A few more tips: Falling back also doubles the speed of the unit falling back, along with the reduced damage it takes. Putting your artillery / mortars on "defensive fire" over an area where you know there is enemy artillary will make your AI automatically fire on the correct spot to counter battery. This saves you the time to find the fire at the exact spot where the enemy shells are coming from. Having automatic cover turned on for units(Turned on by default) will make your units get into buildings automatically when close to them. It will also run a few meters to the closest trees/bushes if standing still in the open. Be careful with AT units though, they will move to cover and often lose line of sight if placed in the open near cover. You can turn auto cover off for indiviual units or for all in the setting bottom right. Units take more damage when moving and firing compared to standing still. The hunt order will automatically stop your unit to fire when engaging an enemy. Replacing your move button with the hunt command will cause you problems if you want to run away or into a building and not take the fight. Learn the difference between move and hunt command, it will help you in the long run. Weapons without "M/S" (move & shoot) will not fire when moving. Bombers and rocket fighters will lose their command if you lose sight of the target you selected. It's often better to "Fire position" on a specific area if the line of site in unclear. This way you guarantee that your rockets and bombs fire. Contest the flags early. Seeing where the flags are on the map is a good way to know where you want to focus your attention with your units. Do not wait for your opponent to attack you first. The flags in the middle are always contestable by force in the beginning of the game. If you do not engage the enemy in the first few minutes, your front line is too far back. Remember that tanks (except recon tanks) have "very low" recon visibility and will need other units to spot their targets for them. Open top tanks often have "good" recon however. If you want to play 1v1 without ruining you rank as a new player you can press "Quick play" to play 1v1 without affecting your leaderboard. When setting up your main attack, you want to be able to counter everything (maybe expect air in the beginning). Be sure to have tanks, support weapons, CQC infantry as well as long range infantry. Constantly look at your front line. Where is it weak? Where do you need a new anti-tank gun? What happens if you lose your infantry at the front? Will if totaly collapse or do you have some kind of back up? Learn to beat the AI in the beginning. It's quite challanging as a new player. It took me 150 hours before I dared going into real multiplayer battles. Don't surrender. You WILL lose your first battles so just throw everything you got. You learn by playing the game, not leaving it. When you know you're about to lose you can play more freely and just try to do the best of situation. See you on the battlefield, Commander.
Great list! With the hunt/move default, as I use hunt 80% of the time & move say 20%, it makes sense for me to have hunt as right mouse click & move as a hotkey, rather than have to press Q continually. Units that can 't hunt (ammo trucks, unarmed transports etc...) automatically default to move. I know a lot of people learned with Q move but it always frustrated me. Once Eugen added the hunt as default option, my game improved a lot. It also allows you to group hunt infantry with the drag to position orders. Great for quickly setting up in a dispersed line of buildings or at the edge of a forest. I just have to click just behind the buildings & let auto cover take them the ladt couple of meters. If I drag on top of the buildings, the squads bunch up, trying to go to the same spot. Without hunt as default, you can only do this drag into a line order with move.
I used to love playing in the big games and setting up the long long range arty across our backline and be used as call for fire. Some of my best times.
With the hotkeys, remember that they're customizable. I have changed almost every hotkey but most of the most important onrs are mapped to the 11 buttons on my gaming mouse. I've set Hunt/Attack move to default & have it as my right mouse click. The other buttons are: On the scroll wheel - Attack possition/Smoke/Fall-back, two top buttons - Defensive fire/Evac aircraft, five side buttons - Return fire/Move/Unload at position/Unload/Reverse. Then on the keyboard I use Tab/Shift/Control, Z for Line of sight & Space for Stop. That's about it. Everyone's preferances are different but I find this system highly efficient & it has improved my micro speed significantly. Took a while for muscle memory to pick them all up but now I don't even think before I click.
Played this game for ages, and I still suck at it (Not up to online playing standard). But hey still fun though. One of the things I notice is hard for some new players is the fact that you got to accept some Units will have to be sacrificed and will be lost.
@@atkpwrgaming Well sometimes you got to use less valuable units to be the meat shields for more valuable units. I think their is a fancy term for that in military doctrine.
Steel Division 2 rarely get's sales unfortunatly and there was just a sale on the game a few weeks ago. Do not be super hopeful that there will be a Christmas sale but see and wait you never know. When the new DLC releases in a few weeks they might place it on sale, as they have done so before.
Just recently started playing this game again and decided to watch this video before my next match today. It certainly helped! Thanks. Im glad I subscribed
Just learned that this game is from the Devs of RUSE and i loved that game and it was one of the few ones that even on Console great. Got the game last night and really looking into it playing it.
Really enjoying all your SD 2 tutorials and tips. Many thanks again! I have a "noob" question concerning reinforcements that is really frustrating me that I hope you or another fan of SD 2 can answer. Now I understand how to place units in the deployment zones, give an order and set the destination BEFORE launch, but what is the procedure with the reinforcing units. Do you handle these the same way? Or is there a better way, as unless I pause the game to do the pre-launch method, it seems very time consuming and things elsewhere can go to hell as I focus on this! Thanks in advance for the help! :)
Well after you click on the picture of the reinforcement, you can call it in with an order preprogrammed into by simply hitting the hotkey before completing the call in
Good video just not sure about the game (Icon Wars). With the size of the forces and the battlefield you need to be zoomed out to maintain perspective but the immersion of icons for me is zero. Graviteam would be the same I think. Certainly gives games like Gates of Hell Ostfront the edge for me. Still really on the fence about this.
I dont have any problem with defence, but i really suck at attack, all my tank assaults gets crushed, simply i just dont know how to break through defence lines. Any tips?
@@atkpwrgaming honestly, after i wrote that i was playing a new game after rebuilding a deck with that in mind...and i didn't rehook or reboard damn thing. was too busy. lol
I just got this game, looks really good, but I got utterly destroyed by the AI. So confusing.. After playing for a while I managed to get my infanterie inside a building, had an AA, an anti tank gun, and was hunking down. I was proud of myself. But then out of the blue.. The AI artillery shoots from way back, in the middle of the forest (how the hell did they spot me) and hits ALL my units.. Their artillery was very accurate, i was shocked.. I lost 85% of my guys in that area.. Then I just quit the game, and figured Ill watch this video.
Your troops were definitely waaaaay to bunched up if that was the case haha happy watching hope the tutorials help! This game is incredible and well worth the learning curve
I suck so much at this game. I should play more often. Thanks for this video. By the way, if someone know how to play real total destruction mode, I'm interested. I selected it but my game just ends and the enemy still have units.
7:00 "It's really not that difficult. If you can't beat the AI, then there's no way you're beating a human player." Thanks for spelling it out for me: I occasionally install the game, try to play the dynamic campaign against AI and lose every single engagement on the map and overall every single battle. Hearing this, I can stop trying to play the game without feeling bad about it lol
Why don't you change this to *only play germans* you'll really help out new players since the unbalance of the game leads them to swap over to german by level 10 anyways.
Well I don’t say that cause it’s not trueX at least for 1v1. Allie’s are a lot more efficient and their infantry are a lot more aggressively coated. Axis is good for big team games where tanks matter most, but not in 1v1
@@atkpwrgaming It's always the talk of better infantry... except the allies only carry the advantage within 150m or so or whatever the cut off is for the MG the german infantry carries. Otherwise you have to smoke and push with infantry which is what you should do anyways. But that is a lot for a new player and even this is countered by randomly spamming he mortars into the smoke. Overall even in 1v1 I say germans still hold the advantage, the 5 extra cost points for most units are worth it cause you get an MG.
A few more tips:
Falling back also doubles the speed of the unit falling back, along with the reduced damage it takes.
Putting your artillery / mortars on "defensive fire" over an area where you know there is enemy artillary will make your AI automatically fire on the correct spot to counter battery. This saves you the time to find the fire at the exact spot where the enemy shells are coming from.
Having automatic cover turned on for units(Turned on by default) will make your units get into buildings automatically when close to them. It will also run a few meters to the closest trees/bushes if standing still in the open. Be careful with AT units though, they will move to cover and often lose line of sight if placed in the open near cover. You can turn auto cover off for indiviual units or for all in the setting bottom right.
Units take more damage when moving and firing compared to standing still. The hunt order will automatically stop your unit to fire when engaging an enemy. Replacing your move button with the hunt command will cause you problems if you want to run away or into a building and not take the fight. Learn the difference between move and hunt command, it will help you in the long run. Weapons without "M/S" (move & shoot) will not fire when moving.
Bombers and rocket fighters will lose their command if you lose sight of the target you selected. It's often better to "Fire position" on a specific area if the line of site in unclear. This way you guarantee that your rockets and bombs fire.
Contest the flags early. Seeing where the flags are on the map is a good way to know where you want to focus your attention with your units. Do not wait for your opponent to attack you first. The flags in the middle are always contestable by force in the beginning of the game. If you do not engage the enemy in the first few minutes, your front line is too far back.
Remember that tanks (except recon tanks) have "very low" recon visibility and will need other units to spot their targets for them. Open top tanks often have "good" recon however.
If you want to play 1v1 without ruining you rank as a new player you can press "Quick play" to play 1v1 without affecting your leaderboard.
When setting up your main attack, you want to be able to counter everything (maybe expect air in the beginning). Be sure to have tanks, support weapons, CQC infantry as well as long range infantry.
Constantly look at your front line. Where is it weak? Where do you need a new anti-tank gun? What happens if you lose your infantry at the front? Will if totaly collapse or do you have some kind of back up?
Learn to beat the AI in the beginning. It's quite challanging as a new player. It took me 150 hours before I dared going into real multiplayer battles.
Don't surrender. You WILL lose your first battles so just throw everything you got. You learn by playing the game, not leaving it. When you know you're about to lose you can play more freely and just try to do the best of situation.
See you on the battlefield, Commander.
These are great, thank you!
This is really helpful, thank you
Great list!
With the hunt/move default, as I use hunt 80% of the time & move say 20%, it makes sense for me to have hunt as right mouse click & move as a hotkey, rather than have to press Q continually. Units that can 't hunt (ammo trucks, unarmed transports etc...) automatically default to move.
I know a lot of people learned with Q move but it always frustrated me. Once Eugen added the hunt as default option, my game improved a lot. It also allows you to group hunt infantry with the drag to position orders. Great for quickly setting up in a dispersed line of buildings or at the edge of a forest. I just have to click just behind the buildings & let auto cover take them the ladt couple of meters. If I drag on top of the buildings, the squads bunch up, trying to go to the same spot.
Without hunt as default, you can only do this drag into a line order with move.
This is awesome thanks man! I have 93 hrs but havent played in over 2 years so i watched and read this to refresh my memory. i appreciate it
I used to love playing in the big games and setting up the long long range arty across our backline and be used as call for fire. Some of my best times.
With the hotkeys, remember that they're customizable. I have changed almost every hotkey but most of the most important onrs are mapped to the 11 buttons on my gaming mouse. I've set Hunt/Attack move to default & have it as my right mouse click. The other buttons are: On the scroll wheel - Attack possition/Smoke/Fall-back, two top buttons - Defensive fire/Evac aircraft, five side buttons - Return fire/Move/Unload at position/Unload/Reverse.
Then on the keyboard I use Tab/Shift/Control, Z for Line of sight & Space for Stop. That's about it.
Everyone's preferances are different but I find this system highly efficient & it has improved my micro speed significantly. Took a while for muscle memory to pick them all up but now I don't even think before I click.
This right here
Played this game for ages, and I still suck at it (Not up to online playing standard). But hey still fun though. One of the things I notice is hard for some new players is the fact that you got to accept some Units will have to be sacrificed and will be lost.
Oh yeah, a lot of units will die at the end of the day, no getting around that
@@atkpwrgaming Well sometimes you got to use less valuable units to be the meat shields for more valuable units. I think their is a fancy term for that in military doctrine.
You love to see it! The ever-actual video, for Steel Division. Always needed.
Yeah, an update was needed
I am really excited to start playing this game. Waiting on some christmas steam sale.
The main game dropped to $10 for the autumn sale. You will save a pretty penny.
Steel Division 2 rarely get's sales unfortunatly and there was just a sale on the game a few weeks ago. Do not be super hopeful that there will be a Christmas sale but see and wait you never know. When the new DLC releases in a few weeks they might place it on sale, as they have done so before.
If it aint on sale, a key is like 20 bucks for the maingame on steam.
I am guessing there will be some sale for it over the holidays. I will try to mention it on the channel!
@@Sanguine-Saint main game costs 40€ on steam
Just recently started playing this game again and decided to watch this video before my next match today. It certainly helped! Thanks. Im glad I subscribed
Thank you so much!
A little worried about multiplayer but I'm also looking forward to getting good enough with AI to feel even a little confident vs players
It's totally worth it diving in, it's so fun once you get the feel for it! Its very different than AI though
This was a good tutorial. I barely knew any of this as a newbie.
Glad to hear it!!
Just learned that this game is from the Devs of RUSE and i loved that game and it was one of the few ones that even on Console great.
Got the game last night and really looking into it playing it.
Definitely should, its one of the best world war 2 games out there
Thank you so much for this and your other tutorials it really helped me out a lot to get into Steel Division 2!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for refreshing my memory
Absolutely thanks for watching!
Just got this game very addictive. I’m hooked. It’s like enlisted from the generals view. I love it.
This game is incredible, worth every single minute
Really enjoying all your SD 2 tutorials and tips. Many thanks again! I have a "noob" question concerning reinforcements that is really frustrating me that I hope you or another fan of SD 2 can answer. Now I understand how to place units in the deployment zones, give an order and set the destination BEFORE launch, but what is the procedure with the reinforcing units. Do you handle these the same way? Or is there a better way, as unless I pause the game to do the pre-launch method, it seems very time consuming and things elsewhere can go to hell as I focus on this! Thanks in advance for the help! :)
Well after you click on the picture of the reinforcement, you can call it in with an order preprogrammed into by simply hitting the hotkey before completing the call in
Great overview video, thank you!
Absolutely!
Good video just not sure about the game (Icon Wars). With the size of the forces and the battlefield you need to be zoomed out to maintain perspective but the immersion of icons for me is zero. Graviteam would be the same I think. Certainly gives games like Gates of Hell Ostfront the edge for me. Still really on the fence about this.
Interesting, I haven’t heard that issue before. I understand, but you are definitely missing out if you don’t give it a try!
Great video! would you recommend this game to a newcomer?
Absolutely. Its a steep learning curve, but infinite replayability and its so worth the time
Good video, I just reinstalled and lost, I play slow so I need to look to see
Yeah it takes a while to start moving fast enough to really keep up!
and we're back, with another episode of Steel Division 2....oh wait, you're not Francis John xD
Haha I am not!
like this kind of videos the most!
Thank you!
What AI level should I be able to beat before moving to people? Medium is pushing my shit in rn.
Honestly the AI is mostly to get used to the controls. Playing people is a very different experience. I would say just div on in!
I dont have any problem with defence, but i really suck at attack, all my tank assaults gets crushed, simply i just dont know how to break through defence lines. Any tips?
Defence is always easier! Check out my how to get good at attacking video
Opinion on Smart orders?
Terrible. Counter battery is the only useful one. Every other is basically garbage
And defensive fire can be useful as well
Why is it Everytime I play as the US I can't win but playing the USSR is easy what's the US strong point or best way to play as them?
It's all about combined arms. You have to use every tab of your deck if you want to find success. They are very strong when used as such
dude, why didn't you mention that trucks/halftracks can rehook/reboard troops/etc?
that is not a necessary thing to know as a beginner. there are so many other things that will lose you the game over rehooking your stuff up
@@atkpwrgaming touche
@@atkpwrgaming honestly, after i wrote that i was playing a new game after rebuilding a deck with that in mind...and i didn't rehook or reboard damn thing. was too busy. lol
I just got this game, looks really good, but I got utterly destroyed by the AI. So confusing.. After playing for a while I managed to get my infanterie inside a building, had an AA, an anti tank gun, and was hunking down. I was proud of myself. But then out of the blue.. The AI artillery shoots from way back, in the middle of the forest (how the hell did they spot me) and hits ALL my units.. Their artillery was very accurate, i was shocked.. I lost 85% of my guys in that area.. Then I just quit the game, and figured Ill watch this video.
Your troops were definitely waaaaay to bunched up if that was the case haha happy watching hope the tutorials help! This game is incredible and well worth the learning curve
I am just sooo bad lol
It takes awhile to get there haha
Think I like ruse more still
Old school!
im going to see if i can convince my freind to buy this game and play against me. that way there is no need to learn we can be shit together
Excellent strategy! 😜
I suck so much at this game. I should play more often. Thanks for this video. By the way, if someone know how to play real total destruction mode, I'm interested. I selected it but my game just ends and the enemy still have units.
Not sure myself, I dont play that. Thanks for watching!
I play AI all the time cause there is no one to play with plus I like to experiment with some fun dumb decks XD
Oh it can definitely be fun watching them drive into the jaws of your defenses haha
@@atkpwrgaming I mainly do attacks but once I tryed C Only Phase Battles and it is a cluster tank of a battle so much stuff just coming at you lol
7:00 "It's really not that difficult. If you can't beat the AI, then there's no way you're beating a human player."
Thanks for spelling it out for me: I occasionally install the game, try to play the dynamic campaign against AI and lose every single engagement on the map and overall every single battle. Hearing this, I can stop trying to play the game without feeling bad about it lol
No you should keep trying! This game is incredible! It takes time to get used to it but it is so fun and replayable
Change the title of this video, it’s more like “the very basics for new players but won’t help you not suck in anyway”
Hahaha well you at least you avoid the most embarrassing stuff
Set the speed of this video to 0.75 ..Thank me later
I think I will make a video about how to suck at SD2, I am pretty good at making everything wrong.
Hahaha the perfect play
Someone send this video to gonzo pls
Make sure watch it first 😜
ooolala 50seconds early
Great content btw! Very engaging!
Edit: for some reason
thanks a bunch!
Use R to reverse your tanks
Incorrect, R is fallback. I believe G is to reverse
Why don't you change this to *only play germans* you'll really help out new players since the unbalance of the game leads them to swap over to german by level 10 anyways.
Well I don’t say that cause it’s not trueX at least for 1v1. Allie’s are a lot more efficient and their infantry are a lot more aggressively coated. Axis is good for big team games where tanks matter most, but not in 1v1
@@atkpwrgaming It's always the talk of better infantry... except the allies only carry the advantage within 150m or so or whatever the cut off is for the MG the german infantry carries. Otherwise you have to smoke and push with infantry which is what you should do anyways. But that is a lot for a new player and even this is countered by randomly spamming he mortars into the smoke. Overall even in 1v1 I say germans still hold the advantage, the 5 extra cost points for most units are worth it cause you get an MG.