Many pixeltruppen were harmed during the making of this video
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@norwegianwiking3 жыл бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 you monster
@aaudi63653 жыл бұрын
8:56 At that moment, Company of Heroes started to cry in the corner.
@DTOStudios3 жыл бұрын
Loved the recreation of the scene from Kelly's Heroes at the start, great movie
@cf4533 жыл бұрын
Oh good, I wasn't hallucinating, since I saw the same thing.
@IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch3 жыл бұрын
I was expecting a small skit that uses that scene's dialogue.
@fuglaa47663 жыл бұрын
8:55 I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
@GrumblingGrognard3 жыл бұрын
I have been playing the Combat Mission games for over 20 years (seriously, day one, release one "refresh monkey"). I own everyone. I must play them weekly, sometimes daily. Your videos are hands-down the best I have seen for covering the REAL "nuts and bolts" of what is important once you get beyond the interface and the basics of "how to play". Keep up the videos. I use them to pimp the game to my friends all the time; and it's working! :)
@karl65133 жыл бұрын
"the flails do not kill infantry", personal experience?
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
Exhaustive testing :P
@cf4533 жыл бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 The flailings will continue until the beatings improve?
@refugeeca3 жыл бұрын
It worked in Company of Heroes
@TopHatHat3 жыл бұрын
It would be cool if you could use breach teams to use their explosives (Satchel charges/ Bangalore torpedo's) to take care of the mines.
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
You can just about manage it if the mines are in the same place as something you can blast (ie. barbed wire with mines underneath) but it's extremely situational.
@decimated550 Жыл бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 question... can a minefield "run out of ammo?" can it be depleted if ten guys blow up, and only ten mines were laid, is the area safe?
@usuallyhapless9481 Жыл бұрын
Yes.
@seankong97333 жыл бұрын
Aww... I was really hoping to go all medieval with my Sherman crab and flail the enemy to death with steel balls and chains!
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
So was I.
@burningphoneix3 жыл бұрын
>Select single player mission >Objective: Mark Mines 200 points >Close mission
@genocardosi41854 ай бұрын
"If we come to a minefield our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there" -Georgy Zhukov
@whya2ndaccount3 жыл бұрын
Mines, like all obstacles, need to be covered by fire and observation by the Defender. If you don't they are just a speed bump as the attacker finds out the extent of the minefield and just goes around it.
@hartzaden7 ай бұрын
the crab needs a target melee command
@usuallyhapless94817 ай бұрын
Yep
@Spider-Too-Too3 жыл бұрын
I once tried to force my troops run across a square of mine field and it was a game ending mistake
@mattiasdahlstrom20243 жыл бұрын
During the Cold War some Swedish static defense rifle battalion had more than 10000 AT mines, and yes, they would need weeks to place them
@KM-jw1vi3 жыл бұрын
9:25 "...too time consuming to be within the scope of a combat mission battle" No honestly it shows a rather sizable missing feature within Combat Mission. Breaches of mined obstacles are drilled for at company/battalion level (in modern times) using either attached or organic engineer assets. WW2 combat mission titles have a flail tank. modern titles should have access to engineer vehicles with explosive anti mine charges and plow/roller tanks. too bad this will never be something that will be added in.
@VynalDerp3 жыл бұрын
I completely agree with this. Modern armies have methods and soldiers who are trained and equipped specifically for the purpose of clearing mines... and if I'm not mistaken during Iraqi Freedom they operated under fire, creating gaps large enough for tanks to fit through. Even something as simple as a modern bulldozer vehicle to push away the mines would be such a massive improvement.
@jasonpeacock97353 жыл бұрын
Have the daisy chain mines from the earlier titles been removed?
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
Sadly, yes
@SwEaTyBaDgErtHiRtEeN3 жыл бұрын
Shock force 2's task force thunder was my first encounter with mines. Had a preplanned bombardment on the mines but didnt seem to help and I lost 2 strykers and suffered an immobilized abrams, after this incident I had some reading to do.
@Dimcair Жыл бұрын
So (1 year ago) how did you solve it after the reading? I just pounded the spot of the mines with 1 battery of 155 shells.... if I had the time to do that, no problem, but in this case since the call for fire takes 9 minutes, and the 155 batteries only become available about 10 minutes in, by the time it clears the mines it is 30 min. possible but not ideal.
@copter20007 ай бұрын
I just swarm the area with a crawling engineer and a rifle squad. Took them 5 turns to spot all the mines(?). After that I sent a tank first, one at a time.
@andreass23013 жыл бұрын
10/10 for the Kelly's Heros reference. Was that the music I heard there breifly at the start too?
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
Yep! Love that film.
@StaffordMagnus3 жыл бұрын
Another great tutorial Hapless, I'll add it to the post for the newbies! 👍
@masonm93163 жыл бұрын
Remember if your playing Red Thunder it is entirely possible to clear mines with scout teams renamed, prisoners of war, a little dark and inhuman but a sad reality of the conflict
@Arthsycz3 жыл бұрын
or if you are playing the old cms games you can pick a actual p.o.w and tell him to clear the minefield yes i used to do this alot....
@StaffordMagnus3 жыл бұрын
@@Arthsycz The Hague would like to know your location.
@masonm93163 жыл бұрын
@@StaffordMagnus Hague Convention? More like Hague suggestion
@TheCovenantKiller3 жыл бұрын
SPECTACULAR introduction
@arikcarmi3 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to use artillery or mortars to clear a minefield?
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
Yes. It works better with heavy mortars and artillery, but even then it's not very reliable.
@lokiwhacker3 жыл бұрын
150+mm arty can do it combatmission.fandom.com/wiki/Mine
@battleshipfreez23443 жыл бұрын
There are some sneaky corners where mines can't be marked by engineers. :( And there's that only bridge to cross the shermans mined by AT mines... :(
@MrHyde-wv8wi3 жыл бұрын
I like your mods... Just sayen... Big Thumbs up...
@HolgerHendel3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@d.c.60653 жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention that the flail tanks can become invisible when they have the chains spinning!
@usuallyhapless94813 жыл бұрын
That's maybe a little too much cheese for a Basics video...
@deltalead9413 жыл бұрын
Wish they'd add the MICLIC to modern games, though it might give the poor engine a bit of a headache
@alcibiades4716 Жыл бұрын
Can you send infantry on top of a tank to over run the crew? This certainly happened in world war 2 and is probably why crews today have personal rifles if not for ‘what happens after we abandon ship’
@usuallyhapless9481 Жыл бұрын
So, yes and no. Infantry close assualt is simulated by them throwing hand grenades when they're close enough- it can and will damage vehicles and can prompt the crew to bail out (with usually fatal consequences), but graphically it doesn't look like swarming the Tiger in Saving Private Ryan.
@arjunarabindranath3 жыл бұрын
Thanks I really needed this video!
@SuperAwesome69693 жыл бұрын
@hapless will you be mine? I have an antipersonallity but some say im detracked.
@vincentcurrie62583 жыл бұрын
Hey Hapless, could you make a video about drones in combat mission? the ones I use never seem to spot anything and I can't tell what I'm doing wrong
@zologamez636511 ай бұрын
Couldn't you use "blast" on the mines?
@Marth6672 жыл бұрын
Annnnd I'm here because of Scottish corridor 4 there are mines Colleville and my pioneers can't detect the mines my section painfully found. Ahhh please change combat mission, pixeltrupen needlessly suffer, as do I.
@VynalDerp3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, mines. The reason I don't like combat mission that much... don't put mines in if you aren't gonna put in the stuff invented with the sole purpose to clear it. Ruins every mission I've been in that had them.
@thesilencec291511 ай бұрын
Yeah but how you deactivate a mine with you're infantry in CMBS os SF, you're engineers don't have the option to disarm they can only mark the bloody thing 🤬, or you don't like to mention the part where this game lacks some mechanics coz makes the dev look like shit?!