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Glad you’re here, thanks for watching!

Do you like Zero-K better? I’ve seen it but have not had time to try yet. Both are cut from the same cloth of Total Annihilation and SupCom right?

Maybe you are too young to get the reference, but both came from Total Annihilation.... an even older game.... a Lot Older.... "Zero-K and BAR share their roots, they both forked from Balanced Annihilation, BAR in february 2019, Zero-K in 2007. If you have played both of these games you surely have noticed a lot of similarities. Both games run on the same open source engine - Recoil, they share maps, many widgets and even some unit models." - BAR website BAR is a lot more polished and a lot more faithful with the original game.

That is perfect! Works great for this game especially. Thanks for watching and the tip!

Great game! I have not played in a while but I would recommend to anyone. Some similar concepts to gathering resources and scaling up. I tried the sequel IXE which is a different kind of game, it was interesting, but hoping they make CW 5 next.

I miss the giant manuals! Thanks for watching!

I’ll be trying to do reviews of many of these games as they come out! Not everything, there’s only so much time of course.

Since I started playing it’s been difficult to put down!

@@ExampleOfPlay You might also want to try out the previous 'flagship' game on the same engine : Zero-K. It has weirder units (like whole starting factories based around jumpbots, shieldbots, spiders), commander upgrades, terrain terraforming, a campaign... also recently added a new game mode with infinite unit upgrades. (I have a bunch of Zero-K videos linked in my TA playlist.)

@ I have it on my big list! Will try it out eventually.

I don’t think you are able to select the camo right now. I’m not sure if it’s tied to particular vehicles or depends on the location of the scenario, but as far as I know you just get what you get.

Stay tuned for more! I try to keep these short and sweet for that reason.

Thanks for watching!

I think the game is in a good place now. I’m in the same boat, hoping to make some time for a deeper dive.

It’s very tempting isn’t it!? I’m holding off until I see reviews and player reactions, but I might have to give in if people love it.

For Ultimate General? I had only seen the initial reports!

Glad you enjoyed it! I’ll probably keep doing them occasionally. It’s very easy to whip up an interesting battle and play it out.

@@ExampleOfPlay I´m very tempted to get this game, but I don´t know anything about war units, etc

Awesome! Thanks for the tips!

Well played match. Max range is fine. Killing enemy fast is usually better than conserving ammo. Particularly if aircrafts bomb your forces. Except for infantry. Being hidden is important for infantry. If you look at vehicle info, there is often stowed ammo. It takes some extra time to load from stowage. Smoke launcher is very good if you play mechanized units aggressively: Drive to where you start taking fire, pop smoke, unload infantry, drive to cover. Mortars then making more smoke screen for infantry to get into buildings is adviced. In armored Brigade II it is usually best to keep armor hidden until enemy armor is mostly dealt with and enemy air power is spent. Tanks are very expensive poinwise. If you lose them you lose the match. More so than with infantry. Yet this match between Germanies was a bit odd. Leopard 1 was a bit of an oddity for a MBT. It was a glass cannon. Lightly armored, but fast. Them using max range was definitely the best choise. Still, not many survived.

@ Thanks for the analysis! I love that this game is pretty easy to learn but the strategies and tactics can get very deep. It was tough losing so many Leopards to aircraft, but that was not surprising given how much air support the AI brought.

Thanks for watching! Resupply in battle is on their roadmap of things they want to add. No idea on timeline. My understanding is that they want to add several features and updates before the game launches on Steam.

It’s so good! Love how it blends so many mechanics together seamlessly.

Thanks for watching! Yeah it looks pretty good!

Well said! I think giving the other factions real character and motivations adds a lot to the experience vs the usual 4x sandbox. Thanks for watching!

Yes, it does have that feeling of fighting over the resource nodes like in Dawn of War/Company of Heroes! I’m hoping they keep refining this mode, could be really great.

Yeah I finally figured that out later! I thought I edited some text into the video but must not have done it correctly. Thanks for watching!

Believe it or not I was in the exact same boat. To make this video I simply read the manual! I’m not even that great at actually winning the game 😂

Can’t wait to play more of it! Happy Holidays!

Yes, so many great details that add to the immersion!

Do you know if this is accurate in real life out of interest?

Thanks for the info! Do you know if details like this are documented anywhere or just found through trial and error?

Thank you! Stay tuned for more!

Nice! I’ll add it to the list for next time

Not gonna lie, the PVP scene for WARNO and the SD games is just not fun at all. Too sweaty. PvC is more my speed unless joined by a friend.

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Thanks for watching! I’ve only done a couple reviews, trying to get better at it.

Yeah I realized too late as I was zooming out!

With the right frame of mind it’s very easy, just play the role of making big decisions and let the AI drive the rest. Gradually learn the other mechanics as you go. But there is a lot!

I will! I’m working on different ways to gather strategy gaming news, trying to hit on the big stuff and indies.

It’s a nice transition and easier to get a handle on. Not as much content of course but this is still early access with more to come.

@@ExampleOfPlay I am ok with that for now yeah

This actually is the Gladius engine! Same developer using it for their own setting. Game plays similarly for sure, but I think the setting here is really cool.

@@ExampleOfPlay I do like the Cyberpunk aspect I wont lie

Glad it was useful! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the tips!

Awesome! Glad to have you here. I’ll probably do another one soon with a different faction matchup.

Glad you’re excited! It’s not a setting I’m very familiar with, but seems pretty cool!

@ExampleOfPlay If you haven't seen them before, there have been a couple of very good strategy games based off the setting that I would recommend playing (the excellent King of Dragon Pass from 1999 and its much more recent sequals in the Six Ages games), but they were much more focused on narrative so combat was more an important thing that happened during events than a main focus. The best comparison I have is to say they are like a text-based frostpunk, focused on building up resources to survive whatever the setting throws at you. The main Runequest product is a TTRPG, but the setting originally started as a wargame (Warhammer Fantasy's beastmen were originally Runequest models) so it looks like this game will serve the more combat focused side of the setting. From the trailer it definitely looks like they get the vibe of the setting, so I'm very much looking forward to it.

It has been a long time since I read that book! Perhaps it bubbled up subconsciously!

I agree, though they say improvements are planned, there's a thorough complaint on this topic on the forum. In the meantime, you could spend a ton of points, short the enemy, and only use a portion of your force in an engagement so you have 'reserves' in later missions. still frustrating to work around and has its own issues but at least you don't end up fighting a full-strength battalion with a shattered platoon. LASt workaround is you can also set the balance of how the ai spends points in 'advanced' when generating, so shorting cas/boosting arty may help get a better distribution and these presets can be saved. Hopefully improvements come soon but it still scratches the wargame itch for me.

Agreed! I thought I would get more points as I retreated but it was always about the same while they seemed to get stronger with each battle. Not sure if working as intended. I’m hoping to see the dynamic campaign fleshed out more, like maybe letting you buy auxiliary forces to supplement the core in each battle, and tracking enemy losses from battle to battle as well, as I think they are fresh each time.

@ExampleOfPlay I've been waiting for the game to come to Steam while I continue to get crushed in the first game! Hoping it gets some solid patches and mods between then. But yea, that would definitely be cool if campaigns had more ways to actually alter your forces / earn additions to it. And I'm always for having more statistics tracked!! I love seeing how many kills my units rack up at the end of a campaign in any Combat Mission game, but for Armored Brigade it would be cool to see how many points each side had in every battle, how and why that number changed, etc.. I'm thinking maybe something happened where since they were attacking 3 times in a row it just continued to multiply some number that it shouldn't have been

It’s been good fun so far! Excited to try other combinations of units over time, the force mix really impacts what tactics are viable.

Ha! Well I tried to make the most of what I had. Worked on the first objective, then things fell apart a bit. Maybe should’ve withdrawn to save some losses.

@ExampleOfPlay Regardless you adapted, this kind of gameplay is better than the run-of-the-mill opps, might as well yeet it all or freeze and see what happens.

We’ll see how it goes! It was certainly a learned skill in the modern setting Combat Mission games, but there you could force units to fire on likely enemy positions to suppress them at least. Here you have to hope they spot something to shoot at.

Yeah I decided especially for a smaller scenario where every unit counts, the finer control is needed. In a really big scenario it would make more sense to have some delay to reflect the scale of operations.

In AB1 you could use disabled waypoints for that. But yeah, for company level scenarios the delay is too much

I think

It’s a wargame, Armored Brigade 2. Kinda like if WARNO had simpler graphics but a more of a realistic simulation under the hood.

@ ok thx

@ is it mobile?

It’s on PC, not released on Steam yet but will eventually. www.matrixgames.com/game/armored-brigade-ii

I generated it, sorry if that wasn’t clear. I deliberately made it in a storm so I could give it some flavor and a cool name haha.