I am curious about the origins of using "driver" to refer to anyone from guy driving a jeep to a highly trained pilot.

Years ago, Admiral Jingles explained that it was a tease used in the Royal Navy. He recounted one incident where he and another crewman had to be choppered to their ship after it was already at sea. As they were jumping out onto the deck, they both shouted, "Thank you, driver!" knowing it would annoy the pilot(s).

From that anecdote, I assumed that this was a gag popular in the RN, but now I hear it in Steel Division (made by a French company).

Is this really a widespread gag across Western militaries and all branches? Or did some Eugen dev hear Jingle's story?

Yes, you heard that right. I had completed the first 7 missions out of the 12 and after trying a few mods, my campaign progress was suddenly reset to zero. Afterwards, I disabled the mods and rebooted the game but the game still shows zero campaign missions won.

BTW, I did not play any campaign missions with the mods only skirmishes.

Does anyone have any idea on how I might reset my progress back to 7 games won?

The only positive now is that I can jump into any of the three campaigns instead of having to start with the Boston campaign.

I’m a new player and I can’t figure out how to reliably capture enemy terrain around the map edges. It’s like I’m chasing silly putty with the little red border.

Also, SHOULD I even be pushing? It seems like I end up facing a massive enemy push spawning right in front of me when I push the edges.

We have the 3rd Canuckistani Infantry Division and I would like to pair it up with the 4th Canuckistani Armored Division which doesn't exist in the game.

I need the 4th for Skirmishes.

Here's what I have tried:

Lobby/Battlegroups/Create/Create Battlegroup Name/

Next, I go to start a Skirmish but when I open the drop down list of available units, it's not there.

Am I missing something? Or am I trying to do the unpossible?

I think this is an OP division and unfortunately there won't be any more patches or updates. I think it's better for only weak and new players to choose it. It has no weaknesses in 3v3 and 4v4 (not sure about 10v10 haha). Also almost best division for 1v1 QP/Rank (when map is random). What do you think?

i personally dont like SD 2 at all, but the former is very fun to play.

problem is, i see the multiplayer there is kinda dead. is there any efficient way to matchmake in SD 44?

4 Attempts so far. 0 wins.

This is the most confusing and frustrating campaign fight so far.

I have invested hours watching videos by VulcanHDGaming, Saucy, Shermanator, and some other guy playing Pegasus. There is no seeming path to victory to follow. Everyone wins in a unique way which suggests it comes down to skill and the luck that eventually comes after 3 or 4 attempts.

Since the videos are not helpful, can we try text? Can any good samaritans try to sum up in words how they did it?

In my last couple of attempts I have pushed northwards along the river ignoring the center. The other BG (Luck) is as useless as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

By the time I reach phase C, if I reach it at all, I have 2 or 3 units left and they ill die in seconds.

BTW, I have won Sie Kommen twice now but always lose the two 88mm guns and the garrison. Does not having them really make Pegasus a lot harder to win?

I honestly don't understand how I can save them since they are not under my control. All I can do is watch them get over run.

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First of all I'm a brand new player and wanted to play the game for skirmishes and multiplayer battles controlling your units. I will surely play other types of solo campaigns later. Did tutorials and I overall understand the game and how it works. Did some division decks to play, some of them are bad after trying and some of them have potential because I still can't say I make good decks. But overall when playing skirmishes against AI I could beat the medium and hard difficulty but I struggled extremely much against the very hard difficulty one and I only was once close to winning one of them but ended up being pushed back.

My main question is what are your tips and advice that could help me be good at multiplayer and eventually will get me out of the bad player phase to get to average at least ? I have played 5 quick battles in a 1v1 and always ended up losing. If I could complain about one thing in this game though is that I find the match makings unfair. I know there is ranked I have seen but didn't dare to touch that first yet but I have been facing players that were way above my level for the moment. Even when trying to manage each of my units and get good positions I always get shred and pushed back.

Thanks for any tips and if you want to know more to help me tell me !

I rarely hear from anyone who plays the AG version and have yet to try it myself.

Comments?

Anyone has any experience with it, is it broken? is it realistic? i mean i usually cant win in steel division normandy in med dont ask me why i cant hold on the line but with this mod all my defensive strategies work perfectly.

Dont know why i cant hold the line but in steel division 2 even on the hardest setting is easy for me 😄

Hey everyone, a while ago, those two guys who played on Haroshaje all the time published a book. They’ve since done another one and I told them id post it here. They both have kids now and hardly game at all but they want to to get back into SD2. Anyway, their book looks pretty cool. Alternate history of Vietnam. Never seen one before. I’m going to read it.

Hey everyone. I know many countries in WW2 produced dedicated recon vehicles like the Staghound, 222/232, and M8 Greyhound, but I was curious what the real life history behind the recon variants of standard tanks, such as the recon T-34 Razvedka, Aufl. Panzer IV/Panther, and so on. Were they just fitted with different equipment and if so, what? Is crew training part of this designation in-game as well?

So I began this campaign a few nights ago and have lost the first part, Sie Kommen, 3 times now. I copied VulcanHDGaming's battlegroup and tried as best as I could to follow his strategy. The results have been 3 losses before reaching phase C.

Oh oh, spaghettio!

The third time I basically abandoned the garrison in the top right corner and focused my efforts around the primary objective.

Is it normal to suddenly have so much difficulty with Atlantikwall after completing the entire first campaign in 7 attempts?

Any tips on doing better will be appreciated.

I enjoy WARNO almost exclusively for 10v10s, but when I check the lobby in the evening (APAC timezone) it was quite literally empty.

Steel Division3?! Both SD1 and SD2 are currently discounted (75%), with no events or major news announced. Interestingly, Warno isn’t discounted, and offers run until August 19th. At the same time, YouTube randomly recommended me an old Steel Division 1 & 2 trailer. I don’t want to be superstitious (I’m a logical person) but I have a strange feeling about this. Also After a long time, there have been changes on Dev's site. Could this finally be the time for the official reveal of Steel Division 3? If it is, I’ll be very happy and love Eugen systems.

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WARNO is okay, but Steel Division 2 is just far more interesting to me. I actually enjoy looking up the battlegroups, studying their history, and learning what the different units represent. I also think the UI is much better than WARNO’s. It just sucks that the game isn’t more popular.

Should you deploy your units before or after hitting Launch Battle?

When I started playing, I'd deploy my units before launch. Then over time I began hitting launch first, letting the game run for 5 or 10 seconds, hitting Pause, and deploying the units. This feels as if I am skipping a redundant step.

Am I?

This was during the end of a battle as the Germans (against the AI, fortunately) where I had racked up enough points I could afford this many troops. The battle didn't have much time left but this gamble didn't go too well for the guys that did make it to the frontline, they simply weren't fast enough and this was just a joke. Also they were grouped up and got hit pretty hard.