2nd Infantry "Indianhead"! Steel Division 2 Battlegroup First Look (Tribute to D-Day DLC) 

Trucks shouldn't disappear regardless change my mind

@Matt Haddock well my solution are as follows make all non armotef vicheles vulnerable to small arms fire with high bleed over damage to the unit inside. Give non recon trucks terrible optics. I shouldn't have to use some of my armed vehicles to reposition arty or AT guns. A infantry unit getting caught by hostiles should be a death sentence. Not necessarily a instant kill but if you catch somebody's inf in a truck should make it so they are instantly panicked and seek cover. It should be somewhere around the range of damage where a sqaud can be hosed down by MG fire if there isn't cover in a 100 meters. Make getting caught in a truck a big deal and something you are afraid of

The xylophone was more of an experimental rocket artillery platform than a dedicated piece like the Soviets and calliope. It didn't see much use as the allied favoured self propelled artillery and dedicated howitzers for more precise (and devastating) effect.

Ideally you dont do tank vs tank warfare. You see this in Hollywood mostly, where they intentionally pit tanks against tank but in reality, you didnt want tank clashing against tanks. You would use artillery and airplanes for that. The principle is the same in this game. I won a battle against a higher level opponent who fielded 4 or 5 Kingtigers ( I had no heavy tanks). I had about 6 Panzer IV ( axis vs axis game) and 6 Panthers or so. A very limited amount compared to his 4-5 KTs and tons of Panzer IV. How did I defeated him ? I killed all his KT with my planes. This division here has a lot of air support so KTs and Tigers wont be a problem at all.

I wouldn't be worried. With all the radio linked arty you can bring - especially the 3 x Long Tom cards the big cats are just going to be target practice if they sit on a hill sniping. Super excited for 2nd ID, looks like a fantastic division.

HoboTango lol 21st has ridiculously strong AA tab, 2-3 88s will shut down any push by AT planes and a good 21st player will always invest in AA before pushing their KT. Obviously there are workarounds like smoking and artillery, but the original comment on 2nd having issues with heavies isn’t necessarily wrong. The proper counter would probably be the ridiculous amount of smoke and bazookas you can bring.

@@Lex-dw7ng True. But long toms are good in C phase with their numbers, A and B phase will be a problem though

@@theblindlucario5093 Yes, exactly, they are work arounds. the whole point of the game is to use work around to achieve your objective. I think the complaint from original comment isnt warranted, personally.

Player count doesnt matter, only sales matter

T.A. Productions They have no penalties for being encircled.

They also have 50% more stealth

Due to bad localization, 'Mediocre' is the worst agility rating in the game.

Mediocre in French kind of means the worst

In SD44, they had an actual armor. 5 or 6, same as Stuarts

@@mikolaj77edi Honestly jacking the range on everything, basically eliminating the clear "short/long range" unit divide, and turning the armor values into a fucking mess in the idiotic pursuit of 'realims' instead of keeping them generic and thus opening to tweaking for balance in SD2 was a huge mistake IMO, that and jacking the shit out of availability of everything killed the game IMO. They just needed the first game with Russian units and some refinements to some of the less popular aspects, but instead they changed a bunch of shit no one wanted and created a game that played significantly worse. I bought it, played it for like two days, hated it and returned it. It really amazes me how much worse they managed to make it play then SD1.

The ammunition is correct as the M1 uses .30 Carbine ammunition whose dimensions is 7.62x33mm.

maybe its more of a a first look for us?

Er arbeitet mit der Devs

This deck came from the previous game, so he knows what it will generally look like. theres some changes here and there but mostly its the same cards

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Firstly they were there as a bonus for people owning both SD44 and SD2. Secondly - these are coming as a tribute to D-Day - and they wont be available in the campaign

Because westerners player are uncultured people. It’s basically a way to make westerners buy stuff.

tbh I don't even consider this an Eastern Front game anymore. might as well get Pacific involved /s

For gameplay purposes I guess and also adding this adds to the replayablility of the game I guess

@KMP in the World Shermans are pretty good in the game especially at long range engagement against Panzer IVs and they excel at infantry support, in fact, they are THE best tanks to take care of Infantry. Maybe you are using them wrong ?

M1 Garands are powerful tho compared to Kar98ks even in real life

@@longyu9336 Well a group of men with semi-automatic rifles are going to fire more rounds in a minute than the same group with any bolt-action if that's what you mean. Though that isn't taking into account long term reliability, maintenance and efficient ammunition usage - but regardless of the little details, yes a semi-automatic is a more effective rifle to issue troops with unless it's appallingly unreliable lol. But to the main point...the garand being a more effective rifle than a K98k doesn't invalidate my comment haha. I never said the US military in ww2 wasn't good at anything or didn't have any good equipment - it's just always overdone in games and films because the US audience is huge and spends a lot of money on those things, and is generally quite childish, so companies know their profits rely on representing them very, very well, even if that means bending reality. In fact, from what I can tell, US media during and after ww2 has manipulated the perception of the war dramatically in it's favour. It's actually kind of terrifying