New FESTUNG GROSS-PARIS! Steel Division 2 Battlegroup Preview (Tribute to Normandy 44 DLC) 

Well no suprise but more Tiger E spam in this division lol!! Tiger tanks were incredibly rare with the most the German's ever having being around 650 in mid 1944 ( 430 being operational.) So 430 tanks to cover a 3,500 KM front but they're in 80% of SD2 German divisions lol!! Oh well i guess.

@@adamjaquay4279 I mean it is still one of the more iconic tanks of the war. and tbh its kinda bad in game so not a problem

@@adamjaquay4279 That makes some sense in context. For starters, unlike other tanks like the Panther, Tigers were, in the overwhelming majority of cases used in independent battalions and companies as fire brigades, These ranged between 10-30 (although on paper the standard is supposed to be 40/battalion) actual tanks, which means a small number can be spread out over a wider range. The other thing is that as fire brigades they were shuffled around a lot, mainly to wherever the fighting was the heaviest. Since SD2 for obvious reasons covers areas where larger battles and operations took place, and not ones where the front was relatively static, you have a selection bias with regards to the elements featured - since any division from a heavy combat sector would be infinitely more likely to fight in proximity to some Tigers than, I dunno a division sitting on garrison duty in Norway. And finally there is the fact that the game takes place over like a half-year period at this point, meaning the same unit company/battalion could show up supporting 2 or more different units since they did so, only at different points in time. So, you could have a single battalion of Tigers fight during Normandy, get a bit of R&R during redeployment to the east to counter Bagration after like 2 weeks of Normandy, and then end up fighting in the counterattack at the Courland pocket. And with this, they would have the chance to appear in 3 different DLC, supporting 3 different units at different points in time. Of course the other caveat is the fact that very few divisions get more than 1-2 cards of Tigers, whereas cards of Stugs, Panzer IVs and Panthers are far more readily available. Also, just as a quick aside, I made my comment with respect to the negative impact KTs and rocket arty have in a multiplayer setting (which this DLC is for, with no single player campaign, or even historical battles) where spamming those 2 is already an ongoing issue. Regular Tigers are far less egregious, from a balancing perspective as they can actually be dealt with in the same manner as all other tanks, whereas KTs need monumental amounts of rocket arty or offmap to be gotten rid of, something that contributes to sucking the fun out of 10v10.

And every other front.

Still, it's incredible how powerful and versatile these "desperate" ad-hoc units could be. Both in real life and this game.

No game industry is stuck in years 1944 for ever like lost traveler in a time loop...Spain ? France, Poland ? Dreamin is free

That's an excellent question because 352nd actually took units from Paris and .716. specifically a security regiment from Paris and an artillery battalion from 716. So is 352nd going to lose those units?