Suppose your appetite for violence is still not satiated… If you wish to emulate Erich von Manstein’s smashing of fortress Sevastopol with giant Schwerer Gustav railway gun, you are in luck. Want to create the ultimate tank destroyer that would make Jagdtiger meow and cover? You can do that here with a few clicks. Depending on researched technologies and industrial capacity, you can reeeealy go wild here. Taking a cue from the ship design introduced in Man the Guns expansion, No Step Back enables you to design your tanks, assault guns, and other vehicles. Great new additions to the game are equipment designer and railway guns. Without those, prolonged engagements such as the battle for Caen wouldn’t be possible. Mulberry harbors were essential for the operation Overlord, providing supplies for the freshly landed troops. If you play as the German Reich, it’s very difficult to run out of supplies while invading Russia.Īmphibious assaults benefit from artificial harbors you can build in naval dockyards. Right now, the supply system seems finely tuned to USSR. Apart from the basic infrastructure bonus of each province, an integral part of it is the level of railroad going through it. It still depends on infrastructure, but now it’s easier to spot the bottlenecks and fix them. The Supply system is reworked from the ground up, and now it’s segmented into the chain of supply dumps. Using all that in correlation with the custom divisions you had designed and trained gives you unprecedented freedom to profile your military.
Army Spirits further expands upon that, going beyond staff choices to implement combat doctrines. Army Officer Corps provides staffing and tactic postings, enabling trickle-down bonuses to the corresponding branch of the armed forces. No Step Back introduces Army Officer Corps and Army Spirits system, two significant new additions for fine-tuning your offensive and defensive doctrines. Polish and Baltic states’ national focuses are also updated, providing the means of reacting or resisting the clash of the titans that’s about to roll over them. It has more than three hundred nodes, which can be intimidating at first. It’s by far the biggest in the game, offering plenty of (conflicting) options. The national focus tree is the real meat of the expansion. This is fascinating stuff, never before explored in a video game. Each option branch further, presenting you with a host of different possibilities for governing the USSR and exporting the revolution abroad. Options don’t stop there, as you can decide that the Right opposition, personified by Nikolai Bukharin, is the ultimate option.
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You can opt for a different faction of the communist party, going full Trotsky and triggering another civil war. Another viable option is USSR without Stalin. Germany might find primary targets elsewhere if you deselect „historical focus“ before you begin the game, leaving you in peace. The real beauty of the game is that Barbarossa is entirely optional. The paranoia system thus leaves the game for good, enabling you to breathe and prepare for the Barbarossa. By selecting specific national focuses, you can expand the Moscow trials, eventually unlocking the option to assassinate Leon Trotsky in Mexico and eradicate the perceived „Trotskyist plot“. The system is relatively complex and offers means of expunging itself by going along with the flow. The game offsets paranoia buildup by sometimes offering the choice – get rid of the perceived „saboteurs/wreckers“ and suffer a country-wide debuff, or ignore the impulse but build up more paranoia, risking triggering the purge that can deprive the country of governing or military talent.
Sometimes, the repercussions were USSR-wide. Stalin’s mood swings often meant the difference between life and death to people from his immediate circle.
Paranoia works as a destabilizing factor in internal politics, rising unexpectedly and randomly, triggering purge events after reaching a certain threshold. It places him front and center, implementing the concept of paranoia that plagued his decision-making and led to disastrous purges. No Step Back doesn’t try to whitewash good old Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili AKA Koba AKA Stalin.
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