Unlike its' prequel, Steel Division 2 provides not just one campaign per faction instead, it comes with several Dynamic Strategic Campaigns, each with a certain long-term objective.
If you're unsure, the computer can do the deckbuilding for you - but even then, you might want to optimise your troop distribution. There's quite a lot of variables to juggle: unit stats and properties, their ranking, how soon they will appear on the battlefield and how many of them will, - and you're given a finite amount of activation points to balance everything out. A deck includes several squads, each based on a certain unit type, be it recon units, or tanks, or artillery. The main draw of any of Eugen's titles is the ability to build unit decks, and knowing how to assemble a strategically viable division is less of an advantage and more of a necessity. Shifting its focus from the Normandy battles to Operation Bagration, Steel Division 2 marks the first title in Eugen Systems's long line of wargames to be published independently from Focus Entertainment or Paradox Interactive. With over 600 units recreated with painstaking accuracy, massively-scaled campaigns and numerous multiplayer modes, this game aims to be a bonafide wartime capsule experience, - and gets the job done perfectly. Steel Division 2 might be Eugen Systems’s best WWII-themed strategy title, set during the Eastern Front’s largest offensive, 1944’s Operation Bagration.
