Isonzo: How to play the engineer class!

[@facilegoose9347]

_Always Be Canalizing:_ Fortifications which make the enemy zig-zag, or funnel are better than just blocking oftentimes, and will last longer. Supplement map wire with two layers on either side perpendicular to it, pointing in at a slight angle; a sniper shield or two inside that will further slow movement and divide attention. If a HMG has an open area it's covering, restrict movement to the nearest cover-- it doesn't have to be sealed or continuous, just annoying and slower/dangerous to remove than go with the flow you've left open. The utility of wire flush with an object that provides cover or concealment might not be immediately apparent to the enemy until they're under fire, especially in the final approach to an objective. Same for wire seemingly out in the open which prevents them breaking line of sight (e.g. rushing to a low wall in front of an objective on higher ground). Incentivize bad options and rushed decisions. Small sandbags are useful around street corners, at the end of a straight trench exit, and in front of doorways (blocks mantling if outside), and narrow stairways such that barbed wire just behind it cant be removed without taking out the sandbags first (e.g. short stairway leading to church, West side of that urban map). If you can waste a few, 'armoring' your wire with an outer layer of bags that don't offer that much protection in the open can be justifiable. The point is to make them go "There's no time." under fire, and keep them in the kill box. Large Sandbags are handy on the lips of defilade craters, so one can peek up and down with ADS/crouch rather than prone, _especially_ if one has the height advantage. Big bags turn holes in the ground into personal fighting positions; one better if it's just in front of your trench line, and it forces the enemy to mantle over it to get in. Sniper Shields are hard to use as intended. Placing them in enfilade positions in support of a point your defending can help, like next to a rock, so you have a window between it and the shield. Mostly find them useful for placing in movement lanes of barbed wire canals, or in craters just behind map wire to make them less useable as cover. Permanently blowing up map wire and sabotaging HMGs is the main object of infiltration efforts, if you're Ramboing. For arming/defusing a contested objective, the Explosive Shield perk can be situationally preferable to the Defusing/Arming Time Perk for survivability.

[@ghostsofrazgriz5010]

engineer was a class i never considered playing but it was so fun on the first try that i pick it every time and end up in the top 4 players .in every match very few people play engineer and the class is always empty.

[@gaming.teacher]

Glad that you enjoy it. I find that the mountaineer is also in the same category of few people playing it.

[@thelizardkingdc]

How do you play it? What do you do with the engineers?

[@saluluu9119]

I just bought the game and had my best time with this class. Great pick if you're feeling useless getting shot again and again runing across the no man's land. I didn't knew about the accuracy trick for mortars. Thanks

[@daniel.cabbage]

Good to know! Isonzo is such a good game, I hope they will add more stuff to it.

[@gaming.teacher]

They will add the germans, more maps, an additional game mode. You can check theri roadmap. :)

[@addictedfoolgamer1970]

Got the game recently on sale as my little nephew wants to play it. When you said “bugger off” I laughed so much. So British.

[@gaming.teacher]

Glad to hear! Tell me, wow are you enjoying the game?

[@addictedfoolgamer1970]

@@gaming.teacher it’s ok. I like the mountaineer role. I’d like to try officer but haven’t learnt the game yet. I like to help out, I’m not a great shot. so the fact Spotting was given to binoculars etc is great. As I often spawn further back and end up seeing enemies sneaking round, so can highlight them. One thing that does make me rage is how fast the enemy seem to be able to aim and kill me. I see them, I go to aim my gun but by then they’ve killed me. Have they learnt where hip fire goes? But it looks like they’re aiming at me too. Is it a gun thing? Or am I just old and slow now, this isn’t CnC renegade lol

[@gaming.teacher]

@@addictedfoolgamer1970 Hip fire is rarely useful, only on close quarters but I prefer the bayonet in that case. What you are experiencing is the people playing on the free weekend where a lot of people got in, who mostly play shooters. Like 13 yo kids. I can say for myself that my reactions are not as good as when I was 13. But thankfully Isonzo is a team game with different roles. For the officer I suggest you to try it out in a bot match to get familiar, note however that in real games thing go a bit differently. Also I made tutorials for each class and additional videos. I do think they would help you. :)

[@addictedfoolgamer1970]

@@gaming.teacher I have watched those thank you! Very informative and clear. No waffle. Do I get bots by doing a passworded match by myself?

[@gaming.teacher]

@@addictedfoolgamer1970 Thank you! Yes, do a custom match (just give it a password), bots are on by default.

[@smrzolin3064]

kinda late to comment, but I just wanna say this is a great video! I really fell in love with the engineer class :)

[@gaming.teacher]

I am happy that you did! Sadly a lot of times the engineers don't do their job, but I am happy to know that there is a new good one roaming the battlefield! Btw what do you use for the secondary slot?

[@smrzolin3064]

@@gaming.teacherWhen I am defending I prefer the grenade as I usually stay way back from the frontline, but when im on the attacking side, I really like the revolver! :)

[@ExecDec]

@@smrzolin3064 Agreed. The engineer has become my favourite class as well though I don't even build that much. I just like the carbine-revolver combo :) That said, I probably should do more with my hammer. Well, I do occasionally whack somebody with it ...

[@gaming.teacher]

@@smrzolin3064 Sound reasoning! What about the dagger and mace for the assault class, ever used them outside challanges?

[@ExecDec]

Very good introduction to and tips for the class. Thanks very much!

[@gaming.teacher]

You are most welcome! Just make sure to share it with your friends :)

[@magicmanscott40k]

I agree the moment you shoot the mounted guns, you get killed.

[@commiesquid4620]

Thanks for the help! Engineer is easy to play but hard to master!

[@gaming.teacher]

You are most welcome! I totally agree.

[@fouadhaddad1594]

Great tutorial man, I love playing as enginner because my aiming is a little bad at the frontlines. Subscribed :)

[@gaming.teacher]

Glad to hear and you are most welcome!

[@ZachariahMcNaughton]

A great move for an experienced engineer is to rebuild wire after the enemy breaks through. It is demoralizing for the attackers to have to recut wire.

[@gaming.teacher]

True, but for being successful at this, you must have your team to back you up or be extremely lucky that no attackers come as you are rebuilding it.

[@facilegoose9347]

Wire keeps MGs up, MGs lower the manpower cost of holding a sector and keep wire up. Don't just rebuild the wire, make the space behind the wire a death trap with more wire and a worse kill box.

[@kiliksang630]

Bro your pronounce it's universal, amazing! 🥸

[@gaming.teacher]

Thank you!

[@VzMightyMousezV]

Nice video. Great tips on barbed wire. Still having difficulty making use of sniper shields though. I hardly place them

[@gaming.teacher]

Thank you! I also can't use the shields effectively, but you can use them to block entrances into houses as it is impossible to jump over it under a door frame, maybe that was their real purpouse all along. :P

[@VzMightyMousezV]

@@gaming.teacher no way! That's awesome, I gotta try that

[@gaming.teacher]

@@VzMightyMousezV Glad to see someone with such passion for the engineer!

[@valder8423]

Bought this game last weekend and its so good. Cool video. And cool accent. New Jersey?

[@gaming.teacher]

Glad that you enjoy it! Thanks and I am from Europe, not New Jersey. 😁

[@valder8423]

@@gaming.teacher lol just referencing about Dumb & Dumber. Do you know are the building point limits to engineer or can you just spam sandbags?

[@gaming.teacher]

@@valder8423 you see the limit when you have the build menu selected. Evertyhing is limited to 4 per sector, except for the sniper shield, that one has a limit of 2, but it can be built inside zones, unlike other emplacements.

[@ChaoticYAYO]

I'm gonna pay close attention to M2H now this game is awesome!

[@Linfaviglia]

Excellent Italian pronunciation :)

[@gaming.teacher]

Grazie mille!

[@duartew.o.1754]

@@gaming.teacherand really good german one too

[@gaming.teacher]

@@duartew.o.1754 vielen Dank!

[@JustinDrewBieber1]

thx for the video

[@habuger12]

I think ita best class im feeling usefull when im playing it

[@andrewcarrillo4814]

I really think the mg emplacements need to be buffed so you can last more than 2 seconds on them. in ww1 they were an absolute deterrent to advancing and they should be in isonzo too. MG's arent even a factor in the game since a regular rifleman with half decent aim cna pick you off because the emplacement is so exposed

[@gaming.teacher]

I do agree, a simple MG shield would do a lot in that direction. What I would like to see is that MG places would be dynamic, for people to build them where they want as some locations are useless and most or just half decent while we know that IRL MGs were kings of the battlefield as a deffender.

[@hesher1857]

is it still posible to refill mortars ?

[@gaming.teacher]

It is. I explain it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJy6dn-DhqtlsM0

[@williamvz6292]

Thank you! Very nice video. One question: MG's, Mortars and Fieldguns, they chan't be build anywhere, right?

[@gaming.teacher]

Glad you enjoyed it! No, they can't. There are predetermined spots where they can be build. You can see them on the minimap.

[@williamvz6292]

@@gaming.teacher This week I played for the first time as officer. I would appreciate a video about the how to call in support-strikes, why it's sometimes/some places not possible and how it works together with the rocket-flaires from mountaineer or the officer.

[@gaming.teacher]

@@williamvz6292 You will have to wait, as I am currently working on the mountaineer, and will also do the marksmen before the officer. However you are welcome to join the discord server where I can explain this to you briefly. :) discord.gg/NBBB7CvE

[@tonyhopf9649]

such a waste that this and the western front games weren't combined.

[@redlikewater6284]

Parli molto bene in inglese

[@gaming.teacher]

Grazie!