"Stalingrad 42" is a submod for "Eastern Front". As the name might imply, it focuses on the brutal struggle over the city of Stalingrad, from the Summer of 1942 to the capitulation of the pocket in February 1943. S42 adds realistic weapon stats, realistic gameplay ( like fuel and ammo consumption ) and historical units to the game, while it mostly removes the teching and upgrade aspect. The Mod also features unique summer and winter maps and skins, adds some more units to the soviet factions ( like early T-34, BA-10 or T-26 )and supplies the germans with units like Flakpanzer I, early StuG IIIs or StuIG 33
Good mod but still need to be improved more (this review is for version 1.01).
Bugs:
1. German AT rifle unit can't penetrated armor (can't even destroy a truck)
2. A direct hit of artillery shell on light vehicle with 1% hit point sometimes failed to finish off the unit.
Gameplay:
1. Mortar rarely suppressed infantry unit.
2. Soviet is overall much stronger than German thus need more balancing (especially in early game, Soviet can call in ZIS-6 with 3 Maxim MG which could steamroll all German infantry unit if the player unprepared when they reach 2 or 3 phase).
3. German's Air Superiority doctrine lack of ground unit making them the weakest doctrine from all doctrine on both faction (has little to zero chance of winning on 1 vs 1 battle).
This mod is not only historical and realistic ( within CoH limts ofc ) but also looks really great.The modders did a tremendous job on all the uniform variation and vehicle models and skins.And last but not least - its a lot of fun!
Noice!
Top mod! Number one!!!