NEW FINEST HOUR DLC IS AWESOME | Gates of Hell Finest Hour DLC | Commonwealth Conquest #2
All right, howdy, folks. Welcome back to the channel. Welcome back to Gates of Hell with the Finest Hour DLC. Kind of a little preview. Huge shout out to the developers for giving me a little bit of early access. I do really appreciate it. The DLC is about to release, I think, on December 2nd, though it’s very soon. This is more of the finest hour Commonwealth Conquest. The last episode was uh interesting. We kind of did the same attack on defense at least on the same map. the defense a little bit easier than the attack because none of our cruiser tanks have H on these quickfiring two-pounders or 40mm guns. So, it’s kind of tough to attack or deal with large blobs of infantry. Though, luckily, all these cruiser tanks have a bunch of machine guns. Though, the cruiser mark 2 actually only has one. I upgraded, however, the tank section. I should add here, by the way, if you’re interested in all the yapping or looking at some of the stuff. I’m finding it a little bit more explanatory in this series as newer players might be playing Gates of Hell for the first time or even watching it for the first time. I went for the Mark 2A cruiser as well as the Mark 2 CS. I’m not sure what CS stands for. I actually never thought about it, but I know that CS in the British or Commonwealth Army usually has some sort of connotation when it comes to like an indirect fire gun or a lower velocity gun. And yes, this has the 94 millimeter or 3.7 inch little howitzer. It’s not very big, but this is kind of like a light infantry shoots like uh we have one of these which we obviously stole from the Germans, but this is on an little armored chassis and it’s kind of expensive. Uh and another thing here before anyone mentions, yes, the main difference between a Mark 2 and a Mark 2A is that it actually gives you an extra machine gun. You go from having three on the Mark 1 to one on the Mark 2. And then the Mark 2A actually gives you back one of those two machine guns you lose. It’s not like one of those weird turrets though. As you can see, this is like a weird little uh T28 style turrets. This guy’s just a regular hullmounted machine gun as well action. But these are not bees. And these are fantastic. Very rapid firing machine guns. Probably some of my favorite machine guns on any armored vehicle in terms of fire rate in in these video games. So, this is going to be not something we’ll buy because I kind of just have it already. I don’t think there’s a huge difference between the two and the 2A, at least in terms of that. Maybe besides that little machine gun, but the CS we’re definitely going to grab. Now, we don’t have a lot of room for that. So, I think we’re going to do it’s time to maybe sort of think about retiring the uh anti-tank rifle. We kind of lost one of them anyway. So, they kind of retired by default. In other terms though, we are going to need to find quite a few points to fit this in. Honestly, we can probably get rid of the 20 mil because right now I don’t really see a point to have it. We’ll even actually just sell it for 133 points, which honestly at this point is a decent amount. We did capture this German halftrack. I think it’s one of the new ones, the Furong B. I had a whole argument about the uh the camouflage or more so the uh the iron cross or the balcony I should say and why they stopped using it like that. The previous video kind of goes into that a little bit more in depth. We’ll sell that, too. Now we have a bunch more points. We’re still missing three points. So, I wonder I don’t want to get rid of the elected infantry shoots. Oh, actually, no. Ah, that sucks. Maybe we can swap these around. That’s not going to work. However, first of all, let’s make sure we just heal everybody in here. I guess I could do the resupply all button, but I kind of don’t want to necessarily resupply the air strike things. And I’m not sure, actually. No. These are obviously the ones that are kind of bugged, so I can call them in, but then they immediately drop their bomb, and it just feels a little on the cheeky side. Let’s actually knock out the infantry shootuts. Let’s put the uh sort of howitzer version in here. I do wonder if it’s worth grabbing another squad. These squads are 15 pop cap, which kind of sucks cuz that’s a lot of pop cap. We also have a lot of point. Like we don’t actually probably need all these cruisers. So, let’s get rid of one of these and let’s replace it with an extra. I did not mean to select that squad. I meant to grab the squad below it. That’s totally not an issue. We’ll throw those in there. We’ll throw them in here. And then we still have room for the boys at. Okay, pretty good. Kind of a little bit of a mess. I meant to actually click on this section, but I guess we just got some more infantry because we were really low on the infantry in the last couple of battles. We have three options. We can go to Hamburg. It’s a little out of the way. Like chronologically speaking, this is a brutal map. I think we’re going to skip that cuz I’m a little terrified of that idea. We have Anktoville and then we have uh finally station. This one kind of feels more early war compared to especially at Antville sounds like it’s more looks also like it’s been heavily bombed out. It seems more like Normandy and of course Hamburg is in Germany. I’m trying to f possible to stick within my early war idea at least as much as I can. So we’re going to go in here and then we’ll be right back with the battle as it commences. All right, I kind of trolled myself. Rehem station is actually a little hamlet or is Rehem and then this is the station of Redm. the tiny hamlet near in summer in Saxony and Germany. And obviously this is a very late war thing as the allies are invading Germany in the opening days of 1945 or maybe very late 1944. But yet this seems like it would be very early 1944 1945. So maybe not the most accurate map, but I felt like it was maybe better than Hamburg. And also Hamburg just looks like it’s going to be a really tough map. Not that I’m necessarily too worried about the quoteunquote tough maps, but maybe that’s not what I feel like getting super into in the very first battle uh for this one. There’s nothing worse than having a terrible first battle in your uh in your conquest. Now, I should add, of course, I’ve been playing as the last episode in the description. If you’re wondering why does this thing have an MG42, well, I stole it and I put it in there. And that’s really the whole reason. And that’s cool because as you can see it actively will work. Uh we’ll just go here. MG and boom. Oh, I accidentally hit the friendly fire maybe to ricocheted off of the ground onto the uh the Mark 2. This is the CS again. This has a howitzer gun. Only has Oh, whoa. What is the other shell type? Whoa. What? A 260 kilo. Incendiary round. Okay, I may have just found a new favorite unit. I’m playing without fog of war. I kind of go into that more in detail in the last video, but I’m playing on hardcore, not hard, so hopefully that kind of makes up for it. We’ve got a Panzer 2F. We have a Panzer 1B. Obviously, this little cave at 13. Let’s ignore that this Panzer for Furong J exists. Furong J exists. A bunch of infantry. Again, the AI will not necessarily 100% follow my wish to be more or less historically accurate just because it doesn’t always work that way. So, there will be some things you’re like, “Okay, well that’s weird. Why would they bring Osunir?” Well, it’s because they’re not actually supposed to be 100% uh you know, 1940 early war because that might be a very hard thing to sort of keep track of for the AI. But I I’m honestly okay. 160 m. I was trying to make sure that I saw that correct. 160 m is an insane amount of range. I do wonder what the one It’s 160 for both. Now, that is honestly a little insane. So, I can go up here. We can swap to the Willie Pete round. I am kind of excited about this. Aims very quickly. Okay, accuracy a little less ideal, but this thing does have the two beesa machine gun. So, it does have a decent amount of anti-infantry power. Then we have the incendiary smokes, which I don’t know if they’re actually doing too much here. Maybe I something directly. Okay, that was pretty close. Was kind of hoping it would do a little bit more. Honestly, I could just swap to H and probably destroy this thing, but I’m okay. Well, let’s try one more time. Actually, yeah. Well, the machine gun killed the crew before. Oh. Oh, that’s only the Panzer one. Never mind. That’s obviously not the uh I just kind of hoping it would hit that, you know, like I’m kind of curious. I wanted this to have one direct impact. It’s close, but no cigar. I wanted to have one direct impact to kind of see if it would do anything crazy. Okay, swap to H. Even the game was like, “Okay, buddy, you got to stop messing around with that.” Okay, that’s more like it. Now we can get our actual actual in between quotes actual armor. Of course, we now have two of these early war Bren squads. They’re just a regular infantry squad. Then one of them has a Bren and and that’s honestly the only thing there. Panzer hit. And due to the large caliber of H that you’re getting off is that a G43? Was it actually a G43? Did I just see that again? Wait, was it really? Oh, G41. Okay, I’ll allow it. That’s early war enough where I’m not going to make That’s the thing. I I wish there was a way to sort of heart limit that. There are mods that are really cool that let you, for example, in in within vanilla games plus let you mess around. So, you have to sort of research. You go like you actively research like a 1940, 1941, etc., etc. technology tree. and units that don’t fall within that period are not available to you slash the AI until you sort of research that. But a lot of other stuff does come with that and and I understand the developers are trying to create this sort of base game, right? Base gates of hell. And if you want to change it, you want it to be different. I think that mods are a per Oh god, this thing is awesome. I need to research this next time. I don’t Okay, to be fair, I did waste two points on planes, right? I I the hurry bomb which obviously doesn’t even it works but I don’t want to necessarily abuse the fact that it kind of just spawns a bomb right away. So I’m not using that right now but it would be cool that this CS is is interesting. The CS of the cruiser Mark1 is available from pretty early on as well. So I don’t think anything stops you from really using the Mark1 CS. You just you don’t have the BSA machine guns and they’re honestly kind of a nice addition. The downside is this thing runs out of ammo pretty quickly uh for the main gun. It only hit like 11 or 12 shells. But the Willie Pete might honestly not even be a terrible option to use. We’re kind of Oh, I just got sniped by a sniper car 98. Lop some Willie Pete around here. Maybe we’ll actually burn some people out of the buildings. This kind of feels like very late word German is. It is the late word German map, but it feels very late war Germany. Just like, oh yeah, well, we’re taking sniper fire from this one building. Let’s just lop some woolly feet into uh into the surroundings and kind of see what sticks lit literally and figuratively speaking. Let’s grab a medic. Obviously very important. Let’s get the guy up. You got sniper did. I’m probably just going to play this pretty simple. I don’t think this needs an entire large amount of brain capacity. The thing is here I’m less worried about getting ambushed, but I do worry a little bit about mines. I would be surprised if there was mines this early on in the campaign. A Panzer 35T that is obviously or Panzer 35 and the T is for the German worked for Czech Republic at the time or the Czechoslovakia even more specifically. I do wonder ammo wise. Okay. Yeah, this thing does reload the ammo from the truck rather quickly. The main thing here is going to be that I Whoa, there goes the AT infantry. I want to make sure that these panzer so the really only good anti-tank that I have is all my tanks. I technically could argue that maybe this CS is honestly a better anti-tank. Oh, I kind of expected that to do more. It’s possible that that was more of a I don’t think it actually impacted it directly, but if we do hoping that would actually hit more a little more accurate. I do want to make sure I pull my mortar Brent carrier back. Obviously, these brand carriers are incredibly I don’t have to explain that obviously, but these are incredibly weak to getting 20 mil. I mean, we have no armor on this really. I mean, it says 7 to 10. I honestly wouldn’t even want to put that to the test to be completely honest with you. Let’s see if we can knock Oh, yeah. It’s probably already doing damage to things like Oh, that’s actually a great hit. That is a great hit. I just saw a round come at me from over here. Down it is. Okay, we just impacted that dude direct. Okay, we sniped him with the machine gun. Oh, we missed that. The mortars go in hand, by the way. I do love that. I lost one of my machine operators. That’s fine. We can probably get him back up. Did I even do anything there? No, I didn’t. Hello. Oh, I might crap. That’s the downside of kind of playing direct control sometimes. Oh, this guy’s grenade out. Okay, he got knocked out in time. Kind of surprised that thing is not dying quicker than it is. Ah, my that machine gun getting killed is really frustrating. I don’t really want to grab the machine gun. I I hate having to deal with the ammo situation after there’s uh this guy runs around with the machine gun and then he has two guns and then his inventory kind of fills up. So, I’m actually not going to mess with that too much. I am going to just obliterate positions 35t. I’m kind of thinking about what I’m going to be what I’m going to do with that cuz right now I’m kind of just chilling. Although is our Oh, are we actually engaging it? What was Oh, there it is. Watch this be the final. Oh, I guess this is a very risky thing. This is like two papermâé tanks fighting each other. And I kind of love that about early war. There isn’t I’m really trying to think right now. I don’t think there are a lot of tanks or armor pieces in in early war and any faction I can think of right now that have an insane amount of armor that is just completely insane for what they’re carrying. Maybe besides honestly the Matildas like the unironically the Matilda one, but you don’t have you have a Vicers or you have like a 50 cal machine gun and that’s it. So is it that’s the sniper right there. Get the hell off of my screen. And there’s a bunch more Germans back there, which again, well, not all of them can be success stories, I suppose. We’ll just keep loading this mortar up with ammo. I don’t know actually how many. I think only my truck. I don’t think any of these Bren carriers have the ability to tow anything, which is kind of unfortunate. You’d have this little icon right here. This can tow up to three heavy. Just needs one, but none of them have this little icon here. There are mods where tanks can tow stuff and everything, but I’m not actually sure how realistic that would be to like have tanks actually towing equipment. This is a very tight shot cuz it has to This is going to be tight. It has to land a shell right between this building and the train car. Yeah. Okay, that’s okay. Oh, our infantry just knocked out a sniper. That’s perfect. We’ll try to knock out this if shoots and push it more aggressively. Wow, this thing is crazy. That actually is a fantastic unit to have. I would recommend if you’re uh going to start a conquest as a Commonwealth, and a lot of you probably are. Get this unit. Get one of the CS’s. I’m not saying it has to be the Mark 2 specifically. I’m pretty sure that any of the CS’s will do. There’s a Mark 1. Not sure there’s a Mark III. There’s also a Matilda, although actually I’m saying it now. I don’t know if the Matilda CS actually counts. Oh god. Kind of. That was on me. That was on me. Sorry guys. I was hoping to sort of shoot this Panzer 35. I’m a 35. Okay, that’s what I wanted to see. I wanted to make sure the thing would kind of get blown up before it would have a shot at, you know, returning fire at me, which I kind of blew myself up if anything, which is not usually what you want to try to do. Don’t tell me that I killed the other No. Oh, right. This is the squad that lost it machine gunner. I was I was like, “No way. I just killed the other machine gunner, but I this was already Oh, the bronenburgger. Is that an MG 42? Oh, no. This is M24. Okay, for one second they had me there. They almost baited me into freaking out. Again, the AI may sometimes employ infantry, especially the defensive units that are a little bit out of order in terms of the historical or chronological accuracy. I suppose a lot of stuff to to deal with and I feel like I’ve already been playing this relatively hard or well I’m going to say hard. I’ve been just trying to like force myself more or less onto this point. We’ll keep the ammo upgrade kind of behind. I really would love to just get on this point and start at least locking it down. Although Oh yeah, that’s the Panzer 2. I was like, wait, why is there just a tank over there? Actually, is it worth going to repair that? I could stop using all the German equipment and I think there’s definitely something to be said for that. But for right now Oh, they’re all you’re near. I think is he going to run in? I’m kind of waiting. I want to heal, too. But okay, let’s actually throw a grenade. Oh, we can’t. All right, let’s just heal this. Oh, he ran away. Those were also a grenade. Okay, so yeah, that’s kind of the historical inaccuracy that I was talking about. But you have to take Conquest for what it is. It’s not like a historical campaign. They have their actual single player campaign missions that if you are interested in more historical accuracy, I would assume that if you say, “Hey guys, this one unit wouldn’t have existed yet in March of 1941. It didn’t exist until April of 1941.” I would assume that they would unironically change it to a more appropriate unit because the developers of the game are pretty similar in I feel like in in my What? Okay. So, I was just like, okay, okay, okay. They’re they’re they’re very similar in in that sense. This guy’s going to just sit there and take that that they’re they like historical accuracy where it should be like it would be silly to have a campaign that you call like a historical campaign and then well you’re you have units that are completely antichristic to you know like you shouldn’t have D-Day with like Persings or you shouldn’t have North Africa where the Germans have uh seven panthers rolling off the field or two King Tigers. So I’m not saying that they would ever have that. But I’m sure that they’re under they know that that’s not a real thing obviously, but the developers are pretty good about that. So that’s what their single player content. Their actual campaigns are I think more so made for. The conquest is a really cool addition to let you play skirmishes, but there’s more depth to it. And it’s something I always really kind of disliked in Assault Squad. You could play those. God, the battle for con mission as the Germans where you get the elite Tiger Ace in Assault Squad 1 and two. I must have played that two dozen times with the little bridge at the beginning and then you have the little train depot. This is so much more engaging. And that does not to say bad things about Assault Squad 2. I mean that was released as a assault Squad 1 initially and that was a long long long time ago obviously. So stuff has changed over the years and I think that’s important to recognize. But yeah, seeing how Assault Squad is and then how Gates of Hell is and especially Conquest I think is such an insanely awesome improvement to have. I don’t think I could go back if if they released Gates of Hell 2. Gates of Hell Helier or Gates of Hell the Portal Tail. I don’t know, stupid jokes, but if they released another version of Gates of Hell and for some reason they would refuse or just not include conquest, it would be a large part of the game Dawn for me because you can do whatever you want in single player. You can do whatever you want in multiplayer and I Front Lines the addition to the game like one of the Assault Squad game modes that they added to Gates of Hell. I believe Horton uh one of the one of the big modders has also obviously been working on that as well. And I still do want to play that. So that probably in the near future when the DLC releases and maybe he even models it or or imports or allows the Commonwealth to be used as well alongside that cuz there could be some really cool stuff in there. The front lines last stand which is fantastic and uh I definitely plan to be playing. Wait, can we actually Oh, I always left this. This is This actually will if he does it. He should pull the lever and it should Let’s go back. Do the That’s This is This is something that I loved in Assault Squad. I don’t think it ever made any difference whatsoever, but the fact that this is a real thing where you can change the like say the train goes up here or the train goes down here. It’s such a tiny detail that really doesn’t matter in in any semblance, but it’s such a little cool detail. Anyway, where was I? Last stand. Fantastic. Completely and and very much reminds me of the famous Company of Heroes game mode. The original Company of Heroes, the the best one clearly, uh called Stonewall or Operation Stonewall, I think, more specifically, where you were always like you were defending uh against the enemy 16 waves or so. And it was very much one of those like last stand, you know, balls to the wall for stone wall. Like you were your stones were on the wall and you were trying to hold on up to four buddies. And last stand obviously is an insane edition cuz wait oh I thought he was going to grenade something but he was just throwing a smoke grenade. But yeah, last stand is an insane edition. It has what? That thing is m No, guys. Guys, are we serious right now? That’s insane. I just also friendly fired that. Okay, I don’t know what the hell that was, but that was something. I What? They just stood there. Was this bulletproof? Am I just terrible? Wait, what is this? Oh, this is the one that’s still Oh, no. I fixed it. Okay, perfect. Now, the thing is, so the Bren is in the bottom now, but I don’t think I fixed I found a way. Yeah. Okay, so now I’m bugged again. So now I can’t select this guy. I can’t select like what I want the guy on the top to have. So again, um I probably should ask the developer about that cuz I’m not sure if that’s a bug or I should probably get down before I die. I know that’s a bug or if there’s something else there, but I am very curious to see whether or not that may or may not be something they can look at and fix at the time because it would be cool to actually in a battle allow you to say, “Well, I now want to use the Bren gun.” And then maybe you want to swap the Bren gun out with an MG34, but you still want to keep the boys at or maybe you want to put I don’t know if you can I I got to have a flamethrower that I can put in there at some point cuz I’m very curious. Let’s here. Oh, I was going to kill that. I’m wondering if you could put a flamethrower in there for example. So, the Germans are literally out in the open field here just getting demolished by the uh the crusade a cruiser, not crusader, the cruiser CS. We’ll advance the teams here. I’m waiting for this team to get set up on this wall. Sort of a base of fire team. I might even grab honestly just everyone that’s not the machine gunner or the assistant, which would be these. I’ll leave one sort of rifleman with them. So, it’s going to be a two-man team with the rifleman and then the obviously the machine gunner and the assistant. Once they’re here, we’ll I wish that I don’t know if they can run through this. It would be so nice if that sort of auto jump feature. Okay, imagine one day in Gates of Hell, your soldiers will auto FG42. That seems a little much. That’s what I was talking about earlier on about the uh sort of quote unquote inaccuracy of certain units in Conquest, which is mostly with the defending units. It It does happen sometimes. That guy hopefully explodes. Yes. Okay. That’s unfortunate, but the FG42 is a huge powerhouse in in 19 uh 1940ish. Obviously, we’re going to grab the medic. I don’t think I have to worry about too much. We’ll repair this thing. Is there anything I can jump into here? Like 1 2 3. That thing is broken to the point where I can’t get in it. There is this penzor one I don’t really care too much about. These things are completely broken. So, we’ll leave that as it is. I just want to try to find cry try and find my other medic which okay here he is. I’ll try to get these guys up over here. Just an unfortunate circumstance where they had an FG42. You can’t always have the necessarily the 100% historical accuracy or even chronological accuracy or any gun accuracy apparently neither. But we’re going to use the Willie Pete shell because it is too much fun not to use. I would be perfect if it hit the enemy. Of course, I do wonder is this going to be too Okay, are we serious? Are we not going to hit the enemies? It’s okay. We’ll just keep on driving. Again, the map’s a little late worry. It’s kind of cool. Actually, there was not that many wrecks. I did see someone’s comment that was interesting. I That could have been really bad. I did see someone’s comment was very interesting and they said, “I wonder if the developers are able to remove Rex from maps.” That was a direct impact on that fellowship Maker. He got set on fire and flung out the window. Uh it was like, “I wonder if the developers are able to edit maps in Conquest to reflect the sort of research.” So whether or not the that works, it would be cool to see like, okay, hey, there’s a Panzer 4 J. But say your campaign is in the early stages, like this is your fourth day. Could you replace that with say a Panzer 2, or could you replace uh I don’t know, there’s a bunch of There’s always Rex on these things. Like here’s another Panzer 4J. I don’t know what else there may or may not be on this map. I’m sure I could find That’s another Panzer 4. I’m looking for like any maybe like a tiger or a panther, but like imagine you just replace one of those with something else. like they could even predetermine him. Maybe this flack becomes a pack 36 wreck. I mean, it might be a lot of effort and I’m really not sitting here saying that I know exactly how that sort of backend system works. We’re definitely not stealing any of the sort of cheat equipment. We’re not going to cap the MG42 or anything like that. We’re just uh about saw that. We’re going to get this Panzer 2. We’re going to say that it is a pretty nice little victory. Let’s just go ahead and reload. And then once we’re done, we’ll jump back into another battle. Actually, we’ll probably show you the in between battle screen cuz I did promise I would be doing a little bit more of that. I barely even used half the zooms back here. But a pretty effective battle. This thing new favorite. This is honestly number one. Make this battle pretty enjoyable. This is a beautiful screenshot right here. Actually genuinely think this is a this is an awesome little tank. It does look really Oh, the shadow kind of just bucked out there. But this thing does look really good. All right, so I did a little bit of research just looking around. I think we’re going to do we’re going to get the brigade defense as well as the rifle section. We’ll go and unlock the veteran rifle section and then we have unlocked the veterans and this 51st highlanders in the near future. I definitely want to go towards the air landing the I think there’s going to be some airborne in there too which is going to be very exciting. I do love their denison mocks the berets obviously all that jazz but this actually leaves us some points that I think we’re not really in any rush to spend. So, instead of going crazy, we’re going to leave it at this. Although, I’m really looking at the mortars. I don’t want to look at that too long because they’re going to entice me to actually buy them. Oh, you know what? I actually meant to do get that third colin stage cuz that is incredibly important worth where we are cuz we do need this stage cuz we’re running out of basically pop cap money. We’re okay. I think we can definitely go for one of these Highlander squads, one of the veteran rifle squads. So, the Highlanders kind of just are standard infantry, like one level higher in terms of their accuracy and stuff. And I guess they’re look at their health here. So, the health on some of these soldiers is like 200. But then on the Highlanders, it’s 300. So, that’s a 50% increase in terms of health. And you get for the veterans, you get less of them, but they do have better stats. They have a Thompson as well, which is awesome. We get a grenade launcher, like a cup discharger, which is just a hilarious uh very British cup of tea discharger. We get some more riflemen veterans as well as a machine gun operator veteran. So, a decent squad to have in there. And they’re actually well, they’re there are two men less in the early section, but maybe they’re vetery slasher grenade launcher slash the submachine gunner kind of make up for the losses because they take up more pop cap, right? 18 versus 15, but they’re at the same time more expensive. But uh maybe it’s not the worst. Actually, they’re only 123. They’re only a couple of points more expensive. So, we’re getting quality over quantity here. It’s like a Soviet versus German sort of doctrine of a lot of guys with a few guns or a few guys with a lot of guns or maybe better guns. Um it’s kind of a stupid joke, but let’s take a look. I honestly don’t think we have anything super crazy to throw in here. So, let’s just go on to the defense. I could potentially, if I’m kind of smart, I maybe just buy one of these early. Let’s buy one of these. I love this gun shield. I always love this flat weird pancake gun shield. Let’s get one of these guns just to help defend. As I was about to get ready to jump in, I was just looking at their research tree again just very quickly. And I realized I could actually get the WKY assault squad, which are just kind of a cheaper recon unit that isn’t super crazy. They just have a couple of like it’s a machine gun. They have their uh their Thompson. Then I saw that they led to the Royal Navy Commandos Beach Party. So obviously beach party. I know that’s not what that actually means, but I still had to go and check it out because it was just too much of an interesting name to sort of miss out on. The Royal Navy Commandos Beach Party comes with a beach master who has as a webly revolver. We have some leading seaman. I’m seam man. Um with the land I think land is it Lanchester or Lancaster which has like what is it a 50 round magazine. Look at the size of the the how is that even remotely comfortable to operate. You get two of those. Then we get a couple of Lee Enfield guys. We get another one of these Lchester Lancaster. I think this might be Lchester because I think Lancaster is like how the bomber is spelled differently and written differently. And then we even get a Lewis gun with I think it’s like a 96 mm or 96 round drum magazine. So we This is an interesting unit honestly for 198 points. They’re expensive. They do have a lot of health. They have decent stamina. Their stats aren’t terrible, but I’m kind of wondering if you get these guys. Your main dude just is just chilling with a wet blade revolver. But I just thought these were a really cool squad. I wanted to just kind of bring that to your attention. Let’s jump in. I got this little 37mm anti-tank gun which I put inside of the barn. So, it’s pretty shielded sheltered. I was thinking if they drive down this road and then’ll and then without them knowing they’ll get shot in the side, but it seems they are too smart for me and they’re actually not coming in from that direction. At least not yet. I do now see actually that I probably want to get the ammo truck over there cuz that thing is going to be spamming. Also, I’m going to put sandbags in front of it. Hopefully, it’s not going to be too low for the gun. Okay, that’s very That’s very spicy. Hopefully, that survives. I’m actually kind of worried it may not, but if it does, that’s great. We have a couple bread carriers still around. I Oh, I meant to put you in in there, please. Oh, actually, this guy’s a shooting assistant, isn’t he? Yeah, he is. So, we have the Highlanders here with their uh kilts. Make sure that correctly. Oh, no. They are coming in from over here. That’s actually fine. That’s awesome. This uh 37 mil will actually have some use. I think I’ve also set up this middle point. I know that I don’t even have to defend that. The defensive points are just over here and right back here. But I was kind of considering that it’s very possible for them to maybe circumvent this bridgeesque defense. And if they do, I have it right back here to sort of back it up. I even have my CS, this thing was obviously very instrumental. Although, now I think about it, we’ll probably just pull it forward. I don’t really see why I wouldn’t kind of have it maybe in here. Like, we’ll drive it in and then turn it around because it is kind of a cool area to Oh, I should be careful with that cuz there’s an infant shoot set up over there and they now are coming in from our flank which Okay, that’s just a panzer 1B. Not the biggest issue. Panzer one bozo more like we’ll we’ll rotate the wizard mark one and I would actually engage the panzer one. This thing may not survive I think if I think about it. Although do I really need all these guys to be on board cuz this guy’s just doing nothing sitting here. Let’s disembark him. I don’t know what just shot. Was that me? Oh, that’s them shooting still. If I get to 160 m, I can definitely attempt to use it at range, but they’re really just completely ignoring this one objective. But I actually prefer that. I think the AI should have this cuz that’s as a human as a as a human player. You’re doing the same thing, right? You’re not going Oh, okay. Just confused the hot of the AI there. As a human player, you’re not Okay. Hello. Okay. As a human player, you’re not go a little bit of a a bug perhaps. You’re not going to be attacking multiple points at the same time because you’re spreading your forces pretty thin. You’re spreading your micro thin from like a from a realistic perspective. If you’re trying to attack something, you’re probably just trying to put your tip of the spear in one direction. You’re not trying to spread it out as much as you can and and sort of focus on multiple things at the same time. So, I think it’s better for the AI to focus. Wow, they are blasting like crazy here. Luckily, Oh, that was cool. Well, it didn’t really do anything cuz that was not an enemy vehicle. There’s just like a civilian truck or car or fuel truck or something. But at least it looks cool. And we’re blowing up stuff back here. And they’re obviously engaging that relatively aggressively. It’s like two infant shootouts, I think, and a mortar. Ooh. Yeah, it makes sense for them to focus on one point, but currently they’re just getting annihilated. I was kind of saying how I wish I could enable fog of war for this battle or for I guess defenses in general, but then turn it back uh off for these offensives like the ones where I guess the you know attack battles cuz right now it feels kind of cheeky how we can just oh wait for the medium tank which be a Panzer 3 Panzer 3E. Oh, this is the I actually love this tank. This is the one that has the two machine guns, the twin coaxual MG34s with a final third one in the hallmounted position. It’s honestly a pretty strong unit, especially in early war. Armor is irrelevant, more or less in these situations. But just having the ability to showcase that much firepower. I mean, 30 mm is about what I have on my best armor tank right now. Alex, where’s my cruiser Mark 2? This has 15 or 14. The cruiser Mark I has 30. And then this thing has what? Probably about 14 again. Oh, we still have 30 on our CS surprisingly. Oh, now they’re kind of going for the other point as well. So, oh, that’s a 20 mil. That’s usually not what my infantry or my vehicle really enjoyed. We just sniped the crew off of it with the AP. The downside is the solid shot AP is terrible. Uh, I think in early war specifically, it’s really easy to sort of No, wait. What? I didn’t realize that they knocked out my very cool gun position. Actually, that’s that’s so sad. I do want to get my medic to go rescue that dude. And then when he’s done, we’ll maybe get him to rescue the other guy. Okay, so they’re definitely approaching. I think my CS may be better suited now to sort of drive all the way back along this canal. And hopefully it won’t get stuck again. And then we’ll probably have it swap and defend this other point cuz they are coming in. I have my mortar backed up by well, it’s in the back of this little carrier border carrier. But we have this little ammo trailer that should be helping out. But this thing I don’t have any anti-tank weaponry. My veteran squad. So the Highlanders I kind of put over here. the veteran squad that I do have. Uh they’re kind of just bugging out there for a second. Uh they do have an anti-tank rifle grenade, I think. Eat. Actually, now I think about it, it’s only got 30 mm of armor. This guy may have a chance. Okay, I forgot about these guys on the left. There’s an anti-tank rifleman that I need to deploy towards a Panzer 2 cuz that’s going to be pretty bad otherwise. Wait, what just what just hit it? Is that a Oh, there’s a rifle grenadier. It’s a friendly It’s an allied rifle grenadier. Some of my defensive AI infantry. Oh, those are big hits. This should be a really good hit. Oh, we got it. No way. Actually managed to knock it out with that. Let’s grab some of this veteran squad and have them kind of get ready towards working on that left side cuz that Panzer 2 is still alive. I don’t know if I can see him. Going to crawl up a little bit here. Assume I’m going to get 20 mil to the face. I can feel it. Okay. That’s usually not Oh. Wait. Oh, that’s just a boy’s anti-tank rifle killing someone. We got the tank commander with that last one. Reload. Reload. Reload. Reload. Reload. Oh, it’s firing. It just knocked out some of my infantry. I’m trying to hit the like turret assembly. That’s where I just fired. It’s just over my Yeah, that was never going to end well. Maybe this uh actually would have been better just to use the although technically this cruiser should be in trouble if this thing looks at it considering it’s only a 30 mm armor on this thing and I’m missing I’m actually conf I mean there’s a tiny tree in the way that’s probably blocking the majority of the pin. Although I’m saying that as we’re not actually getting any pin. Okay, there we go. We knocked it out. Took our track to be down to knock that out. I think it’s maybe better if we pull the units that are very far. That guy’s dead. Maybe we need to grab these veterans. Get them more towards this left. One of them has a Thompson anyway. Oh, there is. Okay, actually more units coming in. Let’s deploy. Let’s get them. Let’s get them rotated and then get the rifle grenadier. Still has a bunch of heat left. Like the panzer 35 shouldn’t be the biggest issue. It’s the Panzer 2 that I’m terrified of, right? Just having that full auto cannon there. Let’s build some quick fox holes here. No, wait. You were supposed to be on your rifle grenade. Okay, this guy’s a hero of the Commonwealth. This dude has actually just knocked out two tanks in two rounds. This has to die. Oh god, that thing could not ruin my entire He’s going to shoot my brand carrier soon with the mortar in it. I Yo, this guy is a hero. He just knocked it out over the wall. Kind of blindfiring and a little gamey cuz we’re shooting gamey because we’re shooting across the wall and we can’t really see him. And I don’t think I have any anti-tank weaponry on any of these dudes. And they’re just charging in here actually. Now that I’m looking at Oh, did we get it? No, we didn’t. No, we didn’t. The CS has to come over here and quick too. I don’t think we have anything to really deal with this. Although, it’s currently being morted. They’re running. Oh, this guy’s out of ammo even. Uh, what am I going to do here? Do we have anything we can take out of this? Is there anything we can take out of the vehicle? That’s like No, there’s nothing in here. I can throw mortars on the ground. Maybe that helps. Let’s just assume for now that this guy is not able to kill us, I guess, cuz he’s not Maybe his gun’s damaged. Like too damaged to actually engage us right now. Can’t really pick up the guys who are down. This could be a good kill. I’m going to have to bridge here. Loing a couple of my infantry. I I need to destroy this Panzer 35, but what is back here? Oh. Oh, really? Shot low on that. I mean, I guess it’s kind of a hard shot with the sort of building on the front, isn’t it? Oh, it’s not. Oh, that didn’t do anything. Um, I think the Panzer 35 is very broken. There is a Panza Jäger. I think it’s the uh the very first one, the Panzer one. That is not the worst solution though. Oh, I’m out of ammo now. And that thing is right around the corner. I think we fall back. I think we fall back from that orchard. Considering we just will pet it the hell out of it. Panzer 2 is now also trying to get some of the action. We can just keep willy peing the orchard. Another medium tank. Panzer 3. And I’m actually impressed that the crew of that Punz tanker is not really giving a hoot considering they’re actively in the middle of a forest fire basically. And I’m not going to stop shooting the Willie Pete into this until they’re all gone. Like I’m Oh, wait. Actually, I do need to worry about that cuz I don’t have ammo. Can I walk this ammo crate to the bridge is the question. I don’t know. There goes my mortar. Did he just blindfire? Oh, wait. Can we I think he fired at that on the move. Pretty impressive. Yeah, that was never going to be high enough. I am I’m going to try to reverse here. I don’t have any like smokes to Oh, I do have smokes to throw. I don’t have smokes to throw. I really thought I would have a smoke on anything here. Trying to I’m trying to reverse towards where the ammo crate would be where blind firing. Keep reversing. Keep reversing. Oh god. Oh, I think we made it behind the building. Now, the issue there is that Oh, we’re just Oh, what are you doing? Hello. Okay, we’re going to just Hello. Hello. Oh, there we go. It’s uh It was kind of bugging out, I think, on the broken vehicle. Why don’t we do this? There’s got to be Yes. That should get it, I believe. Although, okay. Okay, buddy. Buddy, buddy, buddy, run, run, run. Not don’t be that close to the thing when it’s going to explode. Nice. It actually just killed it. I believe the Ponziager being the only really bad unit I have to worry about. We’ll keep Oh, what was that sound? What was that? was I don’t no clue what gun sound that was, but it sounded really cool. Was that the panzer? No, I actually don’t know what gun that was. Oh, that should have been a way better hit. I don’t think that’s This is Oh, that’s still a pansy one. Oh, it just doesn’t it doesn’t see me anymore. And I’m apparently also not able to hit it. One hit on the engine deck or the open crew compartment, I mean, would probably send that I just did a complete 360 with my eyes. That was crazy. Okay, can we load AP? Oh my god, this is It’s refusing to We’re going to do reverse. We’re going to reverse. Screw this vehicle that was here from a previous We did it. I can’t believe it only took 19 hours. 19 hours to get that one done. Okay, then. Kind of a cool battle. I’m probably going to jump into some of these panzers. Although I think the panza may be cooked figuratively. And I can’t believe that they live for that long considering it was in the middle of a forest fire basically. I do think there’s a medic. I don’t know if Oh, this guy’s maybe done. This thing should be decently usable. Let’s put him back in the mortar carrier so we don’t miss it. And honestly, I would consider this a pretty successful Let’s get one of these guys out of here. Pretty successful battle. We had a little bit more excitement this time. The last time this bat and the defense in general felt kind of cheap or cheeky, but I just feel like the further you get into the defenses, the harder it gets for you as a player cuz the enemy just gets better and better equipment like tigers. Not that we’re going to get tigers in the next battle, but they do get better equipment over time. And um I got to say, man, what these the veterans? These this dude specifically is insane. It says he only killed one vehicle, but we know for a fact he knocked out this Panzer 3. He damaged his 35T to the point where it wasn’t operational anymore. I think he was the one who knocked out this Panzer 3E and he got a hit on that Panzer 2, which then was kind of useless cuz I think the gun or the turret, like it looks like the turrets maybe on there maybe messed up. I’m not 100% sure, but he definitely got multiple hits on multiple tanks. That guy is a real chat. Now, the issue is these things are all completely super busted. But we’re going to sell them anyway. Get some more research or I guess points in general. Not research points, just some manpower, I should say, in general. And we’re probably going to leave it at that for this episode. More is of course to come in Gates of Val with the finest hour DLC and this conquest campaign. I’m trying to get as many of these battles done as I can before release their 11 research points. Holy. Okay, we can sell these two. Replenish and repair everyone else. Honestly, I don’t think we had a terrible game. I am starting to think that this RE wrecky trope is very expensive for their pop cap, but it’s just too cool to have the Bren carriers driving around. We have a lot of a lot of money. And honestly, I’m starting to kind of look at that medium defenses or perhaps uh some more infantry. The air landing would be cool, but then we’re kind of immediately go into like 1943, 1944. So, maybe let me know down in the comments what you think. Though there may not be a chance that you see this before I record the next one, but I guess anyway, let me know what you think I should have done and we’ll compare it with I’m actually going to be doing. Hope you guys enjoyed and we’ll catch you in the next
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In this video we continue the Commonwealth Conquest save I started; I am so EXCITED!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Army building (and overview)
05:06 First battle
27:40 Army building
33:12 Defense starts
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