Iron Cross to Max Schultz for capturing the 11 solo, striking a sentry with the butt of his gun and eliminating the rest of the guards with speed worthy of Blitzkrieg.
"I guess we have the town.....NOW WE HAVE TO DEFEND IT? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?" - Some poor German officer after receiving orders from HQ during the battle of Kursk.
German Soldier: “we were able to perfectly execute all of our objectives sir and we successfully retreated when it appear the enemy were about to overrun us.” German officer: “and how many casualties did we sustain during this mission?” Soldier: “a single aircraft and its pilot sir” Officer: “then it was a heartbreaking defeat.”
You would have thought years of playing Arma had prepared Rimmy to a strategy game where your troops don't do what you tell them to and die in stupid ways.
German Soldier:Mein Gott Fritz WTF is going on!?!?!?! And that was no battle of kursk mission kursk should have been 5 times larger and mostly the largest tank battle in history and a slugging match and a triple enemy perimeter defense set up that was a sh!*t mission close to a skirmish and a pilot which i have no idea how he got promoted but I know who to blame for it Herman Goring:Hmm this guy doesn't look promising but put him in charge of this wing im sure he'll be fine 🙃
Zeus!Rimmy: Clear the road for the tanks. The fields are covered in landmines. Also Zeus!Rimmy: Drives the tanks offroad in front of an AT gun. Players: Why? Rimmy: NOW YOU SHALL SUFFER AS I HAVE SUFFERED!
I lauged so hard when rimmy yell at the sturmtiger for shooting at only one russian soldier whit a ppsh 41 I imagine that on the real life: a commander is watching how the soviet soldiers retreats, when a big boom happens near that soviet soldier running away, and after the commander turns to see who did that, see the smoke coming out of the gun of the sturmtiger, and walks into the crew and shout at them every bad word possible
Actually, kursk german mission was a bit worse then you think. In editor, the tanks show as set for "return fire". They don't support you unless they are shot at. And as you experienced, suck at saving themselves.
"Hans the headless panzer driver" *The Panzer driver still wandering through the night, Now it's 50 years later and he still keeps up the fight* Rimmy has happened upon him in video game format lol
Ya know i get the feeling why they did not want these missions showed off before the embargo lifted..... and since they rushed the release we all get to see the mission in all its buggy/broken glory
The devs took 3 years just to finish the German and Russian campaigns for their modern rts and get the game into a semi-competitive state. Expect the same here.
These games live and die based on their multiplayer and mods, it's not even like it really matters. Regardless, all of the major bugs in the campaign have been fixed anyway.
Soldiers wildly out of position doing whatever the hell they want, nonsensical orders, enormous battles that ultimately have no point whatsoever because of events happening elsewhere...ah, it reminds me of the good-old-days when I had time to play EVE.
Kursk´s manpower and casualty ratio can be explained quite simply. The soviets were spread out between a total of 6 defensive lines, the germans got to focus their firepower.
To be fair, it sounds like almost all the problems with Kursk could be fixed by giving the player the tanks as mission-critical units. The rest is bugs, and mission length (which could arguably be a design choice).
Actually, when germans started operation, they simply did't know, that they are outnumbered. It was already too late, when they realised it. And in second half of the battle of kursk there was two big soviet counter-offensive, when soviet tried to break the german defence.
The part about Germans attacking with less men and still winning reminded me of a similar story. In 1944 on the eastern front, 20 Estonians attacked around 80 soviets in a 300 meter long trench and came out on top near the Narva river (i might be off about a few things)
The devs actually listened to feedback and fixed the kursk mission. Here's what they fixed/added. 1. No more timer 2. Improved support fire mechanic 3. Access to mortars and artillery signaler 4. Access to light tanks 5. Supporting AI artillery 6. Command of Snipers and flamethrowers
After playing the game on the hard setting, can confirm, hardest and worst mission in the game. I had to play without the fog of war just to complete it.
Kursk mission is so badly done that it almost got me to refund the game it's honestly surprising how this mission got itself into release in this state
5:53 those are the classic Red Army Cavalry Helmet/Hat, they have a proper name that I forgot about. I think they were made (or designed at least) for the Russian Empire just before the Revolution but never put into service until the Reds found them. Edit: the name is Budenovka or Fruzenka (mostly the first) It is not cavalry only, it was widely used by infantry too but I think they are more popularly associated with the cavalry (and also the Russian Civil War, rather than WW2, by which the hat was mostly not in use by regular Red Army personel).
The enemy ai at 23:40 "you see Ivan, if we throw enough people at them, then they'll run out of bullets and we'll overwhelm them" in the end, through tactical brilliance against the Germans of the eastern front, Boris got the golden star (hero of the Soviet Union)
I once said that the only way to add something fresh in WW2 game is to let players fight for loosing (current battle) side. Well then. The AI is brilliant.
Unfortunately I can probably guess the missions that are going to be in the Soviet campaign based on the style that they prefer. Stalingrad, battle of Moscow and either siege of Leningrad or clearing some European city stronghold from German army. Leningrad is more likely. Maybe Berlin or reverse Kursk. What I want to see is Brest fortress, but done good. It deserves it.
@@maxflug8008 guessed so. They have just done the most famous battles with a sprinkle of something else. Which is unfortunate. There's a lot to be told about the western front. But unfortunately I myself am guilty of not knowing a lot about my country's history. I'm more interested in the history of tech.
17:20, actual recording of German Commander after a battle on the Eastern Front stating all the problems directly to the leader himself. He was fired for insubordination 3 days later for questioning high command.
Yeah, Kursk even looks terrible. I can hardly imagine how it's was like (but sneaking through the position of t-34 was the best part of it, Alfa-legionaries were impressed).
I think there’s an issue with the games community, certain players often abuse the chat to say stuff that would get the video taken down, especially if they realize someone is recording.
I'm always reminded of that Call of Duty Classic expansion Kursk mission where you chill in the trenches, fight off waves of Germans, then a Stuka just shits itself out of the sky in a giant fire ball
Hey Rimmy! Those helmets you mentioned at 5:52 are actually "Budenovka," "Frunzenka," and officially designated as a 'broadcloth helmet.' A type of cap designed for multiple-season use, but mostly winter, with ear and cheek-flaps that fold down from the head. If you've ever played the Winter War mod for Rising Storm: Vietnam, you'll find them pretty common. They have their origins even from the Kiev Rus helmets worn by Bogatyrs and various horsemen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budenovka Also, amazing video! I've been trying to play this game but got fucked over by needing to buy the original CtA so I'll wait for a sale, hope you take care!
At the point where there were two German aircraft and one appeared to be attacking the other he could be said that the Russians stole a bf-109 and that's the one that was chasing the other bf-109
6:01 Budionovka or originally "Буденовка". Is the helmet, which Red Army used in civill war and shortly after (Polish-Soviet war). Named after first Marshall of the Red Army - Semion Budionov.
"shock release", well I guess I know what I'm playing when my hands need a rest from BattleGroup VR. Seriously, I love how the game is chock-full of those "Max Schwartz Moments", and since you say there's an ENDLESS CONQUEST MODE?! Yeah, I'm sold. Halfway through, with all the bugs: "UHH, ON SECOND THOUGHT...ARE YOU *SURE* it was a good idea to release this game?"
08:55 - "...the tanks will be _allied_ units *moving with us*." I had a flashback to every single escort mission in every game I've ever played and how every single one has been an utter disaster thanks to said "allies". Unless the AI is hard scripted with limited actions or immortality, they will find a way to pointlessly and horribly die and fail the mission. Every time.
In the battle of Kursk, the Germans wanted to do the same as the Soviet army at Stalingrad. Surround and destroy huge enemy forces. And the Germans almost got it. They broke through all lines of defense and were stopped only at the very last. Both the USSR and Germany brought all the reserves into battle. But Germany ran out of reserves earlier ... After that, Germany could no longer do anything on the eastern front.
"They keep them until they die horribly" and by die horribly I automatically assume you mean the same way I lose every infantry squad, getting caught up in the swing of things and forgetting to sweep for mines.
9:40 you don't understand how little the Soviets cared about training and equipping their men, or how little they cared for their lives. Soviet politics and bureaucracy also hindered officers in the field greatly because everyone had to suck up to their superior. If you've ever watched the TV series Chernobyl, all the ludicrous, obviously wrong things the higher ups say to make themselves look good and fuck everyone else, basically ran rampant through the entirety of Soviet society. Literally 1984 levels of 2+2=5 not 4. It's no wonder they took more casualties from a better trained, better equipped, more motivated, better led force with far more combat experience and officers that had been fighting since 1939. Not only that but commanders and a military that had ALOT of experience from WW1 and a handful of officers that had also helped shaped China's military. Any sufficiently motivated and trained force, no matter how badly equipped or supplied will put up a good fight against a superior force of peasant conscripts. Even a modern example would be that platoon of Brits (I think 20-30 guys) pinned down by 200-300 Afghani's, they ran out of ammo, fixed bayonets and charged. The Afghani's shit themselves and ran.
In the grim dark future of Rimmy - Downunder Gaming, we will always want more. So yes please. Play it whichever way you would enjoy the most I say, just so long as it’s not like mission 4 again.
3:07 that seems Historically accurate to me, as German doesn’t play games like baseball, they have less throwing than the Americans and British, that's how their grenades are designed with a wooden handle.
1:40 "The battle that follows is a very bloody one". Voice actor narrating sounds like he's either on Vicadin, morphine and ketamine all in one - or it's the most brilliant voice acting portrayal of a veteran with the "thousand yard stare" I've ever heard... (dead inside)
If you count the reserves at Kursk, German forces had significantly less men than the Soviets had and that was because German intelligence had no idea just how many men were in reserve. Also, the Soviets having a less than favorable death to kill ratio was common on the Eastern front. I believe near the end of the war it evened to 1:1 but at the start it was 6-7:1 and in the midpoint of was 2:1. The Soviets could take these losses however while German forces could not.
Kursk was bad huh...... it took me multiple hours on hard to defend that fucking mountain. Only because an idiot general wanted to put up a flag on the summit of it.
Okay, but this is genius marketing. They let people build hype with the embargo, waited till a few influences got people talking, and then did a shock release. They wouldn't have had this much exposure had they stuck to the plan.
In the Russian campaign for the original Men of War, I completed one of the Africa missions by using 88's to take out the turrets of Crusader tanks, then sending troops in, steal the tanks, repair them, then use them against the British. I had like 20 tanks by the time I advanced the mission.
Iron Cross to Max Schultz for capturing the 11 solo, striking a sentry with the butt of his gun and eliminating the rest of the guards with speed worthy of Blitzkrieg.
The Max Schwartz Award
Which one?
there was also the max schultz that called artillery on his own location and survived, then died during a one way mission to take out soviet AAA
Of course Germans can’t throw up, they train to resist that in Octoberfest
As a German, can confirm
Rimmy now knows how it feels to be a commander with idiot soldiers
Yes all germans live in bavaria
They also eat genitalia apparently. Some guys went to jail after one of them died doing that
"I guess we have the town.....NOW WE HAVE TO DEFEND IT? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?"
- Some poor German officer after receiving orders from HQ during the battle of Kursk.
German Soldier: “we were able to perfectly execute all of our objectives sir and we successfully retreated when it appear the enemy were about to overrun us.”
German officer: “and how many casualties did we sustain during this mission?”
Soldier: “a single aircraft and its pilot sir”
Officer: “then it was a heartbreaking defeat.”
You would have thought years of playing Arma had prepared Rimmy to a strategy game where your troops don't do what you tell them to and die in stupid ways.
but those arma troops can be taught to fix their mistakes and learn from them
Prepared for? no. Used to, yes.
@@shadowai9668 yet they never learn from them
Losing your mind at kursk I feel like that's what the Germans were feeling
I read that and thought
"so it's historicaly accurate"
Exactly
German Soldier:Mein Gott Fritz WTF is going on!?!?!?! And that was no battle of kursk mission kursk should have been 5 times larger and mostly the largest tank battle in history and a slugging match and a triple enemy perimeter defense set up that was a sh!*t mission close to a skirmish and a pilot which i have no idea how he got promoted but I know who to blame for it Herman Goring:Hmm this guy doesn't look promising but put him in charge of this wing im sure he'll be fine 🙃
@@codylee9705 I Did Get promoted But I only Killed 5 Tanks
@@codylee9705 but I didnt get promoted
Kind of wanna see a fustercluck of kursk now. Imagine giving Digby control of the tanks and telling him to be woefully unhelpful.
YES PLEASE SO MUCH YES
I'm on board with this.
PIN THIS!!
Zeus!Rimmy: Clear the road for the tanks. The fields are covered in landmines.
Also Zeus!Rimmy: Drives the tanks offroad in front of an AT gun.
Players: Why?
Rimmy: NOW YOU SHALL SUFFER AS I HAVE SUFFERED!
yes!!!
"So much for early access."
Operation Barbarossa summed up in 5 words...
Russian winter: now you get the full Russian experience, comrades!
But wait there's more
The Americans are sending you a free democracy plan on Africa as we speak
"Huh, there's no fog of war?"
This proved to be an omen.
I lauged so hard when rimmy yell at the sturmtiger for shooting at only one russian soldier whit a ppsh 41
I imagine that on the real life: a commander is watching how the soviet soldiers retreats, when a big boom happens near that soviet soldier running away, and after the commander turns to see who did that, see the smoke coming out of the gun of the sturmtiger, and walks into the crew and shout at them every bad word possible
Oh man... Rimmy... probably should go co-op for the Russian campaign. That way if you have to suffer again... you won't suffer alone. ;)
OUR suffering
@@ChemySh XD
Yes
God the first soviet mission goes on forever.
@@ChemySh Nothing's more true to the Soviet spirit than shared suffering.
Actually, kursk german mission was a bit worse then you think. In editor, the tanks show as set for "return fire". They don't support you unless they are shot at. And as you experienced, suck at saving themselves.
"Hans the headless panzer driver"
*The Panzer driver still wandering through the night,
Now it's 50 years later and he still keeps up the fight*
Rimmy has happened upon him in video game format lol
Very nice
Ya know i get the feeling why they did not want these missions showed off before the embargo lifted..... and since they rushed the release we all get to see the mission in all its buggy/broken glory
Yea... this feels VERY scammy
The devs took 3 years just to finish the German and Russian campaigns for their modern rts and get the game into a semi-competitive state. Expect the same here.
These games live and die based on their multiplayer and mods, it's not even like it really matters.
Regardless, all of the major bugs in the campaign have been fixed anyway.
"Germans are physically incapable of throwing up." Well, not physically impossible, we just tend to have very strong stomachs.
When you have a week-long festival solely dedicated to beer, an iron stomach comes naturally.
Irish just drink until they run out of liquor. No hangover no nothing just a whiskey colored piss
Soldiers wildly out of position doing whatever the hell they want, nonsensical orders, enormous battles that ultimately have no point whatsoever because of events happening elsewhere...ah, it reminds me of the good-old-days when I had time to play EVE.
Kursk´s manpower and casualty ratio can be explained quite simply. The soviets were spread out between a total of 6 defensive lines, the germans got to focus their firepower.
The two guys behind the burning stuG be like:
“Hans, what should we tell the commandant?”
“Don’t say shit johan, NOTHING!”
"You cant place mines IN a house, right?"
*Soviet scorched earth laughter*
To be fair, it sounds like almost all the problems with Kursk could be fixed by giving the player the tanks as mission-critical units. The rest is bugs, and mission length (which could arguably be a design choice).
Looks at video name, realizes he’s playing on the German side,
Seems historically accurate.
"JG52 has just lost their most talented commander"
Couldn't have been that talented if he got shot down...
it's luffewaffe they weren't the best pilots
Actually, when germans started operation, they simply did't know, that they are outnumbered. It was already too late, when they realised it. And in second half of the battle of kursk there was two big soviet counter-offensive, when soviet tried to break the german defence.
German army: please nerf soviets, they're hurting the Meta
The part about Germans attacking with less men and still winning reminded me of a similar story. In 1944 on the eastern front, 20 Estonians attacked around 80 soviets in a 300 meter long trench and came out on top near the Narva river (i might be off about a few things)
Or how 9 French soldiers held off 5000 Italians (with artillery support)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouvrage_Cap_Martin#Casemate_du_Pont_Saint_Louis
@@isaac3140 Only 5,000 Italians?
@@jamesharding3459 no see, there were at least 10 germans with them xD
Germans won so hard at Kursk they lost up to 1000 km of ground until the year ended
@@isaac3140 I like those odds
*the enemy is here, raise the alarm!*
*you didn't raise the alarm; **_Mission Success_*
The devs actually listened to feedback and fixed the kursk mission. Here's what they fixed/added.
1. No more timer
2. Improved support fire mechanic
3. Access to mortars and artillery signaler
4. Access to light tanks
5. Supporting AI artillery
6. Command of Snipers and flamethrowers
I dont know Rimmy, you losing your mind at Kursk is exactly how its suppossed to be... thats very historical
After playing the game on the hard setting, can confirm, hardest and worst mission in the game. I had to play without the fog of war just to complete it.
13:03 German High Command when they go around the Maginot Line.
Kursk mission is so badly done that it almost got me to refund the game
it's honestly surprising how this mission got itself into release in this state
5:53 those are the classic Red Army Cavalry Helmet/Hat, they have a proper name that I forgot about. I think they were made (or designed at least) for the Russian Empire just before the Revolution but never put into service until the Reds found them.
Edit: the name is Budenovka or Fruzenka (mostly the first)
It is not cavalry only, it was widely used by infantry too but I think they are more popularly associated with the cavalry (and also the Russian Civil War, rather than WW2, by which the hat was mostly not in use by regular Red Army personel).
The Dev's of this game really need to learn that some times less is more.
Well guess I'm getting my strategy game addiction back.
Why am I not surprised it was a timmy video that did it to me
a timmy video
timmy video
timmy video
timmy video
TIMMY
you can attack with smaller numbers as long as you’re engaging with higher numbers. concentration of forces Rimmy!
I've never heard of this game but because Rimmy is playing it I'm going to watch.
Can I also just mention how Rimmy was autocorrected to Tommy?
"Germans can't throw up" The bastards invented Oktoberfest what did you think would happen?
>fighting a battle at Kursk
>you don't get tanks under your control
B R Ü D E R
You were so angry that you did not noticed that the achievements are named with Variables instead of text.
The enemy ai at 23:40 "you see Ivan, if we throw enough people at them, then they'll run out of bullets and we'll overwhelm them" in the end, through tactical brilliance against the Germans of the eastern front, Boris got the golden star (hero of the Soviet Union)
Fun fact of the day;Germans can’t regurgitate(throw up)
I dare you to put that into ARMA and have your boys do a FAAAAAAAAR better job of the whole operation.
I once said that the only way to add something fresh in WW2 game is to let players fight for loosing (current battle) side. Well then.
The AI is brilliant.
Unfortunately I can probably guess the missions that are going to be in the Soviet campaign based on the style that they prefer. Stalingrad, battle of Moscow and either siege of Leningrad or clearing some European city stronghold from German army. Leningrad is more likely. Maybe Berlin or reverse Kursk. What I want to see is Brest fortress, but done good. It deserves it.
You are exactly right, Moscow, battle near Leningrad and at Stalingrad. But there's also partisan missions
@@maxflug8008 guessed so. They have just done the most famous battles with a sprinkle of something else. Which is unfortunate. There's a lot to be told about the western front. But unfortunately I myself am guilty of not knowing a lot about my country's history. I'm more interested in the history of tech.
17:20, actual recording of German Commander after a battle on the Eastern Front stating all the problems directly to the leader himself. He was fired for insubordination 3 days later for questioning high command.
hey Rimmy, will you ever demonstrate your small arms anti-aircraft skills in this game?
Yeah, Kursk even looks terrible. I can hardly imagine how it's was like (but sneaking through the position of t-34 was the best part of it, Alfa-legionaries were impressed).
No wonder they were like "You can only show missions 1 & 2 until the embargo drops."
"Every time I think of operation citadel my stomach churns over" -Adolf Hitler
16:10 that smile that dammed smile
Could you continue the game known as Wargame Red dragon, I liked it alot actually
It’s a great game
I think there’s an issue with the games community, certain players often abuse the chat to say stuff that would get the video taken down, especially if they realize someone is recording.
@@quox3987 oh so a shitty community you say?
@@finskiduck4200 yes it’s a very bad Community for the most part idc doe
@@skyninjaslayer337 So its a case of a great game being ruined by a shitty community.
I'm always reminded of that Call of Duty Classic expansion Kursk mission where you chill in the trenches, fight off waves of Germans, then a Stuka just shits itself out of the sky in a giant fire ball
So how many armor divisions are you doing to destroy in Kursk?
Zhukov: Yes.
"PANZER ON A LINE FORM THE WEHRMACHT'S SPINE"
@@ajollyduck "What about the man executing orders?"
I think its the other way around, the soviets lost thousands of tanks and vehicles and the germans only lost a couple hundred
@@matteusgreyling7074 yeah but did you know about how The Soviets had Numbers Supply and the ability to produce 10 tanks per 1 german tank
@@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-q6w bruh, Stalin put full factory on the T-34 and dont have green air, Soviet players smh
They listened to you
removed the timer and gave you access to mortars and some artillery support in the kursk mission
actually pretty fun now
Hey Rimmy! Those helmets you mentioned at 5:52 are actually "Budenovka," "Frunzenka," and officially designated as a 'broadcloth helmet.' A type of cap designed for multiple-season use, but mostly winter, with ear and cheek-flaps that fold down from the head. If you've ever played the Winter War mod for Rising Storm: Vietnam, you'll find them pretty common. They have their origins even from the Kiev Rus helmets worn by Bogatyrs and various horsemen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budenovka
Also, amazing video! I've been trying to play this game but got fucked over by needing to buy the original CtA so I'll wait for a sale, hope you take care!
At the point where there were two German aircraft and one appeared to be attacking the other he could be said that the Russians stole a bf-109 and that's the one that was chasing the other bf-109
I was thinking captured 109 or possibly a wingmate following him down to see where ends up and then report that in
‘It’s a single man with a PPSh, you don’t need a FUCKEN stürmpanzer!’
Well, they're right about one thing, I was 'shocked' they released it so soon and so unfinished
0:48 i thought that was rimmy doing a accent voiceover for the subtitles until he started actually talking
I would like to see how to co-op plays. Maybe with more than 1 person controlling everything it'd make life easier for you.
My first thoughts at 3:17
“Huh, so Germans don’t have a gag reflex then?”
Funfact, the Pilot (Günther Rall) later became the head of the West German Luftwaffe in 1971
6:01 Budionovka or originally "Буденовка". Is the helmet, which Red Army used in civill war and shortly after (Polish-Soviet war). Named after first Marshall of the Red Army - Semion Budionov.
"shock release", well I guess I know what I'm playing when my hands need a rest from BattleGroup VR. Seriously, I love how the game is chock-full of those "Max Schwartz Moments", and since you say there's an ENDLESS CONQUEST MODE?! Yeah, I'm sold.
Halfway through, with all the bugs: "UHH, ON SECOND THOUGHT...ARE YOU *SURE* it was a good idea to release this game?"
Me: Sitting at home with suspected COVID.
RUclips: Rimmy has a new Gates of Hell video.
Me: There is a god in heaven.
Update: I did not have Covid.
More Gates of Hell: Ostfront, Co-Op would be cool to see too.
08:55 - "...the tanks will be _allied_ units *moving with us*."
I had a flashback to every single escort mission in every game I've ever played and how every single one has been an utter disaster thanks to said "allies". Unless the AI is hard scripted with limited actions or immortality, they will find a way to pointlessly and horribly die and fail the mission. Every time.
The battle of Kursk almost reminds me of how thrawn fights in Star Wars always outnumbered but always better than the rebellion
And how he only loses because his "allies" are utterly incompetent. In this game, at least.
Same with thrawn he gets stabbed in the back in the comics but he made a clone that sadly failed
@@RedTalan sadly?
Luke in the comics said he didn’t want to kill the clone but the place collapse so the clone never even got out of the tube
And he made the empire of the hand to protect the galaxy technically
Dude I can hear you rant about just about anything and I'll enjoy myself
I'm just picturing Rimmy yelling at the Sturmpanzer at 22:42 like he's just had to deal with an idiot noob crew in Arma
In the battle of Kursk, the Germans wanted to do the same as the Soviet army at Stalingrad. Surround and destroy huge enemy forces. And the Germans almost got it. They broke through all lines of defense and were stopped only at the very last. Both the USSR and Germany brought all the reserves into battle. But Germany ran out of reserves earlier ... After that, Germany could no longer do anything on the eastern front.
Just rimmy realiseing that the nazis really did have it bad and why they lost
glad you put this vid up, having seen that kursk mission I don't think i'm gonna be buying this game. god that looked miserable.
"Expectations were high, and tank busters flew low." I like that line.
PLEASE do the other campaign! Watching you play rts is absolutely glorious!
6:22 - 6:27 best one liner I heard from Rimmy
Oh thank god, the game never changed a bit, pure mow experience :)
10:15 Maxim Shultz and his brother Maximilian Shultz
"They keep them until they die horribly" and by die horribly I automatically assume you mean the same way I lose every infantry squad, getting caught up in the swing of things and forgetting to sweep for mines.
12:08 "Right Herr Rimmy! FIRING AT THE TANK!"
9:40 you don't understand how little the Soviets cared about training and equipping their men, or how little they cared for their lives. Soviet politics and bureaucracy also hindered officers in the field greatly because everyone had to suck up to their superior. If you've ever watched the TV series Chernobyl, all the ludicrous, obviously wrong things the higher ups say to make themselves look good and fuck everyone else, basically ran rampant through the entirety of Soviet society. Literally 1984 levels of 2+2=5 not 4. It's no wonder they took more casualties from a better trained, better equipped, more motivated, better led force with far more combat experience and officers that had been fighting since 1939. Not only that but commanders and a military that had ALOT of experience from WW1 and a handful of officers that had also helped shaped China's military. Any sufficiently motivated and trained force, no matter how badly equipped or supplied will put up a good fight against a superior force of peasant conscripts. Even a modern example would be that platoon of Brits (I think 20-30 guys) pinned down by 200-300 Afghani's, they ran out of ammo, fixed bayonets and charged. The Afghani's shit themselves and ran.
You know it's bad when the tank crew requests the fucking Alphabet as ammunition
In the grim dark future of Rimmy - Downunder Gaming, we will always want more. So yes please. Play it whichever way you would enjoy the most I say, just so long as it’s not like mission 4 again.
In this mission, Rimmy is saddened by placeholder assets.
3:07 that seems Historically accurate to me, as German doesn’t play games like baseball, they have less throwing than the Americans and British, that's how their grenades are designed with a wooden handle.
Rimmy basically having the full german commander experience by going insane in krusk
Given the trajectory for call to arms, it's nice that this turned out well.
Aaaaaand then I saw the convoy mission
1:40 "The battle that follows is a very bloody one".
Voice actor narrating sounds like he's either on Vicadin, morphine and ketamine all in one - or it's the most brilliant voice acting portrayal of a veteran with the "thousand yard stare" I've ever heard... (dead inside)
If you count the reserves at Kursk, German forces had significantly less men than the Soviets had and that was because German intelligence had no idea just how many men were in reserve. Also, the Soviets having a less than favorable death to kill ratio was common on the Eastern front. I believe near the end of the war it evened to 1:1 but at the start it was 6-7:1 and in the midpoint of was 2:1. The Soviets could take these losses however while German forces could not.
The mission briefing guy sounds too much like Max0r
Anyone else realize the intro for the missions give a Call of Duty WaW feeling?
3:10 Well, I guess Germans do know how to hold their liquor, so it makes sense they don't throw up much.
When the stug opened up on the pz iv i laughed so hard xD
Kursk was bad huh...... it took me multiple hours on hard to defend that fucking mountain. Only because an idiot general wanted to put up a flag on the summit of it.
Now it is time for you to redo this mission in ARMA 3, but 10000 times better.
Okay, but this is genius marketing. They let people build hype with the embargo, waited till a few influences got people talking, and then did a shock release. They wouldn't have had this much exposure had they stuck to the plan.
Devs: The game is finished.
Kursk: Please. Kill me!
In the Russian campaign for the original Men of War, I completed one of the Africa missions by using 88's to take out the turrets of Crusader tanks, then sending troops in, steal the tanks, repair them, then use them against the British. I had like 20 tanks by the time I advanced the mission.
He’s gone clinically insane after this
Budenovka is an iconic hat from the 1917 Civil War. Red soldiers, especially cavalry, were wearing those.