7th Desert Rats vs. 16th Luftwaffe! Steel Division 2 Tribute to Normandy 44

[@zachb4186]

You know, this matchup turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable. Props to both players, great game!

[@atkpwrgaming]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@RanenJ]

Thanks for casting this match. I’m excited for the desert rats division.

[@atkpwrgaming]

I am as well!

[@dimo4304]

Hey attack Power another amazing video from you i enjoyed it a lot been goinf through some tough times and ur videos are something that makes my days !!! Keep up the amazinf work

[@atkpwrgaming]

Thanks so much, so happy to hear they are helping you out!

[@CarolusRex1]

Finally. AtkPwr won a strike team match😂

[@atkpwrgaming]

Hey hey I won a few, just not against gonzo haha

[@BlitkriegsAndCoffee]

Well controlled Nebels are such a nightmare to kill.

[@atkpwrgaming]

Yeah they are secretly one of the strongest weapons for the germans

[@blacko3539]

@@atkpwrgaming secretly? I stopped playing several patches ago and 10v10 were endless nerble spam

[@sdleague2ndchannel]

GG WP this was a fun game :)

[@atkpwrgaming]

Thanks for playing!

[@dominuslogik484]

the Sexton and Priest are really some of the best self propelled artillery in the game if for any reason it is purely the amount of ammo they carry. it helps also that they have some armor and good health to resist the damage from counter battery fire.

[@atkpwrgaming]

Yeah they are great, wish the wespe were like them

[@dominuslogik484]

@@atkpwrgaming yeah, though in real life the wespe was pretty awful, so was the Hummel to be honest

[@havocmwf]

I have to say I much prefer a viewpoint from one side or the other as, as a player, that is a viewpoint we are all more familiar with.

[@BlitkriegsAndCoffee]

I'm happier seeing the movement of both sides. Several of the games we've seen from Atkpowers point I never know how someone worked certain units into various forward positions.

[@atkpwrgaming]

They both have their merits to be sure

[@Recon_in_Force]

I think the "desert rats" should be 25 points. Its not a very good squad(only 8 men, bad lmg) and its unique to this division

[@atkpwrgaming]

I agree actually, I think they would be alright at that price

[@niallcool7873]

Does it have to come in half-tracks

[@muhammadfarhun1197]

Protoss playing 16 Luftwaffe like vanguard divisions with tons cqc. Honestly flak 41 were bloated when your opponents didn't spam armor like IS 2 or Churchill. It's better to spam flak 43 all over the place and do 217 bombers at the end

[@atkpwrgaming]

It was a good showing for the division overall, its really not that great

[@kismaaja226]

I love forest battle in middle area

[@atkpwrgaming]

They are always very intense

[@markcollins6578]

24-25 minutes the 3 vet sturmpioneers opened fire first against the 2 vet assault pioneers but after both moving the assault pioneers opened fire first and before the sturmpioneers could return fire they died - because the sturmpioneer fired first it moved 2nd giving an advantage to the (first moving) assault pioneer unit. SD2 Wiki says Commanders decrease suppresion by 1/2 for units within range. A leader limits suppression by 50% - for disheartened troops it works out at 8% of their full (non disheartened) health (1x.75x1.5 = 1.08) so police + leader should be better than pure leader as the police remove the disheartened trait before the leader traits are applied

[@atkpwrgaming]

Fair point, thanks for the break down!

[@josephmorales521]

Great game, and i agree this map is the most balanced of them all.

[@atkpwrgaming]

It just has opportunities for every division its so fun

[@イナゴ大福]

Is this observer mode? I thought it didn't exist in this game. Or rather, I don't know how to enable it.

[@waynegambrell4317]

He’s watching the replay. There is an observer mode in multi player however.

[@jensole8939]

@@waynegambrell4317 you can spectate.

[@atkpwrgaming]

Its the replay, you can watch them by going into replays in your profile tab

[@coledminkaledmin7219]

So far what has been your favorite new Allied division from this DLC?

[@atkpwrgaming]

7th armored I think, its fun and strong without being OP

[@coledminkaledmin7219]

@@atkpwrgaming good to know. I was hoping the 101st would be stronger without being OP. I am pretty disappointed it doesn’t seem to perform just a little better.

[@tedarcher9120]

After 5 years flak-41 is finally flak-41 lol

[@atkpwrgaming]

its happened haha

[@malteschaper3782]

Tigers and King Tigers don't seem to be the best choice against commonwealth divisions.

[@dominuslogik484]

definitely not regular tigers but King Tigers seem to be okay enough, commonwealth really just has a good solution to most problems in almost all their divisions.

[@sd_league]

Not many other choices in that division ^^

[@atkpwrgaming]

Yeah the tigers suffer against 17 pdrs

[@CosmicLegion]

Nice game. This is not the best but one of the better maps for 16th. I think Protoss poured too much effort into the center. Instead he should have given away the first forestflag and just build ranged defence to cut it off from pushing further. He had 2 flags in the north anyway so he would still have ticked with that. With those forces he should have tried to retake the south instead and play more to his divs strenghts at max range. FLAK 41 is nice vs op western air but its also the most vulnerable aa to arty. On your side though you grouped your sextons for no reason and got punished hard for it more than once. You did well taking some areas that should be where protoss should have the advantage. You also really see how divs with strong 2k AT but not HE struggles still in the open. They just dont deal enough damage to force project the advantage they can take at 2k. So while they "win" 2k and holds that advantage they cant really utilize it that well. Many other divs suffer similarly like for example 29th tank.

[@MauriceTarantulas]

But losing the forest 17 pounders might have been a prob...but yeah he could have artied that!

[@atkpwrgaming]

This is why I always complain when a division has no 2k HE, its so limiting on a lot of maps