Gates of Hell’s FINEST HOUR DLC is FANTASTIC | Commonwealth Conquest Gameplay
All right, howdy folks. Welcome back to the channel. Welcome back to Gates of Hell with the Finest Hour DLC preview. The developers gave me a couple of days early access and this is the continuation of the conquest campaign. I’ll have the previous part down in the description below. We won our first four battles and there is a pretty big decision which I’ve already kind of made. So, I’m going to go for the Matildas. Why? It’s because they lead to the Valentine’s and they lead to the Churchills. And yes, of course, the Shermans are cool and the Crusaders are cool. But we’ve seen Sherman’s in the Liberation DLC already, and I’m trying to get to the actual fat British Churchill tank. So, we’re going to be pretty simple on the points here. We’re going to be spending a lot of them, sadly. I’ll probably save this one point. We’ll just go for the Matilda 2 Mark III. And then we’re only one, two, three, four points away. And I’m definitely trying to get to these earlier Churchills cuz these are the ones that just look absolutely awesome. I think now we have one point left and I wasn’t really sure what to do with it but then I realized that these Royal Naval Commandos or specifically the beach party unit is here and I think that they’re worth looking into. So we’ll unlock the wrecky assault section and then in a future situation where we have some points that isn’t going towards the Churchill. We’re definitely going to get these guys going up. Right. So, we have the Matilda 2 Mark1 and the Matilda 2 Mark III. And I’m pretty sure the only difference here is the machine gun becoming a BESA instead of a Vicor, which honestly is kind of big cuz I love the BESA. Although, I’m wondering how the two pounder gets 4 mm more pen at 10 m. So, I’m not sure if there’s an actual change because that is a very small number, but it does seem consistent at the ranges. But, I’m pretty sure this gun is the same. Maybe gets a slightly better ammo. Let’s grab one of these, throw it in the third Colin wave, and uh we’re just going to go save and we’ll be right back into the battle. So, there is a cruiser Mark1 that allows you to have that CS version with the Howitzer. And honestly, it’s probably worth getting early on in your campaign if you’re playing as a Commonwealth. I’m obviously just trying to experiment and and try all these different units out. And I’m not necessarily doing the most efficient path to get to certain places. is okay. I’m actually getting absolutely annihilated out here. Not even sure what’s actually sniping me. Uh let’s get this ammo crate forward. And we have a medic. Let’s get one here. And we’ll have one over to here. Now, this is something I didn’t notice existed, but uh you can select your medic. If I Okay, you can select your medic. You can have the auto revive location. And if you hold left click down and go up with your left mouse button, you can make that a really big area where he is quote unquote going to be actively healing people. So I can make this like here and say this. Boom. And now he’s going to run over there and anyone who’s nearby is Oh, just not mess with that there. Now he’s going to actively run over there and heal anyone in that area. So if a guy goes down here, he’s still going to go to and I actually never noticed that being an option. It’s very possible this existed for a little while. Now I got to say this by the way. They have that howitzer. They have like infantry shoots back here. They’re bringing up to bring in a infantry shoots the sig. And I’m maybe that’s what caused me some casualties. Or was it just this machine gun? I’m not 100% sure, but I wish my Oh, is my mortar is out of ammo. Which one of these is the mortar? This one. Maybe we just load some white foss. Honestly, medic is working. Oh, they’re just they’re still getting machine gun. That’s kind of a unfortunate. Maybe we’ll just get Oh, hoping that would go a little further with the Willie Pete, but we’re also kind of giving us them some smoke cover. But, okay, that artillery piece in the back is going to be annoying. This is a very open map, which is actually kind of what I was hoping for. Uh, coming from the last Oh, is this a single round left in the machine gun? Maybe that’s a worth a reload, huh, guys? We probably don’t want to sit on that for too long. Mortars are moving up. The shoot infant shoots. That’s going to be a big issue. I don’t know how far around I want to go and flank that, but I do want to go around a little. Is it in range of anything? No, not really. What just fired at me? that make that explosion from the middle of their base. Well, base is a big word. Here’s the infantry shoots. I would love for that thing not to ever fire. Okay, that’s Oh, what’s good? Our cruiser cruiser is on it. Oh, artillery. They got some more reinforcements. I’m surprised at the lack of like actual German armor. I’m not sure if I messed up something by accidentally like I don’t think so. I just went hardcore, right? Or heroic. I was going to hop that the enemies would have more well armor. They’re they’re kind of low on armor, which is a little unfortunate. Okay, that’s Ooh, they destroyed one of their own BF-110s with that shell. This is a really cool position, though. I do have to say that this is a really cool position, but it feels like they’re kind of stuck. And armor here for them would have been a really big help. They don’t really have armor, so we can pick away at their little base or little area. Maybe we’ll move up the bin uh position a little bit. These brin carriers are actually they’re technically these are universals. I think that’s I don’t know if that’s the same thing because I’ve I feel it was the same thing, then it would be called that. And I think that I’m not sure actually if those are Bren carriers or not. Basically, they look like them, but I don’t. Okay, they’re so far they’re really busy at destroying their sort of pre-placed stuff on the map like all these little uh airplanes. I was trying to see where that would land before I finished my my saying or my sentence there. That’s the tiniest target. I don’t think we’re ever hitting that unless I get a direct hit on the barrel. And even then, it’s not an explosive shell. It’s a solid shot. So, we’re capturing this next point. Okay, we just hit it and care. So maybe it’s not as cool to hit it directly. Even let’s keep walking our Bren or universal carriers in. And I think we can just get some of our infantry advancing. What I think you’re supposed to do is you’re supposed to get one of these squads. The, for example, this dismounted recon squad. You get them and you put them in these Bren carrier or universal carriers and then you’re supposed to just go forward, dismount the quoteunquote supporting troops. And when you’ve done that, the idea just becomes to disembark them, have the machine guns and the boys at and even the mortar, which I do think, what is that? Is that this thing? That’s the second time. Wait, who did that? That’s the second time I’ve heard this insanely cool sound. And I’m still trying to figure out which vehicle has the gun that sounds like that. Okay, this thing is getting a little blasted. I don’t want to necessarily jump out and repair. I think we’re just going to reverse and then we’ll use the repair kit and a little bit of cover. Oh, okay. Okay, that actually they have completely destroyed that which in all fairness I was kind of Ooh, that’s a good that’s a good kill. That’s a good kill. Want to make sure they don’t really get to jump on any of those guns that we’re knocking out. But I’m actually surprised it took him down. Actually, it’s not completely destroyed. We can try to repair it, which I might do just for the money that it’s worth uh to sell it because I mean I’m getting to the point I said this literally just 8 minutes ago I feel like where I probably should stop really relying on these cruisers. Although this one with the Okay, the one with the direct ammo and direct gun is I think fine. And you can see all the mortar impacts here, by the way, is I think perfectly fine. But yeah, it’s the um Oh god. Oh man. Oh, that’s dangerous. That could have been really bad. I actually am surprised it didn’t go worse than it did. Let’s reverse this thing. It needs ammo. Clearly, I don’t even need to have both the ammo truck and the ammo vehicle on the same in the same area realistically. But maybe we’ll get some of our infantry to advance because I’m kind of stuck. There are obviously is shoots. There’s the 10 cm one. There are two machine guns here, I would assume. Oh, I’m terrified of that actually doing an explosive amount of damage to my Matilda. That may be fatal. Maybe we’ll send my little rifleman section here and we’ll back them up with the Highlanders and just go for a little adventure. Maybe we can go and flank cuz there are at least two of these guns. There’s at least two more guns. There’s a flack. Okay, the flack could be a disaster to deal with. Are these guys all the same? Yeah, they’re kind of the same. Well, let’s get them all together. Oh, even this random rifleman here. Sniper G43 scope. Okay, so we’re a little bit in quote unquote late war now. They’re getting some good hits in. Let’s make sure this guy goes back to his circle healing. I think we can kind of go for a big push. I think we can go for a bigger attack on the flank with the infantry. This is fine. Does this have smoke launchers? It does actually have smoke launchers. A lot of these vehicles have smoke launchers, which honestly makes them very effective. If these Bren guns end up quote unquote no longer being alive, then that’s not like the biggest issue in the world for me. I think we’ll just try to flank. There is actually still locking out some of those defensing defensive positions that they had here earlier, like the Lefett machine guns. We’ll have the little machine gun section cover as we’re advancing on Gabek Jagger, who are covering the SK from the back. All right, sir. I mean, honestly, this machine should be able to have a decent Okay, we got a pro now. That machine actually does have eyes. Does my Oh, this gun has no eyes on that. I’ll have to move the launcher up. We didn’t have any smokes on these dudes either. I was kind of hoping we could smoke if it got to that point. Our Brenas not actually Oh, actually, I wonder Oh, get out behind the building. I wonder I wonder wonder. Can we Snipe the crew with the Bren a little. Oh, we got one. Oh, they’re 100% shooting at this little position. Okay. Well, the Bren is technically still alive, I think. Although, a little cheeky. We just to look around. Oh. Uh, that only really works if you actually kill them. Oh, okay. Actually, their their infant shoot says maybe turned around a little bit and that’s not usually the best. Okay, they’re just they’re blowing up the entire airfield if that means they can finally get to me. But now if we can kind of cheese this. I was surprised to see the lack of enemy armor. That’s Yeah, that’s a big one. We’ll just clean up now. We’ll send the cruisers in. And honestly, these guys did a perfect job at the one thing they were told to do, which was to really distract the enemy, to be completely honest. So, okay, that’s a big hit to be fair. But they they’ve completely and successfully distracted the enemy. We can clean off that gun and yeah, we’ll do some mopping up here as they have basically no repercussions. And this is what happened to me earlier in the campaign where yeah, in an open field and they don’t have anything to really support in terms of even an armored piece. Yeah. Then this is pretty tough to to beat for for the enemy. And that’s especially why I think fog of war is really good in this situation. The BSA sounds so good. Let’s keep advancing. I don’t think I have too much to worry about. We can knock out somebody infantry on the wall there. Don’t even have to kill them, but just knocking them out is honestly enough. Yeah, I’ll probably get rid of the Bren or Universal little squad going. And I’ll replace them with uh I guess I can replace them at least with something interesting hopefully. But that would kind of be my main thing would be to generally like replace them within the army with something different. Oh, they are getting effective kills. I mean 28 37 and they got like what 30 20 about 80 plus kills between the three of them in four battles. I mean that could be a lot worse. We’re going to throw a bunch of grenades and hopefully this guy now decides to either get up or stay in his position. Prone out. There’s an A8. Oh, he’s down. Okay. Sure, we point the right way. Get our little assault section, which I don’t know why their assault section. I’ve just promoted them to that. How has nobody killed this 20 mil? That’s just chilling back there. Maybe he doesn’t have an eye on it. Oh, we’re down to white foss. That’s usually an issue cuz it’s a little bit less. Oh, wait. How? What? Is it out of ammo, maybe? Or is it Oh, it’s behind a little burn. I don’t actually think it can really do much to me cuz I don’t think it can actually see me from where it is. That means we can probably just load a shell against the back of the hanger and then that may or may not kind of cause a burndown. A little funny side note here is somebody told me, “Hey, you should take the machine guns off of these MGs if you’re playing against the Germans cuz they have a 300 round belt versus usually 50.” So what I did, I actually just took this off. Now, we have the 300 round MG34 before it has to reload. And we got the ammo off of that machine gun position. So, I probably will be selling these. But still, the idea that we have the ability to just grab stuff, put them in, and have that in a firing port is pretty cool. I still wonder about potentially a flamethrower, make it into like a discount wasp flamethrower vehicle. All right, we managed to get exactly four research points, which if you were paying attention earlier, means that we can get the very first Churchill. It might even be overkill considering what the enemy is sending at us. But for right now, I am pretty excited that we have a Churchill Mark1 and it’s I’m sure it’s going to be very expensive. Let’s take a look actually before we get excited. Okay, 530 isn’t that crazy. It does have a Oh, this Don’t tell me this actually still has the Oh, no, no, no, no. Okay, okay. So, it does have a 40 mil the the two-pounder, but you also have a 76 millimeter howitzer, which I’m pretty sure it’s going to be that one here in the hole and then the the two pounders, the one in the turret. This thing looks kind of archaic and ridiculous. But I just love the look of the uh the early Churchills. They just look so I don’t know, they look Warhammerry to me, I guess, a little bit. Like later on, they kind of just look insanely ridiculous. Also, by the way, I just read CS stands for close support. So, any of these CS or close support tanks are going to have a I think this is a 95 mil. Yeah, they’re going to have close support howitzers kind of like a SH 105, a STEU 105 or STO 42, uh like a BT7A, SU122. All of those lighter support, well, not lighter, some of them are heavy, but the ability of being closer towards the infantry to deliver large splashes of H wherever you need them. Now, we did obviously spend most of our points or all of our points on well getting to Churchill. So, we’re get to Churchill. We’re going to get rid of this MG42 or 34. And I think there’s no more reason to really have this cruiser. The crew, I could technically get them out of the vehicle in the next battle and swap them. But then I still have to have a cruiser Mark1 on the field. So, we’re going to dismiss that. I think we’re also going to dismiss this boys anti-tank rifle team. I haven’t really been using them. I definitely don’t need them anymore. And I think it’s time to say goodbye to both this WKY section, which is just a section I accidentally bought at one point, as well as this, the Wrecky scout troop. It was cool. I think there is a lot of options for these. And there are better versions. There are there’s got to be at least five, six, seven, if not more different of these sort of pre-mechnized brand carrier, universal carrier squads. Like there are seriously quite a few. There’s like two, three, four, and five, and I’m sure that there’s a seventh. Like, and I can keep going. So, eight. Like, there are a lot of these. Some obviously more interesting uh than others. There’s a there’s a lot of them. The Canadians, for example, have the Wasps, which I’m pretty sure are flamethrower flamethrower variants. And we get three of them, which seems kind of insane. Do not piss off the Canadians, apparently. That’s uh for sure. Oh, and I might as well show the the winter camo on some of them. It’ll look different than others. I believe the uh the uh this is what I was looking for, the full winter set, which is really cool to see. I I do generally think that’s cool, but I believe you’ll have to play some of the liberation or vanilla winter maps to actually get access to that cuz currently I don’t think there are winter maps within the finest hour DLC as far as I’ve seen. Now, the Churchill is available. We’ll probably throw it. Let’s go a full resupply actually for everyone else. We’ll throw it in the Oh, we cannot throw it in there. We need 45 points. So, we have to take one of these squads out. Throw it in there. We are going to be kind of short on actual points availability. Again, I think for here the veteran rifle squad might be better. I know you get less guys. And obviously, I’m actually not even sure if Oh, they have less health, but they do have an SMG, but is the SMG worth? And a grenade launcher. So, it’s kind of a tough decision, but they’re a lot cheaper. You know what? I think we get more Highlanders cuz they’re freaking they look really cool. So, we have our Cruiser Mark I with the close support with the Highlanders and the ammo trailer and the medic. The ammo truck, the cruiser Mark I, which this will be something we’ll get rid of pretty soon here. I think probably the last battle for couple of early section or early rifleman sections where we just have a whole bunch of rifles with a machine gun. The initial Highlander unit. And then here we have the Matilda Mark II Mark or Matilda 2 Mark III, the Churchill Mark 1, and a veteran rifle section. We’re going to go ahead and save. And we’re Are we really We’re going to defend on the same map. They keep wanting to take this one point from me. So, we’re going to defend on the same map again, which is kind of cool because it means we’re getting to see the ongoing sort of evolution of the map due to the persistent maps. So, every time we go on this map, you’ll see more and more of the previous battles come back. So, we’ll set up our units. We’ll get ready to defend and then we’ll start when the uh Germans are coming in. Listen to that Churchill Mark1. This thing is awesome. I I don’t know why it sounds like that, but it does sound really awesome. I’m assuming this is like a very early engine or just I’m actually not sure if it’s sounds really good. And obviously, Art Churchill is ready to support, but for right now, I’m kind of keeping it on this road cuz I wasn’t sure what to expect from out here. here. And this thing looks like it has both smoke and H, which would be the uh the big sort of um cannon howitzer in the uh in the hole. The big giant. Ooh, of course the 40 mil, the two pounder on top can fire independently. Actually, you can see the angle that this thing is taking is kind of cool looking. We’re taking a little bit of return fire from this Panzer 2C, but actually looks like that H shell did knock out the Panzer 2C. And uh Oh, we don’t really want it to be that aggressive with its That’s the downside. That hole gun can sometimes give you trouble when your tank is trying to like obviously use it. We don’t want it to turn around and actually get blown up from the side. We have Panzer 35 and like two or three squads of infantry, a machine gun behind that. So, we do have a decent amount of Germans approaching on this middle area. And it’s the reason why I was making sure that I have this covered. And that’s why I have a little bit of infantry here. And I figured, well, my Churchill may as well just chill out here until we kind of whether or not they’re going to be coming down this main road. So, we have a couple of I think 51st. We do not want him to turn his entire tank around the entire time to use that cuz it is understandable. He wants to engage the infantry back there, but I don’t want him to and get himself killed. Ooh, that is a big shell still considering you still have the regular 40 mil on top to deal with like armor. That is a oof. Those were all uh those were all convicts. Convict infantry. Whoa. Was that what? That was the hull gun causing that much damage. It’s got a 100 I didn’t even look at that. It’s got 178 mm on the hull, which I’m pretty sure is this just this obviously this front area. We have a 102 on the turret with extra armor up to 50.8 very specific millimeters. I got to say this thing looks freaking cool. I I’m actually very impressed by that under barrel. The uh sort of main Well, what’s the main gun? Is the main gun the gun that is in the hole? Or would you reckon the main gun is one in the turret? Because to me, if you think about it on like an M3 Lee or or the Grant, you would feel like you’d have to say that the 75 mil in the hole is the main gun, but in this thing, I don’t know. I feel like the main gun would be the turret one. I don’t know. I guess that’s kind of hard. I’m going to turn the engine off on it so it won’t necessarily deviate from its path and just be looking forward. Looks we still have more Panzer 3es coming in. A 10.5 howitzer. Now that’s going to be an issue cuz I don’t really have anything necessarily to well exactly deal with that. I would love to go knock out wherever this machine gun little team is going over here. So let’s go knock them out and then let’s focus on I guess I don’t know. We’ll have to focus on uh securing the both of these points here. Ooh, he already shot me once. I got really lucky on that one. Oh, is that just a machine gun set up right behind the little like wreck of everything? Look at this road. We just caused this entire road to just get completely obliterated. The best part is that uh these some of these vehicles will stay. Actually, I can probably confirm that by just blowing them up. Any vehicles that can’t technically be repaired, I don’t think are allowed to quote unquote stay on the map. But now we’ve blown up that so it’s no longer repairable. I don’t think it’s uh it gets removed and actually stays on the map, which is kind of cool. So, I’m kind of to try to do that to as many of these vehicles as possible if we end up having to fight here more than uh more than once, which at this point I feel like we fought here. I think we fought here three times now. Uh, but it’s pretty cool. I do like that idea where we have this persistent part of the map that is this will have a story. And if you were here for the for the first quote unquote episode of the story, you know, this ambush on the road, the next ambition, we just hit that panzer by accident when we sh we tried shooting the stuff here and we actually shot and hit the panzer 3 in the background. I’m very surprised it didn’t actually just straight up kill it or damage it to the point where it was no longer, you know, usable. This 231 is range. We’ll knock out the 231 to be sure. Oh, Willy Pete. Willy Pete. Willy Pete. I would love to Willy Pete this little blob of units. The BESA going crazy. And there. These those are the ones that sound so cool. I got to say they they sound really good. I do like the sound of the BSA. It’s such a fast firing machine gun. Oh, this one sounds Oh, that’s interesting. That one sounds slightly different. This Panzer 3, that is an issue. Ho, that was a miss. That was not a not a hit. Usually that’s I’m going to pay for that probably right now unless he keeps driving. He He’s What is he doing? He’s running away. Uh-oh. Yeah. Yeah. Fair. I didn’t deserve that. We have the 10.5 in the background going nuts. I did not kill him with that. So, the next shot probably blows it up. Just catastrophic explosion is what I’m expecting here any moment. I think this well the engine deck this CS circle of support is a really good vehicle but it is also day six and I’m honestly surprised that yeah I’m surprised they’re still quote unquote allowing me to use this thing considering I don’t know how that shell was closed. Can we knock out this pan? No. I’m actually surprised it’s still alive. I’m I’m sitting here assuming it has should have died 19 bucks ago. I’m still trying to kill the Panzer 3. I have the Matilda, but I’m trying to see if I can direct this specific fight myself. Yes. No way. It’s It must It’s It engine must be out. Oh, it does look like the engine’s probably out. That’s hilarious. No way. We just won that. That’s awesome. The Matilda may or may not be a little bit more necessary to be a little more aggressive with that 10.5. We have the Panzer 38. Another Panzer 38. We have a Oh, Panzer 2. Okay. Really, that’s not a big issue. The Panzer 2s have been fine to deal with. Even this little Oh, he knocked something out. There’s even this little Crusader 2 or Cruiser 2. Not Crusader 2. Uh, Cruiser Mark 2, I guess, if I should call her. Mark 2 Cruiser. Mark Cruiser Mark 2. Yeah, even this thing is perfectly capable of dealing with these lighter vehicles. It’s like I don’t know how it’s going to deal with Hanzer 4. Uh even uh one of the earlier versions that I think they again they added a couple of them. So I’m hoping that I get to showcase them purely by the enemy bringing them in. But if not, like I said, we’ll probably end up doing a a German conquest, just an early part of of a little one just to showcase some of those earlier war new German unites added like the newer halftrack or Well, new old halftrack the um the the Panzer Fords. I think there’s like two or three, the D and I think the B or maybe and the C, but they added a couple new units. I think there’s like even the flamethrower version of the French heavy tank, the the B2. Oh, I I feel a little stuck here cuz I don’t want to necessar Let’s jump out and repair, honestly. Let’s just do that and hope that it’s not going to be bad. my medic. I kind of should get this guy up. This has been destroyed. My church almost called us a panzer 3. I don’t know why. My church is doing fine. We’re able to uh just kind of keep them all at bay here. We’ll get this guy up. And then really there’s only a panzer 2. What happened to those panzer 38s? One of them got destroyed. Was it my uh Did I do that? Oh, I’m looking at the wrong side. I meant to click on this, but I don’t know if I can still find it. Matilda. Oh, well, it must have been the Matilda that did it because I don’t know who else would have killed that Panzer 38. Hell, even this Matilda or this Panzer 2 here now is getting into the crossfire of my Matilda. So, we’ll hopefully be able to knock him out or not. Enemy armor take. There we go. Another crew member gone. Oh, he’s actually bailing out. They might try to repair that. The beauty of these two pounders, and I know it says QF, I think stands for quick firing. They are not kidding when they say quick firing. You can machine gun, I think, still for the fact that this is a 40mm anti-tank gun. You can fire these shells pretty quickly. And yes, they don’t have H, at least not these initial ones anyway. But you put out such a volume of shells, it actually might be a deciding factor in somebody’s earlier battles where yes, the Germans may have better armor. Then again, nobody really has any armor here anyway, but the fact that you can just shell after shell after shell is fantastic. And then Matilda is insane obviously because besides its speed, it just has everything else going for it. It has armor. It has the BESA machine gun. We can drop smoke rounds. Let’s see if we can just destroy some of these uh some of these things here to leave them on the map in case we go and fight here again, which again I don’t mind. It is pretty cool. Can I grab the machine some machine gunner here? What do we have? Isn’t it a Thompson? Yeah. Okay, let’s go. And there’s a machine gun right here. Hello, buddy. Okay, machine gun cleared. Now, let’s kind of clean up whatever is left. There’s not too much time left to be honest here cuz there’s uh the time of almost over. What was that? Was that my thing? Oh, okay. It actually killed an enemy or an an allied an AI sniper. Pretty decent battle. I This was a little bit more chaotic here at the end with all their armor coming in. I do hope that the next attack we do, they come up with just a bunch more armor cuz the armor versus armor gameplay here is is what I’m kind of hoping to get. That early war German armor versus our Commonwealth armor, British armor. Wow, they have been annihilated out in this street. This actually looks like a brutal ambush. Pretty damn cool though. Let’s push up aggressively. See if we can Is there a guy behind his house? Oh, there’s guys in the house. There’s a guy. Is there a guy right there? Oh, he’s right here though. Oh, he ran past. Let’s that grenade. I think that got him. He’s down. There’s a couple more points to go. I don’t know there’s anyone left in that house. Bunch of Oh, just a bunch of guys. I don’t think I can really actually do anything to them. I mean, I know it’s 45 ACP, but they’re also really far away. I mean, I’m barely hitting them. There’s a little anti-tank team. It’s a little anti-tank tank hunter team, but I think we managed to get them. And I’m a little worried if I push too far and that German artillery artillery, German howitzer or artillery. And I kind of just use both words and mix their letters. But I think that would Oh, no way. We got them both. All right, let’s get out of here before that thing fires. I was worried he was going to shoot at my guy, but we managed to survive. The Churchill is awesome. And that I think kind of warrants another F and one more battle in in this campaign. One more battle in this episode to try to get to that seventh day. All right, for this one, I think a cool idea could be to get some upgrades. We’ll go get the next call-in stage, which is going to cost quite a few points. And let’s also get some air landing or airborne, although that does cost us almost everything. Let’s get this uh pioneer section as well. Might as well spend an extra point. I want to try to go towards the idea of having a final or in this case, well, it’s not really final, but having a next wave, the fourth one, and we’ll just throw a whole bunch of our airborne in there. Uh it’ll be like, oh, airborne reinforcements, or I guess air landing, I should say, have arrived. So, the pioneer section has u Oh, this might be I’m not sure. This actually is this just two of these. This might be a bug. I’m not sure. This has two of these. That’s kind of actually I don’t know. It’s kind of strong. And we have a bunch of pioneers. Like a whole bunch, an MG, and an assistant. Some of these guys all have like throwable satchel charges or something. And then we have the airlling support section, which has a section commander with a section 2 IC. We have one stand gun, another rifle, another rifle. So, this is really just more of a support section, but we do have a Bin and just a bunch of airborne, which should have high health. Uh, we have good stats. So, and it probably have some anti-tank grenades. So, why don’t we just throw one of these pioneer sections and let’s throw two of these airlining sections all in this final wave. I don’t have any like really light equipment. Maybe I can throw in one of these early six pounders, but for right now, I think we’re actually fine. There’s not really too much I feel like I have to do. I mean, our waves are, I think, good. We could throw 12 more points in there, but I think we’re good. We have enough capabilities to to do damage. We’re going to go ahead and save. We’re go ahead and do one more battle. All right, we’re on Anktoville. I think that’s how you pronounce that. And this one, it’s going to be an interesting one. It’s going to be a little tougher than the carpet airfield one. First, they’re spawning a bunch of armor. Second, there are just machine guns and like defensive positions everywhere in this pretty bombed out town. All right. Well, for some reason they’re just sending a guy at me who has zero ability to kill me. That’s good. Yeah, a bunch of machine gun positions. We have armor coming in. A whole bunch of artillery and support. We have lighter vehicles. 221. We have a cave. Okay, that’s more of a joke actually. Panza 35. Now, um it is that time of the game where it would start to make sense for them to start sending in some mine equipment early uh you know to these offending missions for them and allowing them to kind of get dug in and for me to have to try to dodge the minefield. So, I don’t have a mine clearing vehicle. I got to say this map is massive by the way considering look at how much like I almost said free real estate. Look at how much area there is here. And then this is a giant little giant little town. It’s a giant area here. We have this whole bombed out village in the middle. There’s this sort of defensive position that has like breaks in the hedros, which is kind of cool. I do wonder do we want to I think we’ll just go for the left point going uphill here. Actually, you know what? I just figured we’re going to start loading some Ooh, I think we’re going to start loading some white fos. This screams this this demands some white phosphorus and this close support or CS version. I just learned that I try using that as often as I can now. Is I think going to be pretty effective especially with this Willie Pete at just burning them out. I don’t know if it’s going to sort of make it so they can’t really occupy the machine guns anymore, but any concealment at least. Oh, the trees kind of just That’s cool. any consumer that was here, anyone that’s hiding, we’re going to burn them all out. I do I’m wondering we might need some actual armor. Only a Panzer 3 though is not too bad to deal with for right now. I do wonder I do wonder I do wonder if I don’t have any mine clearing capabilities. So just my luck would be that I run into a giant Oh my god, this looks ridiculous. Look, I run into a giant like German pre- mine. Oh, that was insanely awesome. That landed exactly where I would have wanted it to land if I could have decided more specifically than Oh my back to back. I wonder if we can burn the crew. Oh, the old is chilling right behind the point. Those guys are all on fire. God, that was brutal. I don’t know why they’re all just chilling like villains in the back over here. Oh, there have been they’ve been awoken. A bit of a short round there. Maybe we can try to get a shot on this 30. This is a 35. There’s a 35. Nah, let’s focus. Oh, that see I don’t think I have anything to do about that 35T in terms of like Yeah, this could be bad. I will actually need to quickly get another piece of AR. A piece of tank here. A piece of tank. A tank. Oh, actually I just hit him. But I do have my Churchill in support or in reserve. And of course that fourth wave of the air landing airborne. That idea that I think is really cool to sort of have in in in reserve like hey, you know, we’re going to call them in, but not until a little bit later into the battle as like an actual reinforcement. We have the veteran infantry. Maybe we’ll kind of we should have two squads to blow it over here. I think we’re okay. My main thing would be to try to knock out at least one of these vehicles. That’s That’s an unfortunate miss. I do think that the smoke is making it harder for him to hit us, but obviously on Yeah, we’re not able to really do too much to him either. Our lanterns are just like staring at this weird battle. The the 22 the 221 is just like, okay, you know, I exist. And I just like, yeah, I don’t care. And I don’t really care about the 35T either, apparently, cuz he’s not doing anything to me. Although it would be nice to get a a if I can get a burn kill on that. May have to shoot a little shorter. No, that’s probably not going to do it. It’s okay. Our Matilda is here and I think that should kind of clean it up. Get our other medic to get to a different position. Let’s actually get the ammo crate because we do need the ammo crate to come up here and and start helping out because I’m gonna run out of ammo pretty quickly for this uh CS version of the cruiser 2. Well, we got the 221. Get my Matilda as a number and number as a number. Okay, slowly but steadily we shall push into the other objective. My Churchill can just kind of chill here. What’s really happening? Oh, we could probably just push them up. Oh, I say that as we do have a howitzer, but you would be shooting uphill or sort of over a hill and I don’t know if they’re able to do that from how they are set up right now. There goes the cave zed. Armatilda should have a pretty good eye on does not have great eyes. Oh, those guys are going to get they’re going to get mowed down. And I honestly kind of forgot that they had all those machining set up my Well, I just sent two guys to their unfortunate and untimely early passing. Not my intention. There goes the Matilda or Well, the Matilda actually makes the Penser 35 go away. Not bad. Matilda, I think we’ll just crawl up the Matilda. I’d love to get into a position where the machines no longer able to be Whoa. able to be manned and then we’ll go from there. There is the Panzer who’s kind of being a little aggressive. I Oh, I meant to grab my truck. It’s way back here. Maybe we’ll put the Churchill on the main road. Keep an eye on where this is. There a road for him to go. No. Oh, is there There’s a little path in the This is a really cool map in that regard. I actually think this map is pretty cool. There’s these little tiny paths in the hose. Our Matilda is just standing there menacingly. Let’s move up the CS for the actual close part of close support. Is this Panzer 3 really going to push out like that? Oh, I was hoping that would Oh, there we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. I actually don’t know if that first shot knocked someone out or not, but Oh, perfect. I just This Cruiser Mark I may be the most elite cruiser Mark I in existence cuz we just knocked out that Panzer 3 F. That’s an upgrade from the E, I believe. Uh, then again, the Germans are weird cuz they’ll be like, “Yeah, here’s the panther G, but then or so, here’s the Panther A, which comes after the Panther D, and then I don’t know, maybe maybe the the uh the F is going to upgrade over to E cuz yeah, for some reason the Germans are a little weird in in that regard, I guess. DSA doing what it does best, absolutely demolishing people. Generally, one of my favorite tank born machine guns. I think we can be pretty aggressive now with our regular infantry. able to push them up and oh, I don’t really have any. Okay, well, let’s put them on the wall here and at least try to cover my armor as they are just charging at Oh, I forgot that that was not the machine gun. When I pressed two, that was the uh Oh, oh, oh. Wait, wait, wait. I forgot that two was not the machine gun, but two was the actual, you know, the giant cannon at the in the middle of the hall. What were those dudes? They had Oh, they were they’re veteran infantry. They had like the weird sort of whiteish tan camo helmet. So, I was kind of confused what they were like actually in terms of units like what they were. But all right, let’s push in. I don’t like Oh, okay. Sniper G43. It’s always a bit unfortunate because we do not have snipers, nor do we have G43s, but it’s also uh Well, I guess I got a Churchill, so I can’t really complain. This turtle should be able to just completely evaporate anything that’s over here. I do have my air landing/air airborne call in, but I’m kind of chilling with that for now. Let’s get these guys in the wall and then we’ll spread them out a little further. Uh, that’s the machine gun team. I don’t want to send that to machine gun team right away. Let’s get on to everyone to reload. Reloading always freaks out all these uh these dudes. Is there machine gunner assistant in here? No, no, no, no, no. Am I missing it? I don’t trust this. Why do I feel like this is a this is bait? There’s something that’s going to happen here. I’m terrified. Uh I’m terrified. I’m wondering. Oh, maybe not. Maybe no mines. Oh, I that was a that was a glitch. Maybe no mines. Maybe we’re good. Let’s spread out our guys a little bit more. I don’t want to necessarily get everyone killed by one howitzer shot from this thing. A little worried about that. I would be lying if I said that. I wasn’t worried about that. Bar cruiser. Yeah, this is situation where it’s really weak. It’s like, yeah, it’s great against armor, but it’s not great. It it’s it’s useful. It has use against armor, but it’s not great. The issue is now with the armor basically no longer a threat, we don’t have anything to deal with the infantry because it only has like one or two machine guns and then they’re good machine guns. All right, don’t get me wrong. I said that before. Wait, where? Whoa. Crap. I did not realize that. That was insanely lucky. I got to get my machine gunners on the point. I’m going to lose a couple of the men over here due to the repositioning. The machine gunners are getting ready. Oh, machine. We’re getting countered by Oh, there was one of their machine gunners. Okay, so it looked like he may have killed mine. Let’s get the Highlanders up here. I’m actually worried when do I kind of expect them to start bringing panzer into uh into conquest. You know, it cannot be that far off cuz they’re not like related to a specific time. Okay, they’re getting some big hits. They just knocked out a couple of my guys there. Let’s move around. This village is going to be complete. Tough as nails to get into just based on the uh amount of guns, gun positions. Oh, I lost a lot of guys over there. Sure. What happened? I mean, it was a machine gunner, but is there a dude over here? Do we not? Oh, why don’t I just load white foss and burn everything? Really? Let’s heal this up. Let’s get some quick fox holes dug. Oh, they’re actually kind of behind this berm. Yeah. So, we can probably just set this on fire and may be beneficial. Thing is, it’s cool because it’s going to make this beneficial for me now, but it may ruin the battle. Not ruin, it may may ruin other things for me later on in this campaign if I were to defend on this map again, which is, I think, a really cool thing to consider. Not that I’m really considering it right now. Also, this guy should die. Thank god, cuz he had a rifle grenade. But I’m not really considering it right now, obviously. But it is cool to have to consider because, well, if I’m defending on this map and I’m blowing everything up, it’s going to be kind of a tough thing to try to get that, you know, back up and running. He’s going to get him up. Oh, he’s already done that. Okay, never mind. He is ready to go. Let’s roll. Okay, there’s a bunch of these veteran squad guys that they’re a little scary, apparently. position. Roll the rest of this little section over to Well, actually, no. There’s a Oh, there’s a there’s a pack 40. That’s crazy in terms of firepower. Although, not if you just knock it out like that, I guess. We’ll get another shell on that. Oh, there’s only like one or two crew members in here. Oh, the Enfield just absolutely demolished a whole section of en of enemy Germans. I almost said enemy Germans. I mean, I did say enemy Germans. What do I do against that? I don’t do anything. I guess a cruiser can try to come around the wall. No, no, you stay here. You stay here. You stay here. Don’t do not move. Do not move. Actually, move now cuz otherwise I’m worried for his health. 76. Where’s 75? It’s a 76, but that’s what I thought. I got to be very careful. Where is this Panzer 2? Oh, it’s turning around. It’s turning around. No, no, go, go, go, go. Nice. on the move. Insane. Oh, well, we must have hit the crew cuz they’re not chilling right now. Yes, perfect. Okay, got the crew back on the wall. Oh, what was that? That was a fuel truck in the middle of town, I guess. Let’s get these air landing. Let’s say, hey, they arrived on the battlefield. We have got the air landing. So, it’s kind of like a little sort of reinforcement wave of uh of infantry. We’ll probably get them to I kind of wish it’d be cool to like drop them behind enemy lines, but at the same time, that might be a kind of a lot. This is a huge squad, though, by the way. Might be a little bit on the strong side. We’ll move these four up with the Matilda. Probably pretty aggressively. I don’t think we have to worry too much about Well, I say that. I say, “Oh, mines, mines, mines, mines. I don’t know where. I don’t know where. I don’t know where. I am not sure. I’m not sure. I’m not sure. I’m not sure where it says mines. I’m looking for the signs. Okay. I’m terrified. I actually don’t know where the mines are. So, I’m assuming my most movement there was like on the left. So, I’m assuming based on that that the mines are more on the left side than they are over here. Cuz I didn’t really make a big move. So, honestly, I think we’re good to keep moving on this side. I don’t want to move too much on that left where I put the Matilda. So, I’ll probably just move the airing over, have them actually assault the point. I don’t know if a lot of them actually have like great weapons. I think it’s mostly boltaction rifles, but Oh, that was a ter terrible day to miss. Oh, there we go. We knocked it out. All right, let’s get them over here then. These squads are This squad is massive, dude. You got so many dudes up in there. Machine gun section. Let’s move them up slow. I mean, there could be mines in this middle area. And this is where I moved up as well, right? Like I moved the units up to here. Damn. I actually am not 100% sure what to do in that regard. I could just swap to my rifle grenade. This is heat, not H. Oh, we’re maybe we’re out of Maybe we’re out of H. That is unfortunate cuz if that was H, it probably kills that guy, but it’s not. So, it doesn’t kill him. Let’s make sure this machine gun goes down. Let’s get our newly found love of these uh new squads to come on in. I guess they Well, they have a machine gun, one SMG. They’re probably not the worst. Virtual is absolutely insane. Oh, hopefully he doesn’t look. Hopefully he doesn’t look. Okay, he did not look. Let’s grab the SMG gunner here. So, we have a Sten. Is he still on the wall? Okay, he’s on the gun. Did not kill him. Yeah, we were never going to win that fight. It’s a good thing I pulled him right behind the wall in time. I do wonder. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. New idea. Although I don’t know exactly where he is. Isn’t he like right here? Oh, he’s right. This is going to be dis Oh. Oh, nice. Nice. Okay, we have secured a way in for our airborne. I am not sure where the mines are. I am a little worried about this losing entire squad, but that’s why we’re going to move it in sort of these two groups of three. And then a group of two. What do we got in the back? Oh, I liked infantry gushuts. But seriously, I don’t think there’s really much they have left to there. Oh, that’s it. Yeah, we’ve actually just killed everything and everyone. We kept the point. We’ll probably throw a grenade up there. What do you have? We have mills and we have a Mark 69 grenade. Not sure what that is. I know the Mills grenade. Trying to get a grenade on this uh on this gun. Oh, okay. So, that grenade can go a lot further. like that went like six, seven meters further it looked like. And now we can actually get our grenade on there. Looks like that 10.5 was kind of not super relevant for them. And that is a secure. We have actually securely captured some areas. We can now actually take this pack if we don’t blow up from a mine. I don’t know if we can take this machine gun. Oh, because that’s one of the defender ones. Honestly, I think everything said and done, a pretty successful third battle. We’re going to be calling it here for this mission and for this video and considering we just basically annihilated them three times in a row. Definitely seeing a little bit more German equipment than I was hoping to see like those um better I mean Penser 38 is still an upgrade but it has to go against my Churchill. But seeing pack 40s is terrifying. I was kind of lucky that they didn’t have this deployed a little sooner. Oh, this isn’t even a pack 40. This is that weird squeeze boore one. And I think yeah, this is the super scary one. This should annihilate a lot of armor, different variants, and especially even higher quality armor with that heat round. So, honestly, I’m lucky that they didn’t get to use it very well. Well, with that one being said though, we’ll catch you in the next one as we’ll continue the Commonwealth campaign in Gates of Hell with the finest hour DLC.
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Checking out CONQUEST in the new Finest Hour DLC for Gates of Hell: The DLC releases on December 2nd per their latest devblog and that means it’s literally right around the corner! Huge thanks to the Devs for giving me a few days early access to get my feet wet, it’s looking great!
In this video we continue the Commonwealth Conquest save I started; I am so EXCITED!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:17 Army building (and overview)
01:55 First Battle
14:11 Army building
18:55 2nd Battle – Defense begins
31:36 Army building
33:15 3rd Battle
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