Graviteam: Pivot Point pt2 | Campaign Playthrough w/ Strategy, Mechanics, and Cinematic Battles

[@TheWarSimmer]

Support the devs: store.steampowered.com/app/312980/Graviteam_Tactics_MiusFront/

[@suivezlemir]

What you are doing makes a difference, even showing your audience that one of our favourite content creator cares. Thanks for this, you made my day.

[@michaelwalters3359]

I cannot begin to tell you how much I need a operational map tutorial from you, man! :)

[@0v3r666]

What a blessing to see you again good sir!

[@Tonci87]

Very nice video with some epic shots

[@TheWarSimmer]

Appreciated Tonci

[@jeffjensen8]

Regarding the first few minutes of this video: The fact that you're taking the time to discuss, in a lot of detail, the thoughts you've put into this and your reservations about doing so are, at least for me, great reasons as to why you need to keep doing content for this

[@TheWarSimmer]

Thanks man. Nice seeing your comments

[@nerevarinenwah3690]

Thank you for sharing all this wealth of information and gameplay. And thank you for supporting Ukraine! Take care. I wish you all the best

[@Joshtow167]

"Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives. But brains saves both" Romell

[@saschavykos2159]

Was looking forward for this one !! Finally ! Thx so much dude.

[@TheWarSimmer]

np my man

[@carrotsandrunning]

bought this purely on the first few mins of your video. Good work.

[@SprikSprak]

Came for the guides, stayed for the walkthroughs and really impressed. Hats off for combining super informative walkthroughs with a genuine cinematic flair. Think your edits and overlays are brilliant as well. You’ve also definitely convinced me to pick up the game to support the devs. Few questions if I may: 1. Do you plan on finishing the series with pt3? 2. Do you plan on doing more of this type in the future? 3. Why do you think the AI pushed hard with its unsupported mechanised in the 2nd battle? It led to slaughter and was clear they were outmatched by armour and infantry numbers. 4. Finally what dlc would you recommend? I see there are some modern ones as well as ones for this setting It’s also really good to see someone using their platform to advocate like you do. I often think war gamers and students of history know better than the average how terrible wars are and why the tragedy should be avoided, it’s all too clear how cheap life gets and how much is wasted when it is allowed to start.

[@Leader1623]

Amazing video and great defense and counterattack in there second engagement!

[@TheWarSimmer]

This one is going a lot better than Fateful Strike did... that's for sure

[@aidanfitzgerald5446]

Really well spoken in the first few moments of the video - I don't think you're rationalizing in the slightest! I appreciate you and your content immensely - cheers

[@Tor_kor]

Pls Make more of those

[@NecroxProduction]

One of my favorite War games were made by Ukrainian devs - Men of War series and it's successor Gates of Hell, although made by other devs is still basically an upgrade of MoW games. I found out about Graviteam a few weeks ago and the realism immediately caught my attention. Didn't know it was made by Ukrainians. I was on the fence about buying it but now thinking I'll probably get it all just for the support.

[@calumlittle9828]

I thought 1c company was Moscow based but mow2 is Ukrainian now. Ostfront isn't.

[@NecroxProduction]

@@calumlittle9828 1C was a publisher. MoW was developed by Best Way. Gem is their engine, the first game was called Soldiers: Heroes of World War II

[@JCDenton3]

Your videos have finally helped me understand this game! If you could, Id request a video on how you strategize the mission in Tank Warfare Tunisia called "Springwalk", I am at a loss as what to do with the bren carriers and the little 2in mortar teams that come with them won't do anything - no option for dorect fire either! Your help would be immense, and you might like the scenario!

[@Sapple458]

Hey great video! I would like to make a suggestion though, you wouldn't mind making a video about chain of command that explains it and in more detail and communication? That would be really nice.

[@marcodiaz7022]

As always great video and the intro was truly great, to be aware is something important and you put the context on it.

[@themigmadmarine]

There is one flyable Il-2 in the Seattle area, and a second in Arizona if I remember correctly.

[@TheWarSimmer]

That's good. Do you happen to know how much is original? I.e. are they mainly reconstructions, is it just the airframe etc? If you know, I'm curious.

[@themigmadmarine]

@@TheWarSimmer they are re engined with Merlins as I recall, I don't know what else has been replaced/westernized.

[@Docyang]

what a intro! i hope andrey and other graviteam devs be fine. Anyway your graviteam aar is the best in YT.

[@raidermaxx2324]

i bought this game because of you dude!!! Slava Ukraine

[@texoschannel4907]

The “armor” on the enemy side was most likely artillery/supply trucks

[@user-gd8nm1mp1q]

We miss you :(

[@edmundcowan9131]

Ps. This is the best tactical RTS games. Compares to war in the east 2 at the operational level.

[@TheWarSimmer]

Still haven't played EITHER wite or wite2... I'll get into it someday. Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa is another great one you should try if you haven't already. The roleplaying element elevates it above a lot of others imo

[@alanshackelford6450]

Love your intro.

[@Undredlafirme]

Hey, thank you for the tuto. Great game, but very difficult. :)

[@stumpusMaximus]

Yeah very difficult. Still learning Tunisia tank warfare

[@flankersea6622]

I dont know whether we can capture enemy weapon or repair our weapon in graviteam, afterall those paks seem still can work.

[@gcgrabodan]

Hey Simmer of War. It would really help if you link the playlist in the discription, otherwise we have to search for the next part. Which is waaaay too much work :=)

goo idea! nice!

[@jameslanz2117]

I have to ask... What sound mod? What time limit? What battle size limit?

[@Lomaster3]

What do those bridge/wheels/tracks icons under the "can move" arrow icon mean??? Like for instance your 481 RR`s regiment HQ has the "bridge" icon. TBde units have "track" icon, brigade commander has the "heels" icon.

[@greywolf424]

I bought the game and all the DLCs I could find on both Steam and GOG, it is the least I could do, I wish I could do more.

[@soap_off]

Wasn't aware that the devs were ukrainians, i thought they where russians, i hope they are safe

[@ogaburan]

They might not consider themselves ukrainins... otherwise i think they would have put the ukraininan flag as a marketing choice. They might just the the exact people who are to blame for this whole thing, russians still living their past glories from the 40's while oblivious to modern realities...

[@flankersea6622]

why Stuart dont use their .50 LMG?

[@Angry-Lynx]

where new vids

[@retrofly9]

Great speech at the beginning. The world stands with Ukraine. We should all do what we can no matter how small.

[@aksow000]

nah... Ukraine has been sold and they get what they deserve. I'm so fucking sad to hear such a hypocrisy form The WarSimmer: great channel, and a great game indeed - no argues - you REALLY should buy it & all dlc's, but... it's not about the situation in Ukraine. Do dev's even stand with the criminals - i mean it - who's in charge now and who was backed by the goverment since early 2000-s? I don't think so. You should really get some information on the conflict. It's complicated. Anyways, the video is great as always!

[@retrofly9]

@@aksow000 Well at least in my country and can get all the information. In some you cannot even utter the words "no war". No country is perfect and Ukraine has problems, it did not desrved to be invaded by a desperate leader who has run his country into the ground and controls his people through fear. The war is about land and money. Cries of natism are just lies to justify his phoney invasion. Putin only fears NATO becuase it stops him from invading more countries.

[@Dr.KarlowTheOctoling]

@@aksow000 Nothing makes me want to slap someone through the screen so much than now.

[@cornbreadwithslasa106]

@@aksow000 Why do so many people hate Ukraine? I keep reading up on eastern European history and it just seems like they have been trying to be independent from russia for along time now, they even held a coup I'm just confused

[@sinekonata]

The 1st world you mean... The 3rd world stands with Russia.

[@voidwalker9223]

Hey if you dont mind could tell me what the difference ingame is between "recon in force" and just a regular push or attack? does it depend on the type of units attacking?

[@thedoubleu2302]

It's not a game mechanic or anything, more like a set goal for yourself in the battle. Where the aim in a regular assault would be to seize and hold ground, a 'recon in force' is what it sounds like. You're probing forward, determining the enemy units and positions utilising your main force or at least a good portion of it. Compare this to a standard reconnaissance which may use small/fast infiltration units or scouts to secretly or stealthily determine this information from a distance. This allows you to give the enemy a bit of a bloody nose without committing to a full assault, but also gives you the option of transitioning into an assault on a fixed position if you determine the enemy would not be able to hold the ground. Hope that helps.

[@SchlomoGoldbaum]

Great Videos! I wanna start to play Graviteam-Tactics. I hope i understand it properly :D Slava Ukrainii!

[@stumpusMaximus]

I bought Steel Fury Kharkov 1942, Steel Armour Blaze of War, tank warfare Tunisia 1943. 29:00 can you not unit camera follow the Sturmovik with the Q key, Like in Tunisia 1943?

[@TheWarSimmer]

I hadn't thought about Steel Armour... need to get it. As far as the Q key to follow planes, I'm not sure... I've actually not tried it. But if you can do it Tunisia you can likely do it in Mius. I'll see if it's possible.

[@SK-lt1so]

Great game Desperately needs a better rulebook.

[@BCooperArtMind]

Let me strongly qualify myself: war is bad not matter the justification, ideological slant, the shapes and colors of the flags, the language that's spoken, or the nation-state that's in charge. When one child is killed that's it, it has encompassed hate and violence as its means and ends. Again, whatever it may call itself, whatever Orwellian doublespeak word it uses, or grandiose destiny it may profess for itself. Thus, what is happening in Ukraine is horrible. But what has, and continues to occur, in Iraq, and Afghanistan by the United States and its allies is something that much of the world takes for granted. That somehow when the "West" does it, it's for highly conditioned, benign ideological constructs, such as Freedom and Democracy, searching for WMD's, overthrowing some bad Totalitarian puppet (that they funded previously, but has currently gone rogue), Communism, Terrorism, Insurgency, so on and so forth. Although real children in the numerous thousands have died to sanctions and bombs. When Russia attacks, it's an invasion. When the US attacks the majority of people praise and support it, it's never proclaimed as an invasion. So little international outcry occurs when the US "unilaterally" attacks (invades) another nation, on whatever pretext its world primacy may enjoy, while killing children... An example, a proposal, perhaps, that if the US had attacked Ukraine, then Ukrainians would be terrorists and insurgents, and thus the global, social media, would condition, at yet another deeper level, the majority of humanity in "believing" that what the US and its Allies are doing is NOT an invasion, but something benign, and worthy of sacrificing children, not to mention young men and women, old people, and just another set of humanity that doesn't quite have that "special-ness" that Americans specifically, and Western Allies in general, inherently presume to have. It's a blindness of Empire. Historically, this's a given postulation, unquestioned by most, when a mighty, violent power wields hegemony over the mind and body of its citizens. And in this current illustration, it has become global. Moreover, I'm a son to a Native American (Choctaw/Chickasaw) and a father to Amazonian natives (Shuar/Quichua). There's an incredibly destructive hypocrisy of the US and the West, in general, condemning a nation attacking another nation in another part of the world while having killed off most of my father's people, and stolen their land (and all the other cultures that have been driven to extinction, and the current, cultural struggle to preserve what is left), and the cultural and environmental destruction of the Amazon...and its indigenous peoples. We should equally cry-out against the plague of war, for whatever peoples it may be. But when one part of the world takes a self-righteous and hypocritical stand against another nation invading another, while never condemning their own for the same infractions. Well, we could only wonder why we live in such a violent world when the mind is so easily manipulated to support a so-called, justified war while condemning an unjustified war. It's war, and if your children are victims of war, as mine are, be it subtle or total war, then Western citizens need to recognize in themselves their own nations profoundly violent past and present, while simultaneously denouncing the current war in Ukraine. I could add much more, but for brevity's sake I'll close, and I presume with this comment I might possibly get shoe-horned into arguments and insults, based on a variety of fervent patriotism, apologia, sophistry, and just downright meanness. Anyway, as a humble side note, I was a lieutenant in the USMC, joined the USN in SAR, and was a tank gunner and driver on an M-109 SP in the National Guard. I enjoy wargames (Graviteam, Steel Divisions) and flight sims (DCS, IL-2) and that's where I think war should only be--in a game. In the spirit of love...

[@cornbreadwithslasa106]

This hit me where it hurts and I've been saying this all my life. I never understood why we fought in Afghanistan or why we always considered our selves the good guys. Thanks for your service and thanks for educating me ❤

[@BCooperArtMind]

@@cornbreadwithslasa106 Thank you for your kind words, Cornbread! :-)

[@user-oz5wt5jk9y]

I just wish that this same sentiment existed for the peoples of Donetsk, Luhanks, and Crimea for the last 8 years. War should be avoided at all costs.

[@MEYanZav]

You have a military background, don't you? :)

[@flankersea6622]

so how to call IL2s？

[@arkadiy9321]

The air support is prescheduled in all ww2 operations, except one (iirc). You can see when it’s expected at the top of the forces list screen

[@andrewwhite6196]

Thanks, absolutely support your thoughts on the Ukraine.

[@nielsarm]

why and would not it be cool if there was a big city match in the game a folder with lots of buildings and they have to be big for example stalingrad

[@TheWarSimmer]

The engine doesn't really lend itself well to urban environments. Some of the small adjustments and intricacies of the "small tactics" required in urban combat aren't really present in the game. This is just my opinion ofc.

[@nielsarm]

@@TheWarSimmer Det havde jeg slet ikke tænkt på det er god information Men fortsæt det gode arbejde du kan også lave en hvor du spiller som tysk :)

[@TheWarSimmer]

@@nielsarm Næste gang. Også.. bliv ikke imponeret. Jeg bruger Google Translate;)

[@bryansteyn9542]

I would really like to know how to play this game but I am just to dump.

[@rogueskypilot4116]

It's your channel content; war. You don't need to apologize.

[@daroth7127]

this game deserves more shilling

[@pawelsawicki1750]

As to the "Statement on Ukraine": again...why do we need to support devs and buy their products now more then ever? It must have been my English, but I missed it.

[@NecroxProduction]

Because their country is at war and every dollar helps?

[@pawelsawicki1750]

@@NecroxProduction You have not a single clue as to what is happening in the world, do you? wow... I do not even know if I should envy you or feel pity for your ignorance...

[@xzxxx-km4vy]

This game is nice , it's just a shame that it's simply a tank/artillery simulation disguised as a "wargame" . There is no actual urban fighting, infantry is quite useless when you face the reality. The devs said it themselves that creating urban maps would be "very expensive" and "resource intensive" as if people in 2023 don't have NASA laptops and PC. And as if they didn't make enough money to create urban maps and almost as if people wouldn't buy them. It's just sad af you got either an half assed game like Combat Mission that does have urban fighting, a lot of it. And then you have the other half ass game which is Graviteam that has at least 100x better engine and graphics but when it comes to actual simulation it's only about lame tanks shooting at each other repeatedly on an open field until someone lands a shot, or with artillery and call it a wargame

[@calumlittle9828]

After that speech I almost felt bad for having pirated this from the russians, almost. Now I don't mind at all.

[@xzxxx-km4vy]

@@calumlittle9828 Yeah don't feel bad you made the smart choice

[@user-ty1rw3xd4p]

молодец что за ссср играешь

[@edmundcowan9131]

Where did you go ? The invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with the game. Not to be brutally truthful and political, the US needs to force a negotiation and stop the slaughter and nuclear war risk. Good is not funding endless war. We need to save our economy not protect The Ukrainian border and make US arms merchants and politicians on bouts sides rich. Need to keep up videos in 22 with new games that I here are even better. The G team is still producing videos 😊

[@sbura_]

I dont care about ukraine nor russia, i care about my country and if I care about another it's just in function of mine, by the way my country isnt even good so I care about it because it influences myself and the people I care about