More DLC for Graviteam Tactics...

[Grim.Reaper]

What I would really love is if one of the experts who play this series could do a detailed walk thru or AAR of it since I always get confused on how to setup and play this game.  I know there is a good game lurking in here, but I think someone needs to help get it out of its shell:)

[Jarhead0331]

What I would really love is if one of the experts who play this series could do a detailed walk thru or AAR of it since I always get confused on how to setup and play this game.  I know there is a good game lurking in here, but I think someone needs to help get it out of its shell:)

SDR is your man.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Ha!   

I'm pretty much the General Burnside of this game.  Most of the time, I have only a nebulous idea of what I'm doing.  (I still don't really know what the difference is between the attack command vs the assault command.). The rest of the time i have no idea.  I just click buttons, fling my troops around and watch the fireworks.  I still don't fully understand how repair/resupply works so I end up losing most campaigns in the final stages because I have no more bullets.

Just play around with it and you'll pick it up. 

[Zulu1966]

Ha!   

I'm pretty much the General Burnside of this game.  Most of the time, I have only a nebulous idea of what I'm doing.  (I still don't really know what the difference is between the attack command vs the assault command.). The rest of the time i have no idea.  I just click buttons, fling my troops around and watch the fireworks.  I still don't fully understand how repair/resupply works so I end up losing most campaigns in the final stages because I have no more bullets.

Just play around with it and you'll pick it up.

Pretty much my experience with the game. Looks nice plays well - but most of the time I have absolutely no idea what I am doing.

[Tuna]

But the main/most important thing is.. are you having fun!! ;D

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Yup.  Been playing the hell out of it and enjoying it a lot.  Each time I learn something new.

Last night it was that the Mujahideen are really, really annoying and good at nighttime infiltration attacks.  Little buggers managed to slip about a company of infantry in close and knock out a bunch of my tanks with AT grenades, RPGs, and a recoilless rifle.

[Dolan50]

I still don't really know what the difference is between the attack command vs the assault command

With the attack command your troops will usually form up online and walk to the area you choose to attack.

The assault command they usually form up in a dense 2-3 line formation and run at the area you want assaulted and engage in close combat.

Each command also gives a different level of fatigue depending on how long they are performing this command.

I generally use the defense command to attack an enemy position because they seem to fire and maneuver on to the objective more effectively,but this is only my own opinion.I'm not sure if it really is more effective but it looks that way to me when I'm watching the action.

[Dolan50]

Graviteam Tactics Shield of the Prophet gameplay video on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA3SJRgwlnc

[jomni]

Lol using the defense command to attack.  But it make sense though.  Move to contact,  shoot st targets until they are weakened.   Avoid direct attack / assault.

[Nefaro]

I still don't fully understand how repair/resupply works so I end up losing most campaigns in the final stages because I have no more bullets.

I believe you gotta leave your unit to be repaired within the strat map range circle of the Repair unit (2 squares?) in the rear and keep them in some kind of passive stance for awhile (with no combat action of course).  At least, that's the extent of my knowledge.


And for those of you getting into the newer cold war era DLC.. you should also check out their other title Steel Armor: Blaze Of War.  They've obviously moved many of the cold war assets over from that one, into the new DLCs for APOS.  It's the same strategy game as Op Star, but you can also go down one more extra layer and jump into a tank platoon sim with M-60s and T-62s.  :D 

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SABW/steel-armor-blaze-of-war

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I still don't fully understand how repair/resupply works so I end up losing most campaigns in the final stages because I have no more bullets.

I believe you gotta leave your unit to be repaired within the strat map range circle of the Repair unit (2 squares?) in the rear and keep them in some kind of passive stance for awhile (with no combat action of course).  At least, that's the extent of my knowledge.

Yeah, I've got that far but I don't know if it's possible to select which units you want to prioritize for repair/resupply.  I think one repair unit can fix only one vehicle per turn and my mechanics always seem to ignore my MBTs and fix my crappy little scout cars instead.

[Nefaro]

I still don't fully understand how repair/resupply works so I end up losing most campaigns in the final stages because I have no more bullets.

I believe you gotta leave your unit to be repaired within the strat map range circle of the Repair unit (2 squares?) in the rear and keep them in some kind of passive stance for awhile (with no combat action of course).  At least, that's the extent of my knowledge.

Yeah, I've got that far but I don't know if it's possible to select which units you want to prioritize for repair/resupply.  I think one repair unit can fix only one vehicle per turn and my mechanics always seem to ignore my MBTs and fix my crappy little scout cars instead.

It may default to fixing the ones that take the last amount of time.  :-\

[Dolan50]

Some pics of a Quick Battle I played tonight as a what if Chechen War 1985 on the Taranovka map using the new modern Soviet Army and Mujihadeen forces from the Shield of the Prophet DLC.

[Dolan50]

[Dolan50]