This video took me 7-8 weeks to make in my free time and is the result of a script 5,747 words long, and my only hope with this video is that it will be helpful to you, dear viewer, in making you succeed better in your leadership endeavours, not only for the sake of yourself, but for the sake of having fun in this game and understanding eachother better! Link to the standalone outro cinematic: th-cam.com/video/Ylqs7mCBXng/w-d-xo.html Timestamps for mobile users: 0:00 - Intro 2:16 - The difference between Iconography vs Practicality 4:40 - Chapter 1: Basic Behavioural Observations - Trust 8:08 - Chapter 1: Basic Behavioural Observations - Newbie vs Veteran Demeanor 12:51 - Chapter 2: Language 17:14 - Chapter 3: The Ability To Redirect Players 19:19 - Chapter 4: Active Morale Upkeep, Getting The Job Done & The L.S.P. 31:11 - Chapter 5: Passive Morale Upkeep 39:26 - Chapter 6: Applying what we have learned here to a pre-planned operation 53:55 - Conclusion: Should you become that "good leader"? 55:22 - Outro "Become The Leader"
Only recently I realized the power of just telling people to get in your vehicle is so incredibly powerful sometimes. This was at the very end of war 102, we were defending The Vanguard in Shackled and some people realized the base to our south was getting attacked and it didnt have any troops, was about to fall and we would end up surrounded. There were guys in Vanguard yelling at people to "go down south NOW, its about to fall!", but despite it not being super far away, very few people were actually making the trek. I found a jeep in town and used a wrench to borrow it, started parking in front of the Vanguard base and just calmly told people to get in by name, elaborating further if they asked why. Ended up transferring a couple dozen troops down there (always reminding them to set new spawn) and we ultimately didn't end up surrounded. Not sure how much of a role I played there, and even though the whole hex fell the next day and we lost the war a few days after that, it felt awesome doing something that might affect even a minor conflict.
That's a very specific psychological problem that comes up in emergency response situations. Large groups tend to think someone must have already acted on a problem. This results in nobody actually responding to it. It goes all the way up to entire countries, but that's a different debate. The way you avoid it is by giving the jobs to specific individuals. "You, call for help," will always trigger immediate action, where "somebody call for help" will get absolutely no response from anyone. People are very, very good at acting quickly and care about each other's well being, intensely. They just need to know whether or not they specifically should.
I'm sure that your video will be a valuable resource for many people who are looking to improve their leadership skills and have more fun in their pursuits. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise with others. Keep up the great work!
Nice Video. Reaffirmed my belief that using microphone is REALLY beneficial especially for rallying/ directing new people to do something. . . Will keep this in mind when I am tanking and need newbies to do something.
If they're not responding though you have to type in local chat, people tend to forget that not everyone has VC on. There's only a few percent that won't respond to you at all because they don't speak english, so try another language as a last resort if you know one
Good leaders, especially ones who lead more than a vic crew, are just slightly insane, addicted individuals who are bothered enough to motivate other players and convince them to join him on his plan. They also frequently get to deal with newbies Cpls telling them to "calm down" or "who made u leader". So a leader is a rare individual but incredibly good to have even in foxhole.
HOLY MOLY, Dude as someone who's entire existence on Foxhole is to lead people-you nailed this. I have been saying this since my Planetside 2 days about a decade ago!
Honestly this would have just been a great video even without the foxhole context, but when you add on one of my favorite games and a concept i have wanted to understand for a long time this is possibly the the best foxhole video out there. No joke.
Hi, Cockface. I'm Captain_Pravi, current clan commander of UA and former clanleader of HAND. First of all, I want to say thank you and tell a words of a big gratitude for the video that you've created. I don't know if you know me or remember, cause we didn't see each other so many times in the game. Your video inspired me to write this long comment with my thoughts and feeling after watching. As a person who's playing Foxhole since 2020 and who's leading 2 different clans, I find this video quite a big reminder for me and myself how and what I need to do. I get a big pleasure by watching it and satisfied how you've put all the practical and psycological principals right into place. However, I have to say 1 important moment and simple reality of our game that you're trying now to change by your video. Problem is that around of 80-90% of the people who is playing Foxhole, don't want to take any responsibility for other's, don't want to make complicated their gameplay and simply afraid to make any mistakes. It's so rare and important to find a person who's ready to become this leader, even in a real life. You've put that aspect right in you video and mentioned it again in the end. But by my long experience in clans and observation how newbies/randoms acting tells me that most of the people want just to play a game even without a teamplay, ironacly. Not everyone is created to be a leader and not everyone has a charisma for it but you can always become one by learning new skills, it depends on your will strength and HOW MUCH you want to be the "King" and have a power. But most of the people would like to be a part of something or someone, probably it's our nature. Most of players want to do orders but not to command. They are afraid to be in this position cause the weight of aspects and responsibility can break you up. Personally I always had a will to lead people since childhood, I always wanted to inspire them and giving them hope and purpose. Foxhole became a part of my life. This game become my favourite hobby that satisfies my personal needs and giving me a great possibility to be a man that can lead people to fight and to keep their morale high. I found out that an icon of leader can even change your men and inspire them to become more great version of themselfes, that making me happy. I'm so glad to see how my men encouraged by battled and how they growing stronger and stronger after each one. Everytime, when you've fighting together a get better know each other and you're creating by that a greatest connection of respect and feeling between soldiers and commander. Your video is very good for young officer's who is only making a decision to become a leader. But for me, as a person who passed through a lot of battles and changing of people that surround you, I must say that if you're a CLAN LEADER, (not an officer of small squad!!!) it is also important to choose wisely the officers that can take a part of your responsebilities during the operation and during all your clan career. You must compare skills of your man, include their psycological temper and keep the balance between you men, knowing that not everyone can play and team up with each other due to personal aspects. I remember how I burnt out 5 times due to luck of that skill in the beginning of my commander career. I always was commanding a big groups by myself, (20-40 people in 1 voice chat!!!), not giving a chance for others to take an innitiative due to of my scare to fail and not to do how I wanted. It was a biggest problem for me because of which I had a lot of times low morale. But now when I learnt how to put people on a right place and minimise the aspects that overweighting me, I can teach people to become officers and leaders by giving them a posibility to command others, like a small group of people, for example and improving their personal skills. When you're a leader, you have to know the climate of your team and not obvious moments when you have to act calm or agresively. It's not easy but when you're making everything right and when you're compliting the mission amount of satisfaction in unbelievibly high. I hope that new generations of players will learn a lot by your guide. It's honor to fight with you side by side for the Colonial Republic I wish you the best with your operations, projects and with comanding. I hope that everything will be alright with you and you will get as much joy as I do by playing this game. Again, thanks a lot! With huge respect, Captain_Pravi
It’s a shame I wasn’t here on the day this was released. Even as a retired veteran. I still occasionally stop by to see how the game is holding up. I love the portion on passive morale upkeep. Seeing as partisans (something I specialized in) specifically targeted logistics, and morale.
Usually at the start of wars I try and organise mammon rushes as it's so simple for new players to understand, Usually I try to get people interested by repeatedly just saying "Mammon!", then, I will stand infront of the BB / TH and say "Mammon rushers on me, grab 3 mammons!" Repeatedly, holding the mammon out, spinning around etc. Once you get 1 / 2 guys in the group people will really start listening, continue to say "Grab 3 mammons!" and that's when you can get those big groups of 20 people all rushing at once.
Very good video and very well made. Well done. You so far have focused mostly on random/public scenarios. Do you intend to make a follow up video on leadership in the more organised play of regiments or multi-regiment operations?
I jump into ops here and there but my core was always speciliased in "wrangling" randoms. But if the opportunity presents itself for me to be part in one, and i do not forget to hit the record button, i could yeah sure. I'd say essencially you just take chapter 6 and crank it into overdrive with the planning and logistics aspect of things and have a lot more vets participating.
In the "Russian Union", a training was conducted, the basis of which was partly this video. I had a great desire to watch this video in its entirety, since in fact it is more needed in life, and not just in the game. Thanks you a lot
Great video. You can tell you understand the mindsets of players in this game, which is quite advanced. There are a lot of similarities in leadership skills with Sea of Thieves, where leading inexperienced crew members the right way can lead to great accomplishments. Lots of people want to be lead, especially in teamwork games like this.
There was one man that trusted me and followed me around and we talked (i was only medic in the trenches ) and i said to him to take grenades and destroy enemy flank trench. He died cause i didnt know the turrets are automatic
Really nice commentary and good psychology references. Behavioral/Organizational Psy specifically offers a whole set of different leadership styles, it's an area itself. And no you're not so harsh on you, they are all on point and quite useful! Keep up the good work and have fun! SSgt Avgvstvs - Colonial
I've played for 2 days and i allready have a squad of 5 people playing with me. They see me as the leader of the group and we have an identity as saboteurs. Yesterday we destroyed 12 trucks and 2 Armoured cars behind enemy lines. While high assed veterans whom werent getting any results for all of their knowledge were shouting orders to us. Calling us noobs and generally being toxic. We were having fun and being helpful at the same time. This is why i sometimes find people whom want to lead to be bad leaders. I was chosen to lead, because i was the guy, whom maked sure everyone was having fun. Not knowing how the game works, sometimes gives you a huge edge
I think a concept that is not thought about often is being dead vs alive. I find that when I lead mammon charges I typically lead from the front as close as possible to our target, then I instead tell the infantry specifically where to go and assign a leader to the "squad". This allows me to stay alive while everyone respawns so that I can continue to encourage those players that did not mammon charge, as well as being able to assess the situation during the 15-40 seconds it takes to respawn, which allows for changes in tactics, calls, strategy, etc.
This video is incredibly helpful, getting a chance to be a leader and leading men in foxhole is a amazing experience, and when it goes well, it's so much fun and I feel incredibly proud for the randoms that listened to me. From the guy who led the boys at Fanarrac for the first day of the war, last war, thanks for this vid.
You must also have Dev bias. Jokes aside, this is very similar to the psychological breakdown in books I've read. Considering you got your point across in just 5-6k words is undoubtedly impressive.
I am a younger player in the game in my teens and so unfortunately my voice makes it hard for me to get peoples attention. but when i do i absolutely love leading
To me, coming from games like Hell let Loose or Squad, where command structure is very clear and communication is a must, playing Foxhole sometimes is just ridiculous to watch and very frustrating. I wish more people see this guide! :) Generally even the clan that I was part of for a while, disapointed me with an absolute shitshow of command structure and communcation so at the moment I am just running around doing loggi, summoning randoms for flanks, doing some partisan stuff or just driving the battle bus to the front, which is also usefull to share info between base and front, and to give people a general info on what to do.
Awesome video. I haven’t played foxhole (only have watched some videos on YT) but this was great. I love how you referenced where you have mace developed the basis for your theories on leadership. Well done!
in the segment about passive morale upkeep and the music it can be a useful tool but that require proper use of it some people jsut blast whatever music and sometimes its stuff people dont like or they play it so loud no one can hear each other talk which just makes people upset and they log off or they all try to get away from the source of the music and do something else so the use of music as a morale booster needs respectful responsible use and not using it in an invasive way
Good video. I remember finally meeting you one random day in a logi hub and finally getting to give you commends. All I knew of you at the time was through your really helpful signs with a funny username which taught me a handful of things that I didn't know (even though I had racked up many many many hours already). Sometimes people get impassioned when things are dire. That example of you being a bad leader. We've all been there. You've been fighting for hours and people are just standing around watching someone dig a hole or solo build when speed is needed. People put a lot of time and energy into these battles and wars. It a certain point of playing you get lost in the sauce and are actually immersed and respecting the game's illusion. That's where the real magic is. People yell, they get mad to try. Sometimes, as a bystander...breaking that is as simple as asking how you can help. I find myself yelling at the mass of folks who just let their bases get hammered by artillery without pulling b-mats and repairing. There's almost this palpable giving up you can feel in-game, or people just running around not knowing what to do amidst the chaos. I always try and tell them our bmats are stronger than the enemies costly shells they waste against our hammers. I'm someone who is a radar rat, so i'll always make regional text-chat callouts with directions if i see partisan activity or enemies trying to poke around at our flanks. I try and inform new people they can update their maps without a radio at any base when they open it's inventory and to watch out for and disrupt blue dots/triangles.
Yes whenever we are shelled i always remind the people of the cost of the expensive shells vs bmats to keep morale up. Or play company of heroes 2 battle music.
I've know a few good leaders and been called a good leader because I try to help any noobie or no rank get started be it front line or back line. My group actually has a rule where if we see someone without a rank we will ask if they need help (help if they do) and give them there first rank, no one in my group is above WO1, if my crew doesn't know what they want we will say we don't know and try to find someone who can,l. Knowledge is power and it's best to share
I have found that being deranged but knowledgeable is the best way to get new bois to follow you, especially if you can showcase skill and helpfulness. Hooting and hollering after killing something gives it importance to new bois, as leader figure is excited and happy about it. This also has the effect of them being terrified whenever the leader figure starts worrying lol.
I can agree on everything except the music part. Excellent video I wish more people would share same point of view. Maybe I would have not resigned from playing foxhole.
5:43 Something irrelevant to foxhole, but now i'm kind of glad i live in a "low thrust society". The vest people wouldn't end up well if tried this where i live.
11:30 Gave me cringe of everybody running so close to one another, always spread out, one mine, nade or artillery shell and the push is over before it even started 😅
this is video is awesome I dont think anyone gonna be clueless after watching whole video maybe we shouldn't share those secret video with anyone because it is gold XD
Well, those who studied psychology even just a bit know that we as humans all follow certain patterns, wether we are aware of them or not. It's got alot to do with the subconscious. I HIGHLY encourage you to see the rest of lindybeige's video: th-cam.com/video/axY35kYud88/w-d-xo.html
I don't think you even need that I was kidnapping people for silly ops by going up to bases yelling I need some very brave or very stupid people to get in the jeep
The leader is anyone whom others next to them listen to. I played the game since before the interconnected map was a thing but nobody ever listens to me, so I am not a leader despite me having a gargantuan amount of experience in tanking and manufacturing parts of the game.
@@geoffrey111995 I tried being calm and confident, but most people just don't listen. I could tell them about their momma and the fact that they are about to drive into a mine to the exactly same effect. Higher ranked people do at least hear what I am saying, but they usually think they know better. I never really leveled up past lieutenant because I don't have 50 friends to commend me every day I play, but noobs can't really tell if that's high or not and veterans won't listen regardless of what rank you have unless they personally know you. At this point I am mostly done trying. After years of arguing with people over the most obvious things I am just burned out. I got banned on discord for an unrelated issue and to be honest I am better for it. After trenches appeared in the game it rapidly devoled into stagnant garbage with nothing at all happening for weeks on end. I mostly just mine public scrap and components these days. Don't really wanna play anymore but I've been playing for so long that quitting before the end feels wrong, you know?
@@geoffrey111995 Though, having thought about it now. I didn't really try in a very long time. Back when I actually cared to do talk to other people in game instead of on Discord there were like 500 people playing each war. Nowadays when I do come to play in the frontline and I need something I usually get someone to communicate back to me. Yesterday I actually managed to conscript 2 apes to drive with me to an empty bob south of Sitaria that I previously scouted on foot and blow it up. It didn't go well because ofc there were 3 wardens there waiting for us by the time we arrived but the key part is that I got the randos to do what I tell them to.
i love the way you use the music! i've been in many games and communities and they always denied and banned the use of music because they said it's immature and bad for the game.... I do actually think that hearing someone playing music in a game it's so refreshing and fun and reminds me it's just a game after all!
Thanks for the info dump. With the major changes with how the game was when it was 1st out to now I also notice one of the biggest issue is how new and even some old players don't understand how the 2 factions operate due to their unique weapons and equipment. The Colonials reflect the Russians and American doctrine with faster firing close range weapons as well as cheaper armor while the wardens have a lot of long range and very versatile armor that can take a beating but a bit more costly to produce. Problem when it comes to leadership you need to point out is that some vets have a major lack of patience and go off on newer players which can put them off. P.S. Colonials definitely need a bit more courage juice in most cases. What do you go by in game?
a good leader gives more tatical commands other than "PUSH" usually shouted from behind the frontine in global text, ive been stuck at SGT for 4 years as a rifleman who dont get commends much so trying to rally players to defend a flanking is mostly futile so i just let us get flanked
Considering it takes just 30 commends to advance to SSGT from SGT i literally do not know how you are still a SGT. You can speedrun to OCdt in a day if you know what you're doing.
@@geoffrey111995 it is what it is.. my new role is engineer with pitch, rep tanks in between kills, thanks for condescening its motivated me to work harder
Soundboard, soundpad is what i use. It outputs the sound to the mic input, as if i was talking. You can chose if you want to be able to talk while sounds play or if it cuts your mic off while something plays. But it also outputs it to my headphones so i can also hear what's playing. A free virtual audio cable also works, however you have to switch to it in the game options every time you want to play something and put your browser output to the virtual audio cable, which means you don't need to download sounds like for soundpad, but you won't hear it yourself, unless you use voicemeeter or sync it with a different browser. It sounds perfectly clear to you in the moment and for others, just when you record with the shadowplay feature you will hear it duplicated at a few miliseconds interval due to how it only records your windows default sound output but also the soundpad output at the same time. (ex: my foxhole gordon ramsay video, you can hear the sounds double) There's voicemeeter to mess with inputs & outputs in a better way, but it's too complicated for me. Currently the only adjustement i do is halve my mic output in the game options if i want to play sounds/music, to around 40%, as it will then be quiet/normal volume to 99% of people. Beware however that around 40% is also a point where any quiet parts in musics may not be transmitted because it won't be high volume enough, you will see your mic icon go on/off all the time. It's foxhole's mic activation transmit threshold. Tune it so it just about stays on all the time, usually 50%, depends on the intensity/loudness of the music. For example starcraft 2 terran OST the quieter parts won't transmit unless it's at 55% something. If i want to talk i put it back at 80% which is a bit loud but ensures i am heard in combat. Just experiment with audacity or whatever to see how many decibels you output with your setup. As a last note, you will notice that if other people talk loudly compared to you or play loud music, your mic will cut off. That's just how the vivox VOIP system in this game works.
Needed some background noise while I work or do logi and this was a good candidate for that lol Either way some useful stuff even when the new people who keep asking me I should become leader cause they had fun around me, I simply did not want that role. But most cases people do follow me when I need to step up.
I haven't played much since, but I fought my heart out in 46. I co-led some pretty daring defenses on a flank many of the clans had abandoned and that was basically being defended by a horde of privates and few clanless vets. Ultimately, we were pushed back, but we bought hours of prep for one of our home tiles(It might have been Heartlands, can't remember). This stuff is a force multiplier, you really nailed it.
Nope, if you immediatly die, the factor driving the L.S.P. forward gets suddently cut, unless they are close to the objective or are vets, they will just retreat. Seen it happen countless times.
Holy shit, you must be a fellow logiman. I could not imagine anyone else making something so simple so complicated :D Sometime I might actually watch this 1h video on how to be reliable, consistent, speak decent english and have basic social skills XD
This video took me 7-8 weeks to make in my free time and is the result of a script 5,747 words long, and my only hope with this video is that it will be helpful to you, dear viewer, in making you succeed better in your leadership endeavours, not only for the sake of yourself, but for the sake of having fun in this game and understanding eachother better!
Link to the standalone outro cinematic: th-cam.com/video/Ylqs7mCBXng/w-d-xo.html
Timestamps for mobile users:
0:00 - Intro
2:16 - The difference between Iconography vs Practicality
4:40 - Chapter 1: Basic Behavioural Observations - Trust
8:08 - Chapter 1: Basic Behavioural Observations - Newbie vs Veteran Demeanor
12:51 - Chapter 2: Language
17:14 - Chapter 3: The Ability To Redirect Players
19:19 - Chapter 4: Active Morale Upkeep, Getting The Job Done & The L.S.P.
31:11 - Chapter 5: Passive Morale Upkeep
39:26 - Chapter 6: Applying what we have learned here to a pre-planned operation
53:55 - Conclusion: Should you become that "good leader"?
55:22 - Outro "Become The Leader"
Even if i'm a warden , i listen carefully to what you say , and i thank you for all these precious information
Only recently I realized the power of just telling people to get in your vehicle is so incredibly powerful sometimes.
This was at the very end of war 102, we were defending The Vanguard in Shackled and some people realized the base to our south was getting attacked and it didnt have any troops, was about to fall and we would end up surrounded. There were guys in Vanguard yelling at people to "go down south NOW, its about to fall!", but despite it not being super far away, very few people were actually making the trek.
I found a jeep in town and used a wrench to borrow it, started parking in front of the Vanguard base and just calmly told people to get in by name, elaborating further if they asked why. Ended up transferring a couple dozen troops down there (always reminding them to set new spawn) and we ultimately didn't end up surrounded.
Not sure how much of a role I played there, and even though the whole hex fell the next day and we lost the war a few days after that, it felt awesome doing something that might affect even a minor conflict.
That's a very specific psychological problem that comes up in emergency response situations. Large groups tend to think someone must have already acted on a problem. This results in nobody actually responding to it. It goes all the way up to entire countries, but that's a different debate.
The way you avoid it is by giving the jobs to specific individuals. "You, call for help," will always trigger immediate action, where "somebody call for help" will get absolutely no response from anyone. People are very, very good at acting quickly and care about each other's well being, intensely. They just need to know whether or not they specifically should.
I'm sure that your video will be a valuable resource for many people who are looking to improve their leadership skills and have more fun in their pursuits. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise with others. Keep up the great work!
57:42 for newer players, mortar (and old arty) used to be pin point accuracy so here mass mortar was used to kill a tank
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Nice Video. Reaffirmed my belief that using microphone is REALLY beneficial especially for rallying/ directing new people to do something. . . Will keep this in mind when I am tanking and need newbies to do something.
If they're not responding though you have to type in local chat, people tend to forget that not everyone has VC on. There's only a few percent that won't respond to you at all because they don't speak english, so try another language as a last resort if you know one
Don't tell people how to play
@@INFJ-ThaneTrDon't play co-op games if you're not gonna cooperate.
Good leaders, especially ones who lead more than a vic crew, are just slightly insane, addicted individuals who are bothered enough to motivate other players and convince them to join him on his plan. They also frequently get to deal with newbies Cpls telling them to "calm down" or "who made u leader". So a leader is a rare individual but incredibly good to have even in foxhole.
HOLY MOLY, Dude as someone who's entire existence on Foxhole is to lead people-you nailed this. I have been saying this since my Planetside 2 days about a decade ago!
Cheers mate!
Honestly this would have just been a great video even without the foxhole context, but when you add on one of my favorite games and a concept i have wanted to understand for a long time this is possibly the the best foxhole video out there. No joke.
that's the best youtube video i have ever seen in my life!
Hi, Cockface.
I'm Captain_Pravi, current clan commander of UA and former clanleader of HAND.
First of all, I want to say thank you and tell a words of a big gratitude for the video that you've created.
I don't know if you know me or remember, cause we didn't see each other so many times in the game.
Your video inspired me to write this long comment with my thoughts and feeling after watching.
As a person who's playing Foxhole since 2020 and who's leading 2 different clans, I find this video quite a big reminder for me and myself how and what I need to do.
I get a big pleasure by watching it and satisfied how you've put all the practical and psycological principals right into place.
However, I have to say 1 important moment and simple reality of our game that you're trying now to change by your video.
Problem is that around of 80-90% of the people who is playing Foxhole, don't want to take any responsibility for other's, don't want to make complicated their gameplay and simply afraid to make any mistakes.
It's so rare and important to find a person who's ready to become this leader, even in a real life.
You've put that aspect right in you video and mentioned it again in the end. But by my long experience in clans and observation how newbies/randoms acting tells me that most of the people want just to play a game even without a teamplay, ironacly.
Not everyone is created to be a leader and not everyone has a charisma for it but you can always become one by learning new skills, it depends on your will strength and HOW MUCH you want to be the "King" and have a power.
But most of the people would like to be a part of something or someone, probably it's our nature.
Most of players want to do orders but not to command.
They are afraid to be in this position cause the weight of aspects and responsibility can break you up.
Personally I always had a will to lead people since childhood, I always wanted to inspire them and giving them hope and purpose.
Foxhole became a part of my life. This game become my favourite hobby that satisfies my personal needs and giving me a great possibility to be a man that can lead people to fight and to keep their morale high.
I found out that an icon of leader can even change your men and inspire them to become more great version of themselfes, that making me happy.
I'm so glad to see how my men encouraged by battled and how they growing stronger and stronger after each one.
Everytime, when you've fighting together a get better know each other and you're creating by that a greatest connection of respect and feeling between soldiers and commander.
Your video is very good for young officer's who is only making a decision to become a leader.
But for me, as a person who passed through a lot of battles and changing of people that surround you, I must say that if you're a CLAN LEADER, (not an officer of small squad!!!) it is also important to choose wisely the officers that can take a part of your responsebilities during the operation and during all your clan career.
You must compare skills of your man, include their psycological temper and keep the balance between you men, knowing that not everyone can play and team up with each other due to personal aspects.
I remember how I burnt out 5 times due to luck of that skill in the beginning of my commander career.
I always was commanding a big groups by myself, (20-40 people in 1 voice chat!!!), not giving a chance for others to take an innitiative due to of my scare to fail and not to do how I wanted.
It was a biggest problem for me because of which I had a lot of times low morale.
But now when I learnt how to put people on a right place and minimise the aspects that overweighting me, I can teach people to become officers and leaders by giving them a posibility to command others, like a small group of people, for example and improving their personal skills.
When you're a leader, you have to know the climate of your team and not obvious moments when you have to act calm or agresively.
It's not easy but when you're making everything right and when you're compliting the mission amount of satisfaction in unbelievibly high.
I hope that new generations of players will learn a lot by your guide.
It's honor to fight with you side by side for the Colonial Republic
I wish you the best with your operations, projects and with comanding.
I hope that everything will be alright with you and you will get as much joy as I do by playing this game.
Again, thanks a lot!
With huge respect,
Captain_Pravi
Ofc i know you. Thanks for the imput.
Great comment!
It’s a shame I wasn’t here on the day this was released. Even as a retired veteran. I still occasionally stop by to see how the game is holding up. I love the portion on passive morale upkeep. Seeing as partisans (something I specialized in) specifically targeted logistics, and morale.
Usually at the start of wars I try and organise mammon rushes as it's so simple for new players to understand, Usually I try to get people interested by repeatedly just saying "Mammon!", then, I will stand infront of the BB / TH and say "Mammon rushers on me, grab 3 mammons!" Repeatedly, holding the mammon out, spinning around etc. Once you get 1 / 2 guys in the group people will really start listening, continue to say "Grab 3 mammons!" and that's when you can get those big groups of 20 people all rushing at once.
Very good video and very well made. Well done.
You so far have focused mostly on random/public scenarios. Do you intend to make a follow up video on leadership in the more organised play of regiments or multi-regiment operations?
I jump into ops here and there but my core was always speciliased in "wrangling" randoms. But if the opportunity presents itself for me to be part in one, and i do not forget to hit the record button, i could yeah sure. I'd say essencially you just take chapter 6 and crank it into overdrive with the planning and logistics aspect of things and have a lot more vets participating.
In the "Russian Union", a training was conducted, the basis of which was partly this video. I had a great desire to watch this video in its entirety, since in fact it is more needed in life, and not just in the game. Thanks you a lot
interesting video especially the part about LSP
Very good video. Good job on the example clips and breakdown commentary!
Superb video, glad to see you're still kicking.
Great video. You can tell you understand the mindsets of players in this game, which is quite advanced. There are a lot of similarities in leadership skills with Sea of Thieves, where leading inexperienced crew members the right way can lead to great accomplishments. Lots of people want to be lead, especially in teamwork games like this.
There was one man that trusted me and followed me around and we talked (i was only medic in the trenches ) and i said to him to take grenades and destroy enemy flank trench. He died cause i didnt know the turrets are automatic
As A Warden mostly player i see why you get more kills you guys have good leadership skillz well when there is one :P
Because the study of this can be applied to others situations thank for the time u put in this video I will put this in my learning playlist
Reminds me of io games like diep io very much. You couldn't talk so organization relied on "everyone knowing that everyone else knows"
Three of the most famous colonials / neutrals at 35:22 lol. It’s amazing seeing these old clips from a vet
I also saw a little 2Lt IronWingz who’s a gen now
Miken is also part of the landing
it's crazy how many enemies will just run or line themselves up to get mammoned if you just get like 3 people and run at them like madmen.
Thats why i love Foxhole that mutch, the content never ends...
Most of warden leadership is full of people who call themselves tacticians even tho their best tactic is to plug machine gun nests with shirts
love how larry gets mad at everything
Really nice commentary and good psychology references. Behavioral/Organizational Psy specifically offers a whole set of different leadership styles, it's an area itself. And no you're not so harsh on you, they are all on point and quite useful! Keep up the good work and have fun!
SSgt Avgvstvs - Colonial
I've played for 2 days and i allready have a squad of 5 people playing with me. They see me as the leader of the group and we have an identity as saboteurs. Yesterday we destroyed 12 trucks and 2 Armoured cars behind enemy lines.
While high assed veterans whom werent getting any results for all of their knowledge were shouting orders to us. Calling us noobs and generally being toxic. We were having fun and being helpful at the same time. This is why i sometimes find people whom want to lead to be bad leaders. I was chosen to lead, because i was the guy, whom maked sure everyone was having fun.
Not knowing how the game works, sometimes gives you a huge edge
Hope this vid gets more views in time for the naval update. cant wait to follow more leaders.
Dat clip wth the French national anthem made me rofl, very good video, Sir!
I think a concept that is not thought about often is being dead vs alive. I find that when I lead mammon charges I typically lead from the front as close as possible to our target, then I instead tell the infantry specifically where to go and assign a leader to the "squad". This allows me to stay alive while everyone respawns so that I can continue to encourage those players that did not mammon charge, as well as being able to assess the situation during the 15-40 seconds it takes to respawn, which allows for changes in tactics, calls, strategy, etc.
This video is incredibly helpful, getting a chance to be a leader and leading men in foxhole is a amazing experience, and when it goes well, it's so much fun and I feel incredibly proud for the randoms that listened to me.
From the guy who led the boys at Fanarrac for the first day of the war, last war, thanks for this vid.
You must also have Dev bias.
Jokes aside, this is very similar to the psychological breakdown in books I've read. Considering you got your point across in just 5-6k words is undoubtedly impressive.
Thanks mate i appreciate it!
the name "moorep" comes to mind when i think of a good leader, he used to grab noobs and educated them, miss that guy!
Oh god damn yeah i remember!
i’m a brand new player & this randomly came up on my recommended. this is so interesting!!
I am a younger player in the game in my teens and so unfortunately my voice makes it hard for me to get peoples attention. but when i do i absolutely love leading
Good lad. Keep it up.
Very very nice video bud :D keep it up
Nice video, i hope more commanders will whatch too
To me, coming from games like Hell let Loose or Squad, where command structure is very clear and communication is a must, playing Foxhole sometimes is just ridiculous to watch and very frustrating. I wish more people see this guide! :) Generally even the clan that I was part of for a while, disapointed me with an absolute shitshow of command structure and communcation so at the moment I am just running around doing loggi, summoning randoms for flanks, doing some partisan stuff or just driving the battle bus to the front, which is also usefull to share info between base and front, and to give people a general info on what to do.
I am surprised too at the complete lack of tactics, organization and general military type of gameplay on a game like this.
Sorry to tell you, HEER no longer exists. They recently disband and their active members have mainly been integrated into the SINJ and CGC EU
Welp, let's just replace HEER with SINJ on the map then.
Awesome video. I haven’t played foxhole (only have watched some videos on YT) but this was great. I love how you referenced where you have mace developed the basis for your theories on leadership. Well done!
This is a very informational and well put together video. Thanks for the hard work.
Cheers mate.
in the segment about passive morale upkeep and the music it can be a useful tool but that require proper use of it some people jsut blast whatever music and sometimes its stuff people dont like or they play it so loud no one can hear each other talk which just makes people upset and they log off or they all try to get away from the source of the music and do something else so the use of music as a morale booster needs respectful responsible use and not using it in an invasive way
If you are still playing this game and have an regiment, could i join? u are my leader now
Lol that's flattering but i've always run solo. I am on from time to time.
very good video man, thanks very much
How does one ply music over foxhole? Do you just blast it into your mic?
Soundpad or virtual audio cable, for the love of god never play it through your phone against the mic
Well done, very comprehensive, lots of IRL links of authenticity, I've noticed your helpful signs in common areas, keep leading the march forward!
for me the leader is the guy that uses microphone to try to coordinate anyone on the battlefield
Dude, what an amazing vid
Good video. I remember finally meeting you one random day in a logi hub and finally getting to give you commends. All I knew of you at the time was through your really helpful signs with a funny username which taught me a handful of things that I didn't know (even though I had racked up many many many hours already).
Sometimes people get impassioned when things are dire. That example of you being a bad leader. We've all been there. You've been fighting for hours and people are just standing around watching someone dig a hole or solo build when speed is needed. People put a lot of time and energy into these battles and wars. It a certain point of playing you get lost in the sauce and are actually immersed and respecting the game's illusion. That's where the real magic is. People yell, they get mad to try. Sometimes, as a bystander...breaking that is as simple as asking how you can help.
I find myself yelling at the mass of folks who just let their bases get hammered by artillery without pulling b-mats and repairing. There's almost this palpable giving up you can feel in-game, or people just running around not knowing what to do amidst the chaos. I always try and tell them our bmats are stronger than the enemies costly shells they waste against our hammers.
I'm someone who is a radar rat, so i'll always make regional text-chat callouts with directions if i see partisan activity or enemies trying to poke around at our flanks. I try and inform new people they can update their maps without a radio at any base when they open it's inventory and to watch out for and disrupt blue dots/triangles.
Yes whenever we are shelled i always remind the people of the cost of the expensive shells vs bmats to keep morale up. Or play company of heroes 2 battle music.
A good leader is someone who can inspire make 30 people bayonet rush a line of tanks just to be human shields for the 3 dudes with AT sticky grenades
I've know a few good leaders and been called a good leader because I try to help any noobie or no rank get started be it front line or back line. My group actually has a rule where if we see someone without a rank we will ask if they need help (help if they do) and give them there first rank, no one in my group is above WO1, if my crew doesn't know what they want we will say we don't know and try to find someone who can,l. Knowledge is power and it's best to share
If Dukebarr is on the front he is leading the push 99% of the time
Awesome video Colonel cheers
I have found that being deranged but knowledgeable is the best way to get new bois to follow you, especially if you can showcase skill and helpfulness. Hooting and hollering after killing something gives it importance to new bois, as leader figure is excited and happy about it. This also has the effect of them being terrified whenever the leader figure starts worrying lol.
I can agree on everything except the music part. Excellent video I wish more people would share same point of view. Maybe I would have not resigned from playing foxhole.
5:43 Something irrelevant to foxhole, but now i'm kind of glad i live in a "low thrust society". The vest people wouldn't end up well if tried this where i live.
11:30 Gave me cringe of everybody running so close to one another, always spread out, one mine, nade or artillery shell and the push is over before it even started 😅
Awesome video, in my first few days of foxhole i was commanding 2 artillery guns and fight in tanks for hours at a time
this is video is awesome I dont think anyone gonna be clueless after watching whole video maybe we shouldn't share those secret video with anyone because it is gold XD
Well, those who studied psychology even just a bit know that we as humans all follow certain patterns, wether we are aware of them or not. It's got alot to do with the subconscious. I HIGHLY encourage you to see the rest of lindybeige's video: th-cam.com/video/axY35kYud88/w-d-xo.html
@@geoffrey111995 stop making more veterans :D please I wanna destroy more pte tanks
Mucho texto, 10/10 would hear it while i sleep
Another good song to use is “And the Battle is Going Again” nothing motivates newbies to charge better to that!
Thanks. If enough people make content then Foxhole will see it's popularity rebound ... Surely...
When a capt+ tells a group of people to do something in confident and easy to understand English people listen without question.
I don't think you even need that I was kidnapping people for silly ops by going up to bases yelling I need some very brave or very stupid people to get in the jeep
Thats some ancient Foxhole recordings
Yee i'm an old fuck.
Thank you bro.
The leader is anyone whom others next to them listen to. I played the game since before the interconnected map was a thing but nobody ever listens to me, so I am not a leader despite me having a gargantuan amount of experience in tanking and manufacturing parts of the game.
Are you appearing confident? Is your rank high? Are you being calm and explaining? What could be the problem?
@@geoffrey111995 I tried being calm and confident, but most people just don't listen. I could tell them about their momma and the fact that they are about to drive into a mine to the exactly same effect.
Higher ranked people do at least hear what I am saying, but they usually think they know better. I never really leveled up past lieutenant because I don't have 50 friends to commend me every day I play, but noobs can't really tell if that's high or not and veterans won't listen regardless of what rank you have unless they personally know you.
At this point I am mostly done trying. After years of arguing with people over the most obvious things I am just burned out. I got banned on discord for an unrelated issue and to be honest I am better for it. After trenches appeared in the game it rapidly devoled into stagnant garbage with nothing at all happening for weeks on end. I mostly just mine public scrap and components these days. Don't really wanna play anymore but I've been playing for so long that quitting before the end feels wrong, you know?
@@geoffrey111995 Though, having thought about it now. I didn't really try in a very long time. Back when I actually cared to do talk to other people in game instead of on Discord there were like 500 people playing each war. Nowadays when I do come to play in the frontline and I need something I usually get someone to communicate back to me. Yesterday I actually managed to conscript 2 apes to drive with me to an empty bob south of Sitaria that I previously scouted on foot and blow it up. It didn't go well because ofc there were 3 wardens there waiting for us by the time we arrived but the key part is that I got the randos to do what I tell them to.
@@BIGESTblade exactly. Just keep trying. You'll see it'll work out.
@@BIGESTblade Yeah pre trenches was a totally different game. We're old fucks.
i love the way you use the music! i've been in many games and communities and they always denied and banned the use of music because they said it's immature and bad for the game.... I do actually think that hearing someone playing music in a game it's so refreshing and fun and reminds me it's just a game after all!
Cheers mate!
This game is so fucking bad, everyone griefs each other
Idk a coli with a bayo dodging fire tends to cause a charge
Excellent video, loved it! It amplified in my eyes foxhole from a fun game to something way more realistic, like real warfare!
You mean to tell me it wasn't real but just a game? Damn.
be online and be fun, if you are not online and not fun don't bother.
Thanks for the info dump. With the major changes with how the game was when it was 1st out to now I also notice one of the biggest issue is how new and even some old players don't understand how the 2 factions operate due to their unique weapons and equipment. The Colonials reflect the Russians and American doctrine with faster firing close range weapons as well as cheaper armor while the wardens have a lot of long range and very versatile armor that can take a beating but a bit more costly to produce. Problem when it comes to leadership you need to point out is that some vets have a major lack of patience and go off on newer players which can put them off.
P.S. Colonials definitely need a bit more courage juice in most cases. What do you go by in game?
[CØCK] Colonel Cockface (Maj Gen)
I especially liked the part where I said “Fuck me” 😂
"Detailed History reports such as Kings and Generals"
lol LMAO
Epic history TV also has history and battles well put into detail. The napoleonic wars series is a must.
I only do bridge battles. The horde needs no leaders
a good leader gives more tatical commands other than "PUSH" usually shouted from behind the frontine in global text, ive been stuck at SGT for 4 years as a rifleman who dont get commends much so trying to rally players to defend a flanking is mostly futile so i just let us get flanked
Considering it takes just 30 commends to advance to SSGT from SGT i literally do not know how you are still a SGT. You can speedrun to OCdt in a day if you know what you're doing.
@@geoffrey111995 it is what it is.. my new role is engineer with pitch, rep tanks in between kills, thanks for condescening its motivated me to work harder
How do you play music so clearly in-game without having to use you rmic?
Soundboard, soundpad is what i use. It outputs the sound to the mic input, as if i was talking. You can chose if you want to be able to talk while sounds play or if it cuts your mic off while something plays. But it also outputs it to my headphones so i can also hear what's playing. A free virtual audio cable also works, however you have to switch to it in the game options every time you want to play something and put your browser output to the virtual audio cable, which means you don't need to download sounds like for soundpad, but you won't hear it yourself, unless you use voicemeeter or sync it with a different browser.
It sounds perfectly clear to you in the moment and for others, just when you record with the shadowplay feature you will hear it duplicated at a few miliseconds interval due to how it only records your windows default sound output but also the soundpad output at the same time. (ex: my foxhole gordon ramsay video, you can hear the sounds double) There's voicemeeter to mess with inputs & outputs in a better way, but it's too complicated for me.
Currently the only adjustement i do is halve my mic output in the game options if i want to play sounds/music, to around 40%, as it will then be quiet/normal volume to 99% of people. Beware however that around 40% is also a point where any quiet parts in musics may not be transmitted because it won't be high volume enough, you will see your mic icon go on/off all the time. It's foxhole's mic activation transmit threshold. Tune it so it just about stays on all the time, usually 50%, depends on the intensity/loudness of the music. For example starcraft 2 terran OST the quieter parts won't transmit unless it's at 55% something. If i want to talk i put it back at 80% which is a bit loud but ensures i am heard in combat. Just experiment with audacity or whatever to see how many decibels you output with your setup. As a last note, you will notice that if other people talk loudly compared to you or play loud music, your mic will cut off. That's just how the vivox VOIP system in this game works.
amazing video!! rare and precious analyses
I like how you showed examples
Trés bonne analyse j'ai beaucoup aimer.
Col isaacs
Practical to icon was crazy smart
Joe!
Even more relevant with fleet.
Needed some background noise while I work or do logi and this was a good candidate for that lol
Either way some useful stuff even when the new people who keep asking me I should become leader cause they had fun around me, I simply did not want that role.
But most cases people do follow me when I need to step up.
17:47 : Gotta love the 7ème compagnie theme playing lol
How can you not :)
damn nice video
I once led a charge against the enemy on a bridge. The battle was going nowhere we were on that bridge for 1hr until I charged
I haven't played much since, but I fought my heart out in 46. I co-led some pretty daring defenses on a flank many of the clans had abandoned and that was basically being defended by a horde of privates and few clanless vets. Ultimately, we were pushed back, but we bought hours of prep for one of our home tiles(It might have been Heartlands, can't remember). This stuff is a force multiplier, you really nailed it.
Thanks mate. I started in 44, so o7 to the old fucks that we are.
i got cancer
1. Scream
2. Yell orders
3. CHARGE
4. People will follow and win even if u die first
Nope, if you immediatly die, the factor driving the L.S.P. forward gets suddently cut, unless they are close to the objective or are vets, they will just retreat. Seen it happen countless times.
hope to see you on the front! 😎
House of cards was the best leader I've played with
I think I prefer to follow others into their nonsense than lead it myself.
Holy shit, you must be a fellow logiman.
I could not imagine anyone else making something so simple so complicated :D
Sometime I might actually watch this 1h video on how to be reliable, consistent, speak decent english and have basic social skills XD
Most of the time it’s people just needing to shut-up and read the field