Any guides/tutorials for a newbie?

[kasparow]

Hello guys.
Simple question here.
Are there any guides which can help players that are new to the series? I bought COH2 and I am playing a campaign. Having a lot of fun but it is kinda challenging for me. I want to try multiplayer but having no tips and tricks I doubt that I can do anything there.
Can you please post some links or some tips for new players? Help greatly appreciated.

[Shou]

check out the guide section. There are many guides for u on both germany and soviet side.

[kasparow]

I have already checked the guide section but tutorials there are written for people who have some experience in this game. I need some basics if you know what I mean.

[Shou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZgFSyyr1xc&list=UUyUcNdOxXcVt3o9eZKdza9w

watch these youtube replay and learn from thier tactics.(there are also many others shout cast on youtube)

[Reaves]

heya man, i'm also pretty new to the game so if you want to have some matches just friend me :)

[kasparow]

Not so easy learning curve I suppose...

[Felicity]

Actually it's pretty simple, it just helps if you're already practiced in micro from other rts games since it's a big part of taking the advantage.

Experience is the best teacher as the conscripts say when they get vet ranks c:

[LCcmdr]

Originally posted by kasparow:

Hello guys.
Simple question here.
Are there any guides which can help players that are new to the series? I bought COH2 and I am playing a campaign. Having a lot of fun but it is kinda challenging for me. I want to try multiplayer but having no tips and tricks I doubt that I can do anything there.
Can you please post some links or some tips for new players? Help greatly appreciated.

Practice against the easy AI. It's not that aggressive and will help you learn the basics.

[Mechles]

gamereplays.org and coh2.org

[kasparow]

Thx guys for the support.
Too bad most of COH2 players are very experienced in COH1 , thus newbies have very hard times vs those players. Even tho matchmaking works very well , it is still hard. Well, even experienced players say that AI on standard difficulty is very hard to play against.
This game seems very different from let's say starcraft. Not so easy to manage.

[La Follet]

always go for fuel points first.u can go for victory points after fuel points are secured. also dont play russian if ur a newbie. their much harder to play and require u to be more aggressive. also the t 34/76 is a piece of crap and a waste of money. losing to a panzer 4 even though historically it wasnt supposed to.

[Adam Beckett]

1. Here's a "secret":

Even if you lose ALL your men at some point in the campaign (CoH1 or CoH2), you have ALL the resources and tools to "win" the mission.

The campaign is built this way.

Even in the hard difficulty it allows you to complete the mission, after you made bad choices. In general, I would follow closely the mission objectives.

In the end, the whole campaign is one big tutorial! It is similar to Blizzard's Starcraft campaign approach: teaching you a new unit - one step at a time.

2. Ctrl+1 is your friend. Assign units to keys. If you struggle to keep up with your units being attacked at different places at once (there is an early mission, where you have to defend 3 places at once), assing keys 1-3 to the machine guns, or buildings or batteries, allowing you to switch quickly from A to B. When you lose all your men at one place, you can still switch to that place and order more conscripts.

3. Always order more conscripts.

Otherwise, playing with someone you know, or you trust online (via voice chat), guiding you through your first multiplayer experiences is of great value. But not everyone has these friends.

Have fun, comrade.

[kasparow]

Thx for all responses. I still loose most of my matches but having fun nonetheless. Keep tips and tricks coming - help appreciated :).

[Straight Outta Compton!]

Watch replays from youtube. If you are really new, make a custom match with ai fighting in your side. For example you + 2 expert AIs vs 2 AI easy AI. You can watch how the AI plays and try to mimic their behaviour. This gives you an idea how to use units and you see aggresive gameplay from ai = always finding new routes to unguarded flags and capping more territory = more resources. You can hold one victory point and let ai fight against itself while observing it.

ABC! - Always Be Capping!

[PrivateXTC]

This video will help you. The guy explains what he's doing during the whole match. It's the only guide I have found where you can watch it and have someone explain at the same time. I find written guides harder to understand I need to see it in action and this video does that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrX2BWmUmu8

[kasparow]

Yea, I saw this video already. It is a little bit odd that there are so few instructional videos for new players. Seems so that most of COH2 people are experienced enough.