The Great War: Western Front | Disaster! | German Empire Campaign

The Great War: Western Front | Disaster! | German Empire Campaign | Part 3

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@chiefJwally Жыл бұрын

It’s a bad idea to connect all of your trenches: once one is captured the enemy can avoid fire by simply moving through your trench line. The risk of your troops being exposed to fire between your trenches is far less than the enemy being able to use your trench line. Your entrenchments will be captured, so you should design your network in a way that forces the enemy to leave trenches in order to capture the next segment. Trenches that flank potentially captured trenches and avenues of advance from said trenches are important as well.

@azerty2626 Жыл бұрын

You should make 2 or 3 lines with trenches. The first line stop the enemy progression. The second and third line shoot on enemies who are fighting in the first trench. In my case, i killed 20k germans when i lost 2k soldiers with this tactic. Try to use units to scout enemy's artillery and shoot them with yours Sorry for my bad english :/ Goog game !

@lothiaskane2614 Жыл бұрын

What I am not sure about is why you send troops in almost one-by-one, instead of creating a larger force for a big push.

@YOUPIMatin123 Жыл бұрын

That was an absolute disaster - tbh kinda love when IA makes it difficult, not fun when it's just the player steam rolling

@farrellrayne2174 Жыл бұрын

It was someone working for the Entente who killed the Austrian monarch which makes Germany not the aggressor but the defenders

@DeathmasterSniktch Жыл бұрын

I fail to really see at 12:20 what sending those two infantry companies to their death into the trench-line you had just seen seconds ago was fully manned by 4-5 French units was supposed to achieve other than dying for nothing and losing you resources and the cost of buying two more companies for later. Losing a recon company to MG fire is okay as it is the risks of the job, but sending your men into unwinnable assaults like that seems like it will hurt your cause more than help it.

@johnpijano4786 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, you need to get Barbed wire if you want a chance of defending against attacks like that. I thought this game is gonna be cheesable and be able to win ww1 in 1 year. Guess this battle showed that you really can't take any chances.

@azirus Жыл бұрын

Also having only conscripts isn't helping it

@thehistoricalgamer Жыл бұрын

8 Enemy Corps vs 2 German Conscript Corps... *It was then that he realized, he fucked up*

@azirus Жыл бұрын

@@thehistoricalgamer yeah, tiny details in the grand scheme of the Western front :D

@spiffygonzales5160 Жыл бұрын

The may be one of the best campaigns you've done so far. But it's also... the würst :))

@rm7338 Жыл бұрын

I've never seen someone make the AI look so good before.

@oriole21bird Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure exactly why, but this series is one of my favorites that you have played recently on your channel. This is an interesting game and so far I'm enjoying it. The "butchers bill" for this campaign is going to be enormous.

@02Machiavelli Жыл бұрын

You only had one line of trenches and the AI knows where the weakest part of your line is. Once they breakthrough with enough force, that's it, they flood in your flank control point and you lose. Yo need to have 2-3 lines of trenches with some disconnected. Elastic defence. You have to have the MGS way back too since the arty will zero in on them.

@marystar1924 Жыл бұрын

For research, treat it like an adventurer skill tree. Do you want a mage, a warrior, or a gadgeteer? I would concentrate on infantry, logistic and offense research since you seem to want to attack.

@Black_Razor Жыл бұрын

this guy stress me out, those reinforcements were needed ages ago!

@marktween7629 Жыл бұрын

+1 sub. Great video, it is nice to see you play before you master all of the mechanics. Do you think you could show the stats screen next time before ending the video?

@thehistoricalgamer Жыл бұрын

Sure thing

@Lemgardandre Жыл бұрын

attack from the flank of the trenches not head on if you can help it. And on the defence have at least 3 lines of trenches, start by building the cheapest trenches and then gradually upgrade them as battles progresses. Only 1 infantry per trench unless its a bottleneck that has to be held.

@thehistoricalgamer Жыл бұрын

That or if you can get into a trench, always use the connecting, communications trenches.

@kumardias9348 Жыл бұрын

Damn the AI went all-out

@stevelyons1962 Жыл бұрын

I'm intrigued by this game, so much that I'm going to get it as soon as I came. Having not played it please feel free to ignore my thoughts. Defense in depth is your friend, rather than stretch out across the front have several lines of trenches with MG nests and put the reenforced ones up front and put that just in front of your objectives. Offense at this point you are in the same spot as in the actual war, tactics and equipment don't really work against trenches. Stack up on one side hammer their line with arty and go with all that you can afford but still keep troops on the defensive, just in case.

@SonesBen Жыл бұрын

It's so weird that there is no aerial reconnaissance. Early in the war, airplanes were used almost exclusively for that purpose. I'd be fine with it being a specific mission (i.e. planes sent to do air superiority or balloon busting don't give you recon), but it should definitely be an option. Honestly, it should be the default mission that you start with, and then air superiority should be something you research (so that you can shoot down recon planes).

@thehistoricalgamer Жыл бұрын

Yea... if anything the FIRST ariel mission you should unlock is a recon plane.

@kyle93watson Жыл бұрын

Didn't planes come into play later though? I could be wrong, so apologies.

@SonesBen Жыл бұрын

@@kyle93watson The RFC deployed the first aircraft to the front on August 13, 1914, in Amiens. So they were part of the war effort right from the start. Aircraft were being used for military purposes since 1910--mostly for reconnaissance, though the first plane to drop bombs on a ground target did so in 1911, in Libya. The first landing on the deck of a naval ship was also in 1911 (the US Navy was *very* interested in the potential of aircraft for spotting ships at sea). In the early stages of the Great War, airplanes were used strictly for reconnaissance (which is why it's weird that the game doesn't model that role in any way). They used cameras to record the positions of enemy trenches and the movements of troops. Pilots started carrying their service weapons so they could take pot shots at enemy pilots, and then the Germans developed a synchronizer that allowed hard-mounted machineguns to fire through an airplane's props, and the Allied Powers quickly followed suit.

@minhmeo9506 Жыл бұрын

Average early-WW1 generals:

@Lowlander-ci7is Жыл бұрын

Send them in.... oh shit they all died... oh well send more in then, there's millions more where they came from...

@gameactual Жыл бұрын

This game looks interesting but the AI reminds me of the old StarCraft AI “rush” which wasn’t really fun

@alejandrotorcida9607 Жыл бұрын

well, thats why you put your machineguns behind your first line of trenches, and you dont connect your trenches, also why dont put your light trenches in first line, and your heavy trenches, in second line :D with the machine guns, but this are just suggestion

@favre4ever39 Жыл бұрын

I would pick the Corsair more flexibility in it's doctrine. It can be both Close Air support and a capable dogfighter. It defenitly fit the navy better at the start of Island Hopping than the Hellcat. Still I do love the Hell cat for going toe to toe with the best Navy fighter pilots in the world.

@94djanek Жыл бұрын

46:50hope they fix that

@heyufengwdlss701 Жыл бұрын

I hope you read and learn from the comments on how to defend as this could have been way easier if you make reserve trenches especially since you knew that conscripts are the weakest infantry in game. The AI did that during the first attack of the video which made your force not gaining extra ground which is why light arty is a option, suppressing numerous trenches for successful assaults.

@neofulcrum5013 Жыл бұрын

That went south real quick

@Zaitekno Жыл бұрын

u have to attack in numbers

@EpicTyme Жыл бұрын

For the games sake, it's actually great you got stomped (I know that sounds like trolling), what I mean is the AI is no joke and if you get it wrong you get blasted. So yeah I guess YEAHHH

@rhinelandmonarchy4662 Жыл бұрын

Nobody: this dude sacrificing an entire company by using them as recon

@dranoel9881 Жыл бұрын

Recon is very important though. I can understand that.

@spencers4121 Жыл бұрын

@@dranoel9881 Yes it is, but it's probably safe to assume the objective you're trying to take is going to be covered with troops and machine guns. He's very reactive to whats happening, you need to take the objective. Arty the fuck out of it, and send in all the troops. And be reactive to machine guns etc as you see them. If anything this game shows why WWI turned into a stalemate, huge loses for tiny gains.

@thehistoricalgamer Жыл бұрын

Losing 1 unit to enemy MG's who I can then obliterate when I find them is better than losing 8 units and 2 shells survive doing the same thing and taking 1-2 enemy infantry with them... My thought process is the first option is preferable, though perhaps I'm wrong and your way is superior... I'm learning :P

@rhinelandmonarchy4662 Жыл бұрын

@@thehistoricalgamer comparing the two choices you gave I would also choose the 1st option, but I believe that you'll have fewer casualties using a balloon, as expensive as it is, it's deeds can reward greatly, also it's alright mate, I'm also learning by watching you, excited for the release!

@rhinelandmonarchy4662 Жыл бұрын

@@dranoel9881 it certainly is, but we'll have to focus on the long run as well instead of a single battle, the manpower we waste rn might come in handy for the battle, but it will be damage for the war.