Steel Division 1944 (by wargame red dragon devs) in game trailer and unit stream

[-budd-]

Watch a battle replay of a skirmish with fog of war off - you'll see the ai place troops, all the starting pieces he uses and then his moves

How do you view a replay of a battle? I've missed that completely.  ???

Profile>replay

[acctingman]

I haven't seen a definitive answer for this but are you able to create the AI deck and fight against it?

[Barthheart]

Watch a battle replay of a skirmish with fog of war off - you'll see the ai place troops, all the starting pieces he uses and then his moves

How do you view a replay of a battle? I've missed that completely.  ???

Profile>replay

Thanks! That works.
Just can't rewind when watching the replay.... can speed up and slow down but no rewind.....

[sandman2575]

I haven't seen a definitive answer for this but are you able to create the AI deck and fight against it?

yes

[-budd-]

Watch a battle replay of a skirmish with fog of war off - you'll see the ai place troops, all the starting pieces he uses and then his moves

How do you view a replay of a battle? I've missed that completely.  ???

Profile>replay

Thanks! That works.
Just can't rewind when watching the replay.... can speed up and slow down but no rewind.....

Kinda of a bummer when you want to get nice screenie.

[MengJiao]

, but normandy was mostly flat...

   I looked at the game videos.  Normandy might have had some flat areas, but it also had rolling hills, crucial ridges and some highlands (eg. Mount Pinchon and the massif around it) as well as steep valleys and Germans who did not have Firefly tanks.  What's up with that?  It even has a 17-point penetration factor (as in the actual Firefly had a 17 pdr gun).  I kind of like the maps, but Normandy wasn't flat.

[jomni]

Germans seem to love the Firefly.
https://m.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/27-images-captured-sherman-tanks-german-hands.html

[MengJiao]

Germans seem to love the Firefly.
https://m.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/27-images-captured-sherman-tanks-german-hands.html

  Interesting!  I wonder if the game will have a variety of options for capturing equipment and using it.   For example, you could recapture ex-French tanks from the Germans etc., bicycles from bicycle Grenadiers and so on.

[Jarhead0331]

In one skirmish battle, I received a notification that a Panther had been captured when the crew surrendered. I wonder if in a campaign game, it would have been added to the players OOB.

[JudgeDredd]

What's the general consensus on this. I'm kind of tempted.

[mirth]

I'm kind of tempted.

It's good to have you back, JD  O0

[sandman2575]

What's the general consensus on this. I'm kind of tempted.

I think it's excellent. More manageable than Wargame for me -- I'm finding I mostly play SD44 on "Normal" speed, something I definitely don't do in Wargame. Obviously not a ton of content currently available in the Beta, but what's there is certainly worth playing, and all of it points to a game that, when fully released next month, could be really extraordinary.

[Barthheart]

What's the general consensus on this. I'm kind of tempted.

I think it's excellent. More manageable than Wargame for me -- I'm finding I mostly play SD44 on "Normal" speed, something I definitely don't do in Wargame. Obviously not a ton of content currently available in the Beta, but what's there is certainly worth playing, and all of it points to a game that, when fully released next month, could be really extraordinary.

I agree with this. I never got into the previous ones but this one is good fun. Can't wait for the rest of the content.... and maybe a rewind function on the replay....

[RyanE]

I look at this one like I do Red Dragon; a competitive/balanced platform with historical flavoring vs a striving to be historical/realistic platform like CM, Graviteam, or Steel Beasts.  It is built to have balanced teams fight each other with somewhat realistic units.

If you question like why a unit is using this or that ammo, if the armor on a Panther V A-late model is undermodeled, or was XXX regiment even in Normandy, then you probably won't enjoy the game.

If you just like fighting with units with somewhat realistic capabilities on equal footing and balanced, this is the game for you.

[Barthheart]

, but normandy was mostly flat...

   I looked at the game videos.  Normandy might have had some flat areas, but it also had rolling hills, crucial ridges and some highlands (eg. Mount Pinchon and the massif around it) as well as steep valleys and Germans who did not have Firefly tanks.  What's up with that?  It even has a 17-point penetration factor (as in the actual Firefly had a 17 pdr gun).  I kind of like the maps, but Normandy wasn't flat.

The maps, well at least the Point-Du-Hoc map is not completely flat. Last night playing around with the replay I was able to do a "ride along" with one of my scout cars at ground level and there are definitely rises and rolling terrain that block LoS. I think before I setup my next battle I'll get down to ground level and prowl around f the map for a bit looking for interesting terrain....