Glad to see this series back! If I could offer a couple small tips? I believe the highest unit cap you can get is 42. You have 3 heroes that can each be upgraded to increase unit cap. The general, the field commander and the support commander. They each also give buffs to units around them. You can be more aggressive with turrets. They either removed the turret cap in Crucible, or made it high enough that I never hit it. Either way, you don't have to settle for like, one turret on each side anymore, you can build up nice turret defenses. You were struggling a little with the artillery because you only ever built the basic basilisk. An 'artillery only' run with just basilisks is like an 'infantry only' run with just Guardsman Squads. You'd have had a much easier time if you'd mixed it up. The basilisk is an alright all-rounder. The Griffon has longer range and does more to infantry and buildings, but does even less to vehicles. The Medusa is very short range (by artillery standards) and does more to vehicles, and the Earthshaker Platforms are static defense that'll ruin everybody, and can be specialized to really mess up either vehicles or infantry. When you go Artillery Doctrine, you can also build Krig Grenaders from the Doctrine Command! Who are...alright? They're heavy-ish infantry that I guess are okay. Actually each doctrine (except for Armor) lets you build special units from the Doctrine Command, so always check those guys out! Oh, and 'attack ground' command is the artillery commander's best friend. Remember, you don't have to see an enemy to kill it! Plus it's really fun to order attack ground around an enemy base, and then just pop over there with a scan every once in a while to see how dead things are.
Am I the only one who is interested to see Shack do a big Dawn of War thing with w4sted, SplatterCatGaming, and SorcererDave? 4v4, 2v2, or 4-player free-for-all, I think it’d be interesting to see! Been watching your channel since Star Trek Armada III and the SE Group Survival with Valefor, Tabby, and Alteran, Captain! Keep up the great work, your content is amazing and entertaining!
59:11 ''it dont even do half'' ...not to the reinforced bunker buildings ,but dam... thats a nice thumbnail and i think outside of sealed bunkers thee space marine base might have experienced a drastic drop in its manpower pool XD
Tehre is noh time to beh lohst! Battle Brothars! Spehss Mahrens, todeh the enemeh is at oua doar! We know oua duteh and we will do eet. We fight for our honor as Blod Rehvens, as SPESS MAHRENS, and we fight in the nehme of the Empra!
Shack if your having problems with vehicals don't forget the Grphon mortor. in game it has the same range as the Basalisk, but it fires alot faster with its melta bomb and is better at melting enermy armour becuse of it.
The number of space marines dead in this single battle is like most of the canonical chapter strength at this point, pretty sure they only had like 6-8 hundred at this point in the chapter total.
If this fight were accurate, the Guard either wouldn't let the space marines even land or they would engage in a long distance arty war. Worse comes to worse, they'll sacrifice a battalion or division to keep the Marines fixed in place whilst the artillery does the work.
Yes actually if I'm remembering right it's even mentioned in later Dawn of War campaigns that Boreale was a complete idiot who's failure during the Karueva campaign decimated the strength of the Blood Ravens for a while
The yellow dot on the mini Map is the relic point, Orange are the critical/stratigic points, purple are normal points and pink are the slag deposits. you can see all the points on the mini map at all times
space marines must have been seriously confused when the general made that speech and be like BUT WE ARE THE EMPIRE. sadly their scrams didn't reach the guard between all the shelling.
You are thinking of a different 'imperium of man' to say that atomic are outlawed. It's just a significant weapon that most campaigns won't have use of, but they certainly do use all kinds of ballistic missile launchers to destroy their enemies, with nukes being the least aweful of warheads that their disposal.
I feel bad for that medic that has to keep up with the Ogrynn squad. he's got them normal people legs, and has to keep up with their big ole chonky boy legs. this also reminds me I need to get this mod(s) to work.
nuclear weapons are archeotech execpt ship torpedoes with are basically nukes but long and short of it the imperium doesn't have many to spend as such they typically are only used when there housing is under direct threat
I don't know if any one has brought it up but flamers are next to the worst in anti structure damage both in table top and in this game. They are mostly for breaking moral and as such I would recommend either rockets for buildings, melta and/or laz canons for armor, and lastly plasma for heavy infantry like space marines or necrons. but then again that's just my experience from the table top speaking so I might be completely wrong
Not gonna lie but this was kinda painful to watch, his strategy of slowly creeping and outranging with artillery was making me anxious! But still a fun video and massive victory for Empire and for the Emperor!!
Are you planning to bring the might of The Imperial Guard's Heaviest Units against the Orks? You killed the Sisters with Tanks & Stormblades The Tau died by the might of your Air Force The Blood Ravens were killed by your unrelenting Artillery Shells Is it time to crush the Orks with Relic units and late game tech like the Magnus towers and Thermo-Nuclear Generators supporting powerful warlord Titans?
Captin' it was mentioned before but probably you missed it. Crucible devs rebalanced artillery a while back. Basilisks very effective versus infantry and less so versus buildings. Medusa effective versus vehicles (including titans). Griffon mortars good versus infantry and building (with Inferno shell upgrade), but thanks to very high rate of fire they best versus most things - except relic units (superheavy&titans). As such Basilisks only effective versus armor (and heavier elite infantry) only if you use a LOT of them. And lastly Marauder Vigilant's ability to uncover fog of war in large radius makes it your best spotter - even better then improved HQ scan.
@TheXPGamers Hey guys would you say The crucible mod or the unification mod is a better campaign mod I haven't downloaded either wanted to see what would work better but no one is comparing them
Because you cant. They are fundamentally different design philosophies. Unification has much more factions (which granted isnt really represented that well in the campaign), but each faction is closer in scale to vanilla. Crucible has fewer factions but each faction individually has much more content.
Why smash da puny humies when da bigga betta humies ar right dere? "SPESS MAREENS!" They lose this campaign, if I recall correctly... the Eldar win? According to canon?
The name of the Yellow space marines is “The Imperial Fists”The Iron warriors also built up defenses
Oh! The bunker building banana brothers!
Fortify
@@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536 siege
@@MrThemilk14 fortify
@@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536 siege!
There are so many legendary parodies of Boreale's epic battle speech 🤣🤣
That voice actor gets me every time 🤣
And he is the voice actor of Sindri, Bale, and pretty much the entire IG Faction 😂 This is just sad
Glad to see this series back! If I could offer a couple small tips?
I believe the highest unit cap you can get is 42. You have 3 heroes that can each be upgraded to increase unit cap. The general, the field commander and the support commander. They each also give buffs to units around them.
You can be more aggressive with turrets. They either removed the turret cap in Crucible, or made it high enough that I never hit it. Either way, you don't have to settle for like, one turret on each side anymore, you can build up nice turret defenses.
You were struggling a little with the artillery because you only ever built the basic basilisk. An 'artillery only' run with just basilisks is like an 'infantry only' run with just Guardsman Squads. You'd have had a much easier time if you'd mixed it up. The basilisk is an alright all-rounder. The Griffon has longer range and does more to infantry and buildings, but does even less to vehicles. The Medusa is very short range (by artillery standards) and does more to vehicles, and the Earthshaker Platforms are static defense that'll ruin everybody, and can be specialized to really mess up either vehicles or infantry.
When you go Artillery Doctrine, you can also build Krig Grenaders from the Doctrine Command! Who are...alright? They're heavy-ish infantry that I guess are okay. Actually each doctrine (except for Armor) lets you build special units from the Doctrine Command, so always check those guys out!
Oh, and 'attack ground' command is the artillery commander's best friend. Remember, you don't have to see an enemy to kill it! Plus it's really fun to order attack ground around an enemy base, and then just pop over there with a scan every once in a while to see how dead things are.
Am I the only one who is interested to see Shack do a big Dawn of War thing with w4sted, SplatterCatGaming, and SorcererDave? 4v4, 2v2, or 4-player free-for-all, I think it’d be interesting to see!
Been watching your channel since Star Trek Armada III and the SE Group Survival with Valefor, Tabby, and Alteran, Captain! Keep up the great work, your content is amazing and entertaining!
Wow, I wasn't expecting another Crucible video so quickly.
An hour long video too !
A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one. o7
Imperial Guard: "How many Earthshaker rounds do you want?"
Shack: "Yes!"
I *love* the Imperial Guard voices in this game! "Ready to win the war, sir.", "3...2...1 FIRE", "They will learn to fear me."
I loved watching the shells from the artillery leaving the guns and landing on target!
i love these long missions such a unique rts game im thinking about getting this and call to arms gates of hell
YES!!! The guns have sung the funeral dirge of yet another enemy of the Imperial Guard. Keep up the work Shack, definitely enjoying the series.
The yellow guys that about defense is the Imperil Fist.
Since you asked Shack
Thanks!
@@CaptainShack Thanks for confirming! :D
41:45 "there's no upgrade for that" you play guard, the upgrade is to have MORE
"Steel Rain" vs *STEEL RAIN*
'Yellow guys' means imperial fists or the armageddon steel legion, but there is another option. Yellow orks
59:11 ''it dont even do half'' ...not to the reinforced bunker buildings ,but dam... thats a nice thumbnail and i think outside of sealed bunkers thee space marine base might have experienced a drastic drop in its manpower pool XD
The Yellow space marines = Imperial fists. Sons of dorn Masters of fortified waffles
Tehre is noh time to beh lohst!
Battle Brothars!
Spehss Mahrens, todeh the enemeh is at oua doar!
We know oua duteh and we will do eet.
We fight for our honor as Blod Rehvens,
as SPESS MAHRENS, and we fight in the nehme of the Empra!
Dis manohoover ish called STEL RHEN!
Shack if your having problems with vehicals don't forget the Grphon mortor.
in game it has the same range as the Basalisk, but it fires alot faster with its melta bomb and is better at melting enermy armour becuse of it.
The number of space marines dead in this single battle is like most of the canonical chapter strength at this point, pretty sure they only had like 6-8 hundred at this point in the chapter total.
Well 40K games are never meant to be lore accurate anyways.
If this fight were accurate, the Guard either wouldn't let the space marines even land or they would engage in a long distance arty war. Worse comes to worse, they'll sacrifice a battalion or division to keep the Marines fixed in place whilst the artillery does the work.
Yes actually if I'm remembering right it's even mentioned in later Dawn of War campaigns that Boreale was a complete idiot who's failure during the Karueva campaign decimated the strength of the Blood Ravens for a while
Your thinking of the the imperial fist , shack. Sons of the primarch Rogal Dorn. :) glad to see this series return! Good show.
I sure hope losing half their chapter doesn’t affect the blood ravens in any future endeavours they might partake in.
Well, their chief librarian seems to have an awful lot of ideas bout how to recoup these losses lol. (DOW2 Ret)
*Giant new bonus objective shows up*
*Shack completely ignoring it*
"I don't know why you bothered showing me that."
A speech that launched a thousand memes. (SPESS MAHRENS!)
Imperial mittens is what you're trying to remember 😉🍺
Hey Shack, when you attack the orc can you do infantry only challenge ?
I want to see the Imperial Guards out spam even the orcs
Not feasible. He needs vehicles to counter ork stompas
The yellow dot on the mini Map is the relic point, Orange are the critical/stratigic points, purple are normal points and pink are the slag deposits. you can see all the points on the mini map at all times
Always excited for more crucible content
space marines must have been seriously confused when the general made that speech and be like BUT WE ARE THE EMPIRE. sadly their scrams didn't reach the guard between all the shelling.
The Imperial fist Shack. they are the Imperial fist
How can you play defense as the Imperial Guard and keep forgetting about garrisoning troops? That's one of the main points of playing as them.
You are thinking of a different 'imperium of man' to say that atomic are outlawed. It's just a significant weapon that most campaigns won't have use of, but they certainly do use all kinds of ballistic missile launchers to destroy their enemies, with nukes being the least aweful of warheads that their disposal.
I'm so glad this is back!
I feel bad for that medic that has to keep up with the Ogrynn squad. he's got them normal people legs, and has to keep up with their big ole chonky boy legs.
this also reminds me I need to get this mod(s) to work.
nuclear weapons are archeotech execpt ship torpedoes with are basically nukes but long and short of it the imperium doesn't have many to spend as such they typically are only used when there housing is under direct threat
Naturally, the solution to a rapid, reactive mobile defence is somehow heavy artillery? It certainly sounds like a guard thing.
Any things possible with enough fire power.
Soldiers win engagements, tanks win battles and artillery win wars.
The Fat Election: talk about putting warheads on foreheads
8:27 I mean you’re not wrong about commissars but how often does one come face to face with a space marine.
time to bring the rain
I feel like this Seige tactic may work excellent against the Dark Eldar Base
SPEHSS MEHREENS
I don't know if any one has brought it up but flamers are next to the worst in anti structure damage both in table top and in this game. They are mostly for breaking moral and as such I would recommend either rockets for buildings, melta and/or laz canons for armor, and lastly plasma for heavy infantry like space marines or necrons. but then again that's just my experience from the table top speaking so I might be completely wrong
Not gonna lie but this was kinda painful to watch, his strategy of slowly creeping and outranging with artillery was making me anxious! But still a fun video and massive victory for Empire and for the Emperor!!
if the commissar breaks do they shoot themselves,?
Thought it looked odd that ogren are bigger then space marines. Looked it up, and well they actually are. Ogrens are really scary
Wondering why part of the screen cuts off on the right for the deep strike beacons left: - unknown can't see
Are you planning to bring the might of The Imperial Guard's Heaviest Units against the Orks?
You killed the Sisters with Tanks & Stormblades
The Tau died by the might of your Air Force
The Blood Ravens were killed by your unrelenting Artillery Shells
Is it time to crush the Orks with Relic units and late game tech like the Magnus towers and Thermo-Nuclear Generators supporting powerful warlord Titans?
This game looks like a really old version of Star Wars Republic at War mod, just that it doesn't have anything to do with it.
I know you can give the 'attack ground' order and they'll keep firing at a spot, even if they cant see the target or its in the fog of war.
can you also play as ork show us their units please?
we need this type of campaign ! it best reflects the lore of the warhammer 40k
This needs to get remastered badly !
While I do love Basilisks, please god there are better mobile pieces. Griffin mortar with the flame rounds? Mint vs buildings.
About time you continued the series, I was worried.
this is why i play space marine mostly because of the titans
I think the most hardest strongholds are in this game are the Space Marines and the chaos those are the ones I always had issues with
That death made me really sad
Shack i love watching ur vids it keeps my heart rate high due to you missing the smallest of things lol 😆 💕 😅
Yay more videos!
Captin' it was mentioned before but probably you missed it. Crucible devs rebalanced artillery a while back.
Basilisks very effective versus infantry and less so versus buildings.
Medusa effective versus vehicles (including titans).
Griffon mortars good versus infantry and building (with Inferno shell upgrade), but thanks to very high rate of fire they best versus most things - except relic units (superheavy&titans).
As such Basilisks only effective versus armor (and heavier elite infantry) only if you use a LOT of them.
And lastly Marauder Vigilant's ability to uncover fog of war in large radius makes it your best spotter - even better then improved HQ scan.
Artillery Only!!! @isp
go for the conscripts only push against the orks it would be a long campaign add sentinels for the armor element
Wait just a second, is the medic voiced by rimmy down under gaming?
Your commissary broke must have been kreigs guards supplemental commisars
your videos are the best!
Are deathstrike missiles any good in this mod?
Just the same as the nuke center. It's just another way of getting more nukes while on cooldown.
Is the very bottom of the video just a little bit cropped for anyone else?
I'm on a new rig and for some reason it's at the resolution of the game to something really strange that's not quite 16x9
You do NOT in fact only get 1 nuke. It has a pretty long cool down that can be lowered via the nuclear power plant's upgrade.
I wonder can you play dow with the UA mod and this mod together or would that result to a crash and pc exploding?
I believe the crucible mod is actually an offshoot of UA, so it would probably cause problems while not adding much
@TheXPGamers Hey guys would you say The crucible mod or the unification mod is a better campaign mod I haven't downloaded either wanted to see what would work better but no one is comparing them
Because you cant. They are fundamentally different design philosophies. Unification has much more factions (which granted isnt really represented that well in the campaign), but each faction is closer in scale to vanilla. Crucible has fewer factions but each faction individually has much more content.
Coulda just made a few anti vehicle units instead of vehicles. I think there's a special weapon team.
Was wondering what happened to this.
I feel like you should’ve rushed free conscripts so you can throw literally hundreds of men at them to buy time
Why smash da puny humies when da bigga betta humies ar right dere? "SPESS MAREENS!" They lose this campaign, if I recall correctly... the Eldar win? According to canon?
So if the Imperial guard fights the Space Marines, which side contains the heretics in that one? :)
Both, depending on who you ask. They will both name the other traitors and heretics.
Love this
Could've cut 20 minutes off the end there if you did just use the Earthshakers when you should've 😂
Yasssss!
Second let's gooo
Hurray, first comment