Men of War: Assault Squad features a completely new cooperative skirmish game mode with access to five different nations (Russia, Germany, USA, Commonwealth and, for the first time ever in the Men of War series, Japan) as well as increased realism and accessibility.
Not a bad game, features 90% of the content of MoW the original game.
Positives:
Same game play to the entire series (i came from SHOWW2, and got right into this one easily).
Way less micromanagement (although the ability to micromanage is still there so if desired single man sneak rambo missions are still possible).
Ammo sharing (again, fixes one annoyance in the previous games).
Massive and i mean massive modding potential (community maps are the sole reason i still play singleplayer).
Negatives:
Terrible stock maps (no variety, rather limited replay-ability, too few options for units, every mission in one faction features exact same setup, ect).
DLC is rather poor (MP dlc only splits the community for no reason, and adds maps that are pointless given the sheer abundance of modded maps, Singleplayer DLC is rather poor, custom maps are hundreds of times better made and more fun).
A few bugs (AI refusing to fire on their own, Tiger turret absurd traverse rate, pathfinding issues especially in MP like the map with goalposts tanks always end up stuck in, ect).
Honestly 8/10, could use major improvements at least in terms of missions (i wouldnt mind if they made a few more with actual variety and not just same mission on a different landscape). A few bugs exist, some more rage inducing then others. But overall id say its an improvement over the 1st game, so we lost a few units (most of them pointless anyways like the absurd amount of 75mm armed tommy cookers that all have same armor/performance but minor 3D changes), gained a few (wespe, heroes), got a few 3D upgrades (Murican lineup, tiger, ect), and had a few upgrades in terms of balance/performance. In comparison to MoW the 1st one its better, visually much better, and it just feels more natural to play, and ofc they added a much better MP mode, which is good. Great game, if only they didnt forget about single player and actually made a half decent campaign that wast just the same skirmish every time.