On swapping equipment: 1. Order the ship you want the equipment on to take off. 2. Immediately Pause. 3. Select the fleet staying landed and sell the equipment you want to move. Return to the map. 4. Select the fleet taking off and buy the equipment you want on it. Also call Daud for a speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
or you could just order the ships you did not want to take the equipments to get some air and the rest of the ships that didnt take off would have the equipments.
When you're in the ammo buying area, there is a little tab at the bottom that you can mouse over. It shows all of the ammo types you currently have, including what you pick up from crash sites. Crucially, you can click on an ammo type to sell it, you probably have 6-7k gold worth of unusable ammo (e.g. 320mm incendiary) in your inventory.
Yeah I used this a lot in my last campaign towards the end to recover a lot of ammo. I am trying to stockpile 130mm, so it might be weird that I am not doing it as much in this playthrough.
If you can't land without having two landing legs, you can try to repair only the amount needed to add the legs and then land the ship for the rest of the repairing.
I've finally caught up :) Love seeing your attempt at hard difficulty. I will keep my fingers crossed for a successful ending. VVV Just few hints regarding ELINT as I've done some extensive testing VVV First of all, even though the max range is 1500km on the bigger sensor the detection relies on the radar range that you are facing. The game simplifies this rather complicated topic to a simple fact that the detection is basically a double that of the radar range (to account for the radar beam strength needing to be high enough to be able to return to the dish). This means that if we assume that you are facing a fleet with radar range of 500km it will come into your ELINT 1 range when the enemy crosses the line of 1000km. From then onwards you can divide the radar range into 5 even sections (100km for MR-500) and each increase in ELINT will give you rough approximation on the range to target with danger close being within 600 kilometres (this gives you a little wiggle room to escape without being detected). It is worth to note that, at least on normal difficulty, when you are landed ELINT never goes above 4 since there is no way for the enemy to detect you, unless they switch to ground sweep. There is a lot of caveat to this as the radar signature of your ships and imperfect placing of radar dishes on some of the enemy ships will also affect those. This gives few interesting possibilities. First, knowing the ELINT detection strength and the direction (which is a 30 degrees cone from the highlighted heading) you can approximate where the strike group is located. Closer they are the smaller the search box is. You can add another ELINT ship to the mix in a separate group to do the same and further narrow the signal position (triangulation). There is also a cheeky manoeuvre that can further help. if you move your ship to the 90 degrees left or right of the signal and observe the compass headings very carefully, for the change of the signal direction cone, you can instantly know exact heading. For example, if the signal changes from 30 to 60 degrees you can be absolutely certain that the SG is on the heading of 45 degrees at that moment (15 degrees to the right from 30 and 15 degrees to the left of 60). Hope this helps a little :) Good luck commander!
Landing is the most dangerous part of the game in my opinion. Any side to side force can snap a landing strut and then the ship crunches an underside engine, and then the fuel goes off, it's a nightmare. Love the game, love the content.
@@Phrosphor What I find funny, if a bit tragic, is that it seems like an unavoidable part of any high fleet playthrough. We all "teeter" just a little bit to the side or the craft starts listing uncontrollably in one direction or another. Everyone who plays the game gets that little increased heart rate as they approach the landing pad, eyes flickering rapidly between the ship itself and the little speed and altitude indicators. I love it as a part of the game, a source of amusement where I can't help but watch on in horror asking myself "alright, how is this about to go wrong?" I do find it a bit frustrating that you don't know if you "got the landing bonus" until the player get past the option to retry. Sometimes I get close to landing and just bump a wall a bit and lose an engine or some superstructure and then a leg snaps in half or something. I say to myself "it's okay, I got a huge repair time bonus which will offset that" and then I realize... oh wait... I don't have the bonus and now if I take off and land again I'm already too damaged to succeed, I'll just explode or something. Heartbreaking!🤣
Wow there were plenty of intense moments in this episode :D About the strike fleet: I think they went from Shubath straight to Kiriath. Something must have triggered that Elint danger close alarm when your fleet was there... Also I think it would be a good strategy to always fuel your ships to the max by default. Not having any fuel available just takes options away if something unexpected happens. Also I'd vote for not bringing support ships into battle. If you loose the fight, just land them in the desert somewhere and pick them up later. As long as there's no strike fleet with ground radar around they'll be quite safe as opposed to being lost in a failed assault... Now I'm really looking forward to the next episode :D
Hey. I love Your HighFleet content. I played (and finished) normal campaign after watching few episodes of Yours Vanilla playthrough. Then I started in Hard mode and failed miserably. Then started to watch Your Hard campaign, learned few things, and now I'm almost finished (last strategic missiles fleet to be destroyed) thanks to You :). I followed Your idea with tiny courier ship, but I also equipped it with big ELINT scanner and had it three in my HARD campaign. IT IS WORTH IT. They are life savers, and they can easily be used to pinpoint Strike Fleets, when used in pairs. Anyway... Just a tip for this episode: When Your ship has destroyed landing legs, sometimes it is worth to repair just the legs (and missing engines) in the air, just to land safely. This is what I usually do... Best Regards and please keep up the good work. Love Your content.
Awesome! I am glad some of my info was useful, and well done with the hard mode campaign! (Hopefully you have won by now). That's a great bit of advice about the landing gear, I will use it in future. Also I am desperate to get ELINT on my courier ships! Glad to hear it works well.
Hey I just recently finished your vanilla playthrough and got caught up with the new hardmode one and your stuff is fantastic, please keep it coming. It's such a unique and interesting game and there are so few people making any content around it. That said if you're looking for something else to break it up with I noticed you had some Starsector videos from a few years ago. Not sure if you've kept up on the game but it's come a really long way in the last few years, as has the modding community for it. The Nexerelin mod particularly turns it into a full on 4X game where there is territorial push and pull between factions and competition for key resources. Might be worth a glance. Shadow Empire is another good one that has some very similar themes to Highfleet (though it is much more of a 4X) and perfectly fits your description of "weird wargamey simulation stuff".
Thank you for watching and thank you so much for posting your kind words. I have starsector installed but haven't touched it in awhile. Maybe it's on the list to bring back!
Heya! Loving the Highfleet content. It's such a fun tense game! Say, I noticed that when you're making a quick fuel stop you're not repairing your damaged ships while you fuel. If you're going to be fueling for 2 hours, why not do 2 hours worth of repairs anyway? A very gentle recommendation, please feel free to disregard if it cramps your style: Mounting bombs you don't intend to use so you can get 20s more shooting time feels like exploiting iffy game design, and pulls me out of the vibe you got going. If you're gonna mount bombs, drop em! I also think you'll fall in love with two bombs on each attack ship. They do ridiculous damage and you get to add a sweet little bombing minigame. ;)
I am pushing myself to use the bombs now that I have them, as they are a lot of damage for a very low price. I was already feeling bad about using them as it was so I am going to step away from just exploiting with them. As for the repairs while refueling - I feel like the repair timers in Hardmode are so long and the prices so high I don't want to leave myself in a situation where I am stuck waiting for something to finish, I just want to go - especially as towns turn dangerous so quickly.
You could just say the extra 20 seconds you get is from the ground crews bringing civilians into bomb shelters. They obviously wouldn’t have to do that if you had no bombs.
Thanks, it's a pretty crazy campaign. it basically stays intense from this point onwards. The Gerati fleet start hounding us and not letting us rest or recover!
@@Phrosphor it gave me a good laugh. Loving the series. Admire your gumption. Inspired me to start playing highfleet, which has blown me away with how fun it is. It's the best kind of Russian janky-ass genre mashup. I wish they'd expand on this - I'd love to have a purely strategic and tactical airship combat game set in this universe. The aerial dogfighting in Highfleet is fun but it gets a bit wearing near the end when you're staring down yet another 10 ship garrison north of Khiva.
Why don't you use your planes to scout the Elint signal? Planes do not alert the enemy if they don't engage, the worst that could happen is they send in AA interceptors if it's a carrier fleet
@@Phrosphor Oooh, that's nice to hear that my tip will come in! Thanks man!. Yeah, i always use the planes just to shadow the transport fleets so i don't lose contact with them, and send my skylark in once i'm in range, while at the same time usually finishing off any escorts with planes and bombs since, for some goddamn reason - planes with bombs are more accurate vs mid air ships than rockets ( IF they come from the right angle). Say - if the transport is surrounded by 2 escorts - the planes come in from the left and attack the left ship. It has nowhere to dodge except the left, and the planes are very good at triangulating where the ship will be, so they drop the bombs at that EXACT spot the ship tries to dodge in, guaranteeing that 3/4 bombs hit (depending on which plane you have, of course). Most of the times it's enough to kill the weak escorts the enemy transports have (250kg bombs from interceptors work wonders) They're literally the best Stuka bombers ever in existence, i finished the campaign without almost a single ship lost because of them (Except for the end... for obvious reasons)
@@Phrosphor Besides the point - planes will rarely give you a reason to turn on your radar since they're so good at scouting. You can send a single plane to hoover around a settlement just to see if there's a strike group in it without raising an alarm or alerting the enemy. You can also keep it hovering or attack it from another settlement to see what it is, and leave/wait for the alarm to cool off and then go to the settlement to get a silent strike. This is especially useful for when you see 2 enemies in the settlement and you're not sure if one of them is a transport. The enemy will react to planes ONLY if they have some of their own. That's why the best planes to send are the LA-29's. They're an invaluable scouting tool on hard mode. Just be sure that you don't send them exactly on the settlement, just somewhere around it, since if you do - they will attack once they're there.
Hello! i stumbled upon your channel and am watching all the highfleet vids right now. any chance you could share your ships with us? id like to give them a go myself
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I love how landing in this game always starts with an entire ship just plummeting to the ground like a rock lol
It's like they just decided to land and cut their engines.
@@Phrosphor "Sir, we're positioned above a civilian populated area."
"Wonderful. Cut the engines."
"Aye, sir."
Look, it's government mandated that all airship landings be done while every speaker on the ship blasts "Free Falling" by Tom Petty.
"I'm not going to discuss what just happened." had me doubled over
I have no idea what you are talking about...
On swapping equipment:
1. Order the ship you want the equipment on to take off.
2. Immediately Pause.
3. Select the fleet staying landed and sell the equipment you want to move. Return to the map.
4. Select the fleet taking off and buy the equipment you want on it.
Also call Daud for a speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Neat! I'll stop installing equipment i want to transfer on my actual transfer ships now :D
This works well, but I wish there was a less 'workaround' solution for the problem.
or you could just order the ships you did not want to take the equipments to get some air and the rest of the ships that didnt take off would have the equipments.
When you're in the ammo buying area, there is a little tab at the bottom that you can mouse over. It shows all of the ammo types you currently have, including what you pick up from crash sites.
Crucially, you can click on an ammo type to sell it, you probably have 6-7k gold worth of unusable ammo (e.g. 320mm incendiary) in your inventory.
Yeah I used this a lot in my last campaign towards the end to recover a lot of ammo. I am trying to stockpile 130mm, so it might be weird that I am not doing it as much in this playthrough.
If you can't land without having two landing legs, you can try to repair only the amount needed to add the legs and then land the ship for the rest of the repairing.
It's awkward with the way the game prioritizes repairing, usually I am in too much of a rush to focus on this but it is worth doing.
Probably about time to ask Daud for some support, TBH. I also thought you were a gonner when the missile hit you! :D
I winced when it hit, and yeah let's get Daud on the phone.
The battles were worrying, but those landings really had me holding my breath the entire time.
Me too, at least you don't just lose the ship on a failed landing - I am honestly surprised it lets you try as many times as you want.
I've finally caught up :) Love seeing your attempt at hard difficulty. I will keep my fingers crossed for a successful ending.
VVV Just few hints regarding ELINT as I've done some extensive testing VVV
First of all, even though the max range is 1500km on the bigger sensor the detection relies on the radar range that you are facing. The game simplifies this rather complicated topic to a simple fact that the detection is basically a double that of the radar range (to account for the radar beam strength needing to be high enough to be able to return to the dish). This means that if we assume that you are facing a fleet with radar range of 500km it will come into your ELINT 1 range when the enemy crosses the line of 1000km. From then onwards you can divide the radar range into 5 even sections (100km for MR-500) and each increase in ELINT will give you rough approximation on the range to target with danger close being within 600 kilometres (this gives you a little wiggle room to escape without being detected). It is worth to note that, at least on normal difficulty, when you are landed ELINT never goes above 4 since there is no way for the enemy to detect you, unless they switch to ground sweep. There is a lot of caveat to this as the radar signature of your ships and imperfect placing of radar dishes on some of the enemy ships will also affect those.
This gives few interesting possibilities. First, knowing the ELINT detection strength and the direction (which is a 30 degrees cone from the highlighted heading) you can approximate where the strike group is located. Closer they are the smaller the search box is. You can add another ELINT ship to the mix in a separate group to do the same and further narrow the signal position (triangulation).
There is also a cheeky manoeuvre that can further help. if you move your ship to the 90 degrees left or right of the signal and observe the compass headings very carefully, for the change of the signal direction cone, you can instantly know exact heading. For example, if the signal changes from 30 to 60 degrees you can be absolutely certain that the SG is on the heading of 45 degrees at that moment (15 degrees to the right from 30 and 15 degrees to the left of 60).
Hope this helps a little :) Good luck commander!
Great tips! That is a fantastic write-up. Thank you for sharing this!
Landing is the most dangerous part of the game in my opinion. Any side to side force can snap a landing strut and then the ship crunches an underside engine, and then the fuel goes off, it's a nightmare.
Love the game, love the content.
I find landing so tense, sometimes you just end up ballet dancing above the landing pad - too scared to commit! Thanks for the kind words!
@@Phrosphor What I find funny, if a bit tragic, is that it seems like an unavoidable part of any high fleet playthrough. We all "teeter" just a little bit to the side or the craft starts listing uncontrollably in one direction or another. Everyone who plays the game gets that little increased heart rate as they approach the landing pad, eyes flickering rapidly between the ship itself and the little speed and altitude indicators.
I love it as a part of the game, a source of amusement where I can't help but watch on in horror asking myself "alright, how is this about to go wrong?"
I do find it a bit frustrating that you don't know if you "got the landing bonus" until the player get past the option to retry. Sometimes I get close to landing and just bump a wall a bit and lose an engine or some superstructure and then a leg snaps in half or something. I say to myself "it's okay, I got a huge repair time bonus which will offset that" and then I realize... oh wait... I don't have the bonus and now if I take off and land again I'm already too damaged to succeed, I'll just explode or something. Heartbreaking!🤣
I turned this on to watch in bed, but it was too exciting to fall asleep to. Great work holy crap. Fleet is looking a tad hurt after all this.
Hah, I am glad it was entertaining! We will recover... at least till the next episode.
the new series sounds cool and I am all for it.
also good job on not losing the audacious frigates I really thought they were a goner last episode
They are gonna make it! I swear I don't nearly lose them again in the next episode...
The Collinsworth is a beast, you just got to be very delicate with those landings.
It skipped leg day by the looks of it.
@@Phrosphor needs to do some squats
Wow there were plenty of intense moments in this episode :D
About the strike fleet: I think they went from Shubath straight to Kiriath. Something must have triggered that Elint danger close alarm when your fleet was there...
Also I think it would be a good strategy to always fuel your ships to the max by default. Not having any fuel available just takes options away if something unexpected happens.
Also I'd vote for not bringing support ships into battle. If you loose the fight, just land them in the desert somewhere and pick them up later. As long as there's no strike fleet with ground radar around they'll be quite safe as opposed to being lost in a failed assault...
Now I'm really looking forward to the next episode :D
Well. I found out what that ELINT Danger Close alarm was caused by....
@@Phrosphor WHAAA!!! Just watched the new episode :D :D
Hey. I love Your HighFleet content. I played (and finished) normal campaign after watching few episodes of Yours Vanilla playthrough. Then I started in Hard mode and failed miserably. Then started to watch Your Hard campaign, learned few things, and now I'm almost finished (last strategic missiles fleet to be destroyed) thanks to You :). I followed Your idea with tiny courier ship, but I also equipped it with big ELINT scanner and had it three in my HARD campaign. IT IS WORTH IT. They are life savers, and they can easily be used to pinpoint Strike Fleets, when used in pairs.
Anyway...
Just a tip for this episode:
When Your ship has destroyed landing legs, sometimes it is worth to repair just the legs (and missing engines) in the air, just to land safely. This is what I usually do...
Best Regards and please keep up the good work. Love Your content.
Awesome! I am glad some of my info was useful, and well done with the hard mode campaign! (Hopefully you have won by now).
That's a great bit of advice about the landing gear, I will use it in future. Also I am desperate to get ELINT on my courier ships! Glad to hear it works well.
You can swap the ammo being loaded from special to HE and back. In the middle of a fight with a key press.
I know he knows that but it's hard to remember stuff if things get tense, which certainly was the case a few times this episode :D
I address it in my next video but I was using prox fuse on purpose!
Haha! Yes! The Collingwood finally gets to speak!
Hey I just recently finished your vanilla playthrough and got caught up with the new hardmode one and your stuff is fantastic, please keep it coming. It's such a unique and interesting game and there are so few people making any content around it. That said if you're looking for something else to break it up with I noticed you had some Starsector videos from a few years ago. Not sure if you've kept up on the game but it's come a really long way in the last few years, as has the modding community for it. The Nexerelin mod particularly turns it into a full on 4X game where there is territorial push and pull between factions and competition for key resources. Might be worth a glance. Shadow Empire is another good one that has some very similar themes to Highfleet (though it is much more of a 4X) and perfectly fits your description of "weird wargamey simulation stuff".
Thank you for watching and thank you so much for posting your kind words. I have starsector installed but haven't touched it in awhile. Maybe it's on the list to bring back!
Heya! Loving the Highfleet content. It's such a fun tense game!
Say, I noticed that when you're making a quick fuel stop you're not repairing your damaged ships while you fuel. If you're going to be fueling for 2 hours, why not do 2 hours worth of repairs anyway?
A very gentle recommendation, please feel free to disregard if it cramps your style: Mounting bombs you don't intend to use so you can get 20s more shooting time feels like exploiting iffy game design, and pulls me out of the vibe you got going. If you're gonna mount bombs, drop em! I also think you'll fall in love with two bombs on each attack ship. They do ridiculous damage and you get to add a sweet little bombing minigame. ;)
I am pushing myself to use the bombs now that I have them, as they are a lot of damage for a very low price. I was already feeling bad about using them as it was so I am going to step away from just exploiting with them.
As for the repairs while refueling - I feel like the repair timers in Hardmode are so long and the prices so high I don't want to leave myself in a situation where I am stuck waiting for something to finish, I just want to go - especially as towns turn dangerous so quickly.
You could just say the extra 20 seconds you get is from the ground crews bringing civilians into bomb shelters. They obviously wouldn’t have to do that if you had no bombs.
Intense episode!
Thanks, it's a pretty crazy campaign. it basically stays intense from this point onwards. The Gerati fleet start hounding us and not letting us rest or recover!
Things are getting tough! I like it!
Things are getting Very tough. Wait till you see the escorts on the next trade fleet we hit.
30:20 - "asshole parking" in Highfleet. One ship taking two parking spots :D
Can you imagine the anger!
Must have hired Tesla engineers to design the Collingwood's landing gear
Once apon a time this would have been a compliment!
@@Phrosphor it gave me a good laugh. Loving the series. Admire your gumption. Inspired me to start playing highfleet, which has blown me away with how fun it is. It's the best kind of Russian janky-ass genre mashup. I wish they'd expand on this - I'd love to have a purely strategic and tactical airship combat game set in this universe. The aerial dogfighting in Highfleet is fun but it gets a bit wearing near the end when you're staring down yet another 10 ship garrison north of Khiva.
You got the repair bonus despite the text not showing. Pretty common
Why don't you use your planes to scout the Elint signal?
Planes do not alert the enemy if they don't engage, the worst that could happen is they send in AA interceptors if it's a carrier fleet
I use this tip in my latest recording, it should be up in a day or so. Thanks!
@@Phrosphor Oooh, that's nice to hear that my tip will come in! Thanks man!. Yeah, i always use the planes just to shadow the transport fleets so i don't lose contact with them, and send my skylark in once i'm in range, while at the same time usually finishing off any escorts with planes and bombs
since, for some goddamn reason - planes with bombs are more accurate vs mid air ships than rockets ( IF they come from the right angle). Say - if the transport is surrounded by 2 escorts - the planes come in from the left and attack the left ship. It has nowhere to dodge except the left, and the planes are very good at triangulating where the ship will be, so they drop the bombs at that EXACT spot the ship tries to dodge in, guaranteeing that 3/4 bombs hit (depending on which plane you have, of course). Most of the times it's enough to kill the weak escorts the enemy transports have (250kg bombs from interceptors work wonders)
They're literally the best Stuka bombers ever in existence, i finished the campaign without almost a single ship lost because of them (Except for the end... for obvious reasons)
@@Phrosphor Besides the point - planes will rarely give you a reason to turn on your radar since they're so good at scouting. You can send a single plane to hoover around a settlement just to see if there's a strike group in it without raising an alarm or alerting the enemy. You can also keep it hovering or attack it from another settlement to see what it is, and leave/wait for the alarm to cool off and then go to the settlement to get a silent strike.
This is especially useful for when you see 2 enemies in the settlement and you're not sure if one of them is a transport.
The enemy will react to planes ONLY if they have some of their own. That's why the best planes to send are the LA-29's. They're an invaluable scouting tool on hard mode. Just be sure that you don't send them exactly on the settlement, just somewhere around it, since if you do - they will attack once they're there.
Imagine the Russian Army just selling nukes to villagers.
It could happen, gotta justify that budget somehow.
ISTM that the first time when you landed the leg wasn't touching the ground. I guess repair bonus is computed based on pad(s) the leg(s) touch.
Fun Highfleet fact: Gerat is Great spelled wrongways!
Hello! i stumbled upon your channel and am watching all the highfleet vids right now. any chance you could share your ships with us? id like to give them a go myself
Of course, I will upload the fleet to Reddit when I get a second :) Thank your for watching my playthrough!
the snoring in the background is unbearable
Sadly I can't stop my dog from snoring, but she hasn't snored in a lot of my more recent stuff
Happy Wednesday
Thanks! Happy Monday!