How to fight at close range in the forest: Step one; choice the flamethrower. step two: burn the F forest. How to fight in the forest with rifle squads. step one; put a recon vehicle with a machinegun in your squad unit. step two; proceed to make swiss cheese.
i have noticed how different ranged weapons in a squad can hinder it engage enemies effectively. A begleit grenadier will auto engage an enemy at 500 meters, but most of its firepower comes to play at 300 meters. It gets crushed in any 500 meter matchup vs a good rifle squad. Leader units with a sniper tend to engage random units only to get spotted and bombed. You could put the unit on return fire, but i find it easier to just disable the lmg or sniper until theyre in range of the rest of the squad. The sthurmoviki for example mixes a lmg with 7 submachine guns and a tnt.
For certain hybrid units, you are absolutely correct. They can vary significantly in effectiveness based on the ranges they find themselves engaging. Very important for maximizing your troops
Duuude how am I just NOW seeing your videos? I’ve been playing Eugen games for years! Anyway, I just wanna say that you’re a natural and I can easily see you among the greats e.g. Razzman/Stealth17/BoltSauce etc. etc.
New sub here! Just wanted to express my thanks for all your time and effort with respect to the many tutorials for SD 2. Returning back to SD 2 after some time away, as got distracted by PVP only games like World of Tanks, which I currently suck at btw due current matchmaking issues, OP tanks played by unicums, etc.; so back to a military game I have some control over and has a great support network of tutorials made by people like you and Vulcan to help beginners get better at the game. Keep up the great work, sir! :)
It's very useful knowing that assault types of 500m+ shouldn't fight in dense forests and the stuff on flamers but after that I'm not sure if you were specific enough, you mentioned other e¡weapons and units with "they can kill things", "they are powerful", etc nebulous terms that to a noob like me isn't very instructive :(
@@atkpwrgaming Thank you for teaching! Can I ask, how on earth are players supposed to learn these intricacies? Do game developers think "some youtuber will show them how our games work"? How did you learn these small but important details? I feel I'm left with no tools to learn for myself, there are no useful reports, stats, training scenarios, etc that would allow me to figure out "these units vs those units suck". Do I make sense and if yes how should I go about this?
Commandos are actually buggin tho, i had a Rm Commando rifle squad 3 vet, Rm commando assault squad 3 vet, and commando piat 3 vet, with a supply truck moving with them, they were worth my whole fighting force, i later added a commando leader, vickers, and RM abbot of chantry (or some other tank) and this was an unstoppable force, its only weakness was long range AT guns and arty
Hey , just starting out sd2 got it on sale i have absolutely no idea where to start , i have Played rts like eu4 but wanted to jump in sd2 , any idea where should i start with 0 knowledge.
I have a video for your first day in sd2 😁 I would check out my tutorials for controls and stuff. Watch some of my games both live and casted. And then hop into a skirmish with the AI and go from there!
7:23 That doesn't make sense, the damage meter of the straight pull is 1.1 where as for the semi auto it's 0.3, everything else is the same with rpm on the straight pull being significantly higher. How is the semi auto better?
That’s based on the number of rifles in the squad. The damage scales up based on the number of rifles. All things being equal the semi auto is the strongest
It would be worth to menton that German Disheartended troops loose their "debuff" when there is a Feldgendarmerie unit within range (Military Police unit with trait Discipline). Personally when I have to use Disheartended troops to cover front line I always try to put Leader + Feldgendarmerie behind them.
Absolutely true. On a side note though the value of disheartened troops is actually the fact they automatically retreat. The majority of the time you want your troops to fallback immediately anyways
Well it has a good combination of solid troops. It struggles with 2k range units though and it is very possible to bully their infantry with longer range infantry and light armor
@@atkpwrgaming Thanks! I tried out my 3rd Fallshirmjager against them and get annihilated every time. They spam their rangers ande demo squads and that nukes my infantry. The M10 and M18 have the same range as my Stugs and even though I can enjoy air superiority, the Ju88s are usually too weak to kill their infantry.
The problem I find with this kind of rts games that root back from classic game like coh, is that against Ai, the Ai will cheat with more numbers, against player, most will spam with cheap units in the opening or stick with it till the end.. Kinda same boring programming.
Useful indeed, although seeing it implemented in an actual game would have been even better.
Check out the how to get good infantry micro tutorial. It has video and in game explanations
@@atkpwrgaming Thanks!
How to fight at close range in the forest:
Step one; choice the flamethrower.
step two: burn the F forest.
How to fight in the forest with rifle squads.
step one; put a recon vehicle with a machinegun in your squad unit.
step two; proceed to make swiss cheese.
Haha there you go you mastered steel division 2 infantry
This game has a huge learning curve.
It really does, that why I tried to make it smaller :)
I did not know 80% thank you for the actual useful info about the game and then tactics to play with it great
Absolutely, so glad it helped! Feel free to check out the others!
i have noticed how different ranged weapons in a squad can hinder it engage enemies effectively. A begleit grenadier will auto engage an enemy at 500 meters, but most of its firepower comes to play at 300 meters. It gets crushed in any 500 meter matchup vs a good rifle squad. Leader units with a sniper tend to engage random units only to get spotted and bombed. You could put the unit on return fire, but i find it easier to just disable the lmg or sniper until theyre in range of the rest of the squad. The sthurmoviki for example mixes a lmg with 7 submachine guns and a tnt.
For certain hybrid units, you are absolutely correct. They can vary significantly in effectiveness based on the ranges they find themselves engaging. Very important for maximizing your troops
Duuude how am I just NOW seeing your videos? I’ve been playing Eugen games for years!
Anyway, I just wanna say that you’re a natural and I can easily see you among the greats e.g. Razzman/Stealth17/BoltSauce etc. etc.
Same lol
Thank you so much, this means a lot! I would love to get there one day!
New sub here! Just wanted to express my thanks for all your time and effort with respect to the many tutorials for SD 2. Returning back to SD 2 after some time away, as got distracted by PVP only games like World of Tanks, which I currently suck at btw due current matchmaking issues, OP tanks played by unicums, etc.; so back to a military game I have some control over and has a great support network of tutorials made by people like you and Vulcan to help beginners get better at the game. Keep up the great work, sir! :)
Thank you so much! Thrilled to hear it helped!
Really helpful video. You got yourself a sub!
Thanks so m much glad I could help!
It's very useful knowing that assault types of 500m+ shouldn't fight in dense forests and the stuff on flamers but after that I'm not sure if you were specific enough, you mentioned other e¡weapons and units with "they can kill things", "they are powerful", etc nebulous terms that to a noob like me isn't very instructive :(
I will be remaking this so hopefully it will be more instructive for you. Thanks for watching!
@@atkpwrgaming Thank you for teaching! Can I ask, how on earth are players supposed to learn these intricacies? Do game developers think "some youtuber will show them how our games work"? How did you learn these small but important details? I feel I'm left with no tools to learn for myself, there are no useful reports, stats, training scenarios, etc that would allow me to figure out "these units vs those units suck". Do I make sense and if yes how should I go about this?
Great videos. Has helped me alot! Keep it up
Thanks so glad to hear they helped you!
This video is actually listenable :)
Im glad it works for you!
Nice, im very fond of infantry.
Glad I could help!
Good info, well delivered Thanks mate :)
Absolutely thanks for watching! Check out the whole series for lots of tips and tricks
Please make more of these good info videos, subbed
Thanks so much! There is a whole series of these, check out the playlists on the channel!
Commandos are actually buggin tho, i had a Rm Commando rifle squad 3 vet, Rm commando assault squad 3 vet, and commando piat 3 vet, with a supply truck moving with them, they were worth my whole fighting force, i later added a commando leader, vickers, and RM abbot of chantry (or some other tank) and this was an unstoppable force, its only weakness was long range AT guns and arty
Yeah commando is very strong, do not underestimate it
Solid video :)
Thanks a bunch!!
Hey , just starting out sd2 got it on sale i have absolutely no idea where to start , i have Played rts like eu4 but wanted to jump in sd2 , any idea where should i start with 0 knowledge.
I have a video for your first day in sd2 😁 I would check out my tutorials for controls and stuff. Watch some of my games both live and casted. And then hop into a skirmish with the AI and go from there!
@@atkpwrgaming thank you so much and appreciate your advice looking forward to your videos 🫶🏼
1:18 i think that would be a knife
That would be a cool feature in the game haha
Do they use their diffrent weapons on their own or do i hv manually activate them ?
They use all possible weapons whenever an opponent is in the appropriate range
nice video mate
Thanks so much! Hope it helped!
7:23 That doesn't make sense, the damage meter of the straight pull is 1.1 where as for the semi auto it's 0.3, everything else is the same with rpm on the straight pull being significantly higher. How is the semi auto better?
That’s based on the number of rifles in the squad. The damage scales up based on the number of rifles. All things being equal the semi auto is the strongest
@@atkpwrgaming oh riiiiiight, thanks it makes sense now. Your 'How not to suck' series has been immensely helpful for learning The game! Good work
@@Ahmed-157 glad to hear it! Thanks so much!
How do you know the min. firing range?
Nothing in game tells you. I know from playing the game at a high level for years and discord. All LMG and HMG have a 100m min firing range
It would be worth to menton that German Disheartended troops loose their "debuff" when there is a Feldgendarmerie unit within range (Military Police unit with trait Discipline). Personally when I have to use Disheartended troops to cover front line I always try to put Leader + Feldgendarmerie behind them.
Absolutely true. On a side note though the value of disheartened troops is actually the fact they automatically retreat. The majority of the time you want your troops to fallback immediately anyways
That's quite close range if it's 150mm range. Better use a sword or a kitchen knife instead.😅
Yeah sorry about that haha
1:20 it's 150 meter(s), a milimeter is 1000 times smaller than a meter, great video btw
Thanks a bunch!
I was thinking that 150mm is more in the knife-range area.
How do you beat the US Indianhead division?
Well it has a good combination of solid troops. It struggles with 2k range units though and it is very possible to bully their infantry with longer range infantry and light armor
@@atkpwrgaming Thanks! I tried out my 3rd Fallshirmjager against them and get annihilated every time. They spam their rangers ande demo squads and that nukes my infantry. The M10 and M18 have the same range as my Stugs and even though I can enjoy air superiority, the Ju88s are usually too weak to kill their infantry.
@@paintingwithmartin well 3rd fsj is a pretty weak division these days, at least comparably to 2nd ID
@@atkpwrgaming What do you think of 12th S-S? or a good German division to counter 2 ID?
Would sapari beat an assault class infantry squad?
Usually it would win because of the satchel
@@atkpwrgaming thank you!
The problem I find with this kind of rts games that root back from classic game like coh, is that against Ai, the Ai will cheat with more numbers, against player, most will spam with cheap units in the opening or stick with it till the end.. Kinda same boring programming.
That’s why you play multiplayer. It’s awesome that way