Pantherblaster
Posts: 338
Joined: 11/13/2000 From: Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands Status: offline
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I want to thank all of you for your tips and hints! Yes Bill, I do enjoy playing this campaign as it makes me reconsider some of my succesful campaign strategies as they don't seem to apply here, which I think is a good thing, thinking keeps you sharp.
The first time I played this camopaign I got the following results scen1: draw, scen2: DV, scen3: DD. Especially the third was extremely frustrating I must admit. Both of my mine sweepers immobilized on the first turn, other vehicles following fast. Then on turn three I faced some SU engineer squads, bloodyhell I don't think I've ever cursed that much, EVER!!!!! I threw some combined arms troops at them, they all got destroyed on the SU turn without suffering one casualty, then I send 3 Tigers, 2 APC's, 1 MG-42, 3 Rifle squads and 2 reckon Teams at them, in the following two turns I managed to get exactly 1 casualty while I lost 2 out of three Tigers, both APC's, both reckon teams and had the rest except one rifle squad routed. From that moment I changed my objective from "capturing the VH's" to "KILL THAT BLOODY ENGINEER SQUAD, RAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!". And in the end ...... His squad pretty much won. I tried to take a more southern bypass in the city but faced two more of those squads, resulting in less dramatic but still much to high losses. I have never had such an "experience" before. After this battle I started the campaign again and before the battle started posted this thread.
This time I'll 2 more Tigers (8 in total), 2 PZ-IV's (as well as already having 2 Panther A's), but 8 less Marder-III's and less APC's (replaced by trucks) and less reckon teams. Let's see how it will go now.
Again thanks,
Regards,
Pantherblaster
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