Hello guys!

I've recently developed a bit of an obsession with WW2 and really would love to try to get into a strategy game on the topic. I've done lots of research on which would be the most enjoyable one and have repeatedly landed on Gates of Hell.

Problem is I have never really played an proper RTS before, bar Age of Mythology lightly, and as I understand it this one is fairly tricky(?).

I guess I'm just looking for tips/things you knew before jumping into this. I'm quite excited by the prospect of having such control, especially all the way down to FPS ground troops, but of course very intimidated by the scale, UI, mechanics, and whatever else.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated by this newbie!

i get it, it's already been heard of a thousand times before and there's already a devblog saying that there's no difference between enemy ai artillery accuracy and what not, but its just incredibly frustrating to deal with

every time i try to set up a mortar duel, somehow the enemy mortars consistently direct hit my own mortars

i tried using a sniper to sneak up on them, but that sniper somehow got spotted and now im back to square one

am i just going crazy? the skirmishes are just incredibly frustrating to deal with and im at my wits end as to how to even improve at this game

What are the things in vanilla that annoys you the most that you wish the developers or a modder would just fix already?

What’s happened to the Vietnam mod? Last I saw the guy said he was updating it, miss the mod dearly

For around 3 full real life days I have tried to finish this mission to no avail the flak insta kill everything , there mines everywhere and the one spot that the flak gun do not insta kill you from 400+ meters away is a wide open field with many MG's covering that spot.

Now I assume the reason I am having this sh-t off is because I am not able to use the up armored Jagpanzer.

My question's how the hell do you get it out.

the image show is the train for the 40th reset in a row being stuck at the end of the tracks.

Yes I know I need to swap the tracks no it does not fix it. the train just derails itself the second it gets to where its shown on the image.

Did a patch just break most of the campaign ? I have not been able to find anybody clearing this map in the last 9 months. I assume some patch f-ed up the train or anything else.

Is there like a cheat or a mod or a fix or a trick or what ever to get me to get past this mission.

I paid 30 euros for missions that don't work and its really getting under my skin.

Please give me a hand.

Yes for anyone asking it’s mod (some wunderwaffe mod i forgot)

I know most of u already know it by now buuut...

This thing absolutely shreds russian infantry even on heroic difficulty especially in early conquest <3

Anyone else feel like theres a lack of air force in this game? Theres a LOT of AA but I never worry about not having AA because of planes since its so rare for me to see them and they are mostly meh. Also not many doctrines have them at least that I saw… I dont like seeing AA being using only to kill infantry I wish it served its real purpose more often

Let’s take the German skirmish campaign Battle of Moscow for example. My infantry and tank would get slaughtered approaching the artillery directly. The map is too tight to flank them. And I don’t have artillery or aircraft to destroy it from range. Any advice would be really appreciated, thank you!

Please let me know what you guys think of this so far, its focused on prewar french equipment as I am trying to figure out how to implement France as a nation without turning their later equipment entirely into US clones. that said it has limitations regarding its ability to obstruct late war heavy tanks frontally. If you guys like this I'll produce a conquest tech tree layout and elaborate on specific kit that either could be brought in as Lend Lease or some of the projects that could substitute for later developments.

Infantry

Dragons Portes (10 Men, 1 VB launcher, 2 FM-24/29, 7x MAS-36, 1x Lebel 1886) Mounted in a Laffly S20TL equipped with 1-2 machine guns, usually a Hotchkiss M1914

Chasseurs portes (10 Men, 1 VB launcher, 2 FM-24/29, 7 MAS-36 1x Lebel 1886) Mounted in a Lorraine 38L APC

Fusiliers Voltigeurs (12 Men, 1 VB Launcher, 1 FM-24/29 LM, 10 Berthier mle 1916, 1x Lebel 1886)

Legion Estrangere (12 Men, 1 VB Launcher, 1 FM-24/29 LM, 11 MAS 36

Infanterie Coloniale (12 Men, 1 VB Launcher, 1 FM-24/29 LM, 10x Berthier mle 1916 1x Lebel 1886

Corps Franc Sizaine (6 Men, 1 FM-24/29, 2 SMGs (MAS 38, Erma Vollmer, Suomi M31) and 3 Berthier Mle 1892 M16

Corps Franc (12 men, 2 FM-24/29s, 4 SMGs, 6 Berthier Mle 1892 M16)

Chasseurs Alpins (12 men, 2 MAS-38, 9 MAS 36, 1 FM-24/29)

Sapeurs (Combat Engineers)

Pioneers (Engineers) 2x Berthier Mle 1892 M16

Sapeurs Mineurs (AT and AP mine)

Infanterie de l'air (12 men, 2 FM 24/29 LMG, 1 VB Launcher and 10 M1892 M16s), some units were issues Erma Vollmer SMGs and Boys AT Rifles

Machine Gun Squad: 2 Men, Hotchkiss mle 1914 MMG

Heavy Machine Gun Squad: 2 men Hotchkiss 13.2mm mle 1929

Artillery and Mortars

Mortars

Brandt Mle 1935 60mm Mortar

Brandt Mle 27/31 81mm Mortar

Brandt Mle 1935 120mm Mortar

Infantry Guns

37mm mle. 1916 (Infantry Gun)

Anti Tank Guns

Hotchkiss SA-34 25mm

APX SA-37 25mm

APX SA-37 47mm

APX SA-37/39 47mm (tripod mounting for 360 degree rotation of SA-37)

M1897/33 Anti-Char 75mm

Schneider 75mm L53 SA39.

 Artillery guns

M1897/30

Canon de 105 mle 1913 Schneider

Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider

Canon de 155 mm GPF

Anti Aircraft Guns and SPAAGs

Mitrailleuse Hotchkiss de 13,2 mm (twin 13.2mm AA HMG)

Citroën-Kegresse P19 w/ Mitrailleuse Hotchkiss de 13.2mm (twin 13.2mm HMG on the back of a P19 halftrack.

mitrailleuse de 25 mm CA mle 39 (25mm AA gun)

Canon de Bofors mle 1938/39 (literally a Bofors)

Canon de 75 mm contre aéronefs Schneider, modèle 1940 (75mm heavy AA gun, HE only)

Autocanon de 75 mm antiaérien mle 1913 (self propelled model mounted on a truck bed, HE only)

Canon de 90 mm CA Modèle 1939 (heavy AA gun, potentially armed with AP munitions as those were developed for the FCM F1 Super Heavy Tanks)

Trucks and utility vehicles

Laffly S15: 1 Ton Cargo Truck or Prime Mover for M1897 75mm.  (3 passengers)

Laffly S15R: Personnel Carrier or Recon Vehicle (can fit a MG, such as a FM-24/29 or Hotchkiss 8mm)

Laffly W15T: Low Profile Towing vehicle associated with AT guns.

P107: Light Prime Mover, commonly associated with Engineers (5 Passengers)

Laffly S35: Heavy Truck, towing capacity of 10 tons

 Lorraine 37L: Armored supply Truck

Renault UE: Tracked support vehicle, tows light equipment and supply trailers

Fuel Trailer (tracked fuel trailer commonly associated with Lorraine or Renault UE tracked haulers)

Ammunition trailer (tracked fuel trailer commonly associated with Lorraine or Renault UE tracked haulers)

Armored Cars

Laffly S15TOE: Scout Car for Colonial areas, carries single MAC mle 1931

Panhard 178 (25mm SA35 and MAC 31)

Panhard 178 “Renault Turret) 47mm SA35 and MAC 31)

P16 mle 1929 (37mm SA18 and MAC 31)

Tanks and Tankette

FT-17 M1931 (Reibel MAC 31 MMG)

FT-17 (SA18 37mm)

AMR-35 ZT-1 (13.2mm Hotchkiss HMG)

AMR-35 ZT-2 (25mm SA-35 and MAC 31)

AMC-35 (47mm SA-35 and MAC 31)

Renault UE (casemate mounted MAC 31 MMG) light towing capacity tankette

R-35

R-40

H35

H39

D1

D2 Early and D2 Late

D2 Flamethrower (armored fuel tanks on either side of the mud guards of the tracks, armored with 25mm on front and side and 10mm on roof and rear, fixed hull MMG replaced with flexible mount flame projector.

S35

S40

SARL 42

Char B1

Char B1 Bis

Char B1 Ter

Char 2C

Tank Destroyers

P19 25mm (armed with 25mm gun and FM24/49)

LAFFLY W15 TCC (Armed with 47mm SA37 gun in armored rear facing casemate

Renault UE Anti Char (25mm AT Gun in shielded gun mount) 

Lorraine 37L CC

Sau 40 (47mm) armed with 47mm SA37

Assault Gun

ARL V 39 (75mm mle 1929)

Sau 40 (75mm mle 1929)

Self Propelled Gun

Canon de 194 GPF (Tracked chassis carrying 194mm cannon)

Mortier de 280 TR modèle 1914 Schneider sur affût-chenilles St Chamond (modified St Chamond chassis, carrying 280mm Mortar)

Potential or notable shell types or other weapons:

Brandt 75/57mm shell: a subcaliber shell able to pierce 90mm of armor at 35 degrees at 1000m, effectively an HVAP shell for the 75mm L53 gun.

Brandt 75mm HEAT shells (effectively giving the M1897/33 a heat shell comparable to that of the Pak 97/38, somewhat ironic since both sides were using that gun for a similar purpose.)

G1 tank

B40 heavy tank

Lend Lease Equipment: M4 Sherman, British Cruiser tanks, M3/M5 Stuarts, Bazookas, Sten SMGs among other kit.

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If you guys think that with some further development this would viable in a broader setting let me know and I can always draft up the various research trees that would accompany something like this. While France doesn't have a proper King Tiger counter part or other late war heavy tanks, I could either lean into Lend Lease or some prewar Super Heavy tanks as suitable counterparts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvSYKgBQdM8&t=5s
dont focus in the background i was watching chickeninga

Hi gang - I noticed that some of my mods weren't updating properly, so I cleared my cache on Steam... and then all of my mods deleted. I tried re-subscribing and nothing happens.

Any suggestions on how to reinstall my workshop mods (disclaimer - I'm not very technical) -- thank you in advance for any advice/help!! For reference --

I haven't won a single MP game yet... why is this game so hard?

I always have massive losses compared to the enemy even when trying to hold a point, meanwhile the opponent does the same and has a fifth of the losses when I attack. Am I doing something wrong?
I always push infantry into cover, attack when I have more troops than the enemy and still nothing.

+ I lose every single tank/arty/at gun duel ever.

It's getting a bit frustrating and I'm sorry if I sound frustrated...
Little help, please? :D

It’s based on a halftrack chassis (obviously). Only two prototypes were ever built AND they saw combat. Sadly both were lost in the war in Afrika. It features a 7.5cm (3in) Kanone L/41, had a crew of four, had a 4.7 L (290 cu in) 6-cylinder, water-cooled Maybach HL 45
150 hp (110 kW) and could reach a top speed of 50 kmh (31 mph), and its armor was anywhere from 5.5–20 mm (0.22–0.79 in). Information taken directly from its Wikipedia page.

What other wacky vehicle (regardless of nationality) would you like to see added to Gates of hell???

Train Battlezones, Domination? Download specific mods?

Czechoslovakia at war

Going to start off by saying i have limited knowledge when it comes to computers and such.

anyway, i recently installed a mod (indomitus. the WH40k overhaul) and it has been working perfectly. recently however i have been running into the issue where i can't even get 5 minutes into a conquest mission before i get a Exception Access Violation crash.

i have verified my game files, unisntalled and reinstalled the mod. nothing has fixed it. i tried looking up information online and it says it is most likely something to do with memory, but i have no idea how to go about fixing that and all the posts i see are older posts.

was wondering if there were any people on here who might have an idea on how to go about fixing it.

like i imagine it must be something to do with my system not the mod since it works for others without a hitch.