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>>13736843

Oyyy!! Stop trying to direct people away from what the Nazis did, you neo-nazi bastid!

>>13736843

To answer your question, they were a minor player in the grand scheme of things. The Italians were quickly beaten in Africa, and invaded later on in 1943. Germany and Japan hold all the glory as the agitators of the the second world war. It's just what is more interesting to audience, core and wide. However, it's never too late to make a game featuring them in a better capacity.

There is one game I remember you could play as the Italians in though. It was the Ubisoft game RUSE, and that was just for multiplayer. I was actually pretty good as them back when. The unit I exploited the most was a dual purpose anti tank and anti aircraft mobile artillery piece. Their lighter tanks also let you get a good rush. Pretty underrated game despite its creators being ass.

>>13736966

Axis & Allies was the shit. I still even have my old physical copy. One thing I remember in particular was the really fun map editor. I didn't know how to do online play at the time, so I stuck to only playing the computer. The factions were all fleshed out and had very clear distinctions on their play styles. It's also an underrated game. I'd like to replay it one of these days, but I don't have a disk drive on this pc, and I haven't been bothered to find a torrent for such an old game.

>>13736966

The games I have seen that focus on the African/Italian front usually start off with Rommel as the big baddie and then more or less its just about winning the war.

>>13736843

Because the Italian army was woefully unprepared. Mussolini, as much of a fuck up as he was, knew this fully well and tried to stall the beginning of the war because he just couldn't mobilize shit - remember that they had recently acquired a war-torn country and that unlike Germoney the infrastructure had none of those cushy (((Weimar))) funds taken from the banking families. Simply put, Italy was a stroll in the park compared to like the Eastern Front. A more interesting game would have you deal with the fucking Mafia helping the Allies cross into the peninsula.

>>13737078

Downloaded this one after seeing that alternative branch thing it has going on and boy does the game not fuck around in the actual campaign. Poland is an actual bitch to take in a Decisive Victory due to the fact half of the god damn army is stuck in Slovakia and takes several turns to get into position whilst the other half is not mobilized at all. The fucking poles got a tank that can be a nuissance to your own and their cities are heavily fortified with artilery and forts.

My autism ain't letting me finish that damn mission without a decisive victory, it's fucking Poland God damn it. But from what I noticed Germany is the only one with such a vast tree, the others don't make any mentions of alternative paths in its library. Is it an oversight or?

>shitalians

They ruined the Axis' chances of winning, along with the retarded nips. They don't deserve the glory.

>>13738007

The German campaign is the main campaign. The others are smaller because they're cheaper DLC campaigns. I guess I can't complain too much about that. I haven't gotten to the end of it, but the grand campaign has some interesting missions. Its branches (because it's on a historical trajectory) are mostly things like "assault Dunkirk and cripple the English" and such, but the last few missions are basically, "hey if you get a decisive victory in a bunch of Berlin missions you don't totally lose." Same with the western one. If you get decisive victory after decisive victory (like five against what I can only assume are insane odds) you get a shot at pushing the Americans into the sea or something judging by the mission titles. It's crazy, how many games even let you come close to that? Fun stuff!

>>13738044

Let's be honest here, if more big pubs made games focusing on the Italian front the Italians would only see the "glory" of having their countrymen slaughtered in their millions by heroic African-American ftm transexual super soldiers. Maybe when you look at it like that, it's not that bad that they're spared most of the attention while only autistic strategy games let them out of the cuckshed.

>>13738065

Fair enough, but the difficult bit is to actually get those fucking decisive missions. I'm doing the 39' Grand Campaign right now and I only got a marginal victory on the last one due to getting bogged down at the last city thanks to lack of supplies.

I dread the later missions once the Soviets and Americans start pushing back

>>13738007

>Poland is an actual bitch to take in a Decisive Victory due to the fact half of the god damn army is stuck in Slovakia and takes several turns to get into position

Boy, will you have fun with Norway then, when the weather makes the terrain muddy (limiting the mobility of all your troops) and grounding all your aircraft, while the map is full of mountains and chokepoints and you're getting bullied by the English navy. And the you get to the Low Countries and get to experience all those beautiful rivers.

>fucking poles got a tank that can be a nuissance

Don't engage the tank with your tanks. First order of business is to establish air superiority, then use a Stuka to weaken the tank, followed by artillery to suppress it before moving in with two or more infantry to destroy it.

Remember, suppression is the single most important mechanic in the game, followed by mass attack and forcing units to surrender. Use enemy units against each other when they are bunched up to surround and destroy them, try to get behind cities with your tanks to attack their artillery.

>it's fucking Poland God damn it

Try the Grand Campaign, it starts you off with more gimped and weakened Polish forces.

>>13737078

>let you fight beyond Al-Alamein

You eventually invade India.

>you can basically fight with an all-Italian arm

There's even an achievement for that.

>Really with more games would try something like that.

You have the inspiration for the game, Panzer General I and II, that both allow for branching scenarios, and then you have Warhammer Armageddon, which is basically Panzer Corps with 40k units, though they did rework a few mechanics to make the gameplay fit the setting more closely.

Panzer Generals series

Mare Nostrum Mod for RO

>>13738091

>Norway

Oh christ don't remind me, I used to play this kind of game on my phone back in the mid 00's and I had an easier time sieging Moscow than dealing with all the fucking coastal forts alongside Norway. Getting the bonus objective there was a several hours long endeavor

>>13738083

Yeah, later missions are absolutely brutal. The game's fun, but it doesn't pull its punches. Sometimes it's even been a bit unfair during the Soviet counterattack missions, but hey, I woudln't expect a Soviet counter-attack in 1943 to be a walk in the park so I guess I can't complain.

>>13738108

Reading the achievement list is how I learned about it. Honestly not bad marketing because the challenge sounded fun! But I hadn't beaten the other campaigns so shelling out another bundle of Shekels seemed premature.

I tried to play Panzer Corps, but the game crashed constantly, it was unplayable (win10 64bit). Anyone got a link to a working version?

>get fucked up by the British African armies

>barely manage not to get fucked up by the Albanians

>get fucked up by the Greeks

>get to Case Blue and manage to do such a decent job against the Soviets the Wehrmacht advisor in Rome goes to his Italian counterpart and basically asks if it was a huge fucking joke

Not to mention getting saddled with some of the shittiest and to be fair some of the best weapons of the war. Tbqh I'd rather have a WW2 game that lets you play as the minor Axis nations. Fucking over the bolsheviks as Latvian or Estonian SS, Hungarian or Romanian armies would be killer.

>>13738169

>being a wiseguy

>>13740915

Wouldn't know, I use Win8 and I've had zero issues. Got mine from Steam during a sale though, so maybe you just have a bad copy of it. Wouldn't know how to help you there.

>>13740997

>Did such a decent job during Case Blue that the Wehrmacth advisor in Rome asks his counterpart if it was a huge fucking joke

Story time that for us anon, sounds hilarious and I can't find anything concrete

>>13740997

>Latvian or Estonian SS

Didn't they even keep operating well into the 1950s?

>>13740997

>Hungarian armies

Panzerfaust infantry?

>>13745057

Latvia still has nazi imagery in their parades. I guess they never felt like dismantling that because, honestly, what kind of threat could that region pose to anyone?

>>13736843

Because Hetalia was a joke in ww2.

>>13745409

The main issue with the Italians is that they were poorly led. Unlike with Germany, where being an officer was a prestigious position that attracted the best and brightest, in Italy a military job was reserved for dumbest failures, a place where rich families threw their unwanted progeny in the hopes they'd die and make successions all the easier. When Italian units were put under the command of officers that cared about the mission and them they performed admirably.

>>13737078

Soundtrack ain't half bad, either.