At any rate, I have experimented a little bit with the general layout of the post. I most probably should have done this over a series, instead of one super-post. If you needed any more indication of my need for better things to do with my time, here you have it. In fact, it has become literally dissertation length. If you were wondering, yes this is a long post. That is not stopping me from pointing out the things I noticed that do not seem to exactly work as intended – or things that simply need to be improved upon.

I am also fairly most of the things I point out will or have been addressed by developers, the players, or both. That is, for every problem, I will hopefully indicate a solution. Now I intend for this post to be constructive. You can also choose not to involve yourself in trivial matters such as an all-out war for Europe, and just fight in ‘Skirmish’ mode, with no stakes beyond each self-contained match. You fight and contribute to an overall war effort – that is, the Generals are the ones playing the RTS side of the game, while the Heroes are the soldiers on the ground fighting it out. H&G is essentially a Battlefield-Planetside cross-between that is supposed to be a hybrid of FPS and RTS.

There is, in many ways, a depth to the game seldom achieved by other first person shooters. Despite everything (and all the problems I will talk about below) I do keep coming back to it, and often, I find myself having great fun. Heroes & Generals (H&G) is a game I have a very much love-hate affair with.

War thunder vs heroes and generals