Of course Germans can’t throw up, they train to resist that in Octoberfest

"I guess we have the town.....NOW WE HAVE TO DEFEND IT? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?" - Some poor German officer after receiving orders from HQ during the battle of Kursk.

Losing your mind at kursk I feel like that's what the Germans were feeling

Iron Cross to Max Schultz for capturing the 11 solo, striking a sentry with the butt of his gun and eliminating the rest of the guards with speed worthy of Blitzkrieg.

"So much for early access." Operation Barbarossa summed up in 5 words...

You would have thought years of playing Arma had prepared Rimmy to a strategy game where your troops don't do what you tell them to and die in stupid ways.

Kind of wanna see a fustercluck of kursk now. Imagine giving Digby control of the tanks and telling him to be woefully unhelpful.

German Soldier: “we were able to perfectly execute all of our objectives sir and we successfully retreated when it appear the enemy were about to overrun us.” German officer: “and how many casualties did we sustain during this mission?” Soldier: “a single aircraft and its pilot sir” Officer: “then it was a heartbreaking defeat.”

"Huh, there's no fog of war?" This proved to be an omen.

Oh man... Rimmy... probably should go co-op for the Russian campaign. That way if you have to suffer again... you won't suffer alone. ;)

I lauged so hard when rimmy yell at the sturmtiger for shooting at only one russian soldier whit a ppsh 41 I imagine that on the real life: a commander is watching how the soviet soldiers retreats, when a big boom happens near that soviet soldier running away, and after the commander turns to see who did that, see the smoke coming out of the gun of the sturmtiger, and walks into the crew and shout at them every bad word possible

Actually, kursk german mission was a bit worse then you think. In editor, the tanks show as set for "return fire". They don't support you unless they are shot at. And as you experienced, suck at saving themselves.

"Hans the headless panzer driver" *The Panzer driver still wandering through the night, Now it's 50 years later and he still keeps up the fight* Rimmy has happened upon him in video game format lol

Ya know i get the feeling why they did not want these missions showed off before the embargo lifted..... and since they rushed the release we all get to see the mission in all its buggy/broken glory

So how many armor divisions are you doing to destroy in Kursk? Zhukov: Yes.

The two guys behind the burning stuG be like: “Hans, what should we tell the commandant?” “Don’t say shit johan, NOTHING!”

"Germans are physically incapable of throwing up." Well, not physically impossible, we just tend to have very strong stomachs.

"You cant place mines IN a house, right?" *Soviet scorched earth laughter*

Soldiers wildly out of position doing whatever the hell they want, nonsensical orders, enormous battles that ultimately have no point whatsoever because of events happening elsewhere...ah, it reminds me of the good-old-days when I had time to play EVE.

Kursk´s manpower and casualty ratio can be explained quite simply. The soviets were spread out between a total of 6 defensive lines, the germans got to focus their firepower.

To be fair, it sounds like almost all the problems with Kursk could be fixed by giving the player the tanks as mission-critical units. The rest is bugs, and mission length (which could arguably be a design choice).

"JG52 has just lost their most talented commander" Couldn't have been that talented if he got shot down...

The part about Germans attacking with less men and still winning reminded me of a similar story. In 1944 on the eastern front, 20 Estonians attacked around 80 soviets in a 300 meter long trench and came out on top near the Narva river (i might be off about a few things)

The devs actually listened to feedback and fixed the kursk mission. Here's what they fixed/added. 1. No more timer 2. Improved support fire mechanic 3. Access to mortars and artillery signaler 4. Access to light tanks 5. Supporting AI artillery 6. Command of Snipers and flamethrowers

Looks at video name, realizes he’s playing on the German side, Seems historically accurate.

*the enemy is here, raise the alarm!* *you didn't raise the alarm; **_Mission Success_*

Actually, when germans started operation, they simply did't know, that they are outnumbered. It was already too late, when they realised it. And in second half of the battle of kursk there was two big soviet counter-offensive, when soviet tried to break the german defence.

German army: please nerf soviets, they're hurting the Meta

>fighting a battle at Kursk >you don't get tanks under your control B R Ü D E R

Well guess I'm getting my strategy game addiction back. Why am I not surprised it was a timmy video that did it to me

I dont know Rimmy, you losing your mind at Kursk is exactly how its suppossed to be... thats very historical

13:03 German High Command when they go around the Maginot Line.

After playing the game on the hard setting, can confirm, hardest and worst mission in the game. I had to play without the fog of war just to complete it.

The Dev's of this game really need to learn that some times less is more.

I've never heard of this game but because Rimmy is playing it I'm going to watch. Can I also just mention how Rimmy was autocorrected to Tommy?

5:53 those are the classic Red Army Cavalry Helmet/Hat, they have a proper name that I forgot about. I think they were made (or designed at least) for the Russian Empire just before the Revolution but never put into service until the Reds found them. Edit: the name is Budenovka or Fruzenka (mostly the first) It is not cavalry only, it was widely used by infantry too but I think they are more popularly associated with the cavalry (and also the Russian Civil War, rather than WW2, by which the hat was mostly not in use by regular Red Army personel).

you can attack with smaller numbers as long as you’re engaging with higher numbers. concentration of forces Rimmy!

Kursk mission is so badly done that it almost got me to refund the game it's honestly surprising how this mission got itself into release in this state

Unfortunately I can probably guess the missions that are going to be in the Soviet campaign based on the style that they prefer. Stalingrad, battle of Moscow and either siege of Leningrad or clearing some European city stronghold from German army. Leningrad is more likely. Maybe Berlin or reverse Kursk. What I want to see is Brest fortress, but done good. It deserves it.

"Germans can't throw up" The bastards invented Oktoberfest what did you think would happen?

I once said that the only way to add something fresh in WW2 game is to let players fight for loosing (current battle) side. Well then. The AI is brilliant.

The enemy ai at 23:40 "you see Ivan, if we throw enough people at them, then they'll run out of bullets and we'll overwhelm them" in the end, through tactical brilliance against the Germans of the eastern front, Boris got the golden star (hero of the Soviet Union)

I dare you to put that into ARMA and have your boys do a FAAAAAAAAR better job of the whole operation.

Fun fact of the day;Germans can’t regurgitate(throw up)

Yeah, Kursk even looks terrible. I can hardly imagine how it's was like (but sneaking through the position of t-34 was the best part of it, Alfa-legionaries were impressed).

"Every time I think of operation citadel my stomach churns over" -Adolf Hitler

You were so angry that you did not noticed that the achievements are named with Variables instead of text.

No wonder they were like "You can only show missions 1 & 2 until the embargo drops."

17:20, actual recording of German Commander after a battle on the Eastern Front stating all the problems directly to the leader himself. He was fired for insubordination 3 days later for questioning high command.

They listened to you removed the timer and gave you access to mortars and some artillery support in the kursk mission actually pretty fun now

At the point where there were two German aircraft and one appeared to be attacking the other he could be said that the Russians stole a bf-109 and that's the one that was chasing the other bf-109

Could you continue the game known as Wargame Red dragon, I liked it alot actually

Me: Sitting at home with suspected COVID. KZfaq: Rimmy has a new Gates of Hell video. Me: There is a god in heaven. Update: I did not have Covid.

Hey Rimmy! Those helmets you mentioned at 5:52 are actually "Budenovka," "Frunzenka," and officially designated as a 'broadcloth helmet.' A type of cap designed for multiple-season use, but mostly winter, with ear and cheek-flaps that fold down from the head. If you've ever played the Winter War mod for Rising Storm: Vietnam, you'll find them pretty common. They have their origins even from the Kiev Rus helmets worn by Bogatyrs and various horsemen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budenovka Also, amazing video! I've been trying to play this game but got fucked over by needing to buy the original CtA so I'll wait for a sale, hope you take care!

Well, they're right about one thing, I was 'shocked' they released it so soon and so unfinished

Dude I can hear you rant about just about anything and I'll enjoy myself

I'm always reminded of that Call of Duty Classic expansion Kursk mission where you chill in the trenches, fight off waves of Germans, then a Stuka just shits itself out of the sky in a giant fire ball

hey Rimmy, will you ever demonstrate your small arms anti-aircraft skills in this game?

I would like to see how to co-op plays. Maybe with more than 1 person controlling everything it'd make life easier for you.

"shock release", well I guess I know what I'm playing when my hands need a rest from BattleGroup VR. Seriously, I love how the game is chock-full of those "Max Schwartz Moments", and since you say there's an ENDLESS CONQUEST MODE?! Yeah, I'm sold. Halfway through, with all the bugs: "UHH, ON SECOND THOUGHT...ARE YOU *SURE* it was a good idea to release this game?"

My first thoughts at 3:17 “Huh, so Germans don’t have a gag reflex then?”

More Gates of Hell: Ostfront, Co-Op would be cool to see too.

glad you put this vid up, having seen that kursk mission I don't think i'm gonna be buying this game. god that looked miserable.

"Expectations were high, and tank busters flew low." I like that line.

If you count the reserves at Kursk, German forces had significantly less men than the Soviets had and that was because German intelligence had no idea just how many men were in reserve. Also, the Soviets having a less than favorable death to kill ratio was common on the Eastern front. I believe near the end of the war it evened to 1:1 but at the start it was 6-7:1 and in the midpoint of was 2:1. The Soviets could take these losses however while German forces could not.

Oh thank god, the game never changed a bit, pure mow experience :)

PLEASE do the other campaign! Watching you play rts is absolutely glorious!

Digitalmindsoft: *shock release* Rimmy: *shock review*

‘It’s a single man with a PPSh, you don’t need a FUCKEN stürmpanzer!’

Just rimmy realiseing that the nazis really did have it bad and why they lost

12:08 "Right Herr Rimmy! FIRING AT THE TANK!"

Given the trajectory for call to arms, it's nice that this turned out well.

Devs: The game is finished. Kursk: Please. Kill me!

Now it is time for you to redo this mission in ARMA 3, but 10000 times better.

He’s gone clinically insane after this

6:01 Budionovka or originally "Буденовка". Is the helmet, which Red Army used in civill war and shortly after (Polish-Soviet war). Named after first Marshall of the Red Army - Semion Budionov.

08:55 - "...the tanks will be _allied_ units *moving with us*." I had a flashback to every single escort mission in every game I've ever played and how every single one has been an utter disaster thanks to said "allies". Unless the AI is hard scripted with limited actions or immortality, they will find a way to pointlessly and horribly die and fail the mission. Every time.

When he says 3:1 ratio is fine, am here like, "do I hear Sabaton playing?"

I have not laughed this much in a long time, thank you!😂❤

Funfact, the Pilot (Günther Rall) later became the head of the West German Luftwaffe in 1971

0:48 i thought that was rimmy doing a accent voiceover for the subtitles until he started actually talking

"Incredible" seems to have very different connotations in Australia and the United States!

In this mission, Rimmy is saddened by placeholder assets.

In the Russian campaign for the original Men of War, I completed one of the Africa missions by using 88's to take out the turrets of Crusader tanks, then sending troops in, steal the tanks, repair them, then use them against the British. I had like 20 tanks by the time I advanced the mission.

6:22 - 6:27 best one liner I heard from Rimmy

"They keep them until they die horribly" and by die horribly I automatically assume you mean the same way I lose every infantry squad, getting caught up in the swing of things and forgetting to sweep for mines.

When the stug opened up on the pz iv i laughed so hard xD

Rimmy basically having the full german commander experience by going insane in krusk

In the grim dark future of Rimmy - Downunder Gaming, we will always want more. So yes please. Play it whichever way you would enjoy the most I say, just so long as it’s not like mission 4 again.

This is the mission that doesn't end it goes on and on my friend some people started playing it not knowing what it was. But they'll continue playing kursk forever just because....

The battle of Kursk almost reminds me of how thrawn fights in Star Wars always outnumbered but always better than the rebellion

3-1 is the general ratio for just a small position or hassty attack, when troops are dug into a well defended position it actual ramps up to 6-1 and in urban combat it is 10-1

I'm just picturing Rimmy yelling at the Sturmpanzer at 22:42 like he's just had to deal with an idiot noob crew in Arma

Budenovka is an iconic hat from the 1917 Civil War. Red soldiers, especially cavalry, were wearing those.

Anyone else realize the intro for the missions give a Call of Duty WaW feeling?

Battle of Kursk? [Panzerkampf Intensifies]

Thanks to developers for make mission about Caucasian campaing. That's very unusual choise. I live in this region and not so many people khow details about this campaing which happened litterally next to their house.

German: Russians, defensive line. Commander! They out number us 3 to 1! German commander: then it’s an even fight!

From my extensive experience, I know how hard it is to kill a T-34 with a Pz.III M. I feel your pain

Those weird Soviet hats are supposed to look like helmets from the Kievan Rus(or so I’ve heard). They were pretty common from the beginning of the red army, to the winter war.