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Having cleared out the MPF in Kirk today, this was my experience. 
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The worst nightmare for logistics in the game, needing to do something at a port and one of the big boy French clans is there already unloading freighters.
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Jul 30, 2021 15:52
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This game seems cool, how bad is the learning curve
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Jul 30, 2021 15:54
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DaysBefore posted:This game seems cool, how bad is the learning curve There's a lot of fiddly bits that are completely unexplained but with help it's easy to pick up. Just ask for help in the global chat and there will always be someone to point you in the right direction. Just for all that's good don't be one of the insufferable new players determined to show everyone that trenches are good, in fact. Nothing makes a frontline builder want to cry/strangle you more. Rynoto fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Jul 30, 2021 16:12
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DaysBefore posted:This game seems cool, how bad is the learning curve Not hard, you just need to ask people or find out for yourself. Hardest thing is mastering the UI.
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Jul 30, 2021 16:12
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my viewpoint on tech as frontline newbie. early stages wardens stronger due to infantry weapon superiority. Collies get ISG while wardens get RPG, pushing the balance in favor or collies, because its much harder to lose ISG while wardens pte's drop tons of tubes for collies (best scavenge trips i have picked full crate worth of rpg's from field). Light tanks on wardens again pushed things to warden favor, but that lasted only 24 hours. Collie vehicles are way stronger than warden vehicles, but it aint because of stats. Its the price point. Example i was fighting at allods and enemy tanks just kept rolling in faster than i could kill em. Literally running out of rpg shells before enemy runs out of pushing vehicles. Enemy can afford to lose 7 tanks to my rpg and it wont even stop them from pushing, Wardens cant afford that kind of negligence. Similar experience in battle of iron junction with collies wielding 14 tanks there at once. warden artillery has also been superior this war, but that is harder to quantify as frontline newbie. Overall its collies strategical/base building thats been their weakness this war when compared to last war. Which has allowed wardens to snowball a bit (until devs turned on warden nuclear winter) Another big change this war has been warden population boom during low population hours.
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Jul 30, 2021 16:46
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Spatha only cost 5rmat less than a Silverhand - 165 v 170. You see so many because they get MPF'd and handed out to anyone with a half decent pulse. MPTs caused such a rage that they've been against ballistas most wars since. Rynoto fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Jul 30, 2021 17:02
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Rynoto posted:Spatha only cost 5rmat less than a Silverhand - 165 v 170. You see so many because they get MPF'd and handed out to anyone with a half decent pulse. maybe wardens just hoard tanks for inactive clans. But yeah collies field like 10x the amount of armor wardens have. At least thats what i have been seeing in frontlines. Anti tank is effective but it does seem like collies absorb the material costs too easily.
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Jul 30, 2021 18:52
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One big thing with the Spatha at least is it's easy to use and cheap to load because it's HV40mm. While silverhands remain hands down the best main-line tank at killing other tanks they also use the significantly more expensive 68mm ammo while also only having standard 40mm which does ~half damage to structures - most importantly standalone AT turrets.
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Jul 30, 2021 20:24
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So last night we made the Chieftain which is the new Silverhand support varient with the 250 Spigot hull howitzer and dual 12.7 turret MG. And good god it was stupidly fun playing as a chunky hard to kill scout tank without a radio just mowing down the almost suicidal crater hugging Colonial infantry outside Jade Cove. Sadly the stubby hull howitzer you need to dial in rather than directly fire the thing and of course it has the comically shortest range of any artillery piece. Certainly worth teaming up with other Silverhands.
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Jul 31, 2021 11:39
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SeanBeansShako posted:So last night we made the Chieftain which is the new Silverhand support varient with the 250 Spigot hull howitzer and dual 12.7 turret MG. i drove it, and we didnt die. good job, me  (and everyone else involved who made sure we didnt die)
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Jul 31, 2021 13:58
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SeanBeansShako posted:So last night we made the Chieftain which is the new Silverhand support varient with the 250 Spigot hull howitzer and dual 12.7 turret MG. All three 250mm guns share the same range(25m)/mechanics fwiw. It has always been comically short and would be super broken otherwise
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Jul 31, 2021 14:04
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I encourage everyone here to drive a Silverhand, you will learn to suffer like I do in the tiny villages where swarms of other players do not understand to give way to the 8 tonne landship. In other news, any CAF goons read this for the love of god in the future tell your clan to baby sit the AI of your bunker bases. Tuatha is sadly doomed. Everything east of Endless now is a defensive front.
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Jul 31, 2021 14:06
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I am happy to say this game is mostly scratching that WW2OL itch I've had for a decade. Also I got in a random tank and blew away 3 collies with the revolver from the commander hatch before we blew up and that was fun
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Aug 1, 2021 16:45
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Hell, even for the brief time I get to hop on sometimes it’s a lot of fun. I had thirty minutes to spare and so I hopped on out at Mercy’s Wish and helped a guy load artillery until ammo ran out. 10/10 would toss rounds in big boom tube again.
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Aug 1, 2021 17:22
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Next few hours we will attempt to do some sort of raid and blow up bridges. How? well, we shall find out.
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Aug 1, 2021 17:27
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SeanBeansShako posted:Likewise if you suddenly get waylaid by real life and not certain you will be on as much during the campaign and if squad is very close to the limit let us know and peace out the squad (please god say in the regiment though). Yeah, you might want to remove me from THE SQUAD since I'm probably not going to be on as frequently as I should be in the next couple weeks.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:06
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Are the wardens losing again
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Aug 2, 2021 01:19
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It's been a weird night, and we're not entirely sure. We've lost most of the stuff outside our side of The Baths. But we've retaken Tuatha and Evil Eye and pushed them almost back towards Axehead. Also, our float boat raid was a success. We briefly blew a bridge and several tents and damaged some Colonial tanks!
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Aug 2, 2021 01:42
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This war is going to come down to whichever side can get the first missiles off onto a major logi hub.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:48
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 Yep, looks like the rockets will decide this one for sure. We've had a fantastic reversal over the weekend. We've retaken what we've lost, plus a little more. Some Colonial Concrete BB have been dusted. Alas it has cost us all of the CAF Storm Cannons.
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Aug 2, 2021 14:50
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I ended up picking this game up, can't determine if I'm doing more harm than good but mostly just figuring out how to do stuff and dying a lot on the frontlines. Next war I'll try and play with goons as my kid picked the game up and I was playing with him and he wasn't on the goonside and on shard 2. hopefully by then I'll have some more stuff figured out. So far I've : Gone to the frontlines and gotten murdered a few million times spent about 2ish hours while working driving back and forth from sulfur mine and picking up salvage and driving back to base, dropping them off and turning them into bmats for public consumption. No clue if I was actually helping or not but it seemed like it. Next I guess I'll figure out how to do a few things like go load artillary or when I can be a little more invested actually deliver poo poo like shirts and ammo that folks may need. One question though.. is there a good way to see what's where before I deploy, at the "login base" there's no war map, and in order to deploy in the back it's nice to know where garages and stuff are. is there something I'm missing in game or is it "go to online map and find out there"
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Aug 2, 2021 21:14
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Responded to some partisans messing up Reaching Trail's harvies and tankers. I met up with a spitfire in a LUV and we intercepted the Collies near the north border around Mousetrap and Ice Ranch. Spitfire suppressed and disabled the jeep and I ran over the passengers who panicked and exited the jeep. The hilarious part was that they had like 50-ish mags (most on the jeep, but their bodies had 5+ mags on it too) of 7.92mm in addition to the dusks and storm rifles they had on them.
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Aug 2, 2021 21:18
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tater_salad posted:One question though.. is there a good way to see what's where before I deploy, at the "login base" there's no war map, and in order to deploy in the back it's nice to know where garages and stuff are. is there something I'm missing in game or is it "go to online map and find out there" There are some tables near the deployment zone where you can see the state of the war.
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Aug 2, 2021 22:23
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tater_salad posted:I ended up picking this game up, can't determine if I'm doing more harm than good but mostly just figuring out how to do stuff and dying a lot on the frontlines. Next war I'll try and play with goons as my kid picked the game up and I was playing with him and he wasn't on the goonside and on shard 2. hopefully by then I'll have some more stuff figured out. You are doing everything perfectly right. As long as you are not blowing up your own tanks you can't really do any harm. Also, if you are on shard 2 I think you can play also on shard 1. I don't believe it locks you, so c'mon over.
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Aug 2, 2021 22:34
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Danann posted:
I always appreciate it when our enemies do our logi for us.
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Aug 2, 2021 22:35
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Danann posted:Responded to some partisans messing up Reaching Trail's harvies and tankers. I met up with a spitfire in a LUV and we intercepted the Collies near the north border around Mousetrap and Ice Ranch. Spitfire suppressed and disabled the jeep and I ran over the passengers who panicked and exited the jeep. Do magazines stack in jeeps?
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Aug 2, 2021 23:05
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Grondoth posted:Do magazines stack in jeeps? Normal small arms ones do, same as elsewhere.
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Aug 2, 2021 23:13
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Cimber posted:You are doing everything perfectly right. As long as you are not blowing up your own tanks you can't really do any harm. His kid is on Shard 2 for the moment. We use Foxhole Stats to monitor exactly where to go outside the game but you can also use the deployment table maps before heading off via the landing beaches.
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Aug 3, 2021 00:44
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Thanks.. using the foxhole stats map wasn't a big deal but I figured I was missing something. I'll have to see if I can join in on shard 1 servers As well as 2 or if I'm stuck with one or the others..
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Aug 3, 2021 01:54
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You can jump between the two servers freely. Server 2 will likely disappear eventually as population dips again.
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Aug 3, 2021 01:55
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How does it work with the second server anyway? Is it just a separate war not as many people play in?
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Aug 3, 2021 04:18
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Server 2 is an entirely seperate war that Siege Engine opens up to try and prevent wait times at region borders not exceeding more than 10 minutes for most due to the fact that regions are pop locked at maybe a 300 players each side? Oddly enough they never bother using their mutators and just clone the war on server 1. They've hinted that they are looking into making a few more regions in the next few months to ease this. Shard 2's numbers dropped after several wars as the streamer/popular thing players get worn down and or bored. While we slept, the Colonials took back some land last night sadly. Due to the shelled to hell wastelands it gets harder for people to build up defenses so chances are we'll never fully secure Iron Junction until they get pushed back hard at Godscroft.
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Aug 3, 2021 12:52
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Being on the winning end of a failed naval invasion is one hell of an experience. We slowly squeezed them into their original LZ and then they were panicking and trying to get away on their boats as the white whale was pummeled dead.
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Aug 4, 2021 07:49
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SeanBeansShako posted:While we slept, the Colonials took back some land last night sadly. Due to the shelled to hell wastelands it gets harder for people to build up defenses so chances are we'll never fully secure Iron Junction until they get pushed back hard at Godscroft. Yeah it was more of the issue that in low pop hours, there just aren't enough people to keep the AI up everywhere, so Collies were just walking up to town halls and satchelling them. It's kind of an intrinsic mechanical problem with the game. Danann posted:Being on the winning end of a failed naval invasion is one hell of an experience. We slowly squeezed them into their original LZ and then they were panicking and trying to get away on their boats as the white whale was pummeled dead. Haha I ran a truck full of gas grenades and other needed supplies down to the Baths TH in the middle of that. Looks like it got mopped up pretty quickly.
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Aug 4, 2021 08:32
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We menaced attempts at raids or probing at Danaan coastline by just being around in the Chieftain. Apologies in advance for any who recently joined us and log in to find themselves out the squad, you are still in the guild/clan/regiment system now. We just have hit the active numbers for the squad and need to rotate those not present out.
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Aug 4, 2021 16:34
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We have fun in the trenches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FldWTwVUjT4
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Aug 4, 2021 17:23
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah it was more of the issue that in low pop hours, there just aren't enough people to keep the AI up everywhere, so Collies were just walking up to town halls and satchelling them. It's kind of an intrinsic mechanical problem with the game. This is why it feels like making the front even wider is a poor solution for increased population, you're just spreading encounters even thinner.
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Aug 4, 2021 18:36
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Volmarias posted:This is why it feels like making the front even wider is a poor solution for increased population, you're just spreading encounters even thinner. Exactly -- and this is with a big population surge. The last few wars were much lower pop, and Collies would make huge gains in ground every night just by virtue of having active clans in Russia and China who could PvE the front during low-pop times.
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The increase of regions would ease some of the numbers which better than none, sadly the night cap PVP thing is an entirely a different problem with no east solution, the best they can is at least make building static defenses easier and harder to dislodge. Unless a Chinese/Aussie/Russian streamer shows up night cap numbers will always be a thing.
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