Alright, so. Necro'd the thread to say I bought this game today. Friggin fantastic, I love it. I think the second Russian mission sold me on it. At the start of it I was fighting intense, room-to-room battles to reclaim lost ground and by the end of it I had lost so many men and was being pushed back so far that I was on the edge of my seat saying to myself "this is a clusterfuck, oh Jesus." In case you're wondering, about seven people survived out of the 150-so but for each man I lost my men took down 5 Germans. It was amazingly visceral and I loved it. At one point, I managed to take out a half track by ramming it with a tank and flipping it over. Hilarious.
Oh, Asehujiko? All your points, as far as I can tell, are good ones if this doesn't suit your play style, but if someone tells me "this is a game where one of your men can kick away a grenade in the direction of a fuel dump, which sends all your men sky-high" then I would play the game right there and then. It's Dwarf Fortress, I swear, nowadays half the time I play to lose in the funniest way possible.
EDIT: Okay, has there been a patch that's added automatic ammo searching? Because it's a pain in the ass and the one thing that takes away from the experience.