When Downfall: Conquest of the Third Reich, 1942-1945 was announced a few years ago, I was immediately interested because the game was a strategic level wargame and looked to me to be similar in scope and scale to one of my other favorite games covering WWII at the strategic level in Unconditional Surrender!. As I started to do a bit more research on the game and look into it, I realized it was quite a bit different than I had thought (in a good way) and was also a collaboration between 2 really great designers in the late Chad Jensen and the great John Butterfield, and I was very much anticipating the game. I also saw where the game has the players not only handling one of the opposing Allied sides including the Western Allies and the Soviets but also has each control the opposite defending German army as well. 

I wrote a full First Impression review on the blog and you can read that at the following link: https://theplayersaid.com/2024/03/12/first-impressions-downfall-conquest-of-the-third-reich-1942-1945-from-gmt-games/

-Grant