I'm sticking with the civi trains as they are cheaper to build. I'll move over the even cheaper ones when we get them researched.

So far my thoughts are that it does add some interesting sci-fi ideas to the game that players who are maybe tired of playing the same campaigns for years might enjoy. It does move away from the feeling of a WW2 game somewhat with these special projects, but then some nations did attempt to build ridiculous contraptions during the war. What I have noticed however is I spend much more time clicking boxes and opening menus than I used to and I'm not too keen on that. The new German focus trees are also immense and while they do open up lots of new options, they require quite a bit of forward planning to work your way around.

@@CaptMikado yes

It looks like the game won't auto-reinforce them into groups with regular subs anyway, so I'll pop them into their own groups on tomorrows stream. The range isn't too much of a bonus for us anyway just at the moment, but I was expecting our older subs to become extinct through combat anyway and be naturally replaced with the cruiser subs.

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I heard that was possible, thats quite funny :D

Well thats one way of dealing with national debt I guess :D

Glad you liked it, part 2 will be along tomorrow.

The bouncing bombs would be interesting to see but I'm worried the game is moving away from a WW2 wargame. I'll look into those other things though.

@@MarkGFL Not just bouncing bombs, Tall boys on Tirpitz, Earthquake Bombs on V2/V3 sites etc, I'm hoping the UK gets some sweet choices :)

This one will be played out live over here on the streaming channel, but I'll leave the streams up for anyone who wishes to watch afterwards. The UK playthrough will continue (I've finished recording it now).

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That was hilarious, but the really funny thing was that the audio from the video lined up well enough with the game intro that I thought it was part of it 😂

Yeah that was it, I had to go look it up in the end. Very similar.

He was probably was piloting that generic-looking British fighter we see downed in the 2nd mission :D

That's great to hear and thanks for dropping by. Will the game be fully finished on release or will it still be Early Access?

@@MarkGFL It should be fully finished. I say should be, because ther MIGHT be some bugs still. We are doing our best to release it as much bugfree as possible. But since there is soo many PC builds out there, there is a chance some bugs will appear anyway. But hopefully no game breaking bugs. Looks like we have fixed all of those. Hopefully.

@@centuriondevelopments1897 hello! Im thinking of buying it but im not into stealth hard games but I enjoyed Expeditions Rome for example a lot Is it a stealth or more tactical action, thank you!!

I know, thats what totally threw me! I genuinely believed I was listening to the sounds of the game I was playing 🤣

It's actually not too hard once you figure out what you're doing (I hadn't by this point in the game) and its a pretty good horde/zombie/survival sort of game. Actually it's hard to categorise it as I've never played anything else quite like it :)

I did! And I was so tuned in to looking for 1's and 5's I never even noticed 😂 That was an epic fail on my part!

I got 300 hours on it. Perfect game for the Steam Deck.

@@Killerpixel11 I need to try out the Steam Deck. What other games work well with it? Also: 300 hours! Well played :)

I haven't had anything to do with WoT for over 6 years so it wasn't quite a direct transition :) But this is a cause that I felt I had to help with. Ukrainians need all the assistance they can get and sadly it's not coming fast enough. But if our efforts help save a few lives then that at least is something. We're planning another trip next spring (assuming it will still be needed) and I'm down to be a volunteer driver over winter if they need one for another convoy.

@@MarkGFL Btw what happened with you and wot? I can see at least 1 more videos from every other game you played (i think) but none from it. It seems like more than just moving on

@@lockkeylive I unlisted all the WoT videos as they weren't contributing anything to my efforts any more. They were fun times, but things are better now and I'm loving playing and discovering all manner of games.

I can only assume it was something to do with that. I think Mathew got knocked unconscious fighting Fritz and therefore never turned up to the rendezvous in time. I think I was probably supposed to talk to him first before Fritz for the quest, but obviously couldn't. What the game tried to process next broke everything. But this is only my best guess.

I agree, a bit too easy to talk my way out of most crimes. We shall await the sequel with great expectations!

Ok that should be interesting!

This is definitely a Dark Henry, the Scourge of Bohemia!

That sounds good. Equipment can breakdown in this, but it seems to take an awfully long time to smash stuff - apart from clothing over armour, which (probably quite rightly) disintegrates after a couple of whacks.

I'm fairly sure it's scripted that he'll mess up the poetry for comedic value, but there might be a way to work it so he does it correctly.

Yeah I probably hexed the game by praising it like that. I wonder if we'll see Fritz and Mathew again?

When I last looked at Ultimate General Revolution I got the impression it needed a bit longer in the oven. Sounds like that is still the case.

I prefer to see more individual "flavours" for each civ too, to make them feel different when playing.

I feel like games from the 90's like Sid Meiers Colonization managed diplomacy better than many modern era 4x games. Hopefully this will improve with a few patches.

@@MarkGFL I liked Alpha Centauri. At least if they hated you it was because they were so ideologically opposed to you.

@@kittydaddy2023 And that makes sense right? I remember in Civ 4 the more your civ 's civics and government and religion diverged from an AI's choices the more they hated you. You could see the logic in that. Never played Alpha Centauri, was it good?

Oops! I wouldn't have thought it was possible to assign a "wrong" unit type to its slot.

Yeah that's what killing it for me. I do like how detailed the industry is, but it's a real pain to find which of your buildings is using which of the tools you are making, switch the resources around and then do it all again 10 turns later when you have made some improved items.

That sounds... like something I'll pass on thanks, I'll stick to lemonade :D