game of the Year 2011

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Strategycon Interactive - Best strategy game.
Gold award!
Game of the Year 2011.
Well deserved! - Congratulations. [:)]
http://www.si-games.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23553
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RE: Gold award. Game of the Year 2011

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If interested, my WITE and WITE:DttD reviews for NWI (in Italian):

WITE: http://www.netwargamingitalia.net/2012/ ... -the-east/
WITE: Don to the Danube: http://www.netwargamingitalia.net/2012/ ... he-danube/

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