War In The East 2: First Look & Reveal Gamplay - Official Video
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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If you watch my newest video about "Königstiger" name, you should not be confused anymore in the future... or even more so :D
Basically, the Tiger I was the Panzer VI Ausf. E, whereas the Tiger II was the Panzer VI Ausf. B, yeah, I knöw, really intuitive ;)
Is that your mic drop moment! haha! i was almost right.. good enough for a Historian? right Sensei?
@@OfficialXTRG It was quite funny to see your confusion, which makes a lot of sense and especially after looking into this topic for about 10 hours a few weeks ago.
and I thought the Panther D, A & G were bamboozling enough
it's looking absolutely gorgeous, and can't wait to get my hands on it. I just really hope that, unlike War in the West, there are going to be some decent in-depth tutorials.
What I see here is amazing - but also scary and terrifying. Gary Grigsby at his very best. If you master this conflict simulation, then you will probably have a general rank all over the world! 😣
YES!!!! iT Finally arrived. I am rewatching your German campaign from 4yrs ago it is great.
#Notdead
I love it.
My advice for the overall strategy is to do guderians plan and go all out with the panzers on moscow and be resourceful with a few panzers to try and encircle kiev...even if kiev is a grind and takes time to encircle, you will have a huge advantage to actually take moscow with the extra panzers. After you finally take kiev and complete the encirclement, your panzers around moscow should be close or have already taken the outskirts of moscow, if not moscow outright.
By the time army group south gets to rostov on the don, your center will be super strong compared to the south and you should have leningrad and moscow or at least moscow by christmas.
The concept of this is to exploit your own weakness in the south and what the germans historically were afraid of and welcome a southern russian winter offensive to cross the don and hit your flanks and use that against them to encircle them again.
The key is to take moscow or literally be a hex or two away from taking it when they start their huge southern winter offensive. The reason for this is you want to take moscow before you rush the panzers back down south to be like a guillotine slicing off the head of their southern offensive.
Make your defense to allow a bulge of the russians and draw them into the south to stalino and even as far as kharkov. The more russian units drawn in, the more that will be encircled.
So when your panzers finally make it down there, this bulge should have a million or more russians in it and that is when you have 2k tanks or more strike down from the north right behind all that and go straight down to rostov cutting the entire thing off.
This second, more grand encirclement at the expense of one at kiev will have major implications for the russians at stalingrad and the thrust toward grozny and baku. The summer of 42' will be brutal for them without a million men that they would have had otherwise during that time.
Good luck! Exploit your own weakness against the enemy.
Any word on if you'll get a promo copy for a giveaway, possibly for those of us on Patreon who try and fund this sort of thing?
@@JClark2600 I will ask :)
@@OfficialXTRG Also, you may want to mention that slitherine has a 10% off sale for WitE2 right now. I think they said during Tea Time that the sale was a week long.
Cool video bro, did no expect WitE2 footage so soon, very interesting, very cool. Good work!
So this is where you've been the last few months...
Already preordered this and excited to get my hands on the massive hard copy manual! I gotta believe there is a reason the entire European map has the ability to be displayed. One can only speculate. Thank you for this first look - very well done!
i believe they are setting up for what if scenario's like what if rommel got to cairo...and you go from there with afrika korps going into iraq...and/or invasion from caucusus and turkey into iran/iraq.
There may even be a 45 what if scenario with ww3 and russia invading the middle east and going into africa and into western europe.
Also...this map could just be the same one they'll use for war in the west...and use it for a sealion invasion scenario and do a lot more ground aspects in war in the west.
Good to finally see War in the east 2:)
Wow, a new version of the greatest wargame of all time, covering the greatest campaign of all time! As one who purchased WitE one at release & played many Barbarossa campaigns (as well as many smaller scenarios), I've certainly followed this project with interest for some years. At first blush, it feels like the supply & air combat systems (continuations of new features seen first in WitW) are the biggest changes. Of course, through the years, there were countless OB tweaks & adjustments to every subsystem by the maintainers of WitE1.
I'm excited, I'm patient, but I have to say, I want more. For me, the dream has always been a grand, unified sim of the war unifying War in the East, War in the West, & War in the Pacific. I know I'm not the first to have had this dream, or the first to articulate it. While the great genius GG is a man of few words, istr that Joel commented on this idea in some fashion in the forums. We'll get this no time soon, if ever.
Gary is not a young man anymore, and WitE2 is maybe about his 5th take on the Ostfeldzug, counting WitE (2010), War in Russia (1993), Second Front: Germany Turns East (1990), & War in Russia (1984). The combat calculus, supply system & representations of units, equipment & chains of command are about as good as it gets. I hope that WitE2 is a great "last hurrah", but I feel that 2x3 Games must start casting its eye upon the horizon, & preparing these systems for posterity. The development team has to expand, possibly in crowd-sourced, community-driven, or even open-source directions. The scope of the project has to broaden beyond 2x3, both to quicken the development cycle as well as to realise the great destiny embedded within the "good genes" of these brilliantly-conceived, painstakingly-handcrafted & diligently-reforged systems & subsystems.
Gary's game is the greatest: greater even than him. After WitE2, it's time for 2x3 to launch that great campaign into the future, & to enlist the capable & willing (of whom there are many) in furtherance of the great objective. Many hands make light work. Thank you all, & godspeed. We await your further leadership. o/
It intrigues me that so much of Europe is on the map, it does make me wonder, why could they not open that up? especially considering War in the West..
turn those paperhands into diamonds
Very interesting perspective, GM4. The future of 2x3 is a question. I'd love for GG's bag of tricks (i.e. his design methodology) to be documented before he retires from the field.
Finally, we are waiting for this a lot of time.) Thank you, developers.
Thanks , was expecting for that!
Did anyone order the paperback 500+ page manual yet?
me
You need a general staff to play this.
omg i can't wait to see this!
I love those games where you can click on a individual soldier and know what he's had for breakfast.
No way! This is amazing
Ah this takes me back to when I first stumbled across your channel
The German pilots benefitted from eating luftwaffles daily,,, Good to know and won't get stale...
The ME line of fighters carried a small bomb load not much of a bomber.
A question about the historical situation. Knowing what the fuel situation was for Germany at the beginning of operation barbarossa, namely a reserve for no more then 4 months of operations on the east front, is this correctly represented in the game or do we have a made up value for play balance ?
I did wonder this myself, i believe it is likely the difficulty of delivering said supply over the amount of said supply that will cause a halt
1st , nice to finally see
I’m new to these games, are they easy to play I am a beginner this looks the business I’ve got company of heroes 2 I want to get gates of hell and this war in the east 2 how do you know the hotkeys and how do I start as a beginner.
You can see a list of the hot keys in the interfact, you begin like most with the smaller scenarios and lots of trial and error (read the manual too ) :)
Have I creamed my pants a little? No. I creamed a lot
ARGH! Why do interface designers keep making this same mistake?!? When it comes to presenting numbers, there are one absolutely ESSENTIAL rule:
RIGHT-ALIGN columns of numbers.
Right-aligning columns of numbers make is VASTLY easier to intuitively compare the relative values of the numbers, since for each number the 'ones' digits all line up, the 'tens' digits all line up, the 'hundreds' digits all line up, etc. If numbers are left-aligned, it becomes much harder to quickly gauge the relative values since the 'hundreds' digit might under a 'tens' digit of another number, and so on. The numbers become a jumbled mess.
Look at the screen example at 12:56 of the video. That list of personnel numbers at the airbases in the left pane is much harder to intuitively compare than it need be because the numbers are left-aligned. Or the numbers of reserve forces and total forces in the right pane.
Even worse, look at the screen at 30:18 of the video. All the numerical columns are much harder to read and compare because the numbers are all aligned to the left. In any game where you are going to spend a lot of time comparing and analyzing numbers, being able to read and compare them intuitively and clearly is hugely important. (I notice there's no thousands separator on the numbers either. That's another legibility issue.)
Why do so many game interfaces keep left-aligning columns of numbers? RIGHT-ALIGN columns of numbers. This is basic typography and legibility.
The ONLY exception would be if some of the numbers contain decimal values, in which case the column should be aligned on the decimal point.
Sorry to pick on this (small) point, but seeing interfaces constantly left-aligning columns of numbers just bugs the hell out of me.
That‘s not even the worst part. It‘s a complete mess. If you like looking at boring Spreadsheets all day, fine, but why not try to present information in a more interesting way? We‘re not in the nineties anymore. You can draw anything on the screen with modern graphics API and tables with tiny text is the best you can do? Geez... I‘m not talking about less information, it just needs better presentation.
@@QuantumComposer Oh, I know. But Gary Grisby games are (in)famous for having, shall we say, eccentric, interfaces. ;)
The left-aligned columns of numbers I see in many places. It's somewhat better when numerical columns are center-aligned, but even that is still less than optimal.
Seeing this video announce WitE II was like someone saying, 'you know that wheel they invented? well this is even better. Check out the Wheel Mk II'
I am a starter in this genre of strategy games, but I have to say this is entertaining even for someone who doesn't understand a whole lot.
Just subscribed. Keep up the good work mate!
Looking very much forward to this, this on my list of 'must have' games!! Thank you!
has moscow fallen yet?
Has a man ever commited more than you to this meme aha
Imagine if someone time traveled with a computer and this game and gave it to hitler or even better mannstein, who'd understand its significance.
So I take it you're not going to continue your last WiTE campaign? I liked that one
It crashed way too often, it was a huge pain sadly
Ah like old times
Not much seems to have changed.
It will be interesting to get into the meat of it, i feels better and frankly i was happy with what i saw. Should be fun nonetheless, wonder what DLC's may do.
@@OfficialXTRG aliens invade...ww2 is on hold..you play as both russians and germans
March 25th can't come soon enough!
Am I the only one that has a hard time understanding him at times?
Oh sorry, is it an audio issue?
As Swede I have no problems. Do you mean the mic?
@@Hassel- Hopefully not, though i might try a different set up
Will it be released on Steam?
I think no
How many people will be able to play the maximum multiplayer ?
2
@@comsubpac This will be rivalry or cooperation in multiplayer ?
@@dominikkierzkowski2190 One plays the russian side, the other one the axis.
@@comsubpac, no
Hopefully at least 2.
Never really understood rail supply. I build long lines of changed gauge rail lines and they don’t seem to provide anything. Could you talk briefly about in next video? Thanks, Jeff Griswold
Yes, i will need to read upon it more but it is very different
You are the deepest voiced Briton I’ve ever heard
Why is the video not available for download on youtube app for mobile?
I'm unsure, i have no experience of that side tbh
Same music!