Both of these games are titans of the genre, but can Ostfront really dethrone Men of War Assault Squad 2, a game that's brought us so many hours of pure joy?

I love both, and Men of War 2 is on the way!... But what do you think?

Gates of Hell Ostfront 🤝 MoW Assault Squad 2

Dunking on Men of War 2

I prefer the mechanics and added animations of GoH, and I feel that it's a good step for the genre. GoH just needs to get some of the amazing mods MoW2 has to be top. However, I don't know what they're doing with MoW2. From what I have seen and played, it's a complete downgrade and plays way more arcade-y.

If you're gonna include robz you might wanna point out that RobZ is a developer on the team for Gates of Hell Ostfront which is mostly why it is the way it is

But... RobZ, the modder, is also the lead developer of Gates of Hell, working with a licensed version of the CtA engine. So really, he's made both games good.
That is also why you must buy CtA first, but GoH is it's own standalone game.
Any way, both AS2 and GoH are excellent games, and have different strenghts and weaknesses. GoH has better single player longevity, AS2 has great multiplayer, both have a gorillion mods.  

MoW2 however, is extremely disappointing, and it won't be fixed before release.

I thought the German Ostfront Veteranen was it's own faction in Men of war

I just like ostfront more because of dynamic campaign tbh.

I can only play so many Wigga campaigns nad multiplayer maps

the improved direct controls and the first person mode alone makes GoH an upgrade over mowas2 and we haven't even talked about the graphics, sounds and units. yes they are very similar, basically the same game, but GoH is a very solid overall improvement. I might even say it's the definitive version of men of war so far.

That ending was way better than anything I could've hoped for. It was in my mind the whole time I watched this video, and even before you mentioned it I knew what you were going to say. Haha, amazing video!

To be fair, the developers of Gates of Hell Ostfront were forced to make it a DLC for Call to Arms. Great informative and entertaining video. I have and love both games.

you know... putting these games into a wrestling match as a comparison really helped me understand the differences better lol

First things first, I loved the video it was very well made!

Now onto my take on this. I’ve played Men of War and it’s many spin offs and sequels, early teenage years were spent getting angry at Faces of War for being for difficult. Men of War Assault Squad 2 was the piece de resistance in the series, I remember initially being concerned at the lack of a traditional campaign but ultimately I loved the way they did the missions, multiplayer was just as good as it had been before and ultimately when the mods released the game became my favourite RTS game of all time, Robz realism being one of those mods. Now as I write this comment they’ve announced the US are coming to Gates of Hell and they released and update that’s significantly improved the AI, they also had a sale where you could buy the whole Call to Arms package for about £10 which is crazy value. Which brings me to my next point, it’s integration with Call to Arms, Barbed Wire studios used to post game updates on their Facebook page early in development and at some point when they were nearing the end of development Best Way who created the GEM engine basically said that they were no longer allowed to release a standalone game using the GEM2 engine and they had internal discussions to either shift development to a different engine or find another way to licence it, that’s why it’s integrated with Call to Arms because Digitalmindsoft already had a licence and they came together to solve the issue. Also Robz is actually now a developer on Gates of Hell too which is why the mod is now rarely updated. Ultimately I think Gates of Hell is far superior in everything except the amount of factions it has but as we are seeing, this is changing. Men of War 2 on the other hand is just awful, the beta was just painful to play and it doesn’t respect it predecessors at all.

Haha that was a funny and entertaining 'showdown' review of both games. I realy enjoyed it. I happen to own both games indeed. Also play alot of CoH1 Blitzkrieg mod&Eastern Front mod, Age of Empires 3, and currently this past week I started playing C&C 3 Kane's Wrath again with the Tiberium Twilight mod. Good ol' times ^^

I like how a bunch of war games chose peace

Congratulations on one of the best and perhaps unique comparative game reviews I have ever watched! Very entertaining!  Recently purchased Assault Squad 2 on Steam Winter Sale and just started to play it. Rather steep learning curve but enjoying, however I was wondering how it compared with Gates of Hell ... then found this video!  Sounds like both games are worth owning as I am a bit of a WW 2 historian.  Do wish Assault Squad 2 did a better job of providing a comprehensive beginner tutorial series rather than forcing a new player to watch endless YT videos to learn the game basics before you can understand how to play..  Interested to see how your subscribers (new sub myself) feel about these two games.

Also have to consider the liberation DLC which adds 20+s maps and has continuous updates every month and week even the next content update contains us ships and other addition faction ships mostly small not too game changing but still good and has the new blow everything up feature this game also has ambient wildlife which spawns and acts naturally

I just completed MoW2AS and currently playing the basic CtA.

I prefer the mechanic, gameplay and hotkeys of MoW2AS than CtA.

In MoW2AS, i can completely fix any broken abandoned vehicles especially armor vehicle.  In CtA i havent able to stun then capture / steal armored vehicle.

In MoW2AS i able to lift and hide enemy dead bodies easily. I csnt do that in CtA.

No hotkey to craw/laydown troops in CtA.

In MoW2AS i can pick up any dropped weaponary, especially AT bazooka. In CtA sometimes the troops cant pick it.

In MoW2AS we can call any invantery/cavalery/altillery/support reinforcements when having sufficient "morale"

The CtA FPV just nice to have, since the main reason playing RTS, player is focusing on map view

14:06 Best analogy

9:48 you don’t need cta anymore.

Thanks, i recently got back into MoW and this video really helped me understand the difference between the two games. Its the first time i hear about GoH and it sounds nice, but not really too intuitive and revolutionary