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Hi, excuse me but when your CSA brigade (the one in white) fires after moving on the violet US regiment around 26'27", you've got to be under attack order to be able to move and fire or fire and move but I can't see the "attack" marker on your brigadier general. Maybe me eyes are getting weak. Cheers!

Thank you.

I appreciate the honest assessment…but did it take you out? You’ve been out for a few months! I hope all is well.

Best play though video I have watched in some time. I am actually leaning how to play this game by watching it.

Fantastic

I love your cat. :D

Man, you sound sooooo demoralized. Nobody watching this video would ever buy the game. It’s definitely for the hard core modern warfare fans that know scud1-c specs by heart.

Please make more of thse and post a picture of your cat. The entrenchment limit is per nation per turn, not per scenario, IIRC

Nice Video🤗 Got my copy yesterday and I am learning now. Saw your GBACW Videos too. Could you say wich Series (despite their differences of course) is your favourite? Operational or tactical? Greetz from Germany

30:24 - you don't get a shift for elite units, because British commandos are also elite. See rules: 9.7 Elite Shift If the attacker has an Elite unit in his MAF and the defender does not have any Elite units in the defending hex, then the attacker earns one column shift right on the CRT. The Elite Shift can never be earned by the defender.

great video to help me learn. My favorite part is the kitty paw. ❤ Mons was a British bumbling loss, and Le Catau a disaster. They were lucky the Germans considered them shattered and disregarded them in their advance.

Great video. It will help me o seething before reading the rules as it gives me the general framework and flow. Great thanks.

30.28 you don't get an elite shift because the defender is elite

Great video! very instructive!! However, IMHO, at 14:00 you could have activated the 7th Arm and driven to the Barracks (?)

I just played the game with vassal You have underestimated this game. This is an awesome game and is basically two games because once the Russians hit that river, it becomes a nightmare for them. You have to be an excellent player to the Germans. The one thing that also represents is an exact historical representation of what the war was along that river with the German Panzer fireman, and put out fires here and there the Russians back across the river Description is unacceptable and you should look at this game again

43:26 You fired with the 4th Virginia on the Union unit in the woods but didn't return fire with the Union unit. Normally they should be able to return fire, I suppose?

Very interesting, Thanks.

Very helpful. Thanks much for putting it together! One comment: I don't believe it's possible to coastal ship the 22nd Gds to Bardia, as Bardia only has a port capacity of 1 shipping point. The 22nd Gds has 2 stacking points and would require 2 shipping points. See rules 21.2 (Shipping Points and Shipping Limits) and 21.3 (Port Capacity).

I've asked this question on several USCW video playthrough links, but I have not got a clear answer. Does the Confederate control marker near Harper's Ferry (shown at the start of the video) disrupt the rail supply line for McClellan? Historically, the Confederates destroyed the B&O railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry on Game Turn 1 and the rail line to Baltimore was put out of commission for ten months. Is it possible to recreate this historical event in this game on-Game Turn 1. If so, what is the effect on the Union supply capability? Is it possible to take control of West Virginia if McClellan is unsupplied?

In the Blind Swords system, they've taken to labeling the height on some of the hexes.

The 2 units in the improved position were within command range of LaHarpe which means they cannot roll for their own initative.

16:30 after combat with a leader involved, needs a roll for leader casualty.

Dont you roll to remove delay markers after you place them on the board? That way it builds in a little uncertainty to your placement.

Thank you so much for these videos. I am new to this system. I just bought Gringo and Death Valley because I figured I’d start with some smaller battles and learn the system. Gringo has some smaller battles, but I found out, that because the Mexican war battles were so unique, that there are a TON of special rules for each. So not the best game to start out with 😅 The battle of El Molina Del Rey is smaller and a lil more straight forward, the playbook even says it’s a good battle to start learning with. But I also got Death Valley along with its expansion. Watching the sequence of play with your videos over and over and reading the rule book over and over is helping me get started. Stiglr and Hexy have some good instructional videos too. Thank you again, hope you post more!

Am I missing something, or you could have done a breakthrough after T1 combat? You could have advanced 3 hexes, first one being free if you entered the attacked hex, meaning you could have moved 2 hexes, and attacked 1809 with the third mp.

Your channel is the best 👍. Keep up the great work

Nice video, very honest assessment. It is a very exciting game. Great job by Yves and Vuca! I'm working my way through the exercises, looking forward to getting Fulda Gap on the table.

Great Work and Video😊 Thanks a lot for helping me to start playing this great Game. I struggled a lot about LoS and terrain issues. But I will go like you. Enjoy playing. Greetz from Germany to the Valley🤓

Bruh...there are so many numbers on the counters...

im about to break this one out. this one is also in Hungarian Rhapsody

Great video. Thanks so much

top merci!!!

Thanks for the video. You were great and pretty much nailed it for the activations. One minor point is that Wright and Crook are at the same level, essentially corps level for this scenario and there will be efficiency draws for each. Look forward to more.

It's nice to see a playthrough where you are still trying to keep track of everything. GBACW is a vast and complex system. I agree that with so much time left in the scenario, the CSA forces were pushed too far forward when they have reinfocements coming. Thanks of the playthrough of GBACW.

Picked up a copy of The Third World War from Compass Games. Has the same feel. Just too much to handle, too big a footprint, and makes me feel tired even thinking about trying to set the whole thing up. When it becomes work it's no longer a game. Have had fun with the smaller scenarios though. Wonder if this is worth it for that alone? Does look pretty nice!

Not brave enough for this one yet heh

Very good assessment, thanks !

I wish I had watched this before buying a copy it does look ridiculously complex in terms of the air game. The Next War and Under an Iron Sky are huge games covering the same future conflict but they allow you to play without a lot of the rules to speed things up.

Good series. I like seeing the counters moving and the figthing, with explanations of the DRMs.

Thanks for the playthrough. Turning off the camera for a think and to better organize units, thoughts, or whatever is perfectly okay. No one is losing their mind that this isn't a continous one shot. Good job.

Good playthrough. I am really enjoying the pacing, camera, and commentary.

Thanks for the playthrough. I am a new subscriber. I like you style and pacing. Very clear. Very good video. I agree with the idea of play the game rather than halt everything to look up complex rules. Leave rules reading for non-game time.

THank you for the playthrough. I like you pace and filming.

Calvary? (Even the subtitles picked it up.)

This game sort of remind me of the old Victory Games from the early 80’s The Pacific War. On paper and as a concept it’s amazing but to play it is a real b1tch! 😊 Myself, my brother and two buddies manage to play a full campaign of that back in the summer of 1987 but it was just way too massive, the amount of space needed to run it and the time involved in playing each turn made it such a beast to actually play. Fun as heck but really just too expensive for the amount of space and time it takes. This game really look’s like the same problem. Thanks for playing it but there is no way I will buy this, at my age I just don’t have that much time to spend on a massive game like this

Thanks for video! Tell please. 18:36. if CSA Sk3 will shoot at Union 39NY, then will the 8NY and 13PA be able to return fire?

I will clarify the off-map handling of air units in an upcoming update. Thx for bringing this up 👍

Hi Paul, thanks for the video 😎. Concerning the setup issues: NATO naval units setup "at sea" and undetected if the hex has no port. Sorry for that blunder. The EG helicopters may set up on map OR. on the air base display, it's the same place geographically. Thx for bringinv this up 👍

Do you play monster games? If not, it would be overwhelming. If you play 1000-2000 piece 2 mappers, this doesnt seem any worse than others. You just make it your game you play for 6 months, an hour here, 90 minutes there. You dont have to be retired or have 6 hours a day. I can see it takes up way too much space if you play the campaign. They could have done better with the air base layouts. Maybe one box per base and use counters to mark sorties. That way, you wouldnt need a 3 car garage to play...

Interesting thoughts. I would hope that one would get experienced with the flow of things through repeated plays so that each interaction moves more quickly. In terms of number of counters and map size have you experience with OCS or the like? There are even more counters involved on larger maps. That said, you have highlighted the granular interactions which are cool but time consuming which are not a feature of OCS. I really hope I find that this is playable solo, well the battle scenarios at least.