Broken Base and Fandom Rivalry: Between Men of War playerbase and Call to Arms playerbase, usually due to the radical differences to not only the setting, but the gameplay.
Demonic Spiders: Flamethrower troops can be an absolute nightmare, they can arc their surprisingly far-ranged flamethrower over obstacles and getting hit by one causes your troops to burn to death with nothing you can do to stop it, it's even worse in certain missions where they respawn.
Game-Breaker: At least one realism mod allows for completely realistic weapon ranges and power. This can create some amusing scenarios, such as the Invasion of Crete: part of your squad's mission is to eliminate anti-air guns to faciliate the paratrooper landings, and players can take advantage of their ability to see any part of the battlefield to turn the massive cannons against the British, firing through buildings and across the map to wreck vehicles and smash fighting positions.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The fact that tractors are usable by troops in the games, combined with the fact that it has Ukrainian developers, considering the many videos of Ukrainian farmers stealing tanks from Russians with Rusting Rockets come 2022.
While it predates the English Men of War rebranding, Faces of War (which came before Men of War')' has much worse mechanics and level design compared to both Soldiers and the later Men of War'' games and often feels like a bad attempt at an RTS Call of Duty campaign with the linearity.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Cold War, for being even less polished than any of the previous games and eventually abandoned with less content and more bugs than any other Men of War game.
The movie.
Complete Monster: Keefer is a former Special Ops soldier who once served alongside Nick Gunar. Introduced overseeing a local police force, Keefer shoots one of his men dead to pin a murder on Nick and goad him into a fight. Keefer has his men aim their guns at the villagers he was "protecting" as well as Nick's team, threatening to kill them all if Nick tries to fight back, using this opportunity to brutally pummel him. After Nick refuses to carry out his employers' orders to strip mine an island of innocent natives, Keefer strong-arms Nick's employers into hiring him instead, seeing there's money to be made. Teaming up with his former superior and father figure Colonel Merrick, Keefer leads an army of mercenaries to storm the island. He takes sadistic delight in the slaughter of the natives, women and children included, as it reminds him of the glory days in Angola. However, when Merrick decides to pull out his forces after seeing the futility of such carnage, an enraged Keefer deems Merrick's actions as cowardice. Keefer shoots Merrick with a rocket launcher before proceeding to challenge Nick to a final duel to the death, showing he's nothing more than a bloodthirsty sadist who can't live without war.
