I used to play a lot of FPS games but recently lost the use of my dominant hand, very shaky, and found it impossible to play with my left. I thought maybe strategy games would be better. I got Panzer Corps 2 and tried to play it and soon lost interest, my previous experience was Risk board game, lol. Thanks to you, and a whole bunch of time to kill, my interest has returned and with your guides I feel more confident than ever. Excellent guides, Thank You.
Late to playing this game and just picked up, but your tutorials made me decide to get this. Really helps to have someone go over some of these basics which just aren't obvious playing the tutorial in the game.
I could not agree more to this, amount of stuff i learned from Edmon guides&Videos man! Made me enjoy this game just so much more understanding some stuff which isnt easily told anywhere. Man has alot of good ideas&knowledge :)
when you fail part 2 of the tutorial (couldn't work out how to deploy my core troops lol), these guys are legends for what they do. read the manual that comes with the game? that's option 3. hahahahaha.
i am 40 years old and playd panzer general 2 back in the day and loved it ----- i may come back and take this for a spin look good ----- p.s nice video mr. theedmon nice off you too put up at starter pack
Thank you for the guides! I bought the game a few days ago and somehow managed to get to Dunkirk. But my army had lost a lot of its strength in Norway and Belgium, so that it would become impossible (with my below average skill) to take Dunkirk, especially with British air superiority. I think I'll watch your videos now, and then start all over again.
I've played through the tutorial and the first 2 poland scenarios but I still have lots of questions on details of combat mechanics. Thanks for making a great video!
Dear Edmon, Thank you so much this really help to get started playing the game Panzer Corps 2. I am a newbie to war gaming on PC Steam and I have been playing board games and war games for a few years. Thanks again.
Bought the game and had already fun with it but it was also always a bit trying and guessing and the feeling was, there is still something to catch about the mechanics ... you nailed it ;D thanks for sharing
Thank you, I watched it two times to really understand everything. Such games always fascinate me, but I'm always so bad when I start playing on my own. Greetings from Germany =)
As a long time player of Panzer Corps 1 I bought this game when it came out but never fell in love with it. I even watched a couple of your videos back then. I'm going to watch the whole series and see if it helps me get enthused. I think the thing I struggled with is this game requires you take the initiative but the original heavily discouraged you from activating more enemy units until you had cleared the last lot. It's a question of play style that I never managed to get comfortable with.
Well done, this is a first rate beginner guide. My favorite games are turn based strategy, I'm fair at them, but not an in depth expert. This guide helped sway me to buy Panzer Corps. I wish guides would have been around when I first started playing Panzer General 1 etc, they would have saved lot's time in the casualty ward. BTW, i'm also a fan of your Order of Battle stuff as well.
A year late but I just bought PZC2 on sale with all the DLC, jumped straight into spain. I have played other TBS games before like X-com and even 40k armageddon, so I was kinda at a loss for PZC 2. thanks a lot of stuff
very nicely explained, thank you. This is my first game of this genre. I'm wondering if the general rock-paper-scissors concept (of Tanks vs Infantry / in open or close terrain etc) would carry over into similar games?
Nice to find a fellow scot to learn from. Got game recently and about 4 scenarios in to the campaign. Loving it. Hex and counter wargamer so maybe that helps, but finding it intuitive and rewarding. Enjoyed your video.
@@TheEdmon that's intriguing. You sound very east coast (Edinburgh) scot. Scottish family? If not, then quite unique coincidence, now you mention it, can hear southern accent but really strong scottish twang. Not west of Scotland glasgwegian, but definitely east coast 'military Scots'. Regardless, very well spoken and presented. Thank you.
@@evidentside I am British, from Jersey actually, the most southern place you can imagine :D. I did a year in the military, if that matters. But thanks for the compliment :).
Just jumped into Panzer Corps 2 blind, after seeing what is essentialy my favorite board game brought to PC and made better (Tide of Iron, love it, but gosh does it take a ton of time to play, on average 45-60 minutes per turn on custome games). And I was wondering why I run out of prestige so fast, I have strong units and kept scratching my head why my tanks in forest get decimated by infantry and other horrible things. THANK YOU very much, for explaining these key points which I somehow missed. Well, I did take Moscow, barely, with heavy losses, but hey, I can always restart with new knowledge and smeare the ground with the enemy now. THANKS!
Really great tutorial, thanks! Only one question: How do I know, WHAT a unit actually is? I mean, it says "8.7,5cmFK16nA", which is perfect for a strong password, but I have no clue, what this cryptic alphanumeric combinations really are. For me it's always a "canon", but you said, it's an antitank, an artillery, an antiair or something like that. Any advice?
@@TheEdmon Thanks! I found out, that hovering over the symbol on the right side next to the "i" also says it. I didn't realize, that there are only that few types of units, so I quickly got used to the symbols now anyways. ;)
An excellent guide for new players! Maybe it should be featured on the SlitherineGames channel. In my experience another 'danger tile' would be next to a mountain tile, even if your unit is in its favorite terrain.
Combat takes place in the defenders tile, so while there are a few little bonuses for those on mountains, parking next to one in a clear tile as a tank is fine. Infantry would still get murdered if it tried to attack down into the clear tile.
Thanks Edmon. Newbie here and appreciate the advice. Some of the PC2 streamers I've watched are very...whiney about some of the combat results, even though they've ramped up the random combat aspect. Ruins the streams for me
I am not one to whine about RNG (or anything really) but I don't want it to be the reason I win or lose fights. It can be hard to understand how the game works when massive dice rolls throw the results all over the place.
Recently I felt the nostalgia for panzer general, but tbh that game has olded very bad so I started looking for alternatives, first I found order of battle ww2, and that lead to this, I read somewhere that many people preffer OOB Over PC2, last night I Got PC2 and after seeing your videos I see theres a lot of not so obvius mechanics there that make this game also ínteresting, many people blame this game to be more arcadey than OOB but after seing this video and another one of yours about enveloping and getting prestige, I see this game is not that arcadey as some people claim, besides I Love the graphics
I just picked up panzer corps 2 on sale. Running it on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro with windows 11 via parallels 17. After playing for about an hour my MacBook is getting warm but I don’t hear the fan coming on. Been playing the first panzer corps on an iPad Pro and it’s great. The second one seems a little harder to get a grip on. I’m hoping your video helps me out.
@@TheEdmon Thank you - I would be very grateful - ZoC does seem more complex in PC2 and appears to have significant impact on supply from what I have read on Steam
Swamps in PC2 are a mystery to me because it seems only certain types of tanks can attack into them, is that right? Are there special rules for swamps?
You can't attack a tile if you are not able to move into that tile. A little known and used rule. This means if your tanks movement is not enough to move into the swamp tile (I think for wheeled, swamp is like 4 movement, so a tank with 3 movement) then you can't attack a unit there. This issue comes up a lot with thick forest and Barren tiles.
@@TheEdmon Thanks, that explains why the tanks couldn't go in swamps because they only had 3 MP's. How about trucks with 8 MP's, can they go in swamps? And do swamps block supply tracing? What are barren tiles, i haven't seen any yet. And is there a list somewhere of all unit stats which i can look at instead of having to click every unit in the game one by one? PS- I'm PoorOldSpike at the Slitherine forum..:)
If you hover over the "i" in the terrain panel, it will tell you how many points you need to move into that tile. As long as you can meet the cost, you can move into that tile. Barren tiles are rare outside of Africa, they stop all movement except foot.
@@TheEdmon Thanks, i'll hover. Incidentally i'm totally hooked on the fantastic random mission generator because it gives us a completely brandnew battle each time. I'm hoping Slith will expand it in a future update so that we can choose terrain density, for example low density for the Russian steppes etc, and dense terrain for the Ardennes etc. There's currently no Africa terrain (sand) in the generator so I hope that'll be included in a future update too..:)
Combined arms is your friend. A lot of people tend to rely more so on one unit class (tanks, infantry, planes) to the point that you're put at a disadvantage in specialized scenarios.
I used to play a lot of FPS games but recently lost the use of my dominant hand, very shaky, and found it impossible to play with my left. I thought maybe strategy games would be better. I got Panzer Corps 2 and tried to play it and soon lost interest, my previous experience was Risk board game, lol. Thanks to you, and a whole bunch of time to kill, my interest has returned and with your guides I feel more confident than ever. Excellent guides, Thank You.
It's always a pleasure to help out :). I too hurt my wrist playing FPS (and Starcraft) so I know that feeling :).
Late to playing this game and just picked up, but your tutorials made me decide to get this. Really helps to have someone go over some of these basics which just aren't obvious playing the tutorial in the game.
Folks that make quality beginner guides are the real heros of youtube. Thank you greatly.
Glad it helps, feel free to ask any questions :).
I could not agree more to this, amount of stuff i learned from Edmon guides&Videos man! Made me enjoy this game just so much more understanding some stuff which isnt easily told anywhere. Man has alot of good ideas&knowledge :)
when you fail part 2 of the tutorial (couldn't work out how to deploy my core troops lol), these guys are legends for what they do.
read the manual that comes with the game?
that's option 3.
hahahahaha.
i am 40 years old and playd panzer general 2 back in the day and loved it ----- i may come back and take this for a spin look good -----
p.s nice video mr. theedmon nice off you too put up at starter pack
Glad it helped you.
Thank you for the guides! I bought the game a few days ago and somehow managed to get to Dunkirk. But my army had lost a lot of its strength in Norway and Belgium, so that it would become impossible (with my below average skill) to take Dunkirk, especially with British air superiority. I think I'll watch your videos now, and then start all over again.
It can be a very challenging game to be fair. It can take some time to learn all the different aspects of combat.
Hello Edmund,
I will add to the chorus and applaud your intro guide. Great job and thanks for the help!
Glad you enjoyed it :).
I've played through the tutorial and the first 2 poland scenarios but I still have lots of questions on details of combat mechanics. Thanks for making a great video!
Dear Edmon, Thank you so much this really help to get started playing the game Panzer Corps 2. I am a newbie to war gaming on PC Steam and I have been playing board games and war games for a few years. Thanks again.
Glad to have helped.
Downloaded the game today and I've been getting acquainted. This is a great help. Thanks!
Glad to hear it.
A great "how to" without a lot of rambling. Subscribed.
Thanks! Glad it helped :).
Bought the game and had already fun with it but it was also always a bit trying and guessing and the feeling was, there is still something to catch about the mechanics ... you nailed it ;D thanks for sharing
Glad I could help :).
Just got the game Edmon, can't wait to dive in and give it a good strafe
Brrrft.
Thank you, I watched it two times to really understand everything. Such games always fascinate me, but I'm always so bad when I start playing on my own.
Greetings from Germany =)
Glad the video helped you :).
As a long time player of Panzer Corps 1 I bought this game when it came out but never fell in love with it. I even watched a couple of your videos back then. I'm going to watch the whole series and see if it helps me get enthused. I think the thing I struggled with is this game requires you take the initiative but the original heavily discouraged you from activating more enemy units until you had cleared the last lot. It's a question of play style that I never managed to get comfortable with.
Having played both, I have come to enjoy PzC2 more, so I hope you settle down and get into it :). It can be really rewarding to play.
Thanks - this is VERY helpful. I'm just getting started with Panzer Corps 2.
I'm going to be watching more of your lessons!!
The best guide I've ever seen. Thanks man.
Edmon: Hello there!
Me instantly: General Kenobi
A reply to be sure, but a welcome one.
Well done, this is a first rate beginner guide. My favorite games are turn based strategy, I'm fair at them, but not an in depth expert. This guide helped sway me to buy Panzer Corps. I wish guides would have been around when I first started playing Panzer General 1 etc, they would have saved lot's time in the casualty ward.
BTW, i'm also a fan of your Order of Battle stuff as well.
That's great to hear, there will be more content for Panzer Corps soon, including modded.
@@TheEdmon That's good news, if you get to have a special code for that, please provide it 🙂
Hmmm... I've been playing for about 15 hrs and didn't know the half of this. Thanks!
Glad it helped.
thank you for your guides! I'm subscribing
Great :)
Great stuff, clear and concise!
Glad it helped :).
Just what I needed....thanks! you have a new subscriber..
Glad it helped.
former (bad ;p )Panzer General player here, your video is a great help with the new PC2!
A year late but I just bought PZC2 on sale with all the DLC, jumped straight into spain. I have played other TBS games before like X-com and even 40k armageddon, so I was kinda at a loss for PZC 2. thanks a lot of stuff
with new announcement this game is gonna be brilliant..ONly ONE thing !!! the sound !!!!! I hope that devs make the better sounds in this game.
This was really helpful! Thanks!
No problem!
Brilliant tutorial, was getting decimated in my campaign and this helped a lot. This game does have a very cluttered UI...
Glad it helped!
Nice video Edmon keep going we love you🤛💪
Thank you :).
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks for making this tutorial. Downloading PC2 now :)
very nicely explained, thank you. This is my first game of this genre. I'm wondering if the general rock-paper-scissors concept (of Tanks vs Infantry / in open or close terrain etc) would carry over into similar games?
Most WW2 games use the idea that infantry is good in close terrain, and tanks are good in open terrain, but the bonuses depend on the game.
Nice to find a fellow scot to learn from. Got game recently and about 4 scenarios in to the campaign. Loving it. Hex and counter wargamer so maybe that helps, but finding it intuitive and rewarding. Enjoyed your video.
What are you talkin aboot, I'm not Scotish. Glad you enjoyed the video though :D.
@@TheEdmon that's intriguing. You sound very east coast (Edinburgh) scot. Scottish family? If not, then quite unique coincidence, now you mention it, can hear southern accent but really strong scottish twang. Not west of Scotland glasgwegian, but definitely east coast 'military Scots'. Regardless, very well spoken and presented. Thank you.
@@evidentside I am British, from Jersey actually, the most southern place you can imagine :D. I did a year in the military, if that matters. But thanks for the compliment :).
Thanks that was very helpful . Much clearer then the manual.
Just jumped into Panzer Corps 2 blind, after seeing what is essentialy my favorite board game brought to PC and made better (Tide of Iron, love it, but gosh does it take a ton of time to play, on average 45-60 minutes per turn on custome games). And I was wondering why I run out of prestige so fast, I have strong units and kept scratching my head why my tanks in forest get decimated by infantry and other horrible things. THANK YOU very much, for explaining these key points which I somehow missed. Well, I did take Moscow, barely, with heavy losses, but hey, I can always restart with new knowledge and smeare the ground with the enemy now. THANKS!
I am glad it helped you out :).
If you played the SSI games, Panzer General and Allied General then it really easy to play this it is a replica of those awesome classics
thank you very informative
Glad I helped.
Fantastic help thank you.
Glad it helped.
Really great tutorial, thanks!
Only one question: How do I know, WHAT a unit actually is? I mean, it says "8.7,5cmFK16nA", which is perfect for a strong password, but I have no clue, what this cryptic alphanumeric combinations really are. For me it's always a "canon", but you said, it's an antitank, an artillery, an antiair or something like that.
Any advice?
Click the little "i" button on the unit panel. It's type will be in the stats page.
@@TheEdmon Thanks! I found out, that hovering over the symbol on the right side next to the "i" also says it. I didn't realize, that there are only that few types of units, so I quickly got used to the symbols now anyways. ;)
"Only one question: How do I know, WHAT a unit actually is? I mean, it says "8.7,5cmFK16nA", which is perfect for a strong password..." Brilliant
@@ElusiveClit Well, seems I have to change my password now.... ;)
Cracking guide, really well explained. Cheers👍🏼
An excellent guide for new players! Maybe it should be featured on the SlitherineGames channel. In my experience another 'danger tile' would be next to a mountain tile, even if your unit is in its favorite terrain.
Combat takes place in the defenders tile, so while there are a few little bonuses for those on mountains, parking next to one in a clear tile as a tank is fine. Infantry would still get murdered if it tried to attack down into the clear tile.
@@TheEdmon can 8 ram computer run panzer corps 2 smoothly ???
@@frfor0333 8GB of RAM is plenty, it's your graphics card and CPU specs that really matter for Panzer Corps 2.
@@TheEdmon thnx very much
Thanks for this!
Good start tutorial!
Thanks.
Thanks Edmon. Newbie here and appreciate the advice. Some of the PC2 streamers I've watched are very...whiney about some of the combat results, even though they've ramped up the random combat aspect. Ruins the streams for me
I am not one to whine about RNG (or anything really) but I don't want it to be the reason I win or lose fights. It can be hard to understand how the game works when massive dice rolls throw the results all over the place.
that was awesome! thank you :) today I buy this game :D
Glad the video helped you :).
If you have a VPN, you could "save" some money on this game.
@@brandonliao408 Risky, you can have your account closed for T&C, it has happened to people with large steam libraries...
@@TheEdmon Of course, but thats for the OP to decide. Just pointing out an alternative for singleplayer games.
Recently I felt the nostalgia for panzer general, but tbh that game has olded very bad so I started looking for alternatives, first I found order of battle ww2, and that lead to this, I read somewhere that many people preffer OOB Over PC2, last night I Got PC2 and after seeing your videos I see theres a lot of not so obvius mechanics there that make this game also ínteresting, many people blame this game to be more arcadey than OOB but after seing this video and another one of yours about enveloping and getting prestige, I see this game is not that arcadey as some people claim, besides I Love the graphics
This explains a lot!
I just picked up panzer corps 2 on sale. Running it on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro with windows 11 via parallels 17. After playing for about an hour my MacBook is getting warm but I don’t hear the fan coming on. Been playing the first panzer corps on an iPad Pro and it’s great. The second one seems a little harder to get a grip on. I’m hoping your video helps me out.
If you need any help man, do let me know :).
@@TheEdmon Thanks I will.
Thanks for nice video! Hello from Russia!
Thanks for stopping by :).
4:03 for example when i start my genarilissimus i re roll 9 times 😏😁
Lmao. I once sat down for an hour and did this just to see what heroes there were (no lists at the time). So I know the feel XD.
Thank you
Very helpfull video !
Glad it helped you.
edmon sir, can you play some "WarPlan" please. The WW2 in Europe theater
The games I play are determined by Patreon vote, so maybe in the future? :)
Edmon - could you do a video on Zone of Control - I have read all the Steam threads and still cannot understand the nuances of ZoC - thank you
I can do this, it is the same mechanic in a lot of games, I think it is most complex in PC2.
@@TheEdmon Thank you - I would be very grateful - ZoC does seem more complex in PC2 and appears to have significant impact on supply from what I have read on Steam
Hi - I see you have done a ZoC Guide in your From Good To Great - wow that was incredibly responsive - thank you very much
@@develteam3095 It is done! Check latest videos! :)
@@TheEdmon Thank you Edmon for doing the ZoC Guide so quickly in response to my request - this is now very clear - great job
Are you playing this on pc or Mac? Your graphics are much more detailed than mine.
PC, with all the settings maxed out.
thanks I have a better idea now how to play.
Glad it helped :).
Swamps in PC2 are a mystery to me because it seems only certain types of tanks can attack into them, is that right?
Are there special rules for swamps?
You can't attack a tile if you are not able to move into that tile. A little known and used rule. This means if your tanks movement is not enough to move into the swamp tile (I think for wheeled, swamp is like 4 movement, so a tank with 3 movement) then you can't attack a unit there.
This issue comes up a lot with thick forest and Barren tiles.
@@TheEdmon Thanks, that explains why the tanks couldn't go in swamps because they only had 3 MP's.
How about trucks with 8 MP's, can they go in swamps?
And do swamps block supply tracing?
What are barren tiles, i haven't seen any yet.
And is there a list somewhere of all unit stats which i can look at instead of having to click every unit in the game one by one?
PS- I'm PoorOldSpike at the Slitherine forum..:)
If you hover over the "i" in the terrain panel, it will tell you how many points you need to move into that tile.
As long as you can meet the cost, you can move into that tile.
Barren tiles are rare outside of Africa, they stop all movement except foot.
@@TheEdmon Thanks, i'll hover.
Incidentally i'm totally hooked on the fantastic random mission generator because it gives us a completely brandnew battle each time.
I'm hoping Slith will expand it in a future update so that we can choose terrain density, for example low density for the Russian steppes etc, and dense terrain for the Ardennes etc.
There's currently no Africa terrain (sand) in the generator so I hope that'll be included in a future update too..:)
Good job, i did a tutorial but it has 5% of information provided in your guide.
Glad it helped :).
danke
I invade them , but finally says " Iam Deafeated " why ?
I cant even finish first mission. This game difficult af.
Combined arms is your friend. A lot of people tend to rely more so on one unit class (tanks, infantry, planes) to the point that you're put at a disadvantage in specialized scenarios.