{"id":37961,"date":"2016-02-03T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=37961"},"modified":"2016-02-03T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:04:40","slug":"this-is-how-you-beat-unity-of-command-in-two-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/02\/03\/this-is-how-you-beat-unity-of-command-in-two-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how you beat Unity of Command in two turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Put your schwerpunkt where your mouth is - BV in Stalingrad in 2 turns - UoC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWI6ALmWR5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speedruns are all about finding the optimal path in a game, even if that means making a mockery of a game&#8217;s mechanics. Spelunky in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2015\/8\/18\/9171939\/watch-spelunky-beaten-in-101-seconds-in-a-world-record-speed-run\">under two minutes<\/a> was impressive, but Benjamin Thomas is able to take Stalingrad in Unity of Command in <a href=\"http:\/\/unityofcommand.net\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=40&#038;t=4112\">two turns<\/a>. With the timescale used in the game, this is equivalent to Germany conquering the city by August 1942, a feat that most students of World War II would agree is impossible. The trick to this feat? Ignore history and go for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speedruns are all about finding the optimal path in a game, even if that means making a mockery of a game&#8217;s mechanics. Spelunky in under two minutes was impressive, but Benjamin Thomas is able to take Stalingrad in Unity of Command in two turns. With the timescale used in the game, this is equivalent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This is how you beat Unity of Command in two turns - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/02\/03\/this-is-how-you-beat-unity-of-command-in-two-turns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This is how you beat Unity of Command in two turns - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speedruns are all about finding the optimal path in a game, even if that means making a mockery of a game&#8217;s mechanics. 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