Battleground Europe (WWIIOL) worth it?

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Well, I WAS going to sign up for a "free" trial, but got this message

· Credit card required to create free trial account. $1 transaction may [read: WILL] be required to verify card.
· $19.99USD activation key (with 30 days playtime included) billed at the end of free trial unless canceled.

This kind of **** pisses me off to no end. "Free" should mean FREE, not "Free with strings attached" (let alone the buck you're almost certain to be charged for to "verify card.")

[Herman]

Yes, that does sound like a pretty lame excuse.

[Dowly]

After 5 hours and 38 minutes the Factory 1 in Abbeville, France was left gravely damaged by few nutty 3PzG members.

232 armored car; 3PzG Leaderon MIA
251 Halftrack; 3PzG Sourwop KIA
Sappers; 3PzG Rectumn KIA, 3PzG Navysway KIA
Tiger; 3PzG Dowly MIA



Story, pics and vids coming when I've gotten some sleep.

[Dowly]

Rearming/transport with 251: 3PzG Sourwop
Sappers: 3PzG Navysway, 3PzG Rectumn
Scaring the crap out of us with 232: 3PzG Leaderon
Ai take down and support with Tiger: 3PzG Dowly

Meeting point west of Bouchrai
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/kuva1.jpg

From there on, we pushed west thru the allied towns, Sour stayed back while I drove thru and eliminated the AIs.

Fingers crossed! 251 coming thru, hope I didnt miss any AI!
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/kuva2.jpg


40km to the west, we headed north and passed Poix-de-Picardie and were joined by Leaderon with his 232.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/kuva3.jpg


From there we kept on evading the towns to not set off the EWS. All worked fine, except for Leaderon who flipped his 232 on 10km or so from Abbeville. Tough luck, mate.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/Kuva4.jpg


This was my first trip to a factory town (air or ground), so the first glimpse of the town was a big relief. Almost there.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/kuva5.jpg


With the darkness falling over us, we rushed in popping out AIs on the way and managed to get inside Production Facility #1.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/Kuva6.jpg


And so we started to take the facily apart brick by brick.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/kuva7.jpg


Until got distrupted by a Bell, who got everyone but me. (Then it kamikazed on me, silly Frenchie)

But we left our mark, abbeville production was down to 79% by a few crazy SOBs.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...rret/kuva8.jpg

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by TheBrauerHour

I am in the 1775th.

Still with the 1775th? I ditched 3PzG (crazy bunch.. in a bad way) and joined the 1775.

[Motormouth]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

Well, I WAS going to sign up for a "free" trial, but got this message

· Credit card required to create free trial account. $1 transaction may [read: WILL] be required to verify card.
· $19.99USD activation key (with 30 days playtime included) billed at the end of free trial unless canceled.

This kind of **** pisses me off to no end. "Free" should mean FREE, not "Free with strings attached" (let alone the buck you're almost certain to be charged for to "verify card.")

The $1 charge is credited back to your card after verification.

[Dowly]

Hello MM.

And welcome to Subsim.

If you plan to stay, you can contact Neal Stevens for custom avatar. You gals got them free of charge.

[Motormouth]

Yay! I'm special....wait....that didn't come out right!

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Hello MM.

And welcome to Subsim.

If you plan to stay, you can contact Neal Stevens for custom avatar. You gals got them free of charge.

Texans get free avatars? CORRUPTION!

[TheBrauerHour]

Oh God there goes the neighborhood! Hey, MM.

And now that Dowly has joined us in the mighty 1775th, the Allies will taste defeat repeatedly.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Motormouth

The $1 charge is credited back to your card after verification.

Well, my things is I just don't like asterixes*!!!!!!

*void where prohibited

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by TheBrauerHour

And now that Dowly has joined us in the mighty 1775th, the Allies will taste defeat repeatedly.

Yes yes.. that is true.

I hope to see you on the next campaign if the 1775th chooses to go 'over there'. Preferably thru my Zeiss.

(Goddamn, need to start looking for an bigger apartment, it's getting too small for my ego. )

[Dowly]

As much as I hate the tier 0 and tier 1 tanks, the 4D have to be the most surprising so far.

Ambush (17/12/09 Givet-Beauraing road)

With no FB between Givet and Beau, I decided to see if the allies would be careless due to the long drive between the cities. So, I hopped into Pzr.4D and headed towards Givet from Fesch.

I got to the road just east of Givet without incidents and found a relatively concealed position 100m from the roadbend. I positioned my tank behind a bush so I would be invisible to the road coming from the town and would have clear shots to the S going road after the bend.


Having to rely only on audio, I cranked the volume up and started to wait... and wait... aaaand wait... :?

Until suddenly I heard a beddy coming from the town. I peeked from behind the branches towards the road and saw not one but two beddys rolling towards me. I waited them to turn S and unloaded my MG on them, missing the lead beddy but the latter one got it.

10 minutes later another Beddy came from the town. This time it didnt use the road, so atleast the allied comms work. But that didnt help him, I spotted it 400m to my S as it drove thru open ground and put a HE on it.

My position was marked for sure, but I didnt want to move and risk exposing my tank and besides, I had ET audio coming. :wink:

I should've moved, just as the ET was going to come to my range I heard footsteps to my right; sapper. I cranked the engine and reversed, but too late. Charge was set and the fuse was burning. Luckily, when I started to move, the charge moved and only damaged my engine but didnt destroy it. Driving backwards, I peppered the bushes behind me with the hull MG, but the sapper disappeared somewhere. :?

I retreated to the edge of the bigger forest to the east and set-up ambush for the tank I heard earlier. I could hear it and after a few minutes the A13 came rolling out of the forest to the west. My first shot landed on it's right and tracked it, I loaded HEAT and got out another shot before the A13 had time to turn it's turret to face me. It was a direct hit to the side of the turret; it went silent.


I changed my position abit and nailed the sapper on the way as he was running around chasing me. He's first charge did it's job, late but still, my engine died as I was moving which left me in the open. To make matters worse, my side was facing west and I had another ET rolling towards me from that direction.


I got lucky again, the A13 wasnt paying any attention to my now smoking tank, another HEAT, another destroyed ET. :wink:


Now I started to feel like I was pushing my luck, so I despawned my damaged tank.


SORTIE DETAILS
Origin CP: Feschaux
Origin Fac: Feschaux Armybase
Mission: Area Defense
Unit: PzKpfw IV D
Started: Dec 17 14:23
Stopped: Dec 17 15:11
Kills: 5
Caps: 0
Damages: 5
TOM: 48 min
Success: No
Crit. Dam.: Yes
Result: Missing in Action

SORTIE KILLS

KILLED OPPONENT PERSONA ORIGIN UNIT K C T
Dec 17 14:40 Capt Kothvos UK Army Givet Bedford 0 0 3
Dec 17 14:47 QM Sgt Mike56bb UK Army Givet Bedford 0 0 4
Dec 17 15:01 Col Sgt Shovel UK Army Givet A13 0 0 7
Dec 17 15:05 Lt Col Squidrd UK Army Givet Sapper 1 0 22
Dec 17 15:09 Col Sgt Shovel UK Army Givet A13 0 0 6

[Biggles]

Good show!


You never play as the allies?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Biggles

You never play as the allies?

Nah, dont like their equipment. Tankin' is what I like to do and their tanks are huge targets. Either they are just big or they have some silly camo on them that makes them stick out from the surrounding. Like that A13 in the pics, it's extremely easy to see it as it moves due to the dark camo it has.

Not that the early german tanks are any better when it comes to camo (they all got the blueish grey paint), but atleast they are smaller.

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Late campaign #56 AAR I dont recall posting here. (Stug3g yaaay )

3 in 3 (Boulogne 12/11/09)


Started my sortie with a StuG (surprise :P ) from the Esco-Boul FB and headed north to flank the city. Passed the Marq-Boul FB and stayed around it for abit incase they'd try to attack it. Bagged a Panny just W of the FB abit later.

After resupplying from a friendly HT, I made my way towards the WAB to see if I could pick off ETs leaving it. Nothing happened in the next 30 minutes, it had been abandoned, so me and another guy with a 232 (Thundra or something like that) approached the AB. He went into the gate and I stayed back and found me a good concealed position with a view on both AB gates.

Few minutes passed when all of a sudden Panny spawned and got the 232 by surprise, but his joy was short lived as I blew it up as soon as it tried to leave the AB. Another guy spawned a laffly and tried again to leave the AB, one shot and he was KIA.

Thundra was driving an MS to the AB and Walde was already near the docks, when all hell broke loose. The allied started swarming in EI and ETs. During the next 3 minutes, they pumped out Cru II, Church and a Matty from the N gate. None of them knew my position so they exposed their sides to my fire, with deadly consequences.

I killed another ATR who was chasing me and RTB'd.







I'm such an bastard.