Line War is one of the strangest RTS games ever made 

7:00- “starting on an island sucks” “I had no production compared to him” Now this is a Japan moment

This feels exactly like the kind of game Mccarthur would have made to justify his strategy in the Korean War after he got fired.

Reminds me of an old RTS called Majesty where instead of building and directing units, you hired them and set bounties on objectives. The units will only attack if they judge your bounty is worthwhile to them.

This feels like a flash game taken to its logical extreme or something.

"We accidentally dug our trenches into each other." WW1 in a nutshell.

I'd love an RTS like this- Macro style. But Line wars just looks infuriating. Plus RTS always has the issue where very, very few games allow you to come back from a disadvantage- to the point where there's a best production que. I really, don't like how rigid they become. Makes it hard to try and find an RTS I can play.

As someone who generally does better at the economy side of strategy games rather than the military side, and who usually prefers slow and methodical playstyles, this game looks pretty good to me!

Hi Rimmy, I'm Basantos, one of the LW DEVs. Thanks for having the game on your show! I can tell you it made quite an impact with almost a thousand more happy players joining the ranks and our Discord. Very grateful for that. Btw, here's a few tips that I'd like to share: 1) Don't rely too much on long defensive lines. 2) Try experimenting and becoming familiar with the Move directive for land and sea units. This is especially true for the dedicated Tanks-only Paths (1- or 2 lanes wide). They punch right through defense lines. Or you can just circumvent them. 3) Every conquered territory adds another +12 capital/min to your economy. Fighting for control over the whole map is a common strategy. 4) Higher-level games are usually much more dynamic with less static defenses and stand-offs. Attack your opponent straight on! Any unit or structure in LW incurs an upkeep cost. Defending or idling units can often be put to much better use "elsewhere", fighting for territory or damaging the eco of your opponent. Thanks again and gl hf!

Just an idea: They need to make a Battletech RTS of every major conflict. Eras like before the Battlemech, early Star League, Amaris Civil War, all 4 Succession Wars, the Clan Invasion, Dark Ages/Jihad, FedCom Civil War ect. It'd be fun to have a combined arms BattleTech RTS with large scale battles like Dawn of War

Line combat sure has changed since the good old days

Just to let folks know, this one doesn't have Player Vs AI mode. Devs said they'll implement one in the future but don't hold your breath.

There are definitely a lot of lines in this video. Can’t say I didn’t get what I clicked on it for.

This honesty looks very interesting.

Just draw lines for units? Can't believe you're back to HOI4 after all this time.

This is a unique mechanic that should be added to other RTS games. I definitely think more RTS games need to automate aspects of micro to be more fun, but to keep skill involved and make it a mechanic I think this a good way or scripting basic unit actions under conditions, which I liked in istrolid.

Speaking of interesting / unique RTS games there is one that I find really interesting / cool Planetary Annihilation

Rimmy sees missile: "this will affect the trout population i think"

I saw this on the steam store, but its page really did do a poor job letting me know wtf it actually was. It looks really interesting but flawed, i'd love to see other games tackle this idea! My ideas: The games scale is too small, the fact a defensiveline is comprised of 5 units doesnt quite work imo for something like this and with the control system you could get unrivaled scales considering you dont have to micro. I'd love to see the stell batallion dynamic map, would look great with this actual battlelines. I think this could work in a GSG style game, just scatter resource points across a large map full of terrain and stuff and have multiple factions. Imagine say a ww2 version of this where france and belgium have a massive reinforced defensive line they've set up together, and naval invasion lines from ports and cities and stuff all fighting over specific resources like sulfure and oil mines! Would be great. In short, great innovative idea, poor execution... could be fun with some tweaks and shifting from wargame to GSG

Use commandos trust me on the offensive nothing can beat it also your opponent can't see them without practically their entire army is present

Hah. You brought up the Warcraft 3 custom maps. When you were describing it my mind went to StarCraft 1 custom maps. Good times for both of us :)

wait...Trench warfare where artillery and nukes are all that wins wars...is this a Deathcorp of Krieg simulator?

Interesting game with fantastic commentary as always!

Before even starting to watch the video I have to say that the thumbnail "THIS WILL AFFECT THE TROUT POPULATION" is just so funny and absurd that I had to click

Yesss you covered it! At the same time what did I expect your rimmy of course you covered it you cover every rts that comes out.

It's quite a fun game, both to play and watch. It was designed with esports in mind, apparently.

2:17 Once the genie is out of the bottle... It's not going back in.

3:30 Hoi4 does have sequenced orders, you can set up phase lines you just need to draw an attack order and then cycle through fronts as you draw another untill it selects the previous attack as the starting point

RTS with autoplan from Hoi4? Sounds quite interesting

I can confirm AA does shoot down the missiles you just need a lot and as long as they focus fire on the missile it will be shot down.

Please Rimmy make more videos of this game its so entertaining

That Palistine joke aged like fine wine 🤣🤣

3:20 I once used the sneaking around the navy the back trick to win a civ game where the other guy had Giant Death Robots. Parked a huge navy just outside the vision of his capital and swarmed it, he gave up when I took it because basically everything was in it. Absolutely my favourite civ game of all time.

I've played line war quite a bit with a friend of mine before it was released, the strats are quite deep. It doesn't really end, it's well balanced, there is no *that strat always works* in every game. For example, nukes are too expensive with aggressive opponents. And - starting on a island vs a continent is only good if there is a lot of power in the ocean or on the island. Last, many, many of the frustrations myself and my friend had with the lines were completely alleviated once we truly understood all the tools it gives you and how to manipulate them. As a scrub, Line Wars is a war with your lines, not a fight against another player necessarily lol

Hey Rimmy i would love to see you and your friends play this game like 8 players fighting it out

3:00 man those missiles look like so much fun! I may have to check this game out, see if you can build them up to actual nukes at some point.

"Quite common in the Warcraft 3 custom era" It's the sequel to Hero Line Wars. Holy fuck, my childhood

Geez I remember playing a similar game on kongergate way back when, except it was nothing but boxs representing units.

The polygonal Red v Blue style plus the "questionable" A.I. kinda makes this game feel like if Ravenfield was RTS.

I've thought for a long time that a "Horde Battler" (if that's the proper name) would work really well for Warhammer 40K. Instead of making smart use of squads like in Dawn of War, just throw waves after waves of poor saps to die against trenches, walls, and Gauss pylons. Have so that units are always getting slaughtered and replaced, he players is just limited on population cap, unit types, and the time to move them across the map. When playing the more civilized factions like Imperial Guard and Necrons, a lions share of the kills would go to the static lines of gun emplacements. The factions that would be most appropriate to feature giant, marching armies would be Imperial Guard, Tyranids, Orks, Necrons, Mechanicus (Skitarii combined with hordes of braindead servitors), Tyranids, and of course Chaos. Chaos could probably provide more than one, actually.

This seems like a neat idea that still needs some work put into it. But the potential here is pretty good imo

Here at less than 1k views, and I already know how good this is gonna be, Keep up the good work Rimmy!

My guess is the use for moving lines is meant to be like a trench assault, with one team going and attacking the enemy line and the second line gets moved up to take the new area? Either that or its meant as a way to move troops as a wave rather than a trickle

I love how War knew exactly what was happening, and still helped you fire your nuke. A true friend.

Considering I hate micro this looks right up my alley

this game seems to built for Pentomic warfare; Nuke the enemy lines then advance into the area you just nuked. seems interesting if a bit clunky and too tanky and the nukes having no counter feels iffy

2:54 SAMs and Interceptors can shoot down Missiles, but you need like 6-7 of them in a small area and preferably not right where the missile is about to strike. It is more economic to hit the missile base though. On that note, missiles are so expensive that without recon/intel, you actually fall behind when they don't destroy enough to recoup their investment. They are however perfect at beating people who turtle, but if you put on pressure early on, missiles are often not worth the investment, especially if that causes you to fall behind on infantry. 6:35 ships do take a lot of power so they are only really good if you have good access to oil wells. But because coastal cities provide a lot of income, they can be quite valuable, but you certainly should limit how many you build to the minimum. And yeah, taking islands isn't worth it unless you are really desparate for more territory or you need a secret place to build aircraft/missiles from. You can also hide econ buildings on them sometimes. 9:35 I can see you are used to HoI4 but I feel in this game making large defensive lines isn't worth it, that uses up a lot of units that could be pushing for advantage. Its better to use small defensive lines around key areas and use the others to advance. Its worth noting that while digging out the defenses, your units take more damage, so attacking these lines while they are being set up is extremely effective. The slowness of the game is deliberate. Your trenching units being shot at isn't a design flaw, the idea is that you do not need micro/apm to play this game. The idea is that you make grand battleplans and strategies ahead of time and success is based entirely on how well you formulate these, rather than being able to dodge gunshots with your units by clicking really fast.

wow i love watching rimmy stomp his friends every game they play

This game in a nutshell is what WWI Generals did, just minus the part where they could see what was happening.

Woah, Line Rider got a lot more intense over the years.

1:19 The Italians after switching sides:

3:04 man Rimmy really pulled a Ace Combat 7 Assault on Ferbanti, on him didn't he?

"We built our trenches in to each other's!" *Battle of Dyrrhachium intensifies.*

y'know I'm now really wanting to see y'all play Planetary Annihilation with/against each other, especially the sheer scale of destruction can get great with like 4 or more people

Earlier today I binged like 5 Timmy rts vids, and now looks where I am

Love me some Rimmy RTS. Helps me find new ones that are sort of niche.

I am a macro over micro guy, and line War is one of the most fun RTS games I've personally ever played. Figuring out the controls is infuriating for about the first three games, then it becomes very intuitive and most of the complaints you have can be addressed in the game already. I've always wanted a game like this where it is real-time strategy, but not the stress of worrying about micro and more about overall strategy. Thanks for the video on this; I was hoping this game would get picked up and get some coverage.

Love your work man.

Couple of strategy tips from someone with over 100 games played. Name of the game is expansion. Defensive lines are overrated. Every territory gives 12 income per minute, so expanding is most important thing you can do in early game. At higher levels of play armies are basically constantly clashing and there are not massive defensive lines. Nukes can be shot down, though it takes one or two dozen sams to do it. Arty and sams are ridiculously powerful. Commandos are stealthy bois that are really annoying to deal with (Think dark templar from starcraft). If you change the priority of an airstrip for a specific air unit higher and make sure the airport has lower priority for that air unit, then any air unit not currently on a mission that is in range will automatically transfer to the air strip.

1:58 that was completely insane and totally makes this video

If you click on the airstrip and look to the right you could see the icons of your air units and if you click on one of them (provided the Airport is in range) it will automatically send one of that unit to that airstrip. There’s a video on how to play line war up on RU-vid as well if you want to know more.

Hey Rimmy, long time fan but I was a beta tester of this game. Don't worry about the confusion case that's what me and my friends all felt playing not for free as testers. We had long discussions on issues with the game and talks on rush down starts/strats. They key thing to remember is whoever controls the economy controls the game. They can pump out units, factories, and everything more then the person who doesn't have any. Center area have 3 cities? Push to contest it, either spamming down three factories or airfields to immediately try and push the shit out of your enemy. Nukes are uh...a thing. Half the time a navy is either nessecary or useless. Airforce can make or break it and overall the game is jank and broken at times. It needs better support but the devs were nice and kind.

Yeah I'm not convinced. Im gona stick with supcom for my old-school rts grind.

Always a good one to get to watch ya on my break at work

This game seems made for me, I am garbage at micro and have the reaction time of a catatonic jellyfish when playing RTS games

I wouldn’t mind seeing more of this, quite interesting

Ah its awesome to see one of my favorite youtubers play a game that i Alpha tested its just special in my opinion. (PS come hang out in the Line war discord the devs are here and very awesome people)

There should be a debuf to nuking an area. Like, huge reductions in productivity for resources, or fallout is a thing that affects BOTH sides' units as they pass through.

Was wondering when you were going to cover this game.

This reminds me of the first supreme commander when it comes to the economy and how crucial it is

This looks like WWI Simulator except Nukes replace breakthrough tactics... and I kinda' dig it.

"Damn, you looking like a Palestinian wedding" That one aged like milk.

Huh, the concept of this game actually sounds very entertaining

Is anybody else for another video, I'd like to see more of an exploration of this.

How has he not made a million subs by now?

6:16 the problem is not boats running into each other, it’s lack of energy ;)

This is basically Hearts of Iron 4 style of RTS combat

This is what we thought Victoria 3's combat would be before it turned out to just be Diplomacy.

1:17 ooh this one is gonna be a spicy one

I did post this in the comments of the last video a day ago, so I'll put it here again as it's the new video. It would be great for Rimmy yo have a look at some of the open-source games that are out there. I've been messing around with switching from using Windows OS to Linux OS and I the Linux app stores there are a few strategy games that are actually very good on the surface. Most if not all of them are free to download since they are open-source. Games like "0 A.D." which is a "Age of Empires" like game. I've played it for a bit and it looks good. Another game is Warzone 2100. This was a game published by Eidos Interactive back in 1999 and the source code was released by the developers online in 2004. Since then there's been a dedicated community keeping the game alive and updated. Don't get the version of it on Steam. That is not an "official" release by the community developers behind the game now. Just someone taking their work and claiming the credit. Go to their website and download it instead. There are Windows versions of these games. I just found them through Linux, so don't let that be a roadblock.

This will, indeed, affect the trout population

It would be pretty cool if you could start in the stone age and the maps were huge

Kind like the Majesty game series where you have to influence heroes in the land based on bounties.

Looks like a legit interesting games that needs better polishing and consideration of what it is and should be doing. Would love to see this in an updated state

With the mention of strangest RTS I thought this was going to be Achron, for a moment, the RTS game played in 4 timelines at once if memory serves

I have been playing this game since the demo and I can legit vouch for this game, it is hard to master but extremely satisfying when done so! A must have for rts gamers who like to be the general and not the sergeant! And good value for the price on steam plus 2v2 and ffa are expected on the next update!!!!! o7

Rimmy i love the rts binge on your channel, have you tried playing supreme commander ?

what kind of old warcraft maps we talking, footman frenzy, dota like maps.... Sex? (that intriguing game where the only interesting thing about that map was the map picture.

Looks cool, gonna give this game a try.

I tried to play this game yesterday. Cool concept, but christ the movement with the lines is infuriating

I would love to know if there is a campaign in the works and other details. I would watch this for hours.

This would be kind of a cool concept for a world war 1 or napoleonic game. The missiles seem a bit overpowered though

hoi4 - the rts each province creates an rts battle

a horde batler sounds fun

kek, just knew about the game from your video. And today the devs realesed coop and skirmish vs AI ! The game is awesome!

As someone who likes rts's but doesn't have the apm to play online at all, I like the idea of this game a lot.

I would love to see Rimmy play Empires of the undergrowth

A slow rts sounds like a breath of fresh air to me as someone who has been very displeased with the trend in rts games to become increasingly more fast paced and twitchy. I want to play rts games where strategic planning and economy management win the game, not my actions per minute. And for that this game looks perfect.

As much as you two suffered, the game was fun to watch unfold, at least. Nuclear exchanges are entertaining, is what I'm saying.

I'd like to see this and Civilization mashed up

It looks like it would work with ant theme