Panzer Corps 2 Guide: From Good To Great - Traits v2 

lol. We've all made these kinds of mistakes :D. Funny as they are.

They disappear if you turn the randomness down from 50% :). Old guard is kind of like... training wheels mode. It's a "no permadeath" tickbox :).

@@TheEdmon Huh, I never noticed that, cheeky bastards lol.

Hey, well my opinions on these have developed over time. They are "Win more" traits. Basically, if your already really good at the game, they allow you to "win more". I.E. get more money, capture more stuff, etc. But they don't actually help you win if your struggling. So I don't recommend them to those who are having problems actually winning consistantly, there are better things to select. But if your very good, then they are great. They will allow you to maximize loot capture, but don't really give you any additional combat effectiveness. I hope that helps.

@@TheEdmon I"m playing a game now with those traits, it slows the game down waiting a turn or two to get good suppression, but it seems worth it for the prestige

The vote looks like it will be for the Grand Campaign DLC's, so look forward to that coming soon!

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It is random, but you can obviously restart over and over with "killer team" until you get something really nice.

Interesting information here :).

Green army also stops you paying for veteran recruits on deployment...

@@TheEdmonah okay then never mind it’s hopeless then lol.

The same can be said for a number of other traits though, that grant additional money or EXP in some way. For example: AA vet allows AA guns to kill way more than they normally could, unlocking EXP/medals way faster than if you didn't. These buffs will carry forward... But yeah, Killer Team is particularly strong.

@@TheEdmon Yes, I was oversimplifying but the legacy effects of most other traits seem a little second order (except prestige/money ones like liberator), whereas killer team scales almost proportionately with the number of DLCs. Put it this way - in the regular campaign, killer team gives you 3 great heroes whereas some other 2 point trait gives you a benefit X. In Axis Operations, killer team gives you an average of 15 great heroes per DLC (averaged over all DLCs) whereas another 2 point trait still gives you X and maybe a little bit more than X. Before I looked into this, I wondered if they would make killer team a once and for all thing (just 3 heroes for the whole AO) but understand that would be not fun. Incidentally, I just watched some of your videos on traits etc and was impressed by the sound of the "power 4", so restarted a vanilla campaign to try it out. It is a lot of fun, making the game all about encirclement. I did not take my usual pick of killer team and so far the heroes I've been getting after every mission feel "meh": The ones you get from killer team are definitely a cut above the usual. But for the regular campaign, power 4 plus slow modernisation seems very strong (I'll do the historical path so won't be going to the US - hopefully the limited upgrades won't bite me at the end). Thanks for your great guides - they are the best PzC2 resource out there!

@@theodisius1 Just saw this reply now, thank you very much for the high praise.

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My pleasure.

First 2 missions are done in recording already. Vault access people will be very happy to hear the raws are uploading now. This campaign will start officially on the channel very soon, I need to do a lot of scheduling work to get it slotted in, make a graphic for it, etc.

You can, it's not like I said you can't run Killer Team or that it isn't good. It's very good and as I said, the scenario designer himself takes killer team to test the campaign. It is a very powerful pick. But I will be running Power4 and Trophies to steal everything that isn't nailed down + industry to get a lot of great gear early. Power 4 is a lot of points and with trophies that's 6 used. Not much room to add Killer Team if you are really going to farm gear.

Yeah, it's not a bad idea at all.

It's an error in translation. You can change 3 units per mission. Plus you can overstrength and change transports as much as you like.

@@TheEdmon Ok thx! :) I will change my language settings to english. There is a new negative trait: "Bad luck" This sounds not so bad, or how would rat it? By the way: It's quite funny to hear you speaking those germanwords in your campaign. ;) Like you would possible laugh if you had me make a stream in english. No offense meant.

@@Hydro1310 None taken, I also speak Norwegian so I know the pain of 2nd language pronunciation.

@@TheEdmon So they have increased the lists of traits. Old Guard (pos) cost 1 At the end of each mission all destroyed units will be newly formed, with half there exp. Bad Luck (neg) cost -1 Your battles could be better as the prediction.

Urgh, I can't imagine a world in which this is fun.

@@TheEdmon maybe not for you but it could be for us. Cruelty at Christmas🙂. I agree and it would get old fast which is why it should never be a campaign more a 1 off.

@@grahambrown3519 Abilities that make the A.I. play better and more aggressively are always going to suck.

I am actually not sure. Honestly the trait is so bad that I've not experimented with it much. The thing is, without return fire your fighters are going to be eaten alive. Your airforce will then be next. So the trait basically precludes you from having aircraft in any capacity. Infantry without return fire are going to be eaten whole by tanks as well. Since close combat tiles will no longer protect them if they can't return fire. I can't imagine taking this trait, even for something like 6 or 7 points.

If only Panzer General included Recon cars, it would be a much stronger pick. Honestly, top end recon is actually just a lot better and more flexible than most of the armour in SCW. T26 is very nice though, for sure and would be good for your 3>2 slot idea, but they are relatively rare. The thing about Killer Team is that it picks from a special list of only the nicest heroes... so you always get something nice.

I bet that was expensive. Infantry replacements are expensive.

You do get one legendary hero in SCW, so I don't think you'd struggle for prestige... but you know it's still a trait that has no downside and can generate a lot of prestige during a campaign. Sadly, I think it's massively outclassed by the power 4 play, but that does cost a lot more points... There will be parts of the campaign with massive cities to take where it will generate thousands of prestige per mission... but once again, I think skilled players will be loaded anyway... It's not bad, it's not good, hence the C rating.

@@TheEdmon I think Liberator is pretty good for the base game. But for 2 points it's just not worth it in the GC. In my current SCW run I'm toying around with inefficient supply and Panzer General - and I think I wouldn't pick any of those on the next run. Trying to keep things interesting as power 4 is pretty cheesy, so I just took master of blitzkrieg and deadly grasp out of the 4. The SCW campaign is still not "difficult", but a lot more interesting

Yes

The encirclement does work, but you can't slide past your allies like you can your own units.

@@TheEdmon You are right, since last patch grasp also works with multiple fractions.