Soviet Counterattack - Croatian Legion Campaign Turn 4 - Graviteam Tactics Mius Front

Welcome to the Croatian Legion Campaign in Graviteam tactics Mius front.
Soviet tanks are launching a counterattack. Will our Marders be able to stop them?
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What the developer has to say about the game:
"Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front - tactical battalion level combat simulation. It is a sequel to Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star and Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943.
Game is comprised of two modes:
Operational - turn-based mode where you can shift and concentrate forces in the chosen directions, resupply and replace units, repair and refuel vehicles.
Tactical - real-time mode where you are conducting fire combat with the enemy, capturing territory, destroying vehicles and the enemy manpower.
Four large-scale operations for the Red Army and Wehrmacht with realistic organizational structure. The campaign features more than 100 detailed vehicles produced in USSR, Germany, US and UK. Over 140 sq. km of realistic landscapes were reconstructed from topographical maps and photo and video materials.
-New enhanced UI: streamlined interface of various panels, radial orders menu and other enhancements.
-Interface appearance and customization: three variants of appearance are included, customizable unit markers (Red Army, Wehrmacht, NATO).
-High replayability and advanced AI, which selects the best strategy based on behavior, not a predetermined script.
-Advanced management of forces in the operational phase: reinforcement strategies and management of reserves.
-Statistics keeping: performance of each unit is recorded (kills, losses, awards, etc.). After each battle, damages and condition of forces and vehicles are shown in the after battle statistics.
-Battlefield simulation: realistic vision devices, smoke screens and flares, creation of trenches, explosion craters. Remnants of previous battles remain on the battlefield until the end of operation.
-Realistic soldier behavior: each soldier has several essential parameters, such as experience level, stamina and morale, which influence their behavior and effectiveness.
-Detailed weapon modeling and realistic ballistics: bullets and projectiles follow ballistic trajectories, taking wind, temperature and other parameters into account.
-Advanced armor penetration: modeling based on ballistic histograms without simplifications of probabilistic methods, generation of secondary fragmentation fields takes into account many parameters, such as the change of the field shape in space, fragments and armor characteristics, armor thickness and damage conditions.
-Complex vehicle damage system: engine, suspension, sights, weapons and targeting mechanisms can be damaged separately, affecting the combat capabilities.
-Destructible environment: almost everything can be blown up and destroyed, from landscape surface and buildings to vehicles and enemy defensive installations.
-Advanced control of the off-map artillery, featuring various fuse settings and shell types.
-Formation and movement modes: lines and columns, movement by road and covertly, infantry following behind tanks, setting a delay, fire sectors, etc.
-Automatic smoke screen laying: units set up smoke screens when enemy is spotted.
-Dynamic change of the time of day, light sources and weather effects, influence the course of battle, visibility and area passability."

[@signoguns8501]

Just discovered your channel and really enjoyed this. Youre good at this game. Your battles are very organised and controlled, mine gradually tun into a total mess where everyone gets slaughtered lol. Ive still got a lot to learn.

[@Tonci87]

That can happen to me as well. If you keep watching, you also see my Raging Bridgehead, or my Typhoon Rising Campaign. Those got chaotic from time to time.

[@spiraling6980]

Wow, what an excellent show you put on! I have been watching your Cold Waters series, but to be honest your Graviteam vids are why I'm here. Once this is over I hope you take on a larger scenario with 10+ turns. Playing as the Germans of course ;)

[@THATWW2GUY6434]

Honestly I love your minus front videos they are fantastic!

[@Tonci87]

Thank you very much!

[@THATWW2GUY6434]

@@Tonci87 it's great because you go over everything and don't cut! So we get your reactions and your good! Plus, you know what your talking about like the shell types. Many people don't know that.

[@MEYanZav]

This game always gets my heart pumping so hard. I love the operational side of things but once I'm in the tactical map commanding a battle I start stressing lol. Glad someone else plays this game for me and puts out good videos of it 😆

[@Tonci87]

And I´m happy top do it :)

[@marcussurleyadventures1928]

Agreed very entertaining. Good use of the AT guns, well positioned, also good how you pulled them back straight away, then reengaged. Well thought out battle. That leaves one last aggressive push towards the objectives and onwards to victory. lucky that KV1 didn't break though and disrupt the rear. thanks for the effort in this production

[@LUCAS27_OFICIAL]

I don't understand a word you say (I speak Brazilian Portuguese) but I'm still watching, you made me hype for this game, I'm going to buy it

[@Tonci87]

Have fun :)

[@AceDupuy]

That hit on the KV was incredibly lucky. Those things are usually quite tough.

[@mcsmash4905]

sometimes the mere fact that i will face the t34's or kv's makes me stop playing a specific campaign

[@Tonci87]

@@mcsmash4905 I don´t think I´m spoiling too much if I tell you that the enemy has a few more KV 1 tanks in this campaign...

[@mcsmash4905]

@@Tonci87 armor truly makes everything more complex , even a small t70 rustles my jimmies , unless ofc its in a forest then its easy

[@user-tx3xy7lw6w]

@@mcsmash4905 really?

[@mcsmash4905]

@@user-tx3xy7lw6w yeah and its based of a real event i had in the pavlovka campaign in operation star , i only started playing the game and this wasnt exactly men of war where you can run up to a tank and throw something at it

[@snoo333]

that was some tense moments. The AT's and Marders saved the day. also the howitzers. awesome play by play.

[@yavimayawurm9769]

Great battle. A joy to watch ( I'm halfway through and loving it )

[@Tonci87]

Thank you :)

[@Valentaur]

Awesome battle!!! Great tactics to receive and throw back the armor push. Love the commentary too!

[@ssmith5048]

Great battle, was tense at the start but did really well!

[@THATWW2GUY6434]

YES PLEASE MORE

[@Tonci87]

Next week :)

[@THATWW2GUY6434]

@@Tonci87 ah nooooo that's too long lol. I can't wait for you to pick the next scenario and I hope it has mechanized troops. Also, some tanks like tigers, panzer fours, or more kv-1s

[@Tonci87]

@@THATWW2GUY6434 The next Scenario should have more tanks and mechanized troops :)

[@RawPower7]

I hope Graviteam will remake the Sokolovo map from Achtung Panzer to Mius! I loved that one. Nice video fun to see how other people play this fantastic game. Subbed:)

[@dogancanozsel9205]

Thanks

[@Tonci87]

Thank you very much for the donation. It will be invested in Coffee to help me edit more videos :)

[@waelellouze]

GREAT battle as always 🤪🤪🤪, you are doing very well. You got some luck with the KV1 and your mortars saves the day. Keep on please 🙏 🙂

[@Tonci87]

I will, thank you. The credit seems to belong to the light field howitzers. I think their heavy fire unnerved the enemy tank crews.

[@thatonegamer8558]

Absolutley amazing video, also congrats on 1k!

[@Tonci87]

Thank you very much. I was surprised by it :)

[@destruct7881]

Please more graviteam mius

[@MajorHyman]

Bro this game is legit. I think you would enjoy call to arms gates of hell ostfront.

[@Tonci87]

I´m gonna have a look

[@SuperiorBrick]

Are you planning on doing any of the Angolan DLC?

[@Tonci87]

Yes!

[@Coinkidoink]

Can't get enough of this series, look forward to it all week, hehe. Bought the DLC that has these missions in it and i'm playing along. The replayability for this game has to be pretty good, i did more or less the same as you on the strategic map, but the battles were VASTLY different, pretty cool. Have to restart tho cause i accidentally passed a turn doing nothing, but its fine, its still fun. On some old tutorials i see them make use of a "setup for ambush" button, but i think this has been removed or at least i cant find it. Do you know what that did? Its name sounds very useful.

[@Tonci87]

Yes, the AI is not scripted to always do the same and they will dynamically react to your actions. Do you mean the setup for ambush button that is available during the deployment phase? It essentially puts your men into available trenches, craters, buildings (the same thing that the defense command does during the battle.)

[@Coinkidoink]

@@Tonci87 Ooohh, i always looked for it when the battle had started, didn't know it was pre battle only, thanks!

[@mcsmash4905]

i once read something somewhere about how a 2.8cm or maybe the 4.2cm squeeze bore gun penetrated the lower front of a IS1 or KV1 (its been a while since i read it) the shells go stupidly fast , but also lose that speed relatively quickly

[@Tonci87]

Well, lets just say that we will test that during this campaign :D

[@user-tx3xy7lw6w]

I don't think it's possible for a squeeze bore gun to overmatch soviet without shattering. I was under the impression that it just caused significant internal spalling.

[@mcsmash4905]

@@user-tx3xy7lw6w it supposedly went thru but probably did little actual damage to anything inside , however it does prove a point , heck even the door knocker 37mm paks did quite a number on the t34 tanks , it kinda goes to show that alot of stuff isnt really black and white

[@mcsmash4905]

@@user-tx3xy7lw6w oh and by the way the muzzle velocity of the 28mm squeeze bore gun is 1,400m/s so go figure eh?

[@user-tx3xy7lw6w]

@@mcsmash4905 Yeah ridiculously fast round, have you seen any of the penetration simulation videos?

[@Dusty7460]

More Graviteam Tonci. Take care.

[@Coinkidoink]

Does keeping the battalion commander near the fighting do anything or should he be left well behind? Might not be the correct name for him, the small squad in the beginning of the list called "Command" with just a empty icon on NATO icons mode.

[@Tonci87]

It can help you very much to keep him close by, since the communication between different units runs through him. Loosing him would be a big blow though.

[@Coinkidoink]

@@Tonci87 I see, thank you :)

[@Coinkidoink]

Ah man, the tanks on turn 4 decimated me, hehe. Time to try again.

[@Tonci87]

@@Coinkidoink What happened?

[@Coinkidoink]

@@Tonci87 My AT division and Marders weren't in the battle for some reason even tho they were within the battle area. For the Marders think it's because they got assigned to a another battle in the area that happened after the decisive one where i had to retreat. As for the AT division i don't quite know, it just didn't join.

[@ggtt2547]

Hmmmm, very impressive battle. But, i have one question. Is the AI a little silly? Just attacking through the open ground and losing everything? Or it is just silly in this particular battle?

[@Tonci87]

Well, this attack by the enemy tanks is actually quite historical (and failed), so I can´t blame the AI too much

[@ggtt2547]

@@Tonci87 Interesting. Don't get me wrong, i absolutely love the game, but sometimes the AI feels a little silly on the tactical level. I am not referring to their operational strategy. Although, to be fair, i haven't seen ANY strategy game more complex than a board of chess in which the AI isn't incompetent in attacking. Defending is easy! Anyway, i am not disagreeing with you, maybe i should watch and play some more to judge the AI correctly.

[@Tonci87]

@@ggtt2547 I agree with you. Sometimes they do feel silly and make silly mistakes. But then you look up the Battles that happened IRL and realize that it´s not as unrealistic as it looks :D I think that the AI is a bit better at attacking than it is at defending, if it has a good mix of units.

[@ggtt2547]

@@Tonci87 hahaha, throwing shade at IRL commanders!! Thanks for the replies!

[@grapeape7284]

How do you drag select just one unit and not the whole platoon?

[@Tonci87]

I´m not quite sure what you mean

[@jameslanz2117]

These battles just get too big for me to follow and I miss all the little details

[@Tonci87]

You can pause at any time :)

[@jameslanz2117]

What is your battle size? Medium or unlimited?

[@Tonci87]

Unlimited

[@elmersalonga6424]

I always been interested with this. But the game controls are too complicated.

[@Tonci87]

Yes, the game can look dauntibg, but you do get used to it after a few hours. Maybe give it another chance?

[@leee.5841]

Thanks for doing this replay. I'm tempted to get the game but the Soviet "counterattack" has me worried about the quality of the AI. Sending tanks to attack in what is essentially a column with no close infantry support was a terrible plan. It's only one battle but it does make me wonder if the AI is any good in the game.

[@Tonci87]

Yes, it is quite good. That attack was historically accurate :)

[@leee.5841]

@@Tonci87 I could see that kind of Soviet behavior in '41 but by '43 they had learned a lot. Anyway, thanks for the reply.

[@MrEmiosk]

@@leee.5841 not a terribly lot. The whole counter offensive all the way to Berlin was mired with poor tank handling. The Soviets were quite adamant in using tank battalions separately from the infantry, a mix of outdated tank doctrine, and low level training of fresh crews. Tanks were used independently, thrown in where they were needed, with or without support. Things Germany, and the other allied forces learned early on, you shouldn't. And I do mean that the soviet boots were poorly trained, compared to its opposition, and their use of deep battle plans that relied on throwing in fresh reserves to exploit tactical and strategic victories, were upon tank battalions were the hammer to pursue and smash weakened infantry positions... the tanks greatest counter by the way. Do remember that this is also by a point in the war where the soviets are in full retreat and trying their damndest to slow, halt and hinder a better equipped and numerically superior force, and throwing lives away in near 3:1 odds... and it seems the campaign battle reports reflect this. The Croatian troops outnumber the soviets 2to1 in every battle, and he's keeping pace with history.

[@rbfishcs123]

I'd watch these but your microphone is so sensitive i can hear the wetness on your lips, pass.

[@Tonci87]

I´ll move the microphone a little bit further away from my lips then.

[@ARescueToaster]

You make it sound strangely erotic. Graviteam ASMR with your host Tonci87!