End of Campaign #45 GHC Change of CiC Cerimony (WWIIOL - Battleground Europe)
The Axis CiC (commander in chief), Callsign: KMS, has retired at the end of Campaign #45. He led us to well deserved victory! The campaign ran 88 days, one of the longest maps in the history of WWIIOL. I attended the change in command cerimony and took some pics.
Forming of the Lines Below the Stand
KMS and other GHC (German High Command) inspect the troops before the cerimony begins.
AHC (Allied High Command) were invited to the cerimony as well. They entered our airspace at approximately 7km above the deck in a JU transport, and jumped. It took them a while to parachute to us at that height, lol, but they made a pretty impressive landing right on top of the platform where the GHC was! They exited the platform afterwards, crossing the lines to much cheering and saluting, and then head to the hanger...
We were ordered not to fire our weapons, in general, before the cerimony was over. But especially not to fire at our allied guests when they arrived, as they were under invitation. Of course, that was too much to ask. :rotfl:And had a rather embarassing conclusion for GHC. One or two fiesty Axis soldiers engaged and eliminated the poor Allies as they moved towards the hanger. Pretty stupid, actually. If you look at the platform screenshot with the tags on, you can see a game manager there... people were warned not to get out of line. Not sure what happened to the culprits, but GHC sent the Allies our apologies for the incident...
Bodies by Hanger in the distance, as an Officer looks over in disbelief... and a close up of two of the allied corpses:
The cerimony closes with with a load of "fireworks." Everyone lights up the area with frag and smoke grenades, lots of small arms fire and even the planes and armored vehicles on the airfield let loose their guns.
Former CiC KMS boards a transport plane and leaves the field with all of our salutes and cheering to see him off.
The End.