Rebel Inc. Escalation: Mega-Brutal Guides - Opium Trail
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- A new map has been released for Rebel Inc! This one can be quite difficult and requires a little luck, but otherwise is quite enjoyable. For this video, we'll be reviewing my mega brutal difficulty strategy using the Civil Servant.
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If you're trying to beat this on Mega Brutal and you're really struggling, don't lose hope. This video is the culmination of five hours of attempts. Sometimes the stars just need to align!
did you realise the advisors now dont have one color.now they have the humanish skin tone also the clolthing white
@@sky_more7852 okay no one cares
@@corydorton2660 it kinda cool
@@Enchanter144 it kind of is but it still fall into the category of not that important it like say you can play as a female character in a game cool but not important
@@sky_more7852 Türkmüsün knk ilk kez türk goruyorum pravus'un kanal da 😁 anladigim kadariyla yorumda mega brutalde umidinizi yitirmeyin bu video. 5 saatlik emek sonunda orataya cikti diyor. Her el 25 dk sürse 10 kez kaybetmis bu adam bile. Ben oyunun faniyim bu harita pekte invoatif olmammiş oyun acisiindan azure barajı'nın konvoy yerine afyontsrlasi yakma versiyonu gibi. Bide yeni haritaya yeni vali olmasi lazim yeni vali neyle ilgili olacak acaba ?
"this will undoubtedly respawn" -Pravus from the future who already saw it respawn
Yep pravus is like God he's from future and the past lol
I like how you were fighting with poppies more intensively than with actual insurgents
I think those poppy fields have a level of sorts (them filling with red color from the botom).
And I would guess full poppy fields bring more money to Insurgents and take longer/are more expensive to destroy (as more farmers rely on them for income).
It shows their growth, when it's full you get ticking reputation loss symbolising the insurgents harvesting them.
Fields in remote areas take 10x longer to grow
Just imagine trying to win this map with the Warlord, that's going to be interesting
The only governor I can actually win with on brutal is the Warlord. So I guess I’ll have to find A way to do it.
@@okeh5045 wait you can't win with smuggler? he is the strongest one imo
after tank commander ofcourse ;P
@@MijnAfspeellijst1234 Nahh I really depend on the quick deployment of the National Army troops. Which makes the warlord so good imo
@@okeh5045 warlord there national army units cost alot of money on long term, smuggler there national units give money
@@MijnAfspeellijst1234 I understand but you gotta see it like this: at the start u just buy the NA troops ASAP and keep the insurgents at bay. Meanwhile you just pump money into anti-corruption and tryna pump up you’re support level. As soon as you stabilize you’re first zone you’ve already won. After that reputation wont go down heavy and you will be able to afford losing those extra dollars to the NA troops.
Its all about putting pressure at the start. So that you’ll be able to afford thos payments later on.
I was down to 1 Reputation on a Brutal difficulty, what really saved me was that i found the last opium field that was in rebell territroy and ocupied in the nick of time left.
Wonderful to see you're back with this series!
This will be a nightmare for me to beat.
The poppy fields are like insurgents in "Azure Dam" but much more annoying since you can directly lose reputation from letting insurgents trade the drugs and the reputation loss isn't from "Insurgent Activity" but a new one as "Drug trading" (Or something like that) so preventing the reputation loss will be a pain as you need a lot of soldiers/very good roads early to destroy the poppy fields and control the insurgents at the same time.
Who is supposed to sign the peace deal if all the insurgents are dead?
Good point lol 😂
Yea lmao🤣
I would imagine that after completely beating the insurgency, their leadership would be in self-exile in a friendly neighbouring country or hiding with the few (sleeper) cells and supporters they may have left.
Those are just the actively fighting insurgents. The leaders and various people who set up camps are still alive.
Their successors and sympathizers I guess, they always rely on ideals and not on strength as a full-blown offensive on a well maintained army is just a Death Sentence with extra steps.
It would be cool for an airstrike upgrade that burns down poppy fields just like they destroy camps. It would be a feature on this map only, like that drone upgrade that lets drones scan multiple zones at once
Using incendiary ammunitions is banned by the geneva convention tho
There is a geneva convention in this game right?
RIGHT?
@@mig-29fulcrum15 Too bad,that Rolling Thunder cheats is the best one out there
@@mig-29fulcrum15 you're already committing war crimes in this game by using cluster munitions dropped from aircraft when you buy the heavy ordnance upgrade
Imagine : Narco.inc , game where you must stop Columbian Cartels
Maybe the opposite, make a drug empire/cartel while trying to fight, avoid, or bribe the government.
@@stroodledoodle6441 ye
@@stroodledoodle6441 and evade the DEA
They could honestly add a HUGE update called insurgent mode wherr as the name suggests u play as insurgents and instead of civllian initatives it will be how to destroy things in a region and spread terror in goverment it will be raising ur propaganda level so that troops are more inspired and join more and millitary initiative is having more troops also u can build bases and on this map as the insurgent u also have to devolep opium farming which allows u to farm opium for money
A insurgent update would be nice
@@stroodledoodle6441 They could honestly add a HUGE update called insurgent mode wherr as the name suggests u play as insurgents and instead of civllian initatives it will be how to destroy things in a region and spread terror in goverment it will be raising ur propaganda level so that troops are more inspired and join more and millitary initiative is having more troops also u can build bases and on this map as the insurgent u also have to devolep opium farming which allows u to farm opium for money
A insurgent update would be nice
It's damned interesting to see Pravus actually worn-out and worried about losing again. Normally he has a really cool head but damn, this was like watching someone trying to escape a disaster.
Can i just say that it made me genuinly excited seeing another video of rebel inc?
17:27 on this part he could've just made the poppies stay for a while and corner the insurgents in the mountains cause he had the troops to do so
If he did this then right away there would be insurgents that spawn a camp in a zone he's not controlling. Cornering them and having them take two or three zones loses a negligible amount of reputation and prevents other camps spawning as fast.
it is always a treat getting rebel inc videos :>
Just sharing some opinions:
I believe the map opium trail were kinda real-life counterpart of Afghanistan's opium problem when other countries i.e US and british were occupying Afghanistan during 1980s-2000s
To be honest, I always felt like the game was set in a Afghan-Adjacent country.
@@clockworkpotato9892 true
This was super helpful, i didnt realize the check marks meant it was a base or poppy field. Finally beat it
Opium trail?
Is this a Victorian era DLC?
Preety sure this is qing china dlc
Victoria 3 confirmed?
@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220
With ten times more jacobin revolts!
Situation before shit at Afghanistan goes south. It's public secret that nation one of source of opium, beside India as the British colonial government once exploit.
Wow! I came so early, that the title of the video is gone!
0:55 - 1:07 Not sure why, but sounds a bit like the Bio-Weapon on Plague inc.
Wait just a thought. Wouldn't the Tank Commander be good on this map because the tanks do alot of damage over when spawned and overtime?
I can see It working, but frankly, tanks to me Just lack that flexibility that the game's irregular combat sometimes demands. Worth a shot though
The mountains will be a problem tho
There is a lot of rural/remote zones in this map where poppies will spawn. Also the tanks reduce support level, require intel, and are usually better in situation such as saffron fields where you can just form a wall and stop the insurgents from leaving. In this map mobility is key, and tanks aren’t as affective.
Damn, the stars REALLY aligned well in this run
Do Mega Brutal Campaign guys
I Wonder How many tries It would take
@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 If you fail you might as well start it all over. It will be super frustrating I am sure
Smugler with cheap national forces to deal with opium fields is nice tactic, just finished my own mega brutal run :)
Havent seen anything about this game in forever
Hey Pravus!
I wondered if you had seen the movie Mosul? It's on Netflix and depicts an Iraqi SWAT team in the last days of ISIS occupation of the city of Mosul.
I found it to be a very interesting and quite unique movie and illustration of the effect of the conflict in the area.
Otherwise, hope you are having a lovely day, best wishes from Sweden.
So cool to see a game portray politics and occupation so realistically, it is like watching a government take measures in real time
Finally your back in this game your good at commentary
Hate to say this if getting green zones is the key then electricity is the key since they push out the other developments faster.
4 minutes ago, lest gooooooo. Last time I was this early, queen Elizabeth was born
Then you were born 13.8 billion years ago.
*boomer*
@@arandomcommenter6759 I'm a gen Z actually. Ever heard of time travel?
Thanks for the videos. I enjoy watching you.
Learnt something new, apparently opium comes from a specific species of poppy😂
Winning this map on mega brutal difficulty just relies on pure luck.
New map look almost impossible for me to win
Love Ya PRAVUS
Ignoring opium until it cost you reputation might be a better early game strategy because it give you more money to raise support level which helps you stabilize area. Since stabilized area won't spawn new opium, you will spend less money on destroying opium in the end.
Just tried it on medium difficulty. ALMOST failed! Sometimes i ask myself how you do those scenarios on megabrutal
The Game should have had a fire bomb upgrade for air strikes so they could burn the fields
Finally something relateable, instead of opium we make heroin out of it.
good to see this game again
I beat this map on MB with Banker, and I restart the game 4 times until the game decided to spawn just one group of insurgents at the top left of the map. If it spawn 2 groups on different sides, it's not worth trying to play because it's impossible to control them.
Fund main road and if enough money, highway as well, mobility is key. If you're lucky on where the insurgent spawn, you can have only 1-2 coalition units to control the roads, while the 3rd one burning poppy fields. Recommend you to fund local police drive as they can slow down the poppy fields grown rate and also reveal them earlier. At some point, there will be around 10 poppy fields pop up and about to fully grown, only then you can use opium crackdown.
Try to use National soldier units to control the insurgents while Coalition burning poppy fields. Why? Because they're always faster and burning down poppy fields much faster. However have to be careful as the insurgent is strong, need to have 2 or all 3 upgrades to make them effective at controlling the insurgents.
What's even the point of banker?
@@atari8603 she can generate money base on how much money you're holding at the moment, the more money you hold the more income. So keep at least $20 at all time for about extra $1 every month. Play it right she can pay up for the awkwardly low budget at the start of the game and generate much more money in late game
@@yoru120 hmm...I still can't beat this map
What if the smuggler had a special ability on this map, that allowed poppy fields to appear in stable zones, so we get more money. I say this because the smuggler already has "interesting" methods of making money, might as well throw in another one.
Or the development director, since she’s the governor that goes along with this map
I feel like the reason for that is to give every governor a chance since if there was one who was an absolute upgrade on a map like this, everyone would pick that
The thing that rebel inc and plague inc made me realise is how little people like to get helped,in the cure you could be fighting the most fierce bio weapon and still Zambia won’t close their borders in rebel inc you could be building schools and wells but as soon as 1 insurgents enters their reagion that star to hate you and I think that all of this is pretty realistic😂😂😂
I have been playing rebel inc on my phone now and finished all the maps prior to this one, on brutal difficulty, with every directors (except for the billionaire). I got stuck on the distant steppe map with the general on mega brutal but after a year of on/off gaming, I finally beaten it. Since then, I have been on a winning every single map with every single director (except billionaireon mega brutal with minor hiccups on some maps. But this. This stupid map. Made me look up multiple guides to beating it. And every single guide says, its luck based.
I don't want to alarm you, but the 9th, Golden Sands map will be soon
Good job pravus
10h in and ALMOST got it with tank commander (best one by far to try)
Just an small info Golden Sands map has been added to rebel inc
I missed this series
So...why can't air strikes bomb poppy fields? Either this game isn't very realistic, or I guess it's considered a civilian target, so while you can allow civilian casualties you can't actively target civilians. The caves make sense, you can't really bomb out a cave with a simple air strike.
This reminds me of house of the scorpion
Cool
Question: why use the standard guy instead of smuggler or banker? They have no downsides either.
I think the smuggler has higher corruption. The banker idk if there are any downsides though
Smuggler isn't that good on mega brutal because it's very hard to control corruption with him. You get more money but corruption will kill your support level and reputation.
Banker has downside that she has lower starting money (I'm not sure if she has lower starting income too) so she start slower than other governor but better at late game if you able to keep at least 10$ in your pocket all the time.
Banker has less starting budget
Smuggler has faster national soldier training time.
Love it
Nice.
As a Brit and a nerd I feel like I must make a joke about selling opium to China.
I'm still trying to beat a mega brutal campaign on the phone version.
It is the apoppylypse
can someone explain to me how flowers use to make drugs
I'm thinking a whole lot of crushing them up,like how crushing up wheat becomes flour
It's a whole process of knowing basic chemistry
Wanna come to my jungle lab? I'll show ya how
So, opium, as far as I am aware, is essentially just the juice you squeeze out of Poppy seed's. It might involve some crushing of the seed's, soaking them in water, and then distilling the now opium infused liquid to get essentially pure opium, but that's essentially juice. There might also be a more solid variety of opium, I wouldn't know, but the basic principle is just poppy seeds contain opium, or at least something which becomes opium with minimal processing. That's why eating poppy seeds can make you test positive for heroin, because originally heroin was just processed opium, although I think they just synthesize it from other stuff now. And before you ask, no, you can't really distill opium from the poppy seeds on your bagel, they aren't opium poppies, and thus the concentration is too low to get anything out of them, esspecialy without a LOT of poppy seeds.
Did you just crawl out of a cave
Man I just can't beat this map it's just too much for me to handle ahha guess I'll have to practise a lot more O.o
Talk about mega brutal
Kinda prefer seeing the whole video rather than the sped up version.
Tried it again last night. Normal mode.
Won with 2 stars and 14 reputation left. 1,330 turns.
Get the insurgents under control super quick. The longer the game goes on, the less resources you have to deal with the poppy fields. And trust me, they WILL become an issue. 4-5 active fields at a time. Meanwhile the insurgents are taking and retaking and retaking, poppy fields cost you $2 each unless you want the population to become hostile and join them.... It's a mess. Looking forward to having some time tonight to have another go and see if I can find a way to cope. Might try with the billionaire.
This one is impossible on mega brutal
@@atari8603 Well, as he says in his comment, "don't lose hope"...
...if you can avoid it, that is. holy hecc this one is a massive difficulty spike
Ive been attempting this for a while. i don't understand what im doing wrong.
yes more rebel inc!
Rebel inc takes place in afghanistan (i think)
afghanistan is the world's 1# opium producer IRL
NEW UPDATE: Opium Trail
wait a minute...
The fact that you required so much luck from insurgent spawn where you can corner them to civilians need that doesn't make you broke to stabilize regions proves how BS this game mechanic is. Required luck is fine but if you need about 90% luck just to beat this map from early to end is absolutely BS for a strategy game. RNG luck based strategy simulator will suit better for this game
Best way to do this is to make more troops and more air force
New series?!
I wonder why there is no combat casualty in this game, the game is good but it feel like I'm fighting the emu war
There is but it doesn't translate well, like your units will get worse and worse the longer they remain in combat, and then slowly regain strength while not in combat. the chef advisor speeds up that process
forgot this game existed
Maybe it would be better with Tank Commander
with my difficulties being national troops I feel warlord could quickly conquer a lot of maps, including this one. I'm probably wrong but it is interesting
hey Pravus can you do mega brutal difficulty on campaigns?
based upload date
WHAT ABOUT THE DOWN ARROW
Yes
can the Tank get rid of the poppys ?
Yes
Imo i would die on normal lol
I need help I need help I CANT EVEN GET 50% STABILITY ON BRUTAL IM START TO CRY AND GIVE UP I NEED HELP!
Do Religion Inc. After finishing Rebel Inc.
nice
If you wanted the insurgents to spawn in the west, shouldn't you have placed your hq further east?
A worrying british voice: Uhhhhh.... yeah
Weekly Challenges soon?
So, can poppy fields be destroyed by airstrikes?
Right, beating this map on brutal first try is much more easier than i thought it would be, maybe i just got lucky? Idk, the point is i have beaten every special map so far
this map on mega brutal has a distinctly gigantic difficulty spike moving from brutal, compared to other maps
honestly its probably because of the mega brutal specific map mechanics they put in this map
@@acake6654 maybe it has something to do with the spawn of opium fields?
Did they really change the appearance of the experts to add more diversity since last time I played it? :D
Yuck.
Nice
Took me hours
Thx for my comment pravus
wait what? when will the opium trail map be added to the iphone app?
Why?
Yeeeesss
I cant controlling reputation to keep stable on this map
Hey Pravus, I like your videos but this one is really cant help. Opium Trail is really hard. I think hardest map in Rebel Inc. Do you want to product much more Opium Trail videos? Thanks.
first play this game on normal because you will have NO advisors as soon as you launch the game for the first time in my case that is to unlock all advisors, maps and new governor types
Can you do more valhime
Watched 2 minutes Can already tell your mine kind of guy
You get a sub from me
Why is this giving bioweapon vibes