Panzer Corps 2 Guide: From Good To Great - Heroic Exploits 1 

Yep, the problem is the dev watches my videos... lol. So yeah, unless you use an old version you can't make prototypes with field repairs anymore.

@@TheEdmon hmmm, even if the exploit part is fixed by devs, the hero ability is still valuable to replenish these high value, limited units that are hard to get extras of.

@@admontblanc Yep, it was fixed. Many things I've shown on this channel have been fixed. But still very useful.

@@TheEdmon I can do without exploits lol, I'm usually averse to cheesing games. Whenever I'm learning a game I do use cheats a plenty though, because it gives me insights into core mechanics faster, but then it loses its fun if you want to get serious. I only played a few missions, and I just started watching your videos because I went in blind first to see how well I could do on my own, but the game has a ton of details behind its seemingly simple gameplay. I can tell that the game is worth buying with just a few hours into it, maybe it's very niche, but it seems to be quite entertaining for a very long period.

@@TheEdmon Aww, found this video in Dec 2022... tried it and sad to find out (and confirmed by this thread) that this no longer works! Hehe...

I do talk about this in the video. You can eat cake and have it here, by using the 8.8. Just convert it into AT mode once all the aircraft have been ruined.

@@TheEdmon If you put the AT Hero on 8.8 will it do both at same time? ( leave it in Barrel up mode) I have to test that , if that works with camo also would be devastating damage output

@@bugfuzz176 It will work as either the AA type or the AT type, depending on which mode you have it in, but it will do both yeah.

I am so glad to hear that :). It reminds me of when people said they started BT again just to try lights after I showed how powerful they were. I love it when people get to enjoy the game all over again, thanks to some bit of knowledge I provided :).

It can, but it can't be used to duplicate those as far as I know. Not 100% on that, as it's been a while since I played the basegame.

@@TheEdmon Ah, ok, than I missunderstud :-) I think duplicate is not possible because you can't overstrength it.

I never got a zero slots hero in my current grand campaign... maybe in the future though!

To be fair, pretty much all A.I.'s in all games can't handle what players can do...

I will see what I can add.

The 8.8cm shown here has only 4 ammo, however, you could also use a 75mm. This has 22 air attack instead of the 8.8's 24, so very little difference and you get 5 ammo. The real weakness of the 75mm is that it has lower range, but if you are using some artillery as bait that won't matter. There is also of course, the machinegun AA which has 6 ammo and 2x fire built in. They won't hurt strategic bombers but they will devour everything else. 4 aircraft is actually as many as most maps have able to reach you on turn 1. If you can one shot 4 planes on turn one, that's huge. Or cripple them so badly your fighters can just sweep in and hose them down. Needing 5-6 turns to clear the airforce is what you'd need if you were playing normally and just using fighters and AA as you'd expect. If you are executing this correctly, 1 turn is all you are going to need to bury a huge amount of aircraft. You may need 1 more to clean out further aircraft, later on, deeper into the map (assuming the A.I. is not allowed to rebase the aircraft that are further back).

I said this to another person, but everyone has a level at which something clever is too much of an exploit for them. There are disadvantages to this, which is namely that the unit you are cloning is not in the battle and is often both expensive in slots and money. Plus you need to have no money in hand for it to work, which means you can't repair in battle, without some fiddling around. I do know vastly worse exploits, that are basically on the levels of cheating, but they were reported to the dev and have already been fixed in the latest build :).

Glad you enjoyed it.

Well, one mans secrets is another mans common knowledge... sometimes :).

@@TheEdmon haha, true. I keep forgetting that most casual player likely won't ever touch the slitherine forums or even the steam forums for such info

If your unit fires twice, it often means a single hit would not be fatal. If you are out to 100% shoot down aircraft, then it can still be wise to use double support. It is situation dependant though, to be certain.

@@TheEdmon Yeah. But as great as completely dead units are, usually its better to cripple 4 than to wipe 2. At least in my experience. Like I said, the third plane would have went unopposed in the video with double support on your 8.8 . Not having AA Veteran as Hero Trait changes things a bit. In its usecase purely vs planes and not AA Vet double support is nice. But if u expect to use it a lot vs tanks as well I'd recommend overstrengthening it to 12 and just not take the double support As mentioned, the trap for De Gaulles 6 or more OS Tanks worked very well. Until they sucked the 8.8 dry and even killed one of my frontal tanks - due to the double support KILLING the first attackers. Crippling would have been fine, cuz it wouldve blocked the hex. Killing them was really bad :)

@@duedman-alleswasknallt5775 Maybe wise to pick a different AA gun, one with more ammo... interestingly, this might be a good way to unlock higher levels of skilled support.

I had planned to do more, maybe I will in the need future. The repairs trick has been patched out of the game now though... What is the name of the ability on the hero you have? If it is literally artillery support (soft) then you can put it on any ground unit and that unit will defend the units next to it against soft attacks. It can be super useful on a 21cm gun, because that artillery does not have anti-soft.

@@TheEdmon a brief evaluation of each hero would be great as there is SO little info on them that I could find. The hero ability was called "artillery support". It didn't mention whether it was hard or soft support but I assumed it meant that the unit with Andreas Schultz as a hero would support adjacent friendly units much like artillery does but I may have assumed incorrectly.

@@ericmiller7963 Artillery Support is anti-soft. Anti-hard is called AT Support.

@@TheEdmon Oh ok ty. I'm a bit of a noob lol. I played and LOVED Panzer General but I think I've forgotten more than I learned heh. I appreciate your input and your videos are brillian!