Steel Division 2 Campaign - Orsha #5 (Axis) 

The line will only get stronger the longer I hold. I might decide to start pushing back at some point too although I am trying to avoid cheesing the AI.

Hanz Fenzel Must be constant thunder of engines and distant (or sometimes not) bomb impacts. Probably quite inspiring

I don't want to counter attack too much because with the recon on the flanks I bet you can very easily win the campaign. I normally just focus on making things more interesting than min max.

Yea man he is fucking pro

I could of done it sooner but it would have been too easy.

I've been really enjoying using the gunpods. It's nice to see a unit that is neglected in multiplayer do so well in singleplayer.

Unless it's a HQ battalion the AI divisions will only recover 2 action points. You need 3 to attack. In other words the bombardment delays them and therefore is useful both offensively and defensively. If I left a battalion on 1 action point and did not bombard, they would gain back 2 and be able to initiate with 3.

I've just run a quick test to confirm I'm not mistaken about this. The enemy definitely regains its action points at the start of its turn to all units within supply range regardless of whether you've bombarded them during your turn or not, so bombarding is only worthwhile when you plan to attack and want to exclude enemy units from joining in the defence, otherwise it is best to conserve the APs for your defence during the AI turn. Another valuable lesson I learned during my unsuccessful Soviet Baronovitchi campaign was that using Cavalry/Recon units to tear off around the enemy flanks trying to create encirclements may seem like a good idea but there were a lot of turns where my 2 AP units nearest the enemy could not initiate a battle, with the ultimate result that I couldn't quite take the final objective in time. Had I kept the recon mixed in with my frontline units I could have initiated & fought many more battles and easily reached the objective before the time limit. Perhaps off-topic for this video, but I thought I would share as someone may find that bit of info useful.

@@McMonkeyful You can literally watch what Vulcan is talking about in his reply happen at 10:15 of this video. I don't understand why you aren't getting this.

Let me try and explain, bombarding takes away all action points from a unit. Each turn a unit that is not HQ gets 2 AP back. The AI needs 3 AP to attack. This means if you bombard a unit or they have 0 AP the turn before it will never be able to initiate battle the turn after. This is why you do it. You might notice I only bombard units when the units nearby have 0 AP. Also, even if that is not the case, having enemy units come in B instead of A is very helpful (assuming you left a unit with at least 1 AP or HQ nearby the turn before that might initiate)

@@VulcanHDGaming OK, that makes sense. I did not realize the 2/3 difference & saw the AI units being resupplied at the start of their turn. So in my Barnovitchi campaign when I was advancing I must have been leaving my forward infantry units on 0 AP at the end of my turn. If I left them on 1 AP then on my following turn they would get +2 AP = 3AP total and would be able to initiate an attack in A phase & free up my recon units to tear-ass around the enemy flanks. Thanks for ex[plaining that. It's an important mechanic to understand and one the developers could have spent a little more effort on by producing some kind of tutorial for the campaign.

No they don't, veterancy is predetermined and remains such for the entire campaign.

i mean in the top left on the campaign screen

@@benjihero86 They won't be battle specific but I can look at the overall casualties.