Wargame European Escalation Gameplay. Anyone else looking forward to it


norskafresh 118 posts +35 Respect Obergrenadier	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWqcQq2X2bs&feature=player_embedded Here is a video a member of another wargame forum made. It gives a really good idea of gameplay. Here is proof that its not the kind of game that requires leveling to win at. It does not matter what level you are. Have a look below at the levels my random team were facing today.... the levels are next to their avatars. The levels are really just an indication of how much kit has been unlocked and how many games a person has played. Not a reflection that they know how to use the kit or that the kit they have does not cost a fortune to field if they choose to use the unlocked advanced kit. It should be noted that the game stops before you can actually massacre the enemy and really get the upper hand usually. I have now played 5 games in total of which two dropped/crashed and have yet to lose. I have been lucky. Each time just as the satisfying part of completely having the advantage and having cornered the enemy in his base comes up, it seems to co-incide with the points limit being reached. I don't think I have one won by tracking down the enemy command vehicles. The BETA stats will obviously reset in a few days when the game releases. Thats me on the left in the red colours. Note I am close to his two FOB (suply depots) at the top left end of the map. You can see an enemy column coming on to the map on the middle left attempting to cut my forces in two. But I have entrenched AT infantry to surprise and stop them. Helecopters are standing by to finish them off. I can see they are armoured infantry but am not exactly sure what kind. They turned out to be anti-tank infantry. My choppers took a beating from the APCs but the combination prevailed while my armour did their bit at the enemy base. I used a resupply tip of moving supply trucks back the the supply depot to sefill them in this game. Moving supply trucks back and forth. I unlocked new supply trucks that are eight wheeler monsters with an MG on top. They have a huge supply capacity and are very fast on roads. However half way through the game my FOB became one of my other team mates I think because I captured the enemy FOBs at the opposite end of the map?? Posted Feb 19, 12 · OP 0 Respect 0 Respect
Yeol 424 posts +145 Respect Unteroffizier WoT EU WoT Company Commander	i've been lacking impulse-control again and preordered this. played a couple of games and i must say it's just awesome! this one really needs proper strategy and tactics, spamming high end units and rush for the cap will get you nothing but a total defeat. use of combined arms is of essence, scouts are a must, and if you neglect your supply-lines your units turn into rubble pretty fast. the maps in the beta are rather small, yet one can still do wide flanking manoeuvres and surprise attacks on the back, really looking forward to the bigger maps! there's no insta-win-unit, everything can be countered, and if some high end unit gets killed the enemy team gets a nice boost of victory points. although the terrain looks really flat it HAS some little hills and lots of forests/hedges to take cover in, every unit got a proper LOS and every weapon got a LOF, so even a small hill may become a bastion if you cant get arty-support or helicopters. units got morale, if they get pounded too much they panic and run. weapons consume ammo and every vehicle consumes fuel which both need to be replenished by supply trucks or helicopters. infantry units come with APCs some special forces even use helicopters, never seen something like this at this scale before! graphics are not state of the art, dont expect this to look like an interactive movie, but it gets the job done and got some nice effects and detailed models in close up view (which you wont be using too often, there's no time to relax and watch the scenery ;) ) looking forward to some reviews of ppl more involved into RTS games than me, this game must have flaws and weaknesses, i just cant find them right now. Posted Feb 19, 12 0 Respect 0 Respect
norskafresh 118 posts +35 Respect Obergrenadier	Well done Yeol.... people on the wargameEE forums are complaining about these things: (i) Artillery is overpowered. People are spamming it from the initial point and then scouting for targets. (ii) No jets. People are very dissappointed to have no access to A10 thunderbolts, su25 frogfoots or other CAS A/C. (iii) People are not impressed that their will be no AI to play against in multiplayer. (iv) The usual over powered threads of course predominate after each patch. (v) People do not seem to know what BETA means and are upset their decks will be deleted when the game releases (vi) People have discovered playing a multiplayer game vs nobody will still give them XP if they are in long enough. (vii) The french devs have over powered the french units in the game according to a lot of peeps. I personally think a lot of people just hate the french. Their gear during the cold war was not top notch it is true. But they still have some nice gear. (viii) No navy... well that was never going to happen ;) To be honest it makes no sense to me that such a hodge podge of OOB are fielded in this game. But it goes with the RTS territory. I am really looking forward to the single player campaigns which apparently will get you XP. Posted Feb 21, 12 · OP 0 Respect 0 Respect
Yeol 424 posts +145 Respect Unteroffizier WoT EU WoT Company Commander	I) Arty is not overpowered. if you blob and never move you just ask for being nuked. II) that one is true, maybe we'll get those at a later time. III) who knows what the 'live' version will bring. IV) + V) as always... VI) that needs to be fixed! but still, skill is a lot more important than lvl, even cheap low end units can wipe expensive top notch units if used the right way. VII) those cheap french helos can give you a headache if spammed and you are ill prepared. as always it's a matter of reconnaissance, correct choose of units and placement. but ye, french are as OP in W:EE as russians are in WoT! VIII) what's a 'navy'? Posted Feb 21, 12 0 Respect 0 Respect
Ghosts_of_War 216 posts +71 Respect Unteroffizier CoH IL-2 II/JG77 Personnel Officer	Steam is updating preordered W:EE games if you are on US - Los Angeles city under settings [/URL] Posted Feb 23, 12 0 Respect 0 Respect
norskafresh 118 posts +35 Respect Obergrenadier	game is released now... downloading 7gig.... people have already started the single player campaigns!! Posted Feb 23, 12 · OP 0 Respect 0 Respect
Yeol 424 posts +145 Respect Unteroffizier WoT EU WoT Company Commander	humm, i slept too long i think. when i went to bed it said 'will be released in 17h' and when i woke up it's live. downloading while at work and tonight i'll cause havoc to the imperialist NATO forces threatening mother russia! Posted Feb 23, 12 0 Respect 0 Respect
Ghosts_of_War 216 posts +71 Respect Unteroffizier CoH IL-2 II/JG77 Personnel Officer	my download got about a little over 50% and i am going to let it run today to finish up so i can take on the Soviets in thier unwarrented acts of aggresion against NATO forces [/URL] Posted Feb 23, 12 0 Respect 0 Respect
norskafresh 118 posts +35 Respect Obergrenadier	Something from Eugen: Gal Marcel Bigeard wrote: Hi all, We are implementing the ability to play multiplayer againt AI. We didn't know prior to Open Beta that this feature was so important for the community. A big part of the Eugen Team is working to implement this feature as fast as we can. We will have the ability to play multiplayer againt AI before 1 month. We are doing our best to implement this as fast as possible. We will keep you informed. Posted Feb 23, 12 · OP 0 Respect 0 Respect
K.B_Martinsen 303 posts +118 Respect Feldwebel IL-2 II/JG77	Wud love an way to ethere remove ammo/fuel uses for units or make it work better sins its quith annoying having both sides units run our of fuel bieng "stuck" around map unable to finish it, allso to remove the limit on how meny total units you can produce exampel only bieng able to field a total of 8 leopard 1a4 in total is kinda sucky, i wudend mind if you cud only have 8 on map at a time np but 8 in toatl kinda promote camping abit too much whis on the maps i played so fare it usealy allso ends up whit all camping way too much. Allso considering what year this is(1975-1980) all units especialy artilleris are insnaly unaccurat when they shoot, and i seen serval drunken russian crews in thier T-34 hit better than a brand new Leopard 2a1 here. Ps: Yes i do know there can be build F.O.Bs and supplie trucks but they allso run out of ammo/fuel way too fast. [img] Posted Feb 23, 12 · Last edited Feb 24, 12 0 Respect 0 Respect

Wargame European Escalation Gameplay. Anyone else looking forward to it

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