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@@Enzo21701 thanks for the feedback. We agree with you in the end and are sticking with Sgt. Grant! 🫡 Luke (lead)

@@chasehasch8270 first thank you! This is music to the ears of a small indie. Please spread the word, it’s all about getting noticed at our scale! I will talk to the folks who did achievement and ask them to get back to you. Feel free to visit on our Discord (should be in video info) too! Luke (lead)

As a but of followup to your helpful ping we are now actively checking if in fact all our demo achievements can be achieved in demo! Obviously thing to do but we are a bit stretched as a small probably overly ambitious team LOL! Thanks for your prompt!

@@christopherwebber3804 Hi Chris, I believe that is in the Bocopedia? The “?” Button. I know we gave a terrain guide there. If it does not have MPS by terrain there please let me know and we will try to get that rectified :) Feel free to stop by our Discord to chat with team as well: bit.ly/4ex7Ydw BTW I plan to give your videos some coverage tomorrow, do you have a twitter account by chance? Best, Luke

@@christopherwebber3804 p.s. other effects? Besides terrain Bolster increases MPs by 2 and Morale reduces MPS as Morale declines (at least towards enemy but not towards friendly side of map :) ).

@@burdenofcommand2094 ooooh, a part of the game I haven't looked at yet!!! Diving in...

@@burdenofcommand2094 Does surrounding an enemy bolster your troops? I had an enemy surrounded before I assaulted it (after failing previous assaults) and the units not attacking had "Bolster!" appear next to them. Maybe I'll find that in the Bocopedia, too

@@burdenofcommand2094 Yes I do but I don't use it, I don't understand X/Twitter and there's only so many social media accounts you can keep track of, especially when you're a Facebook admin

@@fabiogovernato965 these are really very insightful comments. DC Barbarossa is good analogy. I know the designer of that a wee bit (the campaign not the engine). Brilliant, brave work (tough issues touched ine). I know of Roadwarden but have not tried but you analogy feels apt. You might also think of it as Squad Leader meets Band of Brothers if you know the former game. But with modern interface (xcom like)…we hope. There is a demo out btw on our steam page? Recent video shows what is in it as well. Luke (lead)

@@MrJMB122 thank you for your patience. IHope you enjoy the demo! Come by our Discord to discuss :) Luke (lead)

Thanks for alert. Looks like we connected!

@@dermotrooney9584 hey Dermot! Thanks for all your help! Luke

@@gone41674 I am sorry but the interface justs gets to cramped at that height for certain parts of game If we ever make it work for steam deck then would work at your resolution. But not in cards right now for a little Indie. 😕 Luke (lead)

@@burdenofcommand2094 Got it, but could you lift the resolution limitation so I can enter the game and play? I think 1366x768 is a fairly common resolution, and by restricting it, you're excluding many potential players. Even if it’s not ideal, it’s better than being unable to play at all.

@@gone41674 not immediately but modding tools are the priority after full release calms down. Can’t wait to see what people do!!’ Luke (lead)

@@Azoth51 thank you. Yeah its amazing what bugs show up when you scale up from maybe 150 playtesters over its lifetime (and maybe 10-20 currently to 1500+ already. But on bright side, this demo is acting effectively as a form of ‘’early access’ to help us find these bugs rather than on full release 😳 Luke (lead)

@@hind6799 you agree or disagree? 171k seems popular to a little indie :) Luke (lead)

@@Portawolf thanks! Yeah I made a brilliant decision to code my own graphics engine in python because Unity didn’t see like a good fit when started and 3D to expense/tricky. So mea culpea, but many people still find existing art appealing and glad you are enjoying gameplay! Luke (least)

and then the game tells me i broke the training scenario...legit dialogue written that i broke the demo...not encouraged for the final release :/

@@sanjeever82 unfortunately we are just too small to code for all contingencies in bootcamp:( But the good news is you get to go off the rails as much as you like as you get into full campaign and bootcamp 4 Crossroads should be pretty freeform if I recall. Luke (lead)

@@burdenofcommand2094 haha yes this is true. it wasn't a frustrated complaint even if it sounded like that. i think the game has potential

@@sanjeever82 with your feedback and help ;-)

Thank you! We're getting there! Some nice feedback from influencers etc (see our newsletter) and we hope you! Luke (lead)

Me too :-)

THank you. God the team has worked so hard. I am grateful that there efforts -- from so many volunteers too - is being well received. Luke (lead)

BOOOOTTTTTCCCCAAAAAMMMP 😜 Seriously good luck Lt!

Stop by our discord and let us know your thoughts Lt! ;-) Luke

Yeah feels that way here too. 70 hours of gameplay, 1500 photos, gazillion rounds of playtesting. Small dev team (1.25 programmers). Forgive us. But there is extended gameplay footage out there now. Hope you'll forgive a small humble indie. Luke (lead)

@@burdenofcommand2094 No apologies need dear Luke. To commit to anything for that long is a feat. I watched the extended play and will buy the game the day it’s released bud. I hope to cheers at this comment on release. After 6 years I still have 0 expectations.

@@lennonlikejohn5549 what a classy response. We feel a little guilty, defensive, on this topic ;-) Hope it will be worth it for you in the end. The team has given it there best shot. Luke

Interesting comment. Yeah the psychology here is very inteesting. Did a fair amount of first pass reading on PTSD, Combat Fatigue, COmbat Stress. Some studies came out after wwii that try to model in game mechanically and narratively. WIP progress though. Luke

We try not play such games. Our historian tells us that Cottonbalers were recruited heavily in SW United States. Therefore we were trying to represent the actual demographics.

Dermot! Hooray! Looking forward to hearing how it goes. Luke

Hey... thank you! Honestly it took a TON of cycles with playtesters to get it to this stage. A very humbling experience if I might say :-( :-) Luke (lead)

@@ZillaBlitz thank you Zilla! Many iterations with olaytesters to get this stage, rest assured! Luke

@@yengen-wd5gf hey thank you! Been a long road but things are getting real! Luke (lead)

@@burdenofcommand2094 iam super excited i have it on my wish list since 2019 and iam super happy now thank you and i wish you very good luck <3

Well put. Modeling a different time and place si tricky. For example, I wish we had made our characters more religous because they were more then (esp if you go back to WWI1 where the bible was the central metaphor they often used to understand what was happenng). WWII often used the movies. Modern soldiers I understand often use game metaphors... Capturing the past is hard. Work in progress for us in future campaigns. Luke (lead)

OK, you are awesome! Remind me never to tangle with you on armor LOL. Seriously impressive. For your interest sake we draw on Panzer War micro rules we draw on did their own gun tests via a gov lab (or drew on the results, something like that, been awhile). So the numbers we use should be credible. But I do not pretend we have supplanted Steel Panthers or Combat Mission on this front 8-) Plus the modeling of armor is thin for this campaign. For example Morale not modeled though ' Brothers in Arms' book has now convinced me morale quite important (crew bailout). HOpefully for next campaign. And someday a Steel Panthers like but narrative campaign. God willing :-) Luke (lead)

Sir you insult the might of the STUART TANK! PRINCE OF THE BATTLEFIELD!!! Every tank was identical back in the day LOL. Except some looked tougher... wait for it..wait for it... PAPER TIGERS 😜 Luke (lead)

Ah Slim. Amazing commander. Read one of his books (about his activities in 1930s if I recall). Very true. We deliberately didn't want to do an elite unit like Band of Brothers for reasons akin to what you cite. The reality then though is casualty rates get high. Esp for officers. There we distort. But our justification is we want to give you the emotional connect without putting your through a 1000 meals and road stops . So we lower the casualty rate from historical. So emotional authenticity over physical. Thanks for the quite! Luke(lead)

@@burdenofcommand2094 Perhaps you could release a new game plus mode with realistic casualty rates... Players having to deal with a large influx of new subordinates would definitely be challenging (or downright frustrating)

@@aaronjones2117 Ha, great minds. My vision for BoC 2.0 is dynamic campaigns where much more realistic casualty rates happen. Dynamic meaning maps, narrative, and forces involved built procedurally. Akin to what Steel Panthers did on the wargame front and what Wildermyth did on narrative RPG side.

​@burdenofcommand2094 hello, I noticed that the playtester apps link doesn't seems to work, when I click on it, it only leads me to discord as if nothing happened

@@rk-vx5bu I’ve been slowly dying (OK aging LOL) trying to get it out! Thank you for your patience! Hope you saw we have a release window 😀. Luke (lead)

@@HoboTango damn! Very good sir! Been studying that in fact. Brothers in Arms by James Holland is great on this front. Rapidly firing Shermans could force bailing as you say. I hope to introduce tank Morale and Suppression and vailing in our next campaign! Keep up the great comments! Luke (lead)

Hey Dermot! Thank you! Luke

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Wow not sure I can hold up to Grigsby standards LOL. I was a Steel Panthers fanatic back in the day BTW :-) Thank you for your enthusiasm. Think of us as hopefully opening a new door "tactical leadership RPG" rather than 'doing it all right' . Small indie and all that ;-) Best , Luke (lead)

@@burdenofcommand2094 Dont sweat it. I’m eager for a smaller scale tactical ww2 game! I’m not comparing to Gary haha

@@lastburning hey excellent! Yeah I think BoB gets the combat model right and Krohn has been supportive of Burden. Did you see the video a few weeks back “Squad Leader meets Band of Brothers” (TV series). Should interest :) My other favorite is Combat Commander. Didn’t yet have time to put as much chaos in as that system provides :) But the narrative event driven engine makes up for that sone plus Krohn like actions require MCs. Luke (lead) Luke P.s. did you try Pacific BoB. What did you think? It is out right?

​@@burdenofcommand2094 I have only played Screaming Eagles and Ghost Panzer, but I'm of course interested in the pacific one too (Old Breed). It has mandatory infantry facing which makes it slightly more fiddly I'd imagine. I have found only one online retailer that has it in stock (currently), so maybe I should buy it soon haha. Combat Commander Europe was my first "proper" wargame.

@@lastburning wow atarted with CC. That’s starting with a bang. The latest Conflict of Heroes has an interesting chaos model as well. Every action is chaotic.you never know when you will run out of action points basically. Has a solitaire module as well.

@@jcroisdale hey thank you for the honest feedback! Often the most useful. Please keep it up. How else do we improve? Luke (lead)

@@VampiroGaming very nice read indeed. Because he is in fact your first Sergeant. Sgt Grant. Yeah and he’s looking at you to take on the Burden of Command. 👌🏻🫡 Luke

@@doorkey73 wait not 42?

@@MAlanThomasII Ian (?) thank you for taking the time to chronicle your grandfather. Any chance it was in Italy? Sounds familiar to me. Know what unit p/division he was in by chance? Many of our volunteers are either current military or there ancestors were in wwii. My Dad was USN Pacific in WWII. Though he did not see combat. But definitely a motivator me me. Did you see the “Is Burden Historically Credible ?1” video a week or so back? Might interest you. Luke (lead) P.s the morale spiraling down is interesting. McManus our advising historian has written on how morale is effected by more then combat. Sleep, fatigue, shelter or lack etc. we try to capture so,e of that via narrative events effecting unit morale.

@@burdenofcommand2094 (Alan) 23Bn, 7AD. France and Germany, although my grandfather never made it past the Ardennes due to a severe wounding. The river crossing was their first attempt to cross the Moselle near Metz. The bulk of the battalion that was left on the west bank under the XO's command was within range of Metz's defenders and had to shelter in buildings due to constant harassing fire. The elements that crossed with the CO were stuck because there were significant defenders, and no boats survived to either reinforce or evacuate-when they tried bringing in more boats, those were also destroyed-and they credited excellent artillery support with keeping them alive and uncaptured by creating a defensive perimeter of artillery fire until they gave up their position and swam back across the the river under cover of night. If I remember the morning reports correctly, the CO was wounded at some point during this, due to leading from the front, but I don't know the details. At St. Vith, after becoming one of General Clarke's ADCs, my grandfather was sent into St. Vith to keep the General in direct contact with the defenders. Clarke was, shall we say, not the type to sit back and assume things would filter up and down the chain of command quickly and accurately, especially in the rapidly-evolving chaos of the Bulge. In fact, Clarke and his opposite number with the German forces both spent the first day of the Bulge at congested crossroads, directing traffic; only they had the large-scale picture to know which units needed to be going where and which needed priority in getting through. You could say that's reflected in a game mechanic of a higher-ranked officer choosing which units to activate. :)

@@MrJMB122 Joel thank you for your faith. Yes it has been a long road. But I hope the actual experience will generate some good further conversations between us. Humbly, Luke