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

[jomni]

Not sure if this has been mentioned already but Smoke is your friend. The most effective way to block LOS is to fire the smoke onto the unit you're trying to block. Then just rush with infantry.

Haven't had a chance to try that smoke plane the Free French division has yet.

Will try that I do it on occasion but not all the time.

[Yskonyn]

A little late to the party, but I got this game gifted to me.  :bd:
Excited to start playing in the coming days.

[JasonPratt]

Drop me a line on Steam (Sabreman, I'm on your Grog friend list), and I'll be glad to help out and mp (coop or vs).

[Destraex]

Do we have a grog discord?

[JasonPratt]

Don't know, but several of us have Discord accounts.

[Jarhead0331]

There is no official Gorgheads Discord channel, but I will look into setting one up if there is a real interest.

[Destraex]

Ok, so I will explain why I use discord exclusively now and have for over a year.

1. It's Free. No server charges, unlimited people in your channel.
2. Takes 5 minutes to setup. There is a client which I recommend or there is a web version.
3. Voice is a lot clearer than teamspeak generally.
4. It's specifically made for gamers
5. Anybody in the group can invite anybody in to a channel within your group with the click of a plus button. This makes administration and adding temp people for quick games. E.g. Say somebodies brother wanted to join for a game but was not specifically part of the group. Any member can click add and boom, you are in business. Invites are usually direct to the channel they need to be in. So no confusion trying to navigate around... of course the admins can kick or purge or create rules that only allow certain people into particular channels as well as the usual promoting of officers.
6. You can turn individual peoples volume up and down at your end, so if somebody is loud you can turn them down. This saves me from the one guy in the channel who wants to deafen me. Not sure if TS had this, but in discord its as easy as right clicking on the gent in question and pulling a slider.


A Picture. From left to right you can follow in general largest to smallest.
i. On the far left at the top you can see the two GROUPS I am currently a member of.
ii. You can see I am in the group with the Anchor symbol
iii. Slightly to the right along that column are the voice and text channels. I am in the General Chat channel while being in the pls say hi when joining voice channel.
iv. Further to the right you can see the general text channel and scroll through all of its history for years!
v. Note that I can be speaking in general chat for the anchor symbol channel while texting in the battlestar channel above it. So I can be doing BETA test chat while speaking to my friends on another channel.
vi. A little further to the right is a list of friends. These people may be members of any channel or none at all. I have people from other clans here and always know when they are online. Often what game they are playing is shown here. A little like steam. Say I see 2RC4U is online and know he is playing mech because it says that next to his name. I can then scroll to the mech channel which he is likely to be in and click to join him and say g'day.

As you can see Discord has a tonne of flexibility, is built for gamers and is free. No server renting. You get as many as you want for free. Voice quality is great. You can even change the country your server is hosting in at will. Which I often do for people overseas who have poor internet. So they can speak more clearly without dropping. I know some people with VERY bad internet.

P.S. The program also supports private group calls like skype outside of the normal structure mentioned. i.e. their is a telephone button to call people on the friends list.

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[Tuna]

So how do they make money?

[Destraex]

Probably by stealing your details. Like Skype does.  :arr:
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/210544537-How-is-Discord-making-money-How-can-I-contribute-

[Barthheart]

I've had no problem using Steam voice chat for Steam games.

[Tuna]

I struggle with Steam's quality, being on the deaf side.

[Yskonyn]

Wow, this game takes no prisoners.
We tried a simple 2vs2 battle against 2 easy AI's.
Even considering my mate is not really well versed in tactics and weapons capabilities, I too learned a lesson in humility!
We successfully took a town, but it evolved in a stalemate pretty soon where the AI was constantly assaulting us from 2 sides, effectively stopping us in gaining more map control while it sat comfortably on its 68% mapspace owned.
A flanking attempt by my quickly revealed that the AI had a garrison in the other town as well. Impressive!

[jamus34]

Well considering my job has been shit the past 3 weeks I might reward myself and pick this up tonight

[JasonPratt]

It's pretty great and, IMO, well worth full asking price -- IF this type of game appeals to you (RTS with simple controls, deep roster of units, lots of units deployed to scale on a large map, WW2.)

[jamus34]

It's pretty great and, IMO, well worth full asking price -- IF this type of game appeals to you (RTS with simple controls, deep roster of units, lots of units deployed to scale on a large map, WW2.)

Let me ask this, is it more accessible than the wargame series predecessors?