For anyone who might be familiar with the turn based Advanced Squad Leader board games, Second Front is essentially a digital computer game with a nearly identical ruleset.

For the most part, the game is good. I'm not a fan of the cartoon aesthetic styled graphics, but I understand that realistic modeling of the vast amount of units might have been a lot more work.

Lots of other reviews cite biased dice/RNG in the favor of the AI. Sometimes the RNG can feel a bit unfair, but I assure you, it is not. I even went and analyzed a complete recording of one of my playthroughs of the "Gazala Skirmish" scenario, where there are 2 37mm Pak 35/36 AT guns that cause a lot of trouble. They cause trouble because of their relatively high rate of fire, which is simulated as a 50% of getting another shot every time they take a shot. People would report as many as 9 or 10 free shots and an average of 4 free shots per turn.

Upon analysis, I found that these guns actually had an average of 1 free shot per turn, which is quite reasonable. My analysis data is in the games discussion forums.

There are unfortunately, quite a lot of bugs, including game breakers. A bug I've experienced multiple times now is where the AI gets stuck on its turn and just loops. The game never continues, and I have to forcibly close the game and restart it. I have reported it, as have other people, even with a video. Hopefully it gets fixed. But there are quite a number of smaller bugs in the game. Some think that the RNG is bugged sometimes, and unfortunately this is very hard to test and verify.

The game does have a lot of features that it lacks, a big one being multiplayer, and the majority of these features have been requested already; however, the real problem I have is not with the game itself, even with the bugs and lack of key features, but the developer's (Jo Bader) attitude towards customers. I'll just leave you with one quote from the game's discussion forums.

Originally posted by jo.bader:

Originally posted by Russkly:

Thanks, Jo.

Look forward to it.

Could you also update us on the status of the roadmap published last year, please?

the Roadmap is the Roadmap. and when I have fun to work on the game then I do it.
I don't care about your demands, suggestions or whatever you think you have the right to ask for. clear enough?