GC East custom difficulty: 75% Prestige +2 strenght AI, and rommel from 43 onwards

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Finished maginot line with a DV. Those fortresses can throw a punch. I got a 2 D hero on my stuka, he now has a 3A and 2D heroes.

Now off to GC 41. At minsk, serious things will get started.

[PeteMitchell]

Rudel will come in Minsk!

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Indeed.
So at belgrade, got lucky and had a Pz 3F again.

My core breakdowns as follow:
10 inf
2 pz gren with move hero
1 FJ with 2D hero
1FJ with 3A hero
1 gebirg Oleh Dir
1 Gebirg with 3D hero
1 Bruckenpionier with 1D
1 Cav with 2 D
2 Krads wit no hero

1 Pz 4 with 1 D hero
1 Pz 4 with 3A hero
1 Pz 4 with Kerscher
SE pz with 2D
3 SE Pz with no hero

1 Sdkfz 222 with no hero
1 Sdkfz 231 with no hero

Arty 10,5 cm with 3A hero
Arty 10,5 cm with movement hero
Arty 15 cm with Range hero
2 stugs B
1 Sturmpanzer with move hero
1 10,5 cm with no hero

1 88 AA with no hero
1 88 with move hero
2 sdkfz with no hero

1 me109 with spotting hero
1 me109 with heinrich bar
2 me109 with 2D heroes

1 Stuka with 3A and 2 D heroes
1 BF 110 with Lent

1 JU88A no hero
2 HE111 no heroes.

I am planning to buy a dornier bomber, a FJ infantery and 1 more Stug B and another panzer jger.

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I just finished belgrade. I should have recorded it on youtube so that everyone dan learn from my playthrough what not to do. I was over confident and made loads of mistakes that cost me a lot in the end as i had to partially attack belgrade with no air force and little suppression. Thx lord my paratroopers saved the day but that was a very close one ans suffered significant losses.

On the bright side, got one 2D hero on a SE Pz 3 and one 3A on another SE Pz. I had amazing luck so far with heroes as i never reload for tanks or infantery ( i do when arty or aa get useless heroes though such as spotting).

Now i start with 18788 prestige the metaxas line.

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The metaxas line did go well, no particular issues. But the crete airborne didnt. Those 14 str battleship sank one of my krads... and the 12 str mosquito, no stars, did put on a helluva fight against 4 3* me 109. He managed to kill ten before dying after escaping one and come back at full strength.... but first 3 missions ended in a DV.

In the process, i got a spotting hero on the sdkzf 221 and a move hero on a kradchutzen. I cant believe i didnt get a single spotting hero on any on my inf For it to become a krad while i had 5 or 6 on my artilleries...In which case i had to reload every time for it drives me nuts, even after nine years of playing this game.

Anyway i just finished Minsk, got a DV but one of my Pz4 almost died from a multiple guards attack, whereas i have a duo of 13 strength stug B that are always stuck together and never got attacked. I currently have 21800 prestige before smolensk.

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I have almost finished the kiev path. One more mission to go. I got a +2D hero on my Pz 4 that had a 3A hero. My second double hero unit. Funnily, he has only just over 500 kills so that is one lucky bugger. He is a beast now. My flamm panzer got a 2D hero, i am fairly happy with that. Oleh dir should get a second hero anytime soon.

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Finished maginot line with a DV. Those fortresses can throw a punch. I got a 2 D hero on my stuka, he now has a 3A and 2D heroes.

Now off to GC 41. At minsk, serious things will get started.

He is like a mini Rudel, On my Ultimate Campaign I have a +2 A/+2 D Stuka that call my mini Rudel. Have you seen my Ultimate playthrough on my channel?

I am just now seeing this playthrough, I didn't realize people were still posting these, so I will definitely follow.

The first part of Streets of Moscow is going up tomorrow. I am looking forward to seeing peoples thoughts on that one.

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I have almost finished the kiev path. One more mission to go. I got a +2D hero on my Pz 4 that had a 3A hero. My second double hero unit. Funnily, he has only just over 500 kills so that is one lucky bugger. He is a beast now. My flamm panzer got a 2D hero, i am fairly happy with that. Oleh dir should get a second hero anytime soon.

Is your Flamm Heinz Rondorf, or are you playing with no super heroes? I think 1.20 does not give the super heroes, I have considered playing that way, but not yet. Ultimate needs all the advantages I can get.

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I watch your 1941 playthrough as i progress "hey hey my peeps" and i see you're reloading like in smolensk.

I play on ipad since 2015 but started in 2011 on PC watching deducter's videos. But braccada's is the one that explains things best. So i mostly watch his videos.

Until last year i would disband all super Heroes but now i dont. I use them all. the only OP one is rudel.

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Finished maginot line with a DV. Those fortresses can throw a punch. I got a 2 D hero on my stuka, he now has a 3A and 2D heroes.

Now off to GC 41. At minsk, serious things will get started.

He is like a mini Rudel, On my Ultimate Campaign I have a +2 A/+2 D Stuka that call my mini Rudel. Have you seen my Ultimate playthrough on my channel?

I am just now seeing this playthrough, I didn't realize people were still posting these, so I will definitely follow.

The first part of Streets of Moscow is going up tomorrow. I am looking forward to seeing peoples thoughts on that one.

A few years ago i once had a stuka that had +7A. I was playing w/o historical heroes. He was a beast until i had to put him on a FW because of the russian fighters.

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Just watched your vyazma playthru. That was brutal. And bad bad wheather. I use the very same strategy. You almost lost Oleh Dir lol. I will copy your strategu for surrendering the t34 downthere. That was nice.

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Just watched your vyazma playthru. That was brutal. And bad bad wheather. I use the very same strategy. You almost lost Oleh Dir lol. I will copy your strategu for surrendering the t34 downthere. That was nice.

Yeah, the way Oleh Dir was brutalized does not happen too often, and it scared me. Just posted the start to Streets of Moscow. That is something to be proud of.

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Gonna watch it.

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Started vyazma. My wurfhramen shoots on the t-34. Very first attack and i get this:

. Ffs i have been trying to upload an img for 20 min and it wont work. But i got a range hero on my wurfie that i bought in crete. I am one lucky bugger

[PeteMitchell]

This is the code to show your below photo:

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As an alternative, you can also upload it as an attachment to your post (directly to this forum) and then show it "in line" with your text but I think there are file size limitations. Your photo has ~2.9 MB which might be too much, not sure...

Here is your photo:

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Thx pete, i didnt check the size of the img but it wouldnt work as an attachment.

Anyway i finished vyazma and it went from bad to worse. I had a DV on turn 20, after saving a reloading 3 times from turn 18 to get sun. Out of the 18 first turns, i had 0 sunny days, it was mud, cloudy, rain, rinse and repeat. As i had to go forward nonetheless i suffered heavy casualties on my units, especially my FJ and a few panzers.

On the bright side, one kradschutzen had a +1 attack hero, my last FJ I got in belgrade had a 3D hero and my ju88 had a 2A hero.
I also had a 2D hero on my polish artillery.

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Defensive hero on a Fallschimjaeger is outstanding, as well as +1 Range on Wurfrahmen. I will probably not be using Wurfrahmen in my Ultimate playthrough as they are just too expensive, but they can be game changers with a +1 Range hero on them.

Well I hope my Ultimate vid helps you prepare for Streets of Moscow, I also recommend watching Robbie plays Strategy Game videos playthrough of that map, as it helped me. Set up and execution of that first day is critical.

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Defensive hero on a Fallschimjaeger is outstanding, as well as +1 Range on Wurfrahmen. I will probably not be using Wurfrahmen in my Ultimate playthrough as they are just too expensive, but they can be game changers with a +1 Range hero on them.

Well I hope my Ultimate vid helps you prepare for Streets of Moscow, I also recommend watching Robbie plays Strategy Game videos playthrough of that map, as it helped me. Set up and execution of that first day is critical.

Well until end of 42, i kinda know all maps by hart for i have played them so many times. I use the same strategy as you explained in your video but i will have 24 turns

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Just finished it. Had so much bad weather, the luck i get for the heroes, i lose it with the weather. I almost lost Wirnsberger. He was 11 strength and 2*, in a ciry hex, backed up by a 13 strength stug B and then was attacked by 2 12 stre guards that shred him to 4 strength and then he got suppressed by the katusha but it did only 2 damage. Also got a couple of 3* tanks down to 4 strength by those t34/41 even though they had artillery support. But all in all, My two nevelwerfers and the wurfrahmen along with oleh dir and the paratroopers torn all Their infantery apart.

On the hero side:
My 4 se Pz got a +1D hero.
oleh dir got a 2D hero.

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Just finished it. Had so much bad weather, the luck i get for the heroes, i lose it with the weather. I almost lost Wirnsberger. He was 11 strength and 2*, in a ciry hex, backed up by a 13 strength stug B and then was attacked by 2 12 stre guards that shred him to 4 strength and then he got suppressed by the katusha but it did only 2 damage. Also got a couple of 3* tanks down to 4 strength by those t34/41 even though they had artillery support. But all in all, My two nevelwerfers and the wurfrahmen along with oleh dir and the paratroopers torn all Their infantery apart.

On the hero side:
My 4 se Pz got a +1D hero.
oleh dir got a 2D hero.

2D on Oleh Dir is a gamechanger, so if I understand you did not get the DV, but a MV.

I am curious you stated that you are very familiar with GC up through 42, but I am wondering if you have ever finished the Grand Campaign? I was astonished to find out that Richard Martin has never finished 44 or 45. So he is now playing blind on Ultimate difficulty.

Crazy