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Oh I love this idea and think it would go well, but I already started the recording before I saw this post. Just finished the recording this morning. First 5 days took forever, but it is going well. There will need to be some discussion about unit changes for se units after I send you the finish of Docks. As I am assuming you will want an update by then. But all in all things are proceeding well, and overall pleased with how I am managing the difficulty.

sorry I probably did not have the sound system set up correctly, either that or I was trying not to awaken one of my kids, one of the hazards of having 10 kiddo's. ;) Thanks for watching

Just published the Addon update that nerfs the soviet naval transports.

Hey, thanks for commenting. I have seen some mods that encompass the entire war, it is crazy huge and too big for me to be interested in playing. I appreciate the game for what it is. Thanks again

Hey Buddy needed to adjust the timing for today's broadcast. I forgot that I am donating blood today and would be gone at the normal time. Hope you can make it still

Oh, Thank God I saw that notie in my email from youtube and got a little worried

sent you the start up, I tried again yesterday, but ran into too many mistakes, I will get it cleaned up and try again either tonight when I am not distracted, or early tomorrow morning. I just cannot seem to get it right, yet, I stress yet. I ill get it, and probably settle for a Marginal Victory

@@goose_2 Got the savegame, thank you! Question: Why did you leave Grenadiere, Pioniere and Gebirgsjäger in the reserve? Their close defense and initiative ratings make them excellent for city fighting.

Attack 3 is the absolute king of heroes, rare and change the unit as a beast. I am thankful for every single one of them, but also glad my army is not dominated by them. Their rarity makes them stand out and nice in a clutch.

Locarnus, I just realized I will not be around Friday will Saturday work, instead? If so what time?

@@goose_2 Saturday will work as well this weekend. Roughly similar time as usual? Eg somewhere between UTC 1700 - 2300 hours (5pm - 11 pm)?

@@locarnus255 I set the time for what works for me, I hope it works for you Blessings, Goose

@@goose_2 You wrote in the description that you are trying Sevastopol at the moment. Do you by chance have a savegame from the deployment phase of Sevastopol? I would like to try my hand at that as well, with your already completed upgrades and and replacements and overstrength decisions already made.

A reference table explaining movement would sure be helpful.

The real test comes in the middle where they begin to break me, but I overwhelm their flanks

sure thing set it up, and let me know the password I do like playing with undo off...

@@goose_2 Excellent! Will you object to the undo feature?

@@goose_2 ok its up. My username there is- Abwehrx, password- blut

I am not 100% sure what you are asking. The editor "Link" is a button that comes up on the pop up screen for opening the game. Click the button that says editor and it takes you into a place that allows you to pull up the scenarios and their codes/parameters. I hope this helps.

Hey Buddy, I thought I had all my core units? Now you want me to train a 4th Strat Bomber?

@@goose_2 Nope, no new units except the SU-122 that you will capture in 1942. I'm thinking about making a cross class upgrade bridge between ground and air units, like I did with the Kübelwagen for only ground unit classes and the Hs 126 & Fw 189 for air units. Not cheap, but at least possible, like some US cavalry functions transitioned from horses to helicopters after WW2. So it was mainly a question if you think 3 strat bombers are enough in the long run. I would then try to find/make a way to get you a 4th strat as a unit upgrade from your existing core forces.

@@locarnus255 you are kind of blowing my mind right now, so i am not sure how to respond. mind blown

by the by. I had time off yesterday. Columbus day! I was able to record the first 2 parts. And checking the start of the next part. I have broke the map. It was knock down drag out and brutal. Very exciting stuff, but overall great stuff. I should finish up, maybe tonight. I also have to remember to leave Night Phoenix as an tank so I can upgrade him to the StuG 3F I will send when done enjoy your holiday

I applied now that I am back from game night. I thought long barreled Pz4F-2 was not going to be available? And something seems off with Char B's upgrade path, 3 various tanks and no graphics for either upgrade and the arty Char B says it changes to a KV-5? The Char B Flamm is 10 more exp, but all stats are worse off? I think something got screwed up in the Char B category.

@@goose_2 Long barrel Pz IV F2 is available and there were even a few at historical Kharkov in May 1942. Just no long barrel StuG III F yet. Oof, Char B arty to KV-5 is bad, I will correct that asap! 😞 - Corrected, see hotfix update 2024-10a What do you mean about no graphics? Do you mean the unit icon or the black&white historical picture or both? Char B Flamm has 10 rof and military engineer (ignores enemy entrenchment) and fortkiller traits (+5 attack against bunkers). I can give it it 1 ammo and defense back, but otherwise it was just very specialized. A lot stronger than the Flammpanzer II against entrenched soft targets.

your last comment on the video? What did it mean. Locarnus​​yep, thought about soviet captured arty Locarnus​​i m hesitant to make arty a bonus SE unit se unit arty?

@@goose_2 At 16:30 you suggested captured soviet arty, while looking at your bonus SE unit upgrade options. I don't want to add another class (arty) to the bonus SE unit selection. The current infantry, tank & anti-tank classes are already a lot to keep track of for upgrades. But I will look into the captured equipment selection, there were many conversions.

OH Really, I played it and it plays fine, what do I need to wait for?

@@goose_2 Balance

I am confident f that my friend, but look how you got manhandled as my AT. Yikes

You are harder to utilize in this role, I am hoping to get you to stand out and your camo technique comes in very handy, especially recently in My Vitebsk recording. The first recording is peak awesomeness.

oh wow I hate youtibe For whatever reason they stopped showing me your posts, so I ended up not seeing your responses to my comments. You must have thought I went silent. Sorry about that. I thought you went silent. Weird. In seeing what you have written now, I will comment. 1) Char B arty phase, strongly encourage as it will give me a chance to build up the Char B's exp to the 3 star necessity before I need to upgrade him to a big dog tank that will be needed in 43. 2) Nice Zerg reference, that is a game I used to love playing. Starcraft, a classic so well done and the balance between the 3 types are unmatched in complexity and creativity. 3) I am sorry I missed all your comments and my hope is eventually you will be convinced of the need to allow the 2 bonus to hard attack for AT's. ;) See you on Friday. Hopefully youtube is not screwy.

@@goose_2 Oh yeah, youtube has some short sighted priorities. Maybe they should think a little more about quality & reliability for users instead of scraping the last bit of ad revenue & damaging the usability in the process. 1) Unfortunately I could not find a PzC unit graphic for the Char B arty conversion. Though I will implement the Flamm conversion. It has some usage against entrenched infantry and bunkers, but of course will be even more useless against tanks in open terrain. Maybe it can help for scenarios like Sevastopol. 2) Yep, SC was great, especially the balancing. 3) Never! 🙂I consider the rebalancing of the ground unit experience boni to be a great achievement and lament my hesitation then and lack of time now to do the same for fighter units. 🙃 The camo ability of the 7.5cm Pak and the switching ability of the Marder and long barrel StuG units is just so powerful already. Soviets will have a bad time with those from mid 42 until they improve their tanks in return. Early 42 is just right before the Germans make that quality jump. See you Friday!

@@locarnus255 one more thing, why nerf BruckenPioniere? You are only thinking it is OP because I was awarded a great 1st hero, if I received an Attack 3 on my cavalry you would be saying the same thing.

@@goose_2 Valid concern. I checked vanilla and BE 2.4, both of them have 1 less ini and 1 less soft attack compared to current 2024-09 values. So I'll either reduce ini or attack (not both) in the next update. Thus they will still be better than they are in BE or vanilla, but not as much. I'm leaning towards reducing ini by 1. This way they will just be more dependent on suppression of the enemy. Hm, I just praised the reliability of the old school slitherine forum compared to youtube in my last post on it, now I can't reach it...

This meant I decided to make a change to what you were going to do for me.

love those time stamped comments ;)

Never too late too comment as long as you do not blame me for taking a while in responding, BE has so much good because of the so much that is frustrating about playing it. The 2 loss ammo every turn being one of the key things.

Combined with the usual PzC 1 rng (that T-34 had better evasion than a submarine)! What time stamp was that? I saw you mention it, but I must have just missed it in the broadcast. Some fun stuff as always

@@goose_2 After it lost nearly half its health for attacking you, you then suppress it in turn 1 and do the first ground attack at 13:10, pushing it away and bringing it to 2 strength. So far, so normal. Then the rng fun begins. 13:43 another strat bomber for some suppression 14:03 your 12 overstrength Pz III J2 does only 1 damage, so the T-34 is pushed again and down to 1 strength. 18:20 your Re.2000 fighter misses as well, so the T-34 survives turn 1 with 1 strength and 1 ammo. The AI reinforces it to 4 strength at the start of turn 2. 24:46 The overstrength Pz III J2 again has low rolls and destroys only 3 of the 4 strength points, again pushing the T-34 away with 1 strength remaining. 25:30 After another attack by an aux SdKfz 251/1, the T-34 retreats again. 25:36 Second attack run by the Re.2000 fighter, second miss. 25:50 You switch the 3 star Ju 88 A-4 to tac bomber mode in a successful last attempt to prevent the T-34 from surviving yet another turn.

@@locarnus255 thanks so much for the detailed and thorough chuckle at my rng nightmare. That made me laugh so hard reading that out. And yet I remain noticeably calm while this happens, because I am listening to great music that soothes the soul. ;)

This starts out insanely hard and I lose units on this one. I like the fact that I am just getting ok with losing units. It makes playing a lot easier to just accept what happens.

Hey Buddy, sorry again for missing the discussion yesterday. I really look forward to those. I work from home again next Friday so I will be able to post another vid for the next 2 Fridays as well as Sunday. I saw all of your comments and I was able to finish Moscow this morning. It was nasty, but ultimately great playthrough. You will enjoy the dog fight each and every broadcast, 4 in total. Do I need to wait for any monthly upgrades before starting Demyansk??? Are there any units you want to see showcased there? What do you think about using the Bison 2? It was never used on the continent, so... I look forward to showing the initial outing this Sunday. See you then.

@@goose_2 Streets of Moscow is really tough, can't wait to see the struggle! No need to wait for an update for Demyansk. But I highly recommend keeping a savegame from the PENULTIMATE turn of Demyansk! In case you need to switch unit classes, not only for GC 42 East, but also GC 42-43 West, if I manage to establish compatibility with that at some point in the future. Imho the Bison 2 is a great upgrade for the Bison 1, especially one more ammo is so worth it. I would use it in Europe without hesitation, rule of 1 and Napoleon difficulty is hard enough. And it is in no way overpowered, since it still has that low rate of fire. The Hs 129 would be my wish, but only if Arato Bela already has a hero after Streets of Moscow. So that you can make an informed decision which Bf 110 can be converted to Hs 129? See you Sunday!

Thanks for watching

I do not remember how to do that, can you remind me?

@@goose_2 Easiest is probably to compress that savegame file into a zip archive. And then attach that zip file to a forum post in the Addon forum thread. By dragging that zip file onto the "Full Editor & Preview" field while writing the forum post.

Hey Buddy, I am commenting here based on one of the questions you asked in the broadcast. You asked for ewunits desired for 42 East. My wish list/request list are as follows: 1) Love the 42 upgrades where the Whermacht get their heat ammo where they get a +1 att in their HA, but why no love for the Italians? Don't you think they would share that lovely ammo with their allies? So can they get slight upgrades for 10 prestige as well? 2) When/where does the StuG3F come out? I thought it was right away in 42, if not when? 3) Marder 2 when/where and will that be an in house upgrade for the 38t? 4) When where will be the next Bf-109 upgrades? This is a separate question that I did not have time for. I want to upgrade the FW-190a2 to the 3 and continue to work on him until he gets his first hero, but you were wanting me to upgrade the green FW to that one instead. Please give me your reasoning. Thanks for the great dialogue and sharing my passion for this great game. See you Friday.

@@goose_2 1) Sorry, misunderstanding on my part. The HEAT ammo was mostly for the short barreled german 7.5cm guns (so Pz IV, StuG, various arty that can switch to direct fire mode). The normal infantry benefited from that as well, since they had pretty organic and low level "7.5cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18" guns with them, which also got some HEAT ammo. But the +1 hard attack increase for german infantry was mostly based on adapting lots of new tactics against T-34 and KV tanks. There is a youtube video on that topic when you search for "German Infantry Anti-Tank Tactics 1941/1942". As far as I know, the Italians and others had more trouble adapting to the Soviet tanks? I'll try read up on this a bit more before publishing the next update. 2) and 3) StuG III F (Pz III upgrade family), Marder II (Pz II family) and Marder III (Pz 38(t) family) are available from May 1942 onwards, so second scenario of GC 42 East. 4) Bf 109 G-2 will be available in mid June 42, so for Sevastopol in the GC 42 East. But that is more of a sidegrade compared to the F-4. The F-4 has 2 more initiative, while the G-2 has 1 higher defense. Many experienced pilots prefered the F-4. 5) After the Fw 190 A-3 from mid March 42, the next version is the A-4 in August 42 (when half of the GC 42 East scenarios are already completed). So the training of your inexperienced Fw 190 would have to further wait until that time, or start with the older A-2. Thus it would imho be better to leave your experienced Fw 190 as an A-2 and finally start training the other Fw 190 unit with the A-3 right away. Before improved soviet fighter models enter the stage (eg Yak-7B roughly in June 1942 and La-5 in August 1942). Thank you for the great discussions, see you next time!

@@locarnus255 uh-oh, I am unable to launch the game, I was trying to load just to name units with latest heroes, and it will not let me load the game....I am worried? The game is being screwy

@@goose_2 Hm, very strange. Are you sure the game is the problem? From what you said in chat over the last months, it sounds like your computer or hard drive might have issues. Thats why I highly recommended making a backup of your hard drive in some of the chats.

@@locarnus255 I am hoping your update will help revive my game, when is that expected?