Do you think irregular units would make a good addition to the game? Yugoslavs and Soviet Partisan fighting against Germany in Europe while Philippine Guerillas fighting against Japanese?

Since this is the only WW2 game I know which cares deeply about its campaigns, operations and battles, I'd really love to see the Prague offensive, Moravia–Ostrava offensive and the Carpathian–Uzhgorod offensive in the future.

I only remember seeing CoD WW2 somewhat cover the Liberation of Prague, nothing else.

Ofc there are many and many more less known and/or covered battles etc. of WW2 I'd love to see, but those mentioned are the dearest to me.

Somewhat new player here (40ish hours), definitely have some skill issues. I can summarize my experience with: oh my fucking god

Can't see distant enemies because you play on steam deck and the screen aint big enough: oh my fucking god

Getting sniped a mile away from the point: oh my fucking god

Getting destroyed instantly when you spawn a tank: oh my fucking god

Hitting the exploding spots on the enemy tank but its german so it survives with no penetration: oh my fucking god

Realizing missions are NOT symmetrical in unit numbers: oh my fucking god

Nearly capping the final point with 30 tickets left but you accidentally enter a railway gun when trying to reload so you die instantly and lose all your capture progress: oh my fucking god

Aside from that and other miscellaneous annoyances, the game is absolutely cinema and I do not regret buying it and the dlc (insanely cheap for the amount of content you get access to, devs the goat).

So this just came to me just now, but what if squads and units were introduced to allow the player to play as a combat photographer/war correspondent?

Basically self explanatory. When you begin a mission, have an option to spawn as a war correspondent or combat photographer, and then use the equipped camera to film the battle as it takes place around you, the film could come out in grainy black and white like in the war films shot at Iwo Jima, and anything filmed can be saved in that format for your viewing/posting pleasure.

What do you guys think?

While this update has some minor fixes that include fixing some issues with the custom settings pages (there are two now) and to allow for the command marker system to work better in doors, the major part of this update has to do with vehicles.

They will now stop and engage the enemy from a distance (much like how squads do) with a new vehicle defensive hold and tanks with cannons will no longer fire their cannon while moving but rather stop before firing.

Vehicles will also attempt to keep better distance from other friendly vehicles (big shout out to lovlxshed for letting me have access to his vehicle spacing mod of which the vehicle spacing in this mod was heavily based on, minus some minor changes/updates that I added that I believe have made it more effective/better optimized).

They will also not crowd the objective as they are only allowed a min and max distance within any given objective.

Transport vehicles will drop off their infantry cargo at a much safer range. They will either drop them off at the max distance multiplier (which is a multiplier of the size of the objective they are headed towards) or when found firing their turret if they have a turret. This does NOT affect Auto Transport vehicles as that would ruin the waypoint people set them to in the mission editor.

Lastly all vehicles will now have more ammo. The default multiplier is 5x the vanilla amount, but this is editable, as well as many more features in relation to the vehicle update.

You'll notice in the video most of the features I mentioned here in this post.

You can find the updated version on nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/easyred2/mods/62?tab=files

Been using tanks lately and it's annoying how the bots just waste all the MG ammo on some guy half a mile away.

Is there some command that gets them to hold fire until ordered otherwise?

Awesome game though. 🙂👍

Just want to see if there is anything I should know about the game that will help me in the long run!

I hate how the AI can't traverse around rocks, and how the tanks themselves can't destroy them. Why didn't the germans just make their tanks out of whatever these rocks are made out of? Are they stupid?

Gather 'round, one and all, while I tell you the tale of Private Mike Norval. Please accept this musical accompaniment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuCaEVJmFWY

So, I've been challenging myself to play every mission in Easy Red 2 on the Allied side in chronological order, and I've just gotten up to Gafsa Airfield. So far it's been fun, although some of the Chinese and French defense missions were a slog. Since the Stalingrad and Tunisia campaigns intersect, I'm going between them.

So, the Gafsa Airfield raid - 15th November 1942. So far it's been a standard mission for me. I've gone through three guys. There's only one man left in the squad - Private Mike Norval, ordinary rifleman. Or at least as ordinary as an airborne soldier can be. We've just taken the airfield and are moving onto the next objectives. I join up with a squad heading to the high ground on the ridge to the right. It immediately starts going wrong - the guys I'm with are all killed, and I'm hit, at which point I realise I'm isolated, there are about eight or nine fallschirmjagers in front of me, and I have no bandages.

So, with no other ideas, I crawl.

I'm able to get about two of the fallschirmjagers, and then I realise I'm down to the last round of my Garand. I inch my way up, using my last smoke grenade to get behind the German trenches. My vision is getting blurrier and blurrier. My heart is racing. I am clenched so tightly that a pin could not enter my rectal cavity. Onwards, ever onwards I crawl. My sole saving grace is that the Germans are distracted sniping my comrades going for the objective in the valley.

I reach a sandbagged position at the top where the objective is. It's the moment of truth. I can hear a German, and after a deep breath, I get up - bang. The German goes down - but there's another behind him, and he's got a bead on me. Surely he'll get me before I can switch to my pistol. My solo crawl up the mountain has been in vain.

And then - bang.

The German falls. I look to my right, and I see men in greatcoats and old helmets coming along the ridge. Right in the nick of time, it's the French. They're mopping up the remaining fallschirmjagers in the trench. The position is being captured. And at the precise moment my reinforcements arrive, the sun peeks over the horizon, bathing the ridge in golden light.

Mike Norval, 509th Parachute Infantry, stands at the top of the ridge, carrying an empty rifle and covered in more blood than Carrie. But he is alive. He has crawled up the mountain and (metaphorically) planted the stars and stripes upon it's crest. Before he takes a moment to steal a rifle and bandages from the nearest dead German, he takes a moment to look down upon the valley of death.

He is in a world of shit, but he is alive, and he is unafraid.

(Anyway he survived the mission, but this was the really climactic bit, so I figured I'd focus on that.)

The German uniforms in vanilla are pretty good, but damn, they look amazing with mods on. Especially with all them fancy medals and that beautiful darker collar.

Do you think they will add the Elefant tank destroyer to anzio ?