Battleground Europe (WWIIOL) worth it?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by stabiz

It was nice, but it lacked alot if you ask me. It had some realistic views on it, like the ability to lean your gun to a trunk of tree to aim more steadily. What I would've wanted to see from the beginning of RO, is more vehicles. We have tanks and halftracks. Some of the maps are huge and would've been great for anti-tank guns or even aircraft. And this is the area where WWIIOL makes it more enjoyable. Everything expect artillery (well you have those small one man mortars) is there. And the realism is slightly better, for example, you can set your sights for different distances in some weapons.

Anyways, I came to post an AAR from my best mission so far; Paradrop to the coastal city of Kamperland with the Fallschrimjäger 1.2:

July 10th

On the afternoon of July 10th, our FJ company was tasked of making a daring attack to the coastal city of Kamperland. Intelligence reports told that most of the allied brigades were moved to the center and south of the frontlines. An perfect opportunity to hit them hard and capture one of their naval bases.

At 14:51, the 15 FJ's assigned to the mission boarded the Ju-52 transport plane at Gilze airfield. Our CO split us in 2 groups and gave us our targets, we were to jump to the east & west parts of the town, capture the depots there and move in to the center from both sides.

Somewhere around 2/3 to the target, the radio began giving reports of enemy transport planes in the vicinity of Haamstede, city that was just across the channel from our target, Kamperland. Seems like the allies had the same though as us of making a surprise jump. The CO ordered the pilot to alter course for drop into Haamstede.

Haamstede is a small town, with not much strategic importance in it's self, but it would compromise the other towns in east if the enemy would get it's hand on it.

When we arrived to the new target, the enemy paratroopers had already jumped and captured one depot on the east side of Haamstede. Where the hell was Wehrmacht? Roughly 30 seconds before the jump, a french Dewoitine fighter jumped on us, scoring some hits to our left wing. The green light flashed and we jumped, just in time; the JU52 lost it's left wing few seconds after.

Fortunately, there was no fire coming from the ground, but the Dewoitine gave some of us hard time as it strafed the chutes. Luckily, no one was hit and everyone landed safely.

The enemy presence in the town was minimal, we killed 3 french paratroopers and captured the town back. Few of our FJs were lost in the battle, but the rest of us were ok and hand plenty of ammo left, so we decided to dig in to wait for the next attack.

I took the position of guarding the east depot, the rest of the FJs were scattered all over the town, we even saw few soldiers from the Wehrmacht join us.

20 minutes or so later, we started to hear engine noise from south and I hardly even noticed it, but I was already emptying my MP40 towards the sky where 4-5 allied paratroopers were slowly floating towards the city. I think I hit one, but cant be sure, the other FJs were shooting the same targets aswell. The attack was over soon, with no noticable gain for the allies. However, they did got few of our FJs. We were down to me and 3 other FJs plus 3 Wehrmacht guys.

We couldnt relax for long, again, engine noise from the south. This time 6 allied paras jumped right on top of the central depot, killing the FJ who was defending it. One para tried to sneak into the east depot, but a short burst from my MP40 stopped him. I heard alot of shooting from the central depot, the Wehrmacht was cleaning the rest of the paras, succeeding eventually, but with high cost. Me and one Wehrmacht soldier were the only ones left in Haamstede.

Again, the distinctive noise of the allied transport plane, only few minutes after the last attack. This time they were serious, a quick counting, 8-9 paratroopers jumped over the center & east side of the town. Seems the center depot was their target as I started hearing grenade explosions and machinegun fire there. Under a minute later, I was the only german soldier in the town. I decided to abandon the east depot and go clean up the center in hopes to getting it back and waiting for reinforcements.

I got to the bunker, and charged in on adrenaline rush, just to come face to face with a Bren, short burst and I was KIA.

Farcking love the game!