Things to do before Moscow

[Monky]

- Level up doctors in hospital car, one of the doctors has very useful traits
- Use pre-moscow resources for free research in hospital car
- Train workers in artillery car
- Once workers and doctors level up, choose a combat role and take to moscow. This lets you have 10 units instead of 8 survive the crash.
- Level up grenadiers and give +3 dex food to grenadiers in Moscow. This lets you lob grenades at the armored car without triggering the cutscene (the car is invinceable)
- Use grenadiers and machine gunners to clear the barricade in Moscow (it does nothing)
- If you want to, level up all your soldiers with worker role until you're about to run out food.
- Feed all your soldiers with consumables before starting moscow. Even the ones that die, at least they get a nice final dinner.
- Max out the upgrades for hospital car, infantry car, artillery car and locomotive for achievements. (Reload save between each upgrade)

That's it. Enjoy your train ride.

[Walter]

Eh... You can save extra soldiers like that? Does *not* saving them affect No One Left Behind achievement? Because I would seriously hate to play the tutorial section for the *4th* time! I already completed it once in demo and 2x in full game.

[Monky]

You can't save all of them that way, two of the soldiers have pacifist traits that prevent taking combat roles, and one of them is an engineer that can't gain enough XP by the time you get to Moscow.

[ShepherdOfCats]

Warning about researching before Moscow, it will bug your hospital car when you get one later, and you won't be able to craft anything that you researched.

But you can still farm xp for your doctors by crafting medkits.

Viktor the doctor is nice to have for searching villages. There's a chance he strikes gold and gets a bonus from both his herbalist and burglar traits.

[KMS Bismarck]

Originally posted by Walter:

Eh... You can save extra soldiers like that? Does *not* saving them affect No One Left Behind achievement? Because I would seriously hate to play the tutorial section for the *4th* time! I already completed it once in demo and 2x in full game.

im still woriking one no one left behind and i dint tacke all the soliders you can get frome the moscow traine so now i do also you get extra ones if you lose some in moscow . i let the how og crew get gun down to get someonels ( truen off low moral lost in setings )

[KMS Bismarck]

Originally posted by Monky:

You can't save all of them that way, two of the soldiers have pacifist traits that prevent taking combat roles, and one of them is an engineer that can't gain enough XP by the time you get to Moscow.

its 3 you cant save?! if im not wrong

[Walter]

TBH in demo when so many player's soldiers died in the train crash, basically in a cutscene, after I played with them for a couple hours made me question if I want to even get the game. Maybe the devs thought it fits the war theme? To me it just made me not care about the soldiers anymore, so I won't get pissed if the game has another event like that. I did not even read the bios of the soldiers I got after Moscow.
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Btw, real armored trains did run slow, with engine in the middle of train and a sacrificial empty car in front. That way if they crashed into something, it would usually just damage or derail the empty front car and the train could keep going. When I started the game, I immediately noticed the ingame train is doing it wrong - it really frustrated me that the event in Moscow wouldn't have played out like it did if the train was set up correctly.
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The game even has historic photos of the real Orlík train showing the correct layout - did the developers just not care?

[Orikz]

How do you train works in artillery car, can't get my worker to level before moscow

[budkyns]

Originally posted by Walter:

TBH in demo when so many player's soldiers died in the train crash, basically in a cutscene, after I played with them for a couple hours made me question if I want to even get the game. Maybe the devs thought it fits the war theme? To me it just made me not care about the soldiers anymore, so I won't get pissed if the game has another event like that. I did not even read the bios of the soldiers I got after Moscow.
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Btw, real armored trains did run slow, with engine in the middle of train and a sacrificial empty car in front. That way if they crashed into something, it would usually just damage or derail the empty front car and the train could keep going. When I started the game, I immediately noticed the ingame train is doing it wrong - it really frustrated me that the event in Moscow wouldn't have played out like it did if the train was set up correctly.
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The game even has historic photos of the real Orlík train showing the correct layout - did the developers just not care?

Hey man, there was nothing wrong with this. What happened in Moscow happened at a time when the legionnaires had no idea that the Reds would send a wild locomotive against them, In fact, they began to assemble the train, as you speak, after many experiences! At the time when the story of the game takes place in Moscow, they did not have this experience yet!

[Ericus1]

Originally posted by Orikz:

How do you train works in artillery car, can't get my worker to level before moscow

That train simply by being there for a shift, whether the train is moving or not. So, stop the train and just idle until they level up. You could also have them work on car upgrades while the train is stopped.

I haven't tested it, but I think the engineers only level while the train is moving, which is why I assume they can't gain the level they need before Moscow. I suppose you could game it by constantly starting and stopping the train, to draw out the time the train is "running" but never having it get up to speed, to give that engineer more time to level up. Maybe that would do it.

[TruXurT]

Originally posted by KMS Bismarck:

Originally posted by Monky:

You can't save all of them that way, two of the soldiers have pacifist traits that prevent taking combat roles, and one of them is an engineer that can't gain enough XP by the time you get to Moscow.

its 3 you cant save?! if im not wrong

It is only 2 that really can't be saved as they can't be assigned combat role.

Vit Kuklik (the engineer you mention above) can be saved if you keep starting the train and then stopping it once it gets to 10 kph speed in the prologue. Of course do it only during his shift. During other engineer's shift just stop the train so this way your doctors and workers in artillery car can level up. I have done it on my previous playthrough, took him to Moscow and he made it all the way to the ship in Vladivostok.

Of course the big issue is, whom to take to Moscow anyways. In my current playthrough he still didn't make the cut, even though I leveled him up. There is nothing wrong with the guy, but I figured the best way to get to Moscow is with 9 person squad, so I can still get Bartolomej Kvapilek in Moscow. (he is only joining if you have less than 10 soldiers in your squad).

My preferred 9 soldiers for Moscow are now:

The big 4:

Maximilian Drap
Bedrich Kopecky
Antonin Kura
Magdalena Zamecka

Trained in prologue:

Viktor Severa (Burglar/Herbalist)
Prokop Sysel (very good worker)
Gustav Beran (Hunter)

That leaves 2 more spots:

1st goes to:

Alfred Kraus (Burglar/Avaricious). At this point he is the last soldier with any of those mission critical traits

The last remaining spot is the toughest. Definitely want to fill it, as alternative in Moscow is Pavel Polacek who is careless. For same reason not taking Anna Davidova here. Johan Kocourek has really nothing going on for him and I am not really sure how useful Alzbeta Vybiralova could be. Josef Mejzlik has a useful Vengeful trait, but that is really not enough in my eyes to take him.

That leaves Dusan Hudecek and Vit Kuklik. This is a tossup as far as I am concerned. Vit has padded starting stats, but on my previous playthrough I had more use from Dusan, so I went with him. Since Dusan starts with 2 professions he can be maxed at 6, while Vit only with 5 upon reaching 2nd Lieutenant. Vit is not a bad choice here though. I actually picked him ahead of Gustav Beran on a previous playthrough but I really missed having another hunter, especially going on the south branch from Penza. Gustav is a better choice, sorry Vit.