r/GatesOfHellOstfront

The map is literally called Hills and I’m recently playing a hardcore conquest game. I attacked it just fine but they attacked it twice and every time I lose a lot of units due to the enemy being able to get so close due to the hills. I got a defense on this map a third and final time and I couldn’t change it so I cheese my way through it because f this map I hate it. I surrounded two objectives with tank traps and I between my tank traps I placed barbed wire. While it did work I’ve found out new things about conquest.

1. If the enemy has sappers the AI will blow up tank traps now before they never did this but I’m not complaining I thought it was pretty cool to narrowly watch my cheese strat almost fail.

2. The AI always knows where your units are. I accidentally locked out some of my engineers from the safety of the objective so I threw them into the opposite corner of the map than their spawn and I proned them in a dug mortar pit.

3. It appears the AI regardless of difficulty only spawn in waves so if the first wave is never defeated they almost never deploy more units.

With that being said here are some screenshots for proof and memes

I haven't seen a post or anyone commenting on this support unit but in conquest I do find them a steal at only 6 MP and they can kill heavy tanks and infantry. As long as they are concealed or lobbing over a hill they are a great support role attack and defense.

Czechoslovakia at war

Russian Artillery in action somewhere on the eastern front.

I was playing a dynamic campaign, and my Tiger II (H) kept getting frontally penetrated. Meanwhile, in similar situations against the same enemies, my angled Tiger I could shrug off the hits. The enemy was using 17-pounders. I found an old article Developer Blog #47 - Armour 2.0 from 2016 mentioning this, but is this actually still a thing in the game?

>Armour Flaws

>As the war progressed, important materials for armour production were rationed which would affect armour quality and penetration resistance. Also unskilled labor and poor quality control contributed to armour quality in certain situations. An example would be, American quality control permitted flawed armor in many tanks prior to October 1943, including Sherman front plates. It is possible the British underwent major quality control improvements around the same time. Many German Panther and Tiger II tanks suffered from medium to large flaws in their armour (especially Panther Glacis) which contributed to lower than expected penetration resistance.
Again, testing still needs to be done to determine which or if any of the armor types and factors will be in the finished game.

Forward elements start their assault on a village in the outskirts of Kiev around September 1941.

These shots are from my current conquest campaign, which I plan to document like this and make a narrative up to the end.

I'm working on updating the mod I made with Old Boy and some others. Some of the new things I’ve added are real Vietnamese voices for the campaigns, new gameplay (smarter AI, overhauled weapons) and lots more.

I'm also still working on the modding tool, the next update will include an easy to use inventory customizer for soldiers (breeds) and a conquest tree editor. You can check that out here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/GatesofHellUltimateModdingTool and thanks to those who've already joined my squad there :))

After a defeat, the forced autosave makes me play the opposite role from the one I had in the previous game. This feature prevents me from trying different strategies on the same map as attacker/defender. I hate this and it ruins the game for me.

Anyone please help .

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I was playing last stand mode, all AIs on Heroic difficulty and I'm getting blasted by the enemy AI coming with Tigers on first round but whyyyyyyy friendly AI doesn't pick any vehicle???? Increase difficulty it's just to make my allies dumber? We can see in the minimap, I had 2 tanks, others died but AI are trying to stop enemy vehicles with rifles? This is sooooo annoying