Excellent introduction, better than the one I did. I caught part of your live stream too. I love SC and am glad you are covering it as that will give it much needed exposure. Keep up the good work!
One phrase response....death stacks. More to the point, adding stacking will strongly increase the complexity of the AI programming. Still I would like to see better AI and in these days of cheap memory, ssds and better cpus, I wouldn't think it would be quite as hard as it seems to me. Maybe the best response is that the publisher has to decide how much money to put into AI vs other stuff.
Since you said you haven't tried any of them, I HIGHLY recommend you try Strategic Command World War I (preferably with the expansion). It's the only good WW1 strategy game I've found, and it really gives a realistic feel for trench warfare and you feel the reasons why the countries did what they did.
Oh, disagree Commander : Great War is the best. Much nicer map than Strategic Command series and decent AI. Guns of August 1914-1918 is also, even after 10 years, quite enjoyable.
Now with the new community pack it has a great variant (653H) that is actually much more accurate in units then the main game. Also the use of new NATO counters is much more authentic. Great scale (20 miles) for ease of play (at corp level) while still having detail. I wish the WaW version was also at the same scale! I look for games with at least some historical accuracy with ease of play. I think at this level (20 mile hex/corp units), this game is the best one (starting with Poland) out there when you play the 653H variant. It's not HOI3/Black Ice but you can play it over a weekend not for months. Just build your corps to historical accuracy as you play through 653H and it will be a fun stroll through ww2 history.
at 32:57 to 33 minute mark, you attacked a Polish cavalry unit up north near Gdansk. it looked like it auto-retreated/withdrew from your force. Two questions: 1) did I see that correctly, did it retreat? or did you as the Victor specify where it moved? 2) That Polish cavalry unit is now surrounded by German hexes; it cannot trace a line of friendly hexes back to its own turf, it's capitol, a friendly city, nor its headquarters. is there any significance to that situation? Does this game model being cut off?
how does this game differ from the game with the same name from Battlefront.com as i played this game for years and it seems matrix games either bought the title or stole it.
I've loved all the strategic command games but what really turns me off on this game is the map and units. They are much less detailed then they were before and it's just really hard to get into with such terrible visuals compared to the other games. I bet this is probably the best game they have made in terms of game play, but the visuals need to be updated.
isn't it funny how every single game that says " real ww2 scenarios and graphics! " but always use the iron cross as if that's what they always put on flags and stuff. I heard even the COD wasn't even going to have it.
I’m relatively new to computer war games, so I watch a lot of vids like this. I’ve noticed that while these guys know how to play the games and generally provide useful and appreciated info to new players like me, they can be terrible at pronouncing place names. At first, it seemed like “ok, so the guy got it wrong, no big deal,” but I have to say that now I expect to hear at least one embarrassing pronunciation goof in almost every video I watch. I like to think that the people that play games like this have a bit more interest in the history an geography behind them than the average joe...at least enough to avoid distracting boo-faws like terrible mis-pronunciations.
I know this is incredibly pedantic but please don't refer to 'England' when you click on the Union Flag. I'm Welsh and this is a different country. We come under the banner of the Union Flag as an all-encompassing British including Northern Ireland and the reluctant Scotish. I know I know it's bloody ridiculous but you can hear a collective sharp intake of breath when you do that. I am sure we do the same on a regular basis with regards to many cultures and history dictates that we as a nation probably deserve a slap down or two. Great video btw.
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You aren't a country you are a Principality, like Dubai within the UAE.
Wales (Listeni/ˈweɪlz/; Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.[8] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales
Knowing what Cairo is is pretty important, yes. Cairo is in Egypt and controls the Suez Canal, by the way. It's the capital of the pro-British government.
+Hiukas to each their own. What's over priced to you may be completely reasonable to someone else. I'm sure it will go on sale eventually but I can't blame a dev wanting to protect the value of their work and get paid.
Completely turned off by the ugly map....I've seen many beautiful wargame maps...SPI, Avalon Hill, GDW...why would these people retrograde back to puke green?
I dont get it either, especially for 2D the possibilities are so massive today and the tools to make 2D graphics are so powerfull... I dont need no shiny gfx in my strategic games, but some basic level of estetics should be reached
cry me fucking river. Oh has england a own parliment and goverment or is the is equal to the goverment of the UK? If no and so you could say that england is UK in that regard.
sulphur77777 I would support this person's point of order. talk about England when talking about the days of the American pilgrims, but talk about Britain when talking about WWII. Many great UK units and commanders were non-English Britons. Not all Mericans need be the stereotypical ugly American. having said all that, it was a little childish to launch such a protest in this venue.
sulphur77777 are you aged eight? Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland they don’t count in your twisted world view. Just because the owner of this channel is uneducated you back up his ignorance! Your a total twat. If you are American then I’ll assume you’re Canadian.
C'est triste et penible de voir des jeux aussi depassés en 2016 Aucune animation, graphismes des années 90, lamentable. On peut trouver des scenarios amateurs pour Civilization 2 plus agreables a regarder et a jouer. Slitherine est un petit studio, mais sa politique de commercialisation de jeux a deux balles realisés a la chaine pour une "niche" tres fermée de gamers amateurs de jeux de strategies seuls capables d'accepter une telle pauvreté technique et un prix abusé est sans doute tres rentable pour la boite, mais catastrophique pour ce genre de jeu qui n'arrivera jamais a atteindre, attirer plus de public.
Why do you keep referring to Britain which is called the uk (the clue is in the name...United Kingdom of Scotland, England, Wales as England? If you think this doesn’t matter then think about all the Scottish and Welsh that gave their lives in the war and you utterly ignore their sacrifice! It wasn’t a silly game back then pal. Try harder to discuss this subject with the decorum it deserves and educate yourself a little to how the countries of the uk work. Historical gamer who knows virtually nothing about history, what a total bad joke!
@@0MVR_0 eh I don't know what your comment has to do with the subject matter? Should we call all countries in North America "USA" because that is the biggest country in terms of economic power therefor rubbing out Canada and Mexico? Eh no. The UK is made up of several countries and people need to sadly be educated on this salient fact.
@@0MVR_0 in any case, your point is not valid. Just because England has now got the biggest population and wealth has nothing to do with the fact that people know so little they think that Scotland is a small town in northern England.
Excellent introduction, better than the one I did. I caught part of your live stream too. I love SC and am glad you are covering it as that will give it much needed exposure. Keep up the good work!
One phrase response....death stacks. More to the point, adding stacking will strongly increase the complexity of the AI programming. Still I would like to see better AI and in these days of cheap memory, ssds and better cpus, I wouldn't think it would be quite as hard as it seems to me. Maybe the best response is that the publisher has to decide how much money to put into AI vs other stuff.
Awesome game awesome video! I definitely want to see you play this more. Excited for the next part!
Since you said you haven't tried any of them, I HIGHLY recommend you try Strategic Command World War I (preferably with the expansion). It's the only good WW1 strategy game I've found, and it really gives a realistic feel for trench warfare and you feel the reasons why the countries did what they did.
Oh, disagree
Commander : Great War is the best. Much nicer map than Strategic Command series and decent AI.
Guns of August 1914-1918 is also, even after 10 years, quite enjoyable.
Why in this great age of brilliant technology, can't we have stacking in strategy games?
Why?
I have to have an entire separate hex for my air unit?!
I think because they originally made a ww1 system
This was a very good video, gave a good first impression of the game without wasting the viewer's time. Thank you!
Nice overview of first turn. Had played original Strategic Command. Also old Third Reich board game player. Love your foreign language accent efforts.
Taking Cairo make sense as an Axis victory condition because that controls the Suez canal and European access to South and East Asia.
Now with the new community pack it has a great variant (653H) that is actually much more accurate in units then the main game. Also the use of new NATO counters is much more authentic. Great scale (20 miles) for ease of play (at corp level) while still having detail. I wish the WaW version was also at the same scale! I look for games with at least some historical accuracy with ease of play. I think at this level (20 mile hex/corp units), this game is the best one (starting with Poland) out there when you play the 653H variant. It's not HOI3/Black Ice but you can play it over a weekend not for months. Just build your corps to historical accuracy as you play through 653H and it will be a fun stroll through ww2 history.
Kayro!!! You’re killing me bro 🤣
at 32:57 to 33 minute mark, you attacked a Polish cavalry unit up north near Gdansk. it looked like it auto-retreated/withdrew from your force. Two questions:
1) did I see that correctly, did it retreat? or did you as the Victor specify where it moved?
2) That Polish cavalry unit is now surrounded by German hexes; it cannot trace a line of friendly hexes back to its own turf, it's capitol, a friendly city, nor its headquarters. is there any significance to that situation? Does this game model being cut off?
Control of Cairo is important because the of Suez Canal.
Still think this is a great series to get into wargaming!
20:39 = "Canada and England are not at war... with Great Britain" :D
I would like to see videos of this.
Has anyone figured out a way to defend france in 1940? I've tried everything possible (I think) to hold, but never can.
So pump for this game
how does this game differ from the game with the same name from Battlefront.com as i played this game for years and it seems matrix games either bought the title or stole it.
I've loved all the strategic command games but what really turns me off on this game is the map and units. They are much less detailed then they were before and it's just really hard to get into with such terrible visuals compared to the other games. I bet this is probably the best game they have made in terms of game play, but the visuals need to be updated.
game isn't in Stock on Amazon.. you sure this was released already?
Sorry about that, the game is out of stock but it is out... www.matrixgames.com/products/504/details/Strategic.Command.WWII:.War.in.Europe
Will you consider playing 'Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients' at some point?
Cybermat47
vortyx what is it?
Sorry I hit the wrong key but thanks for following up my comment on thehistoricalgamer....I was waiting for him to rip me haha
how do i use air strikes from carriers in strategic command ww2 war in europe?
isn't it funny how every single game that says " real ww2 scenarios and graphics! "
but always use the iron cross as if that's what they always put on flags and stuff.
I heard even the COD wasn't even going to have it.
+Epic Demic you know why right?
Cairo - pronounced KY-row... :-)
I’m relatively new to computer war games, so I watch a lot of vids like this. I’ve noticed that while these guys know how to play the games and generally provide useful and appreciated info to new players like me, they can be terrible at pronouncing place names. At first, it seemed like “ok, so the guy got it wrong, no big deal,” but I have to say that now I expect to hear at least one embarrassing pronunciation goof in almost every video I watch. I like to think that the people that play games like this have a bit more interest in the history an geography behind them than the average joe...at least enough to avoid distracting boo-faws like terrible mis-pronunciations.
can you make a series of this?
These games are all "Luck of the Dice" so to speak and that negates any the art of war that you may have
Can you cut land unit supply by surrounding them?
Yes, though it's not instant and takes time to fully run out of supply.
Damn. Two comments I feel bad
Thank you for your insight.
***** no Prob
Canadian heavy tanks in egypt in 1942 fuck this game.
where do you get this game?
www.matrixgames.com/products/504/details/Strategic.Command.WWII:.War.in.Europe
I know this is incredibly pedantic but please don't refer to 'England' when you click on the Union Flag. I'm Welsh and this is a different country. We come under the banner of the Union Flag as an all-encompassing British including Northern Ireland and the reluctant Scotish. I know I know it's bloody ridiculous but you can hear a collective sharp intake of breath when you do that. I am sure we do the same on a regular basis with regards to many cultures and history dictates that we as a nation probably deserve a slap down or two. Great video btw.
You aren't a country you are a Principality, like Dubai within the UAE.
Wales (Listeni/ˈweɪlz/; Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.[8]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Wales
Slow clap for trying though.
Yawn!
What is Kayro? You mean Cairo Kai~ro KAI~RO
I like Panzer Strategy more
I'm just waiting for someone to make a free IOS WW2 game
please please learn how to say "kai-ro" not kayro
Really really is that important? I dont get ppl like u.
Knowing what Cairo is is pretty important, yes. Cairo is in Egypt and controls the Suez Canal, by the way. It's the capital of the pro-British government.
let him mispronounce it, it's funnier that way
Yeah it's important to know how to pronounce Capital cities.
ReviewGameX: Are you just thick - what’s not to understand? It’s incredibly annoying when people mispronounce common words or place names.
Its not pronounced "lodz"as you read it, its pronounced "wutsh"
to be honest.. its pretty overprised...
+Hiukas to each their own. What's over priced to you may be completely reasonable to someone else. I'm sure it will go on sale eventually but I can't blame a dev wanting to protect the value of their work and get paid.
maybe...
Completely turned off by the ugly map....I've seen many beautiful wargame maps...SPI, Avalon Hill, GDW...why would these people retrograde back to puke green?
I dont get it either, especially for 2D the possibilities are so massive today and the tools to make 2D graphics are so powerfull... I dont need no shiny gfx in my strategic games, but some basic level of estetics should be reached
True! If you see for example how nice are the visuals of the 11 years old game CEAW.... Its really about to wonder why there is such a downgrade....
what is SPI and GDW?
What are you talking about? Aside from a few games like 1776, most old board games from AH, GDW, S&T etc. had incredibly ugly or just plain maps.
what is GDW,S&T,AH and SPI? :O And do you have any recommendations for similar games :)
Hex games have the ugliest maps. Needs to be addressed.
Kewl
I prefer games like Panzer Strategy steamcommunity.com/app/769950
Please stop referring to Britain as England...it's most insulting to the other nations of the UK
cry me fucking river. Oh has england a own parliment and goverment or is the is equal to the goverment of the UK? If no and so you could say that england is UK in that regard.
sulphur77777 I would support this person's point of order. talk about England when talking about the days of the American pilgrims, but talk about Britain when talking about WWII. Many great UK units and commanders were non-English Britons.
Not all Mericans need be the stereotypical ugly American.
having said all that, it was a little childish to launch such a protest in this venue.
Well all of Europe insults the USA.
Then stop referring to south africa as the whole of africa
sulphur77777 are you aged eight? Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland they don’t count in your twisted world view. Just because the owner of this channel is uneducated you back up his ignorance! Your a total twat. If you are American then I’ll assume you’re Canadian.
C'est triste et penible de voir des jeux aussi depassés en 2016
Aucune animation, graphismes des années 90, lamentable.
On peut trouver des scenarios amateurs pour Civilization 2 plus agreables a regarder et a jouer.
Slitherine est un petit studio, mais sa politique de commercialisation de jeux a deux balles realisés a la chaine pour une "niche" tres fermée de gamers amateurs de jeux de strategies seuls capables d'accepter une telle pauvreté technique et un prix abusé est sans doute tres rentable pour la boite, mais catastrophique pour ce genre de jeu qui n'arrivera jamais a atteindre, attirer plus de public.
Why do you keep referring to Britain which is called the uk (the clue is in the name...United Kingdom of Scotland, England, Wales as England? If you think this doesn’t matter then think about all the Scottish and Welsh that gave their lives in the war and you utterly ignore their sacrifice! It wasn’t a silly game back then pal. Try harder to discuss this subject with the decorum it deserves and educate yourself a little to how the countries of the uk work. Historical gamer who knows virtually nothing about history, what a total bad joke!
The fact that England is seated as the dominant nation in the union is not a secret.
@@0MVR_0 eh I don't know what your comment has to do with the subject matter? Should we call all countries in North America "USA" because that is the biggest country in terms of economic power therefor rubbing out Canada and Mexico? Eh no. The UK is made up of several countries and people need to sadly be educated on this salient fact.
Not really. Your analogy is weak as the US and Canada are not in a union.
@@0MVR_0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union
@@0MVR_0 in any case, your point is not valid. Just because England has now got the biggest population and wealth has nothing to do with the fact that people know so little they think that Scotland is a small town in northern England.