Steel Division 2 Tutorial - What Are Smart Orders? 

I bought the DLC after knowing Smart Orders coming to the game. For me, I like large single-player matches but micromanaging was a big pain and I felt I was just clicking away rather than actually playing the game. I can't wait for this update!

I think this gives you a much better chance of being able to actually command your forces in the full scale of SD2.

This update is a huge step in the right direction in my oppinion. I would like to have a shoot and scoot order for Arty Units. (Advanced counter battery oder) If with the next update the supply trucks provide units in their area automatically, even better.

I love RTS games since Dune 2000 and I've played most of those RTS you can think of but I sadly gave up playing years ago! However I still enjoy playing occasionally even tho I mostly watch streamers and youtuers like Vulcan playing them. I realized I don't have time or patience to learn to play anymore... I found the micro aspect of SD2 too intensive and I spent most of the time clicking here and there nonstop because my units were somehow brain dead and couldn't do anything for themselves + my lack of management/expertise of course. The multiplayer aspect was even less enjoyable for logical reasons. This update is more than welcome for people with low performance (like me) that want to enjoy a match or two without feeling lost after 2 minutes into the game. Since microing 20 units isn't the same as microing 60 + planes + arty or microing every infantry/tanks and just leave arty on auto, or planes on auto or whatever... I've read some comments saying that this update will help noobs and the game now will play itself, and it's somehow true... bad that's not necessarily bad like they seem to be implying. I think more people like me, that don't have enough time to learn every little secret (counters/unit stats/map key-point positions) will now want to join multiplayer matches with more confidence and will benefit themselves a little from these smart orders.... don't worry "pro" fellas/unit stats nerds, I'm sure you will still be able to blitzkrieg us with your cats and counter us with the best choice of unit/strategy only you after playing 4000 hours of SD and Wargame know, but at least we (noobs) will able to last a bit longer and maybe some of us will stand a chance against your 600 actions per minute, and of course you can always say you've lost because now noobs have a liitle help from the AI so it won't hurt your pride.

This is really promising. I always felt Wargame should have QoL stuff like this. I liked the ability to select multiple units and then hold right-click to make them form a defense line, but that only worked for straight lines. Would be awesome to be able to just draw lines and arrows on the map like you can in Hearts of Iron IV. Setting things like fallback points and objectives to advance to in advance, and then be able to give them orders like "Retreat" and "Advance" or "Advance but stop and return fire when fired upon" via hotkey would be hugely useful, too. I hope SD2 adds numbered units like Ground Control, too, at one point, with voice lines like "2-1 has contact", "4-4 taking fire", or "unit lost, 4-2".

This is amazing! It'll be like a completely different game.

They should make a Concetrated fire option, so all selected artillery fires in sync.

It would be nice to see bombers get "counter battery" and "defensive" fire as well, as more specific versions of "autostrike".

good to have a choice in making fighters into interceptors; though I think we'll be seeing a lot of (auto launched) fighters being baited into AA.

I've played SD1 for a good bit but once i started MP, i was lost as i couldn't keep up with all the microing i was used to do while the game was paused or in bullet time when playing SP. Got SD2 on my whishlist for a long time and bought it during this year's winter sale, but still was hesitant to dive into it and play. I dudn't had a clue about smart orders. They are the sole reason why the game was worth it to me. I'm loving it. And btw. thanks for all the tutorials. Awesome work. Subscribed

Great commentary and introduction to the Smart Orders. Ironic that Defensive Fire for arty will probably be most effective for offensive operations as you put if. Looking forward to more SD 2 content with the upcoming DLC and updates!

Having just come from SD1 the counter-battery order will be my favourite I expect. Autostrike for fighters will be good too. Thanks for the breakdown, these are really good to know and will no doubt be very useful for a micro-hater like me.

great explanations, thanks Vulcan :) These orders look wayyy better than I was expecting. Giving the order from spawn then auto unloading before arrival omg !!!

They just need to hire you already. When I think SD I think Vulcan. Love your stuff man. Keep it up and thank you !! Definitly my favorite RTS game now. Hopefully they keep making this game down the road.

Just got the game 2wks ago, just found this video 😂😅 can’t wait to get home and try the smart orders, I’ve been micro managing everything 😆

Finally! This brings tears to my eyes

Hi. I would like to thank you very much. I've been playing for a short time and thanks to your videos I'm getting better and better. Good job!

Just got the game on sale and these videos are wildly helpful, thank you

these are actually awesome additions, I usually play coop with my roommate against very difficult AI waves. It gets to the point where it is too much to micro so these commands are great

I have been on the fence about the Steel Division series for a while, watching your videos always tempts me, but I haven't yet purchased because I was turned off by the micromanagement that was needed... This seems like the perfect balance Tactical Management, and now I'm excited to get into this title. I mean c'mon, Arty and Fighters should pretty much always be set on 'just do your job'... imho. Great video, as always.

Beautiful video mate. Well done all around

Hey Vulcan ! I just started the game and It was really helpful ! Thank you ! But I believe the community still needs more tutorial videos. A gameplay with tutorial perhaps ? cheers

Wow this sounds great. Always wanted a feeling like squads have its own squad leader and I’m giving them tasks. Downloading game!

Thank you for putting this tutorial up so close to the DLC/patch release

Crystal clear and to the point as usual. Thanks for this and all the other times you've de-confused me :))

Thanks for the video. These new orders look amazing. The game requires so much micromanagement that strategy often gets overlooked as you desperately click away. These will help give players a bit of time to think about what they are trying to achieve. Are there hotkeys for these new commands?

tyvm, Vulcan!!

Can't wait for the patch!

Vulcan, these tutorials really helped me. Was getting my ass completely handed to me by just the medium AI and was wondering where I was going wrong. It would be good if you could do some tutorials on the armoury and division builder. Specifically surrounding why you pick certain units and how you should combo them with others for best results. There is so much stuff there I honestly feel lost with it.

Thank you so much for this man!! you sir are amazing

Thank you

Just bought the Total Conflict Edition of this game but was really nervous about having to Micro too much cause I don't like frantically going over my frontlines non-stop...then I saw this was added into the game and now I am so dang excited for my game to download cause now I don't feel like I have to focus on the whole damn battlefield.

Awesome video, thanks for covering this. Quick request however, is it possible to get time stamps added for the different sections for quick access. Looking forward to see additional content from you.

Cant wait to see these in use when you do the SP campaigns :D

I love this feature and this map. Choke point maps are the best

This video is particularly useful

Thanks, all clear now (:

thanks

As comrade Dyatlov would say "Not great, not terrible."

Thanks for the vid. Just bought the game. This feature is great. If Eugen update Red Dragon with this feature, imma play the hell out of it :)

I would really love that they expand this concept even more - I love Eugen Games, but they are too micromanagement heavy. Thanks for the video!

If half of these work half as well as I hope, it will still be a useful addition. Might even affect division setups somewhat, which is always interesting.

Now with (Counter Battery) will your units fire at where the enemy arty tracers come from?

Nice!

I just won my first game because of these videos, thanks!!

what dlc do i have to have to use your deck´s

Wow, this video 2 days before release!

Total War games used to have similar orders (ai auto attack and auto defend) But they were not included in the games later than Rome 2.

Is there some way to learn how to play by having a battle with three tanks or are all battles on this kind of scale? Feels like being appointed the director of an international fast food chain before you even own a frying pan.

Armory tutorial please

I wouldn't say I was particularly good at RTS games, with this especially I get super into micromanaging certain sections of battle, either gawping at how well it's going or what a mess I'm making... 50/50

Is this actually used in competitive play?

Do you have any more multiplayer games up your sleeve? Campaign or vs AI games, don't really strike my fancy. This guide is useful dough.

"Hold the position" do this allow my units to attack the ennemy by themselves instead of staying here doing nothing while their allies one hundred metters further are dying?

Makes you feel more like a General.

amazing game just need paradrops!

nice Eugen

Awww, no Orsha today, at least its a cool sd2 vid

Hey man. Any plans on making a army general tutorial?

do AI gets the smart order? cuz that sounds like it would make single player game much more interseting

Orsha or bust 😂

Does "counter batteries" order counter batteries countering? :o) This is a legitimate question.

hmmm i always thought those smart orders are pretty useless... maybe i should try them a bit more often

is it me, or are the graphics vastly better ?

I wonder why they call it RTS when infact its RTT, Real time tactical game, and not Real time Strategy game, because the fact that you have to tell each unit what to do, in a real strategy game you simply tell the units to take that area and hold it, and all the units will do the tactics themselfs... the proper term is RTT not RTS :D An example of a true RTS is Hearts of iron if anyone wonder, cause the units there are taking care of all the tactics themselfs and you only control where they go

actually first tho :o

They are not always "smart". They do not unload necessarily far from the enemy, especially if you do not have recon unit ahead. Your "smart" units may get blown up by AT gun without even being unloaded.

Please go back to doing more division showcases please

wow. Let me guess: this is exposing some AI functionality to us the players. Great idea.

i came for an explanation for defensive fire and i got nothing

i want the Japanese nation into it :l

the AI in this game series, all the way back to European Escalation has been absolutely horrible. I am skeptical. But hopeful

Great now the game plays itself, you dont need to play it.