many thanks! tbf i probably did the same in my first few battles lol

Are you watching LostGalaxyGamer too? I think he's getting better. If he'd just stop putting his MG's up front....

happy to help!

Thank you kindly!

thanks! i will be starting a new central powers campaign soon where i try to use tanks for the first time. i hope i wont fail epically 😅

cheers brother, im glad it helped!

im glad it has been helpful!

yeah tanks are crazy OP

@@godspeedthunder just like the actual great war lol

you're very welcome!

thank you, im happy that they helped!

@@godspeedthunder No bro, I've a god at this game, but I'm curious what other people are using. I've beaten it at Elite difficulty as the Allies and veteran as Germans, but the doom stacks to get supplies is awesome idea. Did'nt think of that.

"Ima a god at this game" "I didn't consider the most basic mechanic" People on the internet, everybody.

and thank you too!

cheers brother

Glad you liked it!

Glad I could help!

I think all trenches(expect bunker) are designed to hold up to 2 groups of unit at one time. The pathfinding ai would automatically send men out of trench if the connecting trench is blocked(due to melee fighting or overcrowded), which may also cause a bug when opposite units using the same travel trench and make it overcrowded, causing the mass point of the unit lost to nowhere and the unit become "invisible"。

yeah youve really got to be careful not to run towards an enemy who is also running towards you or else you will get stuck and even if you try to retreat back to the trench that you came from your men will leave the trench.

each air wing gives you 100 free supply every time you use it so if you doomstack the planes then you get a ton of free supply. much more efficient than using global supply.

​@@godspeedthunder Right, do you just rush into the entire air tree then for all the added research as well, or spread it out?

well i rushed a lot of it but its not really necessary. all you really need out of it is the harassment planes and then you can ignore the rest if you like. so if i was in "try hard mode" my research path would be- fighters bombers harassment improved helmets improved sights 3x cash grants 3x volunteer corps after that you can pretty much do whatever you please.

@@godspeedthunder Copy that! Thanks for the info! Look forward to more videos!

thats not what i found on elite difficulty. but its possible that when i tested it i was just unlucky with where the shells landed.

@@godspeedthunder yeah must place directly on target.

I'll try it out, thanks.

Light artillery is good for suppression and heavy artillery is good for killing stuff. I recommend using light artillery on trenches and mg's during assaults, and save the heavy artillery for when you need to take something out. Thats been working well for me so far

@@godspeedthunder I think all range attacks in the games apply to every model while melee combat only apply to the mass point of a group. To maximum heavy artillery damage the target area should be placed at left and right side of the trench instead of the middle, since a bombardment in the middle would leave left or right side men alive. Two bombardment at one time are enough to kill 80% models of a rifleman squad who stays in an enhanced trench.

they never used to be able to so this must have been patched in since release.

@@godspeedthunder It makes swarming infantry really viable

i will have to pick the game up again sometime soon to see what other things have been improved.

congrats! let me know how you get on with other challenges :) i dont know if its possible but you could try a "no unit tech" challenge. you can only add tech which doesnt impact your units. so espionage and economy only.

although sometimes true this isnt always the case. to each their own i suppose.

you got me, caught red handed 😅

a lot of the info in this vid is outdated since the latest patch. also it depends on your playstyle and objectives (as well as difficulty setting). if you want to get great victories then you only really want to be fighting against 2 corps max, 3 if youre feeling brave. and when facing such an opponent you only really need 4 corps yourself (plus a supply depot now instead of the planes). if you want to win via national will then you can just defend and spread your corps around evenly.

lol yeah

good luck is all i can say lol i tried for about 5 hours to use these and i just couldnt find a practical use for them. let me know if you can!

raiders are just good at trench melee, especially bunker clearing. flame units are just bad, they never manage to fire and get folded in melee. they do lots of damage if they actually are able to attack, but most of the time they will just jump in the trench and die.

i tested this in one vid and the raiders are worse than standard infantry in melee. the only thing they excel at is killing tanks, but getting them in position isnt easy. you rely on the enmy tank driving straight towards you and then running your raider through a trench network towards them. its nice when it works but i wouldnt rely on it.

@@godspeedthunder Elite Units are seemed to have less hp than a infantry squadron since they have less models. And though they can fire on open field. They can not throw grenades or pour flame into a trench with melee combat, which is locked up. The pathfinding also tend to throw troops into melee combat if they are close to an occupied enemy trench even if they are direct to stay outside, which causes another pathfinding bug when you try to throw your man to 2 lines of trench and all units may stuck in the front trench. The best way to use raiders or flame troops is positioning them on open field near (travel) trenches which AI would use to move its forces to counterattack the trenches occupied by your force and keep them covered from range attacks(somke or constant barrages). Then watching them blow counter-attackers sky high.

this was changed in a following patch so that they dont provide supply any more

@@godspeedthunder Oh nice. That was so counter intuitive.

its the whole system thats counter intuitive tbh. infantry themselves provide free supply too, it wasnt just the planes/tanks. im not sure why they felt the need to design the supply system this way. but the game is great fun so you can ignore some of the silly stuff.

you dont have control over it, they just do it naturally when under fire.

@@godspeedthunder damn 4 real? That's weird cuz a game hint was like "going prone helps you take less damage" or some shit like that. Implying that it was a thing you could do. That's kinda dumb but thanks for the info

Yeah I thought the exact same thing

its a tricky game but with a bit of practice you will get there.

i agree completely

That's a huge bonus to the encircler. They can literally move their troops off a front that has enemy troops still on it. Imagine the Allies just leaving Festung Dunkirk behind them amd nobody guarding it as they advanced into Germany.

I think the idea comes from Path of Glory in which an encircled(or "out of supply") corps can do nothing at all.

i dont believe so. ive just played a map where the only thing left was an enemy artillery and it didnt fire at all until i got within its sight range, and i spend a lot of time running around in the open. its possible that it has extended sight ranges but it definitely cant see the whole map without a unit or balloon giving it vision.

Also remember, the ai is allowed to remember your trench lines just like you can remember there's.

Glad I could help

@@godspeedthunder I been noticing special troops flamethrowers /raiders they don't shooting that getting slaughtered fast.

yeah they are really tricky to use. i would say just avoid using them.