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Anonymous12/27/25, 14:24No.2309261Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg bread: Linux edition
While I am aware that both games are different and people who like one, might dislike the other, to me they are inseparable. Think of na era in gaming history, when people tried to take make cool and unique stuff and wonderful games were created.
Anyway, for those unfamiliar or returning:
>where to get games?
GOG or Steam, with GOG being preferable or just sharpen you cutlass.
>which are worth getting?
The original BK (comes with expansions) and SS Gold (included Forever) is where it's at. SS2 is revered, but has the mission pack syndrome of being aimed at veterans (hard) and Resource War doubles down on that while adding some RTS mechanics and fuel tedium, included in GOG's SS2Gold.
Blitzkrieg 2 is full 3D, but not as good as the original. Destruction is great, but infantry models and animations are ass. Gameplay can be salvaged by mods.
Sudden Strike 3 is also 3D and was shit on release due to unit pathfinding, which was fixed in the expansion that also patched the base game. Still content is slim, mostly long and tedious mission with shit like infinitely re-spawning tunnel-japs.
>what about Blitzkrieg 3 and Sudden Strike 4?
BK3 is complete trash that doesn't work on many systems anymore, avoid. SS4 is a more arcadey take on Sudden Strike, think Codename Panzers? The base game sucks, but the expansions are kind of ok, just don't pay full price of the it.
>Mods?
https://www.sudden-strike-maps.de/
https://www.blitzkrieg.be/bkmods
Many recent SS mods are standalone games.
>Linux?
Yup, on Steam use older Proton and on Lutris Proton-GE works fine for both series, default wine doesn't. One thing to know is that some SS standalone mods like RWM 8.5 have the default exe being a lanucher and it won't work, you need to copy the files from game\code\release to \game and use game_exe.exe as the executable.
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Anon12/27/25, 14:39No.2309266
>Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg bread: Linux edition
>Linux? Emulations only.
Can't believe I fell for the bait and read this. I'm waiting for a native Linux edition.
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Anon12/27/25, 15:36No.2309300
FUCK YEAH SUDDEN STRIKE!Right now there's a spiritual successor being worked on called PANZER STRIKE; it seems legit, as it is also being discussed by the Sudden Strike Maps community.
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Anon12/31/25, 12:01No.2312492
Played through the German campaign last year.
The mission towards the end where you have to free the prisoners took me a few days; it was pretty crazy how you get assaulted like 10 seconds after the mission started, then have to make your way over some bridges all while getting assaulted, get your dudes out and then leave another way because there's continuous assaults from the starting point.Stopped at some point in the soviet campaign for unknown reasons.I would love to play some of the mods like MWM or RWM, but holy shit, with all the nice spriteworks and stuff you just can't see shit. That's one occasion where I would actually support making things more "game-y".
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Anon12/31/25, 17:34No.2312709
>ss thread
nice
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Anon12/31/25, 17:37No.2312712
>capture tiger
>it gets oneshot by jagdtiger
sad
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Anon01/02/26, 14:23No.2313909
I tried Cuban Missile Crisis, it feels like wasted potential: the game. The base is better than Blitzkrieg but the total war map mode sucks, the map design is usually bad, and while it fixes some things it breaks others, like infantry being infinite and overpowered.
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Anon01/09/26, 19:13No.2318567
Blitzkrieg 1 and 2 were open sourced!
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Anon01/10/26, 20:45No.2319274
>still no access to panzer strike beta
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Anon01/20/26, 21:10No.2325258
Worst thing about never getting a Sudden Strike sourceport is no remapping.
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Anon01/21/26, 02:39No.2325388
Blizkrieg GZM mod is a must try.
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Anon01/21/26, 22:02No.2325894
When I was a kid I remember one mission where you are playing as the Germans defending against a Soviet assault across a minefield. Does anyone remember what mission that was?
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Anon01/28/26, 18:33No.2329847
Which one do you guys enjoy more, 1 or 2? I like some of 2's QoL features, but 1 "feels" better, so to say.