The Ultimate Commander Guide For Hell Let Loose

[@Ema6835]

1:57 AM going to sleep "let me find a video to sleep on" found this sleep can wait

[@commandercrane1945]

I think my voice would put you to sleep lol

[@tyriongambly3134]

1:27 AM here

[@hereswhatsleft]

"Honey come quick! Commander Crane has a new video out!" Great content as always, dude. I know you're taking a bit of a hiatus, but the community appreciate what you do.

[@commandercrane1945]

@@hereswhatsleft lmao, thank you

[@Webhead123]

14:45 Flamethrowers can also destroy garrisons. Probably one of their best uses.

[@eutectoid1]

Need I say it - but this is one hell of a tutorial mate - excellent effort - must have taken you a looong time to produce this. All good info - it should be mandatory watching for new players

[@smallberries]

Excellent. Learned a ton. Thanks. Love that it took 50 minutes for you to say, basically, "it's a game so sometimes you do shit because it's just fun"

[@FangZandith]

Did my first commander game after watching. Massively helpful, it got me commander level 3 in one game!

[@jordanyabut7287]

I was jig SL. When you run across people with good comms in the game add them for later. Had full squad with comms and was able to effectively divide the squad to attack or defend and ended up taking out 10 garrisons, 2 airheads, 6 tanks and multiple supp trucks this game. Good to finally play a game with you

[@GenuineHeather]

I've taken commander role three times and won all three, largely due to videos like this. Of course, I was also fortunate to have great teams. But I'm always learning and improving, and your content has helped a lot. Thanks!

[@tallpaul9848]

Thanks. Took 11 pages of notes. Level 97. Still not jumping in without some more work.

[@aaronc6889]

Best way to learn is get in the seat and give it a few games. Like he said, announce you are new and are open to any tips along the way. Take the criticism and learn. I always asked if there was anything I could improve on after my first games in the role and got better each time!

[@TheMissile13]

Why not? I reached commander lvl 10 before reaching lvl 45 +/- Having supportive/talkative squad leads is key !

[@Datanimalblundetto666]

Bruh

[@casey963]

Honestly, this is a great guide that I'll be sending friends for just overall fantastic information. The ultimate Hell Let Loose guide. Thank you for this.

[@Bearbok]

I'm about to start watching but before I even start I want to thank you for putting this together and for your other videos!!!

[@commandercrane1945]

No problem. I'm happy my work is appreciated.

[@PKHenry]

Terrifically curated Tutorial - thanks for putting this out there

[@commandercrane1945]

Thank you. I'm glad it was helpful

[@chivo0317]

A must watch! Should also be part of the in-game tutorial. 👏

[@commandercrane1945]

I feel like the basic game mechanics need to be explained somewhere, somehow, at least.

[@DK_play-lh6zg]

The content and lessons in this are really good, and it's the best "this is what to do" guide for commander rather than a "here's all the buttons" guide that I've seen. For example, I'm an experienced com, and I've never thought to leave the default supply truck alone to enable passive helpers, instead my though process was "free truck, it'll cost the team less if I take it"; which I realise isn't taking advantage of how players play this game. I think with some more editing and illustration; particularly on the map concepts you could have made this more concise (say 40mins) and easy to follow without any loss of message.

[@jessica-p3f2p]

So helpful, thanks for sharing your knowledge and putting in the work to produce this!

[@jorgehenrique9248]

Exactly what i needed. Thanks man, that probably took a lot of work.

[@cristianr101]

Great guide! I was already doing mostly the same but I learned a few new tricks. Thank you!! And as you said, sometimes you can do everything right and still loose. And there's games where you don't do much ( squads bring their own supports and supply trucks and set everything themselves ) and you win easily. It's a team effort.

[@Yolomartyr]

Really appreciate you making this. Always enjoyed watching you, and have learned a ton! Wish you the best and looking forward to seeing more commander videos (when you have time)

[@MetalAriel]

Great video, love the level of detail

[@michaelpeck5547]

One of the most awesome things about this vid is that I never realized you could drive the truck through walls and over some of the stuff he drives through in this vid. lol

[@walther788]

Дуже потужно!🔥

[@MarkieBee]

there it is

[@Danjok1313]

Awesome video as always thanks for putting this together. You play mostly with your HUD off how do you know if a sector is being captured/cap weight without having that up or do you just pull it up quickly once in a while to look? I'm guessing for cap weight you need to be in the circle/ask a friendly but you seem to just know without having a HUD

[@commandercrane1945]

@@Danjok1313 I press T to bring up the HUD as needed. And thank you

[@joelgaulton3565]

Manpower - Everytime someone dies you lose 1 manpower, keep that in mind if you want to encourage. Supply Trucks - Cheapest why to get garrys, 100 fuel for 2. Ammo Drops - Should be used only when on offence (Assulting a strong point) in an area where a garry is not present but AT's will need ammo. Half-tracks - can be placed in the 200 meter radius of other garrys making it a force multiplier. On defense they are a counter to Recon because Recon has no answer to it beyond calling in a precision strike which is an amazing trade because that's a 20min cooldown. On Offence their lockout meter radius is less then garrys. I believe it's only 50m vs 100m. Jeeps - Fastest Vehicle in the game by far Heavy Tanks - No solo tankers (Sorry not sorry it's 600 fuel) How to win - It always take 2mins to cap a point to matter if your ahead by 1 cap weight or 10. Spotter Flairs - are you best friend and can give you amazing strafing run targets for cheap.

[@mr.bruh6935]

14:42 you can use the gammon bomb N82 to destroy garries if you are playing as the Brits

[@commandercrane1945]

Since those grenades are new and I rarely play as the British, I actually did not know that. That is something that probably should be patched though, to be consistent with the game.

[@jadlteif8143]

This is an excellent video, thank you.

[@commandercrane1945]

@@jadlteif8143 no problem

[@hrbc757]

Cheers, Crane!!

[@JPWatershoes]

Thank you

[@andrewjohnston9115]

Just to clarify a bit, When the enemy has started to cap your final point, the HQ directly behind it is unavailable to spawn on, so for example if Flak battery on SME is being capped, you will not be able to spawn on the Top HQ. The way to manage this is to make sure you have supplies on or near the top HQ (or the HQ behind the final point) and if you lose the mid cap and the next point is being pushed, make sure you build a backup Garry on or near the HQ, so you give the team the opportunity to contest the last point.

[@tma78]

and have a halftrack locked somewhere near the last point/HQ as well

[@zn8974]

I love you

[@commandercrane1945]

Thank you for the love

[@henrikflygarepipes5471]

Really good! Just started to jump in as commander when the red ”No commander”-prompt is flashing.

[@commandercrane1945]

I remember doing that for the first time, when I was like level 15. It was on the old sainte-marie-du-mont map.

[@tma78]

people usually run in a straight line between the two points of contention. if you set up a flanking garrison, usually as they die they will spawn on it. leaving you without a frontline which is why casual server games fall apart. commander needs to communicate what squads or how many should spawn from what flanking garrison or halftrack. if you have most of the points on one side/top or bottom then building a garrison 600m away from the nearest point will do more damage to your team than the enemies. without team mates within the 4 tiles around either defensive or offensive point they arent doing anything constructive. only people that should be out there is recon, commander even a squad leader or two to do a proper flank to come in behind the offensive point and set something up just inside the limit. halftracks you can park and ready up deep into enemy territory and once the point is taken and the tiles turn blue it will be available to spawn from. for example utah beach as axis. i have driven the halftrack into the back of one of the u.s ships and activated it. once we were on their last point everyone just spawned from the halftrack as they died or redeployed and walked out behind the last point. game over.

[@commandercrane1945]

Good points. I always try to tell people which garrison needs more spawns, that usually works. You need that constant frontline, otherwise the enemy just walks into your sector.

[@noahleafloor2022]

Oh damn I didn't expect it to be out this quick 😂

[@commandercrane1945]

@@noahleafloor2022 I already had a skeleton of it and footage to go, all I had to do was put it together. Took all weekend lol.

[@michaelpeck5547]

I always play squad leader but I've wanted to see what Commander was like. That said, I didn't know how any of the controls would work so I didn't want to botch anyone's game. Last night I joined a game with no commander and as the opponent was starting to take our last point, I told my buddy to take squad lead when I left. We were still in party chat but I took Commander and figured out how to get a supply drop off point and told my buddy to build a gary. I saw blueberries moving west to the old point so I called in a recon, found where the enemy was and ordered that Russian rocket strike on them, followed by an airhead to the West of the old point. At that point I went to game chat and told everyone I didn't know what I was doing but at this point we have to try something. We ended up winning 4-1 so it was a rush. I found that commander is NOTHING like squad lead but I have worked as an IT SR. Project Manager for 10 years so I realized it was a similar role in terms of helping to herd cats and stay on course. I somehow got a W and 3 commendations so it wasn't terrible. I did have some criticism and rather than argue, I just agreed and advised on what I was trying to do. Nobody got hot and overall, it was a kind of fun. I wish I could have practiced the controls first though. I'm on Xbox so I could see where a mouse would be less clunky. Last note - I couldn't deliver supplies in the truck. I got picked off or blown up 3 times so I stopped trying. It could have been the fact that the enemy was all over the map due to me joining and taking command very late in the game. Also, pay attention to your old points. I found I had a squad that liked to defend but I had to keep reminding them when to leave an old point to get up to the current one.

[@ZEMUNBRE]

That game is a perfect example how garrisons are not suppose to be built. Don't expect from your commander to build every single garrison . If you dont plan to build gerries dont play SL in first place :)

[@keen1631]

So true, it’s hard to get sl to place garrisons

[@bfgamed]

Thank for sharing

[@siLence-84]

Oh shit... it's here. I don't even need to watch this to know it will be without a doubt the best commander guide in existence.

[@commandercrane1945]

Thank you for having that confidence in me lol.

[@brendenbaxter5304]

*looks up commander video for HLL* *doesn't realize it's thee commander crane*

[@CoryKissick]

I've watched this whole video. I'm now a West Point graduate.

[@JohnDoe-fv7ue]

Damn it’s 2:07 AM here.

[@ThyOverlord-k6u]

I use the jeep to speed around to make garrisons in enemy territory, that's if I get 2 supports to come, or i deployed a supply drop

[@TheZeBruh]

i dont play commander but i play a lot of squad leader, never knew outpost are immune to bombing runs that's very helpful to know

[@TheZeBruh]

also didnt know the recon cant detect people inside buildings

[@commandercrane1945]

@@TheZeBruh It has become like a everything tutorial too as I was making this lol

[@diskies]

T17 should be paying you for this

[@andrewjohnston9115]

The player resource for HLL has enabled the whole game, Crane, Soul, Mono, Terry to name a few have put time and effort in to making YT content to make this game work, T17 are a sucky outfit who have piggy backed on unpaid content produced as a labour of love to benefit the HLL community rather than offer up tutorials for new players.

[@commandercrane1945]

@@andrewjohnston9115 It's nice when I'm playing a game and someone is using a tactic or something I discussed. Idk if they got it from me, but I can feel like my videos are having some impact.

[@TheMissile13]

​@commandercrane1945 sooooooo talking about tactics We had a game where a guy literally SPAMMED arty in our team Our squad leads including myself had to tk that guy on repeat bc our tickets were down to 3-15 Full nodes didnt help etiher 😅 Since then, I've had a biased opinion about having an arty on duty in our team 24/7 We legit lost the game due to him wasting all the tickets preventing me from calling in a crucial bombing run, resulting in a negative snow ball as of then... Listening to your experienced opinion that arty is key to win and low tickets are due to other issues is interesting What do you think about such situations? Ever happened to you? Even admin got involved and had to ban him for multiple games 😂

[@diskies]

@@commandercrane1945 all my "what are you gonna do about it" airheads worked because I learnt it from you, your videos had a huge impact on how I play commander

[@ecyrbH]

i wonder how much these techniques change w the game mode Offensive??

[@jasonrusso9808]

So the Soviet is wearing two red rectangles on his collar tabs indicating Maior Маиор or Major, same with the wehrmacht douchebag. And the US Officer is wearing a gold oakleaf, Major. However a Major mostly was a Battalion XO executive officer. Battalion CO is a Lt. Colonel. Occasionally they could command a Bn.

[@WetWiIIy]

Very nice! Watched the whole thing. To my knowledge, Team 17 has yet to make it obvious that garrisons must be placed 200M apart minimum, or that supplies from a truck cannot be placed in the first two sectors on warfare. And that's R I D I C U L O U S.

[@commandercrane1945]

Maybe it is in the field manual that no one is ever going to read.

[@WetWiIIy]

@@commandercrane1945 Lol, “what field manual?”

[@commandercrane1945]

@@WetWiIIy Exactly. You can find it in the main menu. Under basic training

[@jdot5974]

I don't know I kind of like that you have to either talk to people/read/look up content to learn more about this game. It relies heavily on communication and coordination and it isn't a casual game so I like that it doesn't just spoonfeed you everything.

[@toxico1152]

Bro go read the field manual

[@luhxifyy]

lets go

[@Danjok1313]

Random question but does anyone know the rules for recon team when your on defense ? I know you can’t go into HQ but is there any benefit in terms of how far back you can go later on in the match?

[@commandercrane1945]

@@Danjok1313 They cannot go to the enemy HQ. Best to use recon for garrison hunting in that situation.

[@ricksanchezito8972]

Russian faction molotovs can destroy garrisons too.

[@BunyanClement-x1w]

Meagan Land

[@th3b0pper]

Lot of horrible advice here

[@commandercrane1945]

I usually ignore rude comments, but I'm genuinely curious what is bad advice here?

[@RWM3322]

I think you're mistaken. Garrisons and half-trucks can't be destroyed by artillery

[@commandercrane1945]

Garrisons cannot be destroyed by arty. Half-tracks can.

[@RWM3322]

@@commandercrane1945 Are you sure? I myself have tried to destroy a half-truck with artillery several times and despite direct hits confirmed by observers, I have never succeeded. Likewise, my team has never lost a half-truck to enemy artillery. I have 1600h in game. Do you perhaps have such a moment recorded on one of your videos? Don't get me wrong, because the video is great and I am a fan of yours. This information simply surprised me.

[@commandercrane1945]

@@RWM3322 I can confirm 100% that it can. In fact, arty can destroy tanks too. It has to be a direct it. For a half-track, a direct hit will do it or several very close hits. It isn’t easy to do.

[@RWM3322]

@@commandercrane1945 ok, thank you, good to know

[@siLence-84]

10 minutes precision strike...? was that a misspeak? precision is on a 20 minute CD unless they just changed it in the last couple weeks? another thing worth mentioning is how inaccurate the (im)precision strike is now. It's legit buggy as fuck. I mark shit absolutely perfectly (as you do) and it's just fucking terrible now, and has been fucked for about a year now. Also, the plane direction really doesn't matter for Germany because the stuka is a dive bomber that falls directly straight. The american one pretty much never works, because of 1 how imprecise it is and 2 the 2nd missile always flies like 20m+ behind your target. It just really needs to be fixed, at 250 munitions and a 20 min CD, it needs to work 100% of the time. On reinforce: This is an ability where its usage (and/or lack of usage) and the timing of the usage really separates great commanders from the vast majority, which are mediocre. Most commanders are awful when it comes to this ability. They either don't know how it works, use it incorrectly, use it when it isn't needed, etc. Ill watch the whole video when I have time and contribute to anything you may have forgotten - I say forgotten and not missed, because I know there's nothing about the role you don't know or are wrong about. I know this because I know the role and every ability and game mechanic and CD inside and out and that I am always right about anything objective, and I learned from you.

[@commandercrane1945]

Yes that was a misspeak. I said 20 minutes just before I said that though. The direction does matter sometimes, because the bomb doesn't fall perfectly on the target, but has a slight angle. It only matters when something is hugging a building. Correct about reinforce. Feel free to point out anything I missed or any mistakes I make. Even if you know what to do, it is very challenging to remember everything there is when explaining it.

[@brendenbaxter5304]

*looks up commander video for HLL* *doesn't realize it's thee commander crane*