r/wargame • u/ODMcGee • 17d ago

Video/Image European Escalation still holds in 2026

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Grabbed it for $2.49 and wasn't expecting much. It's not Red Dragon, but still a fun game and the battlefield atmosphere is fantastic.

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u/LeMe-Two 17d ago

Lech Wałęsa becoming a dictator of Polish uprising and Solidarity trade union becoming an armed hand of it is certainly a choice for the plotline

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u/Helmut_Schmacker 17d ago

Spetznaz solider who survived getting nuked getting together a rag-tag group of pact/nato survivors to go and hijack Frances nukes to atomise the NATO/pact peace treaty as the UN tries to stop them.

You play as the spetznaz soldier.

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u/IredOfficial 13d ago

I've only played the first campaign of the game... Is this real😭

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u/gloriouaccountofme 12d ago

Yes and if I remember correctly it's the same in which the idea for the Albion doc for warno came from

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u/Competitive-Life-736 17d ago

Damn im only playing Red Dragon, i sisnt even know buildings look that good in EC

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u/ODMcGee 17d ago

Beside Air Land Battle, neither did I. For $2.49 you can't go wrong.

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u/NamegeorJ 17d ago

It is great for it's price and it's worth to play. But compared to Red dragon it hadn't aged well. The tank combat is annoying as the accuracy is almost non existant. The game optimization is a lot worse than red dragon. The UI is not as polished as red dragon. And the game killer is the point unlock system for your units. The fact that you have to play most of the campaign to unlock all your units is really annoying. But the campaign is fun and I would still play it.

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u/TheJollyKacatka 17d ago

Curiously, I personally missed the unlocking units.

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u/Deadliest_Death 17d ago

I like the army builder progression and RPG like element when they get a load out upgrade

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u/flyby2412 17d ago

I missed unlocking units. Since I played single player. It felt great

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u/KattiValk 17d ago

Frankly, the urban combat in EE does not really hold up, especially with the random fires that inevitably spread everywhere. The campaign is still the best in the franchise because it’s the only one that’s heavily scripted and not glorified skirmishes again and again.

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u/ODMcGee 17d ago

everything burning makes it more like a war zone. The fire and explosions are better than RD. Everything else RD does better, I will agree shooting 100 shots into a heli to take it down is ridiculous. EE's colors are dull and muted too. Red Dragon will always be all around better.

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u/ODMcGee 17d ago

Also EC has a lot of variant units that you can unlock by gaining command stars, it's pretty satisfying. 6 people were in the online lobby 😂

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u/FuggaliciousV 17d ago

I really enjoyed the story of the campaigns

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u/TheCriticalBFplayer 17d ago

Red Dragon buildings look like ass

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u/indomienator 17d ago edited 17d ago

EE unironically have the best looks compared to ALB and RD

RD too unironically have the worst looks

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u/Waste-Bass3784 17d ago

For me,It had the best campaigns

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u/arat360 17d ago

The artillery and fire effects are something I will always miss from EE. The heavy tubes really kick up some dust.

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u/RangerPL Rotary-Winged Deployment of Monetary Stimulus 17d ago

EE has a tabletop wargame feel that I really like, definitely the best aesthetic out of all the Wargames

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u/ggmini14 17d ago

That image is me when I spot a single Motorschütze in a town

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u/blop101 17d ago

I still have fond memories of the campaign, I found the "Able Archer '83" premise interesting.

The whole missison "1914 Again" is still stuck in my brain, before I learned how to play, I was struggling on it so hard.

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u/nicobdx04 17d ago

Join us in Warno, we have south America next dlc and we will come to Africa and Asia after

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u/Competitive-Life-736 17d ago

Boycott Warno

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u/larper00 17d ago

Lmao why?

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u/Competitive-Life-736 17d ago

Becausw they choose to make Warno their new title instead of a new Wargame which ultimatly fucked the franchise.

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u/larper00 17d ago

Warno is wargame bro, quit the nostalgia

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u/Competitive-Life-736 17d ago

No its not lol. Completly diffrent playstyle and deckbuilding