War in the East - Basic Tutorial (Part 1 - Getting Started)
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2021
- This is a basic tutorial for Gary Grigsby's War in the East. It is meant to guide the new player of this all-time classic wargame
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Thank God! I got this on discount after Christmas and I have no idea where to start...this is fantastic!
Go East!
@@KrolPotato lol. rush B (B - means Berlin).
@@Pvt.Conscriptovich That's true: that's another option.
we are in the same boat !
airfield bombing!!!
I bought this game a few years ago and was never able to figure it out. Thanks to this series and a few other videos I have now a foundational understanding. This series has deepened my level of clarity to where I can actually play this and know what I'm doing. Thank you SG Dojo!
Love the comprehensive overview on offer here.
It's encouraging that you stress to new players that the game is not as impenetrable as it looks at first blush. I picked it up out of curiosity and immediately felt intimidated by all the info screens. Nice to hear that you don't need to know every granular detail upfront in order to learn & play.
Thanks so much for this series!
Great, I have been waiting for this since the first WitE video. Thanks for doing this.
No problem!
Don't forget to hold shift key and hover over your units to attack with multiple units from multiple hexes at once.
I didn't realize this til 13 turns in lol
Excellent start...looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thank you so much for doing this in such great detail. I never played the game but want to learn WitE2 when it comes out. Your series is great to learn how such games work and to cover the waiting time until end of March. Cheers!
Glad I could help. Thanks for the kind words
I thank you so much for giving these tutorials.
I bought WITPAE a long time agon and never been able to get into it. Because of the learning curvel.
Then I bought WITE and WITW and never been able to get into it. Same reason.
Then I found your channel and it is OUTSTANDING !!
I started WITE thanks to you and hope to learn WITW and WITPAE in the future.
My mother langage is French and I sometimes struggle to understand some people speaking in English. Because of their accent, of because they speak too fast. I am not bilingual you know.
BUT :
- your English is very clear. You do not speak too fast for me to understand. I understand everything very easily.
- the way you teach this game is very clever. ( I assume you are a teacher in real life !? )
- your explanations are very clear.
This is definitely what I missed to get into these wargames.
Thank you mate. You can't image how much I appreciate your work !
You have a fan from Belgium ;-)
Thank you for doing this. It is very helpful and entertaining!
Always love a 13 part, 12+ hour 'Basic Tutorial' 😀 Great stuff. I never had time to dive into War in the East . . . but now with War in the East 2 coming . . . might finally dig in!
I get the impression so far a good deal of the 12 hours are going to be digressions on real life events, Hitler's ambitions, and other discussions of history, but looking forward to this nevertheless ;).
Thank you! I bought this game and have played several runs of it without really looking at any tutorials, so this really helps!
Excellent video - please carry on
Man, I'm so happy to have discovered your channel. I love the way you break things down, and add a bit of historical context. I wish you did HOI3 back in the day. I'm still struggling with that monster.
Thanks for these tutorials, much appreciated.
Thank you for this series!
Very educative. After all these years, I'm planning to buy WarInTheEast1, this will help!
Have been a veteran Avalon Hill cardboard map game player since the 70s, I bought this and just played auto against computer and was able to figure things out and play it. A lot more going on under the hood though. Takes a few hours to understand half of it. Great game though. I only play Barbarossa as the Soviets.
Just found your channel and can't believe the titles you cover. All my favourites!! Was really looking for some recent content and here you are. Thanks. Instant sub.
Great! Glad you like them and we have the same taste in games
To clarify what he means about the Russian rail system: Soviet railways have their tracks closer together, so to use the Soviet railways,, somebody had to go relay the track so it would be wide enough apart for European trains. In some places, the Germans did capture Russian railway engines and cars, and so were able to use the captured railways if they were not sabotaged, but usually engines and cars were evacuated ahead of the German army except in the first few days when the Germans were able to move so fast.
Thanks for the tutorial. I will be playing this game and post on my channel once I feel confident of mastering the gameplay. Will give shoutout since I will be using your tutorial to help myself learn this complicated game.
Thanks for the content!
Thank you very much with this tutorial I can finaly star playing this game which is in my libary for years now but I never found the time to really learn it
Great tutorial, thank you! :)
Thanks for making such a great and detailed introduction to this game! It's been on my Steam wishlist for ages but I've been reluctant to pull the trigger due to being afraid it's too complex and time-consuming.
what a massive undertaking explaning the game with biggest manual i have owned
Thanks SGD. Just starting out & heavily dependant on you!
I remember playing this when it a SSI game. I used to play test for them a very long time ago.
thanks m8, wonderful work. about the different size for the russian railroads, i have read somewhere that it was made so on purpose specifically to make it more difficult for an enemy to invade.
I've had this game for a while but didn't get into it, these guides should help. I'm a Gary Grigsby fan going way back to the mid 1980s and games like Kampfgruppe and Carrier Force from SSI and Steel Panthers in the late 90s. I'm looking forward to his grand scale wargames.
Superb job!! Yes, ||| that is a regiment. X is a brigade. | - company, || - battalion, XX - division, XXX - Corps (silent ps), XXXX - army, XXXXX - army group
I've had this and witw for years and I have been unable to get into it despite so many attempts to do so. The other tutorials didn't help so I have high hopes for this bc I am desperate to learn it.
How did you get the game to scroll so smooth? My scrolling is snappy
34:00 I am as a Russian can Explain this It was Builded on Porpuse from Tsar Niclas the Frist because he understood as a Ingeneer very well that Railways could be used by the Enemy thats why he made a Special Different Norm that the Enemy of the West cant use the Railways. After the Crimean War thats why the Soviet Keept it because why change something when it worked and still works.
Thank you.
I didnt understand production in this game manual or automatic ?
The 87 is the Stuka. Everything else is great, love this game.
Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're welcome!
Instant subscribe. Between this and the John Tiller videos, I am hooked. Could you go over which method you used to learn these games yourself? It would also be interesting to know the correct, updated manual to use for reference.
Lots of trial and error ;) Actually, I like to read rulebooks so that does give me an advantage. That comes from a long time playing board games where you have little choice. For WitE there should be a button (at least on Steam) that says "Updated Manual" that is always kept up to date
Agreed, love the game mechanics with JT PzC games. Just got France40 during their winter sale ... it's a behemoth!
@@clausbohm9807 Great game! I have most of the PzC & MC titles. The only thing I wish could change about them would be to make the turn/ playing system WEGO rather IGOUGO. I'd have really liked to seen that applied to WitE 2 as well but still looking forward to it.
Exactly what Mr pokeytrev said!
Cool, I just got this game a few weeks ago and hadn't had the time to play it ... looking forward to this video! I wonder how you would compare this with Decisive Campaign Barbarossa? @ 16:04 Actually the delay was caused by the ill fated italian attack on the Greeks. The Balkans campaign (Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete) had taken center stage. Aso it kinda didn't matter due to the rains creating a lot of mud that spring so Hitler may have waited anyway.Thanks for the effort, will look forward to your next video!
Good points. DC Barbarossa has more roleplaying aspects while this is the best flat out combat simulation imo
start small with the scenarios and get comfortable with the different army groups...then go big with bitter end :P It really does help!
A brilliant opening tutorial. It's tricky knowing where to start when explaining a game of this depth, but the overview approach, and historical background was succinct and well pitched. I have put the best part of 100 hours in this game already, but thought I'd have a refresher as I've not played for a while. I was expecting to simply skip through this, but enjoyed watching the lot. Thanks.
Great stuff! What program do you use for overlays?
I cannot read any of the numbers on the databases even when the game is on my own computer. I'm thinking of getting a magnifying glass, but that is going to be very awkward gameplay.
"See these infinity signs" he says, when the counters themselves are tiny brownish dots on the map.
Ten minutes later he says you can see the armor symbols here" When once again all that is visible on screen is a small (blue?) dot. Does DOJO have a six-foot wide monitor?
Very nice / interesting video, thank you very much ! Is "war in the East 2" a standalone game or we need first to purchase "War in the East" please ?
Dumb question, but what software do you use to draw the lines when discussing, say, AGN?
the Russian railway are set to 5' gauge the rest of Europe uses 4'8 1/2" gauge, annoying just close enough that you can't just a a 3rd rail to run the different trains on each others tracks. you have to pull up one rail and move it in or out and then fix it back down
Ive played the full campaign as the Germans many many times.
I feel the difficulty levels are off a little.
Normal is too strong and easy is too weak.
I feel a good difficulty is somewhere between easy and normal if you are trying to recreate historical difficulty
This guy has confused the twin engine Ju-88 medium bomber with the classic Ju87 Stuka dive-bomber.
Thanks for the intro video. Would you recommend any mods? I know a lot of people swear by map mods.
I use: COREd_WitE_1_2 and MapMod for War in the East. All form Matrix Forum.
@@msyringe Thanks! Edit: Is COREd compatible with other mods? i specifically want to include a leader portrait mod and historical flags.
Hey Evil Six - As you can see I'm not using a mod for this tutorial as I find the graphics of the stock game clear and crisp (unlike WitP). I do know there are map mods by Jitson that are popular if you search the forum
They just released war in the east 2. I can't keep up haha.
On normal, I have baku and all of the caucus. I have guriev port. I am at the doorstep of Ufa. I am at the doorstep of Kirov. I am in the dense super forests of the north in no man's land. It is November 5th, 1942. Stalingrad is many miles behind me. Moscow is even further of miles behind me. Kiev is practically Berlin.
I have killed 10.5 million russian soldiers. I have lost 2.5 million soldiers. I have lost 8k tanks. Russia has lost 43k tanks.
Most of my panzer divisions have half of their afv's russian t-34 designs. I just took them all from them. I have 4k t-34b's 1942 at my disposal in the hands of guderian.
I crushed the russians.
The secret? Never f'ing up on my rail lines. And an even larger encirclement outside rostov don after the encirclement outside kiev. The russians did their winter offensive in the south and drove me back quite a bit but from the north of their pocket I had reinforced 1.5k tanks blitzkrieging and they were like a hot iron rod through butter and cut straight through their large offense cutting off over a million russians and encircling them.
After that, it was downhill from there. The door to the caucus was open, russians in crimea fled, and nobody was there to defend stalingrad or gozny and baku. Operation fall blau was a wild success as a counter offense to the russian winter one.
As of right now, I have 3 million germans soldiers fresh on the battlefield with a f ton of oil and fuel coming in. They won't have to worry about shortages of anything. Rail lines secured. Practically the entire place is replaced rail because of okh and hq's in key spots.
The russians only have 1.4 million on the battlefield now. Most of their entire industrial, resource and supply base is wiped out. Their oil and fuel production, wiped out. A lot of their air production, wiped out.
All they have is t34 production at its minimum.
The only thing the russians have going is the damn mud of november right now. I am actually wanting snow because I can at least attack better than 1 and actually move!
By summer of 43, game over. The rest of russia will be conquered. Then for the next ooober turns I will just be sitting there until the end because I did bitter end.
And my 20 tiger tanks out there are doing a fantastic job!
SO ITS JUST LIKE HEARTS OF IRON?
Only thing thats bothering me is that you keep referring to the USSR as Russia.
Ah, good point. I guess like many people in the west I conflate the two, but I will correct that starting next episode
Good job. I played over 600 hours but haven't for a year. This was a great refresher. So looking forward for WITE2. BTW. Did you ever play the old War in the East board game from the 70s? I think SSI made it. Might have even been a Grisby game. It's the one that got me hooked on war games in high school. I'm an old school wargamer. Cheers.
Glad you are enjoying them
Excellent. Glad I found this series, it may well be the way that I finally get into playing WITE. I'll also be checking out your Tiller series - I've been holding off on those games too.
BTW your pronunciation of the city names is pretty damn good, but you might want to check this out - ruclips.net/video/EkF3IRdkeEY/видео.html
17 minutes into this video narrator has still not said anything specific. He apparently thinks his audience has never heard of world war II before.
All of this could've been said in 15min
Excellent. Where can I find your 15 minute video?
Omg, 10min into and still nothing but endless rumbling....move to Germania, they will teach ya some efficiency
So much gabbing before any instruction starts that I am very tempted to give up and demand a refund for the game.
no offense but i came for a game lesson, not a history one. first 15 mins and not 1 game mechanic explained.