1946 COLD WAR SOVIET RED ARMY vs US ARMY! Custom Gates of Hell Battle

Today we're doing a custom Gates of Hell battle set in 1946 depicting a massive Soviet Red Army assault on US Army positions in Germany. We're using a variety of units and mods in this battle, check out the pinned comment below for more info! Enjoy.
Next Cold War Battle:
Sorry for forgetting about the cool graphics on screen, it slipped my mind while editing... Next time, hopefully!
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[@DiplexHeated]

Once I was done rendering and uploading, it hit me that I forgot to put the unit numbers below on screen. Will do something cool for the next battle though! *US Forces:* 200 Infantrymen 1 M26 Pershing 1 M36B Jackson/Slugger 2 M4A3E8 6 76mm M5 1 90mm M2 2 81mm M1 Mortars 1 107mm M2 Mortar 4 .30 cal MG 2 .50 cal MG 60 AP Mines *Soviet Red Army Forces:* 400 Infantrymen 12 T34-85 2 IS-2 60 Artillery Grenades

[@cmdrmordulroth8732]

more cold war action fo sho Heck Off Commies !

[@totalnerd5674]

@@cmdrmordulroth8732 I think the allies could have taken on the soviet union after the war. Both the USA and the USSR had about 20,000 tanks at the end of WWII, and thats not even counting allies. Plus, US air support would also be incredibly effective...

[@jimmyodonnell9556]

My assessment for the battle- Partial strategic Soviet Pyhrric victory: the Red Army took the first two trench lines, thus gaining a foothold within the US defensive works, but did not achieve their full objective (which was to break the American lines) and took very heavy casualties (~90%). Only a follow up battle would be able to determine if the Soviets can hold their positions or advance further. Tactical US victory - the US forces lost some ground, but held their defensive line and prevented a Soviet breakthrough.

[@manofthehour5580]

Battle starts at 5:10

[@ZombolicBand]

If u use an oldschool B&W camera filter and keep static camera positions during a push like this, it would almost feel like watching raw battle footage! Would be rly cool!

[@thegamingallosaurus7281]

Hi Diplex, kind of curious, do you think you will ever bring back The Wasteland Series, with the Novogorod Republic and the New Order and stuff like that, perhaps in a different setting, just got back into this channel, and it could be interesting to do another region.

[@DiplexHeated]

It must be the most requested series on this channel, I don't think theres a single video that doesn't have a comment asking about it. I've been pretty bad at answering them, but the truth is I currently lack the required mods to make it work. I want it to be a level up from the first season, and currently there's nothing that out there rn that can deliver us that experience. I also lack that extra motivation to embark on a project as huge as the Wasteland series rn, but we'll see...

[@thegamingallosaurus7281]

​@@DiplexHeated Alright thanks for the answer, i hope that some sort of mod comes out that would be good enough, but for now guess i can just watch some of your other stuff, keep up the good videos

[@davidrichardson1957]

Literally thinking about that with this battle bc of the pace. It was sooo engaging.

[@frequentruination9920]

@@DiplexHeated There is an early Cold War mod that’s recently hit the workshop in C2A Gates of Hell, wanted to let you know as I think you could expand upon this battle with some T-54’s and Patton’s, maybe make some cool scenarios like Checkpoint Charlie going hot or something

[@yowzerswazinski]

I do agree it was pretty cool

[@iTomBass]

26:48 that healing animation while prone is pretty new. Came out in an update not so long ago.

[@mivapusa]

I would absolutely love for the 1946 Missions from AS2 to be carried into Gates of Hell. Or even better, to make more of them. Seeing American and German soldiers fighting Soviets side by side was great.

[@Skytawk123]

It’s 5:02 in Oklahoma rn and I’m drunk asf watching your channel. Loving it for the past few years

[@DiplexHeated]

Hello Oklahoma! Cheers man.

[@luismedina5792]

Finally the scenario has come I've been waiting to see something like this for a while

[@ZackaryWilliams77]

I always think it's interesting seeing Americans and Germans fighting side by side. Also, I think the term you are looking for is a Phyrrhic Victory,

[@crispyfritz533]

I love how the artillery looks at the start of the battle

[@Eaon69]

yeah, cheers to that man. Keep each other safe, times are indeed peculiar. Awesome video as always too!

[@wafflepoet5437]

Immediately “hot” Cold War makes for a fantastic AR scenario. Churchill was renowned for harebrained schemes and ideas in general. The main drive for the Allies in creating an independent, liberal democratic Poland was nonsensical from the beginning. Poland was _never_ an independent democratic state until the Solidarity movement helped undermine the legitimacy of the Soviet Union throughout the Eastern Bloc, and Poles largely have the Soviet Union to thank for refusing any assistance to the Polish United Workers' Party in brutally suppressing Solidarity. Anyway. I like these AR scenarios because neither the Western Allies or the Soviet Union had any capacity to maintain or restart large scale conventional warfare. Despite the Soviet Union successfully ramping up production as the war dragged on, there were insurmountable shortages in manpower, materiel and infrastructure. The end of the war for the British meant even _worse_ austerity measures (especially since they were now exporting huge amounts of foodstuffs to Germany in a desperate effort to keep them from “collapsing” into the Soviet sphere of influence). It would take over a decade for any kind of normalcy to return for the average British citizen. Yadda yadda thanks for the cool video this is a tangent I could continue for a few pages for no reason. Always love your content.

[@DiplexHeated]

Very clutch commentary, thank you!

[@wafflepoet5437]

@@DiplexHeated I actually forgot to bring up the commentary that lead to me comment at all. Stalin _loathed_ the Polish because they took complete advantage of his humiliating military decisions during the Soviet-Polish war, so much so that Pilsudski was able to rout the Soviet military and force the Soviet government to take flight to Moscow in fear of Petrograd being overrun. The Poles failed (overextending themselves the same way Stalin, Budyonny, and Tukhachevsky had), but Stalin was deeply criticized and had his command stripped (same as at Tsaritsyn before). Budyonny (unlike every other Old Bolshevik starting in the mid to late 1930s) were close, but I would argue Stalin liquidated Tukhachevsky in 38 because he was the only highly respected, well known Army officer remaining that knew Stalin was militarily incompetent. Tukhachevsky was basically executed on charges of Napoleonism, but there’s no evidence of this in the archives. So, had Stalin not been incompetent (he demanded a military role against the Polish) and Tukhachevsky a little less cavalier, the Soviets would have almost undoubtedly conquered and puppeted Poland. When they failed to do so the Soviets knew they would never be able to reach Germany and thus the world revolution has failed. A post-war Western Allied-aligned Poland would sit directly on the border of the Soviet Union - an unacceptable threat to the Soviets, particularly as they had conquered and “kept” the entire Eastern Bloc as we know it _not_ to export or practice “communism” (Marxist-Leninism is a fucking parody), but to serve as an existential “buffer” between the West and East. Okay. I’m done now. Thanks for the compliment!

[@Normacly]

It is important to note that the USSR would have avoid taking on the US in 1946, because the US held the monopoly on atomic bombs. The Soviet was not able to test their own until 1949.

[@andrewiannelli7635]

@@wafflepoet5437 Most educated person I’ve ever read in these comments. Finally, someone who knows their stuff!

[@sztallone415]

@@wafflepoet5437 Interesting, I didn't know Stalin was active in the Soviet-Polish war. But I'd argue that when you write the Soviets created the Eastern bloc not to export communism but to create a buffer zone, those two things are the same after a certain point. Good example for it is the US's diplomacy. Because when you 'export' your ideology what happens basically is you knock down the guy you don't like and put up a guy you like, so in effect you instantly create an ally-able nation whose leader at best will be a 'friend' or 'under your protection', and at worst a third party not being able to align himself with anyone perfectly (Tito). That could be considered a half- or quarter victory considering the alternatives. You can never dissociate fully a country's strategic interests and ideology. Anyway, the creation of the bloc was evident, as in what leader, but especially Stalin, would just give up conquered lands and not retain some control over them?

[@harrysatin5110]

Merry Christmas Diplex always look forward to seeing your videos, keep up the great work!!

[@thecombatwombat7652]

Under Order 227 you were allowed to retreat to your original positions if an assault failed. But no further without permission from a superior officer.

[@xecutv4441]

New viewer here, love your videos you’ve helped me re-spark my love for war history so thank you.

[@firstlast2241]

Great video man, I actually really liked this outcome despite the glitchy AI

[@BigKrisMorris]

31:26 the random red body way over on the left wtf 😂

[@ironcell26]

I see this battle as a tactical victory for the US since they were able to kill almost all 400 soviets, destroy 14 tanks in total and hold half of the second line, losing just 3 tanks and some infantry

[@ethanmcfarland8240]

you okay buddy? im truly sorry for your loss

[@joshuagonzalez3249]

I absolutely love your videos. Any chance of you doing a Vietnam War Series sometime?

[@slimmdusty8809]

I’d like to see follow up battles to this maybe some sort of fictional mini series again. Wanna see stuff like that back here, just different fiction mini series battles that all effect each other that can maybe be just 5 videos.

[@bevanbarnes9721]

Hey diplex, love your content :)

[@trynbannmeh5544]

I’ve lost 24 lbs or 10.8 Kg since the beginning of October so I’m excited for what’s to come in 2022

[@chubypants891]

Keep that grind👏👏

[@militaristicsoldier856]

Congrats, I came down from 250 to 160 after a major life changing decision. You don’t realize how bad it was until you look at a pic of your old self. Losing that weight was one of greatest decisions of my life. As chubypants said above, Keep that grind king 👑

[@kalbs89]

A Korean War scenario would be cool

[@danielgarcia-jo5vh]

Hey diplex, just wanted to say that i would LOVE to see a leningrad siege video if you could ever do one

[@jonathanbeaulieu3630]

Pyrrhic victory : where the losses were more important than the objectives achieved

[@unknownperson5558]

Bro you should make this a series

[@Cflo_17]

Thank you!

[@ericguignard8629]

Great video Diplexheated and tomorrow is my birthday so yeah

[@glizzyman3956]

PLEASE do more of US vs Soviet either end of ww2 or cold War scenario!!! 1! 1! 1! 1!

[@Pigolek1]

Hi. Im playing at Men of War: Assault squad 2, and I have little problem with editor. When I make new soldier (based from existing soldier) I can't add a description to him. Meaby you know how to do that?

[@jackadelman]

You should make this into a series please

[@suomealex]

Game looks insane!! Is it multiplayer capable?

[@soldatdaniels8738]

Alternate WW2 where the allies said " Eh, f#@k it." And went to war with the Soviets who couldn't stay on their own grass. I love it.

[@Shambler4]

Is this the early access version of the game or its the full version already released

[@thegreatlemmon7487]

Hey @Diplexheated Is it possible to get this map?

[@Powerhaus88]

Please drop us more WWI and WWII desert battles!

[@DiplexHeated]

I've got another WW1-style trench map by Braeden coming up soon!

[@nubtube7313]

Is this video based on CTA, or MOWAS2? Just asking because you use the MOWAS2 tag for this video? Which game do you prefer, CTA or MOWAS2? And any chance you would consider going back to do more MOWAS2 content?

[@mivapusa]

The MoW AS2 campaign "The Last Grenadier" and into the "Operation Unthinkable" were smashing masterpieces. It would be amazing to see them remade in Gates of Hell. Edit: Just realized I said the same thing last year.

[@lucius6667]

Would say would love to see the Allied powers counter strike

[@Shambler4]

I love the graphics Das ist so gut, dass ich es nicht ausstehen kann zuzusehen

[@DukeOddball]

More of this!

[@kooperativekrohn819]

Tanker at 23:28 looked OG with his ol’ 45

[@Prophetofthe8thLegion]

The pershing at 12:50 went full Fury on their asses

[@thescotsman9825]

I noticed on the last update or so for Gates of Hell, lots of units going dead and not firing, could see that a lot in the video. Hope they fix that soon.

[@alifm4098]

It's been quite long since i watch Diplex videos and still good as i remember. Anyway, sorry for this. But, maybe someone in here know the name of his outro song ? I still remember how it sounds like from the beginning to the end but i only forgot which band and name of the song which Diplex used for his Outro since 2016.

[@matsdermastige]

please do more like a series or something

[@ethanschlong4662]

Damn it’s 2022 and this shit is about to be real

[@romanbuinyi]

2:1 advantage? But the general rule is that attackers should have at least 3:1 advantage to succeed.

[@DiplexHeated]

Good to have in mind. But that's to succeed, what about a 50/50 chance of success?

[@romanbuinyi]

​@@DiplexHeated Even with 3:1 success is not guaranteed. But in this video attacker was surprisingly effective, probably in GoH its easier to do successful AI attack than in MOWAS2.

[@mr_jiblets7731]

Could we have more of the cold war mod?

[@revvolthewolfdragon5113]

gates of hell has a lot of good mods and one of them is a 1960s mod with a past alt history if the cold war went hot

[@jefe8113]

Hey Diplex, I’ve been playing a lot of mowas2 recently and was going to say you should check out the (ASV) mods; Ultimate Star Wars mod and the Warhammer 40k mod. Both have immense potential for scenarios

[@pewpow1249]

He has done many videos on the warhammer mod. And also on the galaxy at war Star Wars mod. Which is better than the asv star wars mod.

[@Razgriz_01]

Makes me wish for a Red Alert mod for these games. Surprised nobody has tried making one. Is it because EA might stop it?

[@Alpha4822]

What mod is used for the US troops

[@bobtoad2171]

I expected the British centurion to turn up

[@Shambler4]

New content and another seen of the soviet army again is gates of hell alot better then call to arms bc of the textures shows and the explosion are alot realistic

[@skvrs129]

Can somebody tell me how to install and play mods?

[@Dragonfist12185]

Why were the British and French Armed Forces left out of this battle?.........they were also occupying Post war west Germany...?

[@bdlazarus]

my sympathies on the loss of your bro

[@inkvizitor669]

Why does AI consider it its duty to turn its back on the most guns?

[@johnkern217]

Did you ever thought about a battle if East Prussia became a country and the USSR had to go and deal with it?

[@jamesmortimer4016]

The AVT-40 wasn´t really produced mutch. It had a short production life when the soviets were in dire need for automatic weapons. But it sucked. So they stopped it in 42 i think

[@erickcredidiooliveira201]

Cool vid bring the german soldiers was a nice touch but It make me think if both sides would use their pows after give then something like freedom to fight for then?

[@lfriccarpj2004]

Diplex, please, play mud and blood

[@rusAdeptuS]

well next time maybe switch sides) and put some postww2 vehicles like IS3 and comet and something american

[@aezakmiSaintP]

Я надеюсь, что это никогда не произойдет на яву ! всем мира !

[@williamkoppos7039]

No U.S. Air? Arty?

[@BuckHunterBo]

Sup bois

[@firstlast493]

30:02 Да пошло оно всё 😁

[@kgb85MD]

No guest of honor Is-3 i see and it's not avt it's avs

[@DiplexHeated]

They don't have the IS-3 in the game unfortunately.

[@kgb85MD]

@@DiplexHeated That's a dang shame

[@phippes32]

Hello, could you do Men Of War mod Resistance 2, please?

[@matthewwagner47]

Rather have it say there is alcohol in it. Lol Want true sound,make it much better an realistic.

[@mogicianha7502]

AI is still dumb as a rock when it comes to armor. So boring to watch.

[@josh2671]

Yo

[@imranestefaniak6082]

Great video ! I have a suggestion can you do another Operation Unthinkable video but add german skins to some US vehicles like, Jeep, CKWW, M3 Half-Track, Sherman 75 and 76. I don't really know if it's possible but it could be really cool to see germans re-equip by the Allies like it happen IRL at the creation of the Bundeswher in the mid 50. ( Excuse me if my english is not perfect i am french 😅 )

[@aceadriaun]

Hey

[@matthewwagner47]

Why arnt the russian tanks advancing?they moved up then stopped. A T-34-85 would continue moving and close with a lightly defended area like you got set up. If you were in a tank would you stop in a open field an sit there. Must have settings on wimpy..... Lame..

[@kings-sv4iv]

Go America

[@michaelcuesta884]

Ive been watching these videos. Ive noticed that the americans a poor shots 😒

[@user-bv1ni1os7b]

Класс

[@aikosp]

First

[@40klegion78]

Ok diplex it’s gone to far. Us in the cult of diplex need a video everyday from now on. This on and off stuff will no longer work. Now for everyday we don’t get a video us in the group will donate a dollar to the kidnap diplex go fund me. When we’ve reached enough we will hire a professional and the rest will be history. If you don’t want to end up in my basement making vids for the rest of your life best make a change 😑😑😑😑😑

[@GoldbergIdustries]

The soviets are stronger than americans Always 🇷🇺💪