Team Photo, 16v16 Tuchola Forest vs. BHC Options

[HammaTime]

We rocked BHC, preventing them from destroying a single base in two rounds. Before the match, we took a moment for a team photo.

Through the wonders of time-lapse photography, you can see the sequential chain of events. (The photos uploaded in a weird order, the first in the series is #3 below, then 1, 2 and 4). Everything was going smoothly until Shadow used a satchel for a spec kill on the entire team. You can see him in the middle with the lightbulb over his head and the satchel is between the two in the front. Lots of laughter ensued, and then we settled down and got a proper photo.

This post has been edited by HammaTime: 04/29/06 6:48pm

[ScrapyardBob]

Best fun I had (that I can remember) was a scout vs squad encounter in the South Forest. I was taking a turn at scouting the South Forest for the Germans. (This was at the start of the south flank advance by the Russians at the end of the first round.)

I had bellied up just northeast of the South Forest trench inside the treeline and was waiting for the Russians to show up. Sure enough, I hear rustling noise to the east coming towards me through the southside treeline after a minute or two. I typed out an "infantry contacted" report and prepared to ambush.

Caught the first of the Russian squad flatfooted as he came around the corner. He winged me slightly, but after the kill I immediately dropped back to the first rock SW of the infantry trench to see what if he had friends. (I know that BHC travels in squads... there's always more then one.)

Holed up on the top of the boulder closest to the trench and waited to see if anyone was around to come investigate. Sure enough, I see a 2nd Russian moving through the trench coming towards my new position. He's moving slow, but I'm stationary and he's not so I see him but he doesn't see me. Opened fire again and cut him down.

Nasty surprise... he's got another squadmate who I didn't see who starts returning fire. Things get a bit hectic now. I dump the rest of my mp44 clip in his general direction to force his head down while I withdraw a bit to the next boulder. (Gain time, force him to come to me.) We also toss some grenades back and forth somewhere in here, I don't remember if it was before or after the 2nd squad member died.

While we're both getting ourselves together, I get time to type out a 2nd contact report, then I start checking left/right to see which way he's going to approach me. I'm pretty badly wounded at this point, but it's a mp44 vs a mosin, so I'm thinking I might get him but it's not a sure thing (hence the contact report).

I see him coming around the north side, somewhat in the open (to avoid making noise?), so I skirt back around to the right then clamber on top of the rock. If I had bellied down up there, I might've evaded or gotten a back shot on him (probably the fatal mistake). Instead, I opened fire for the kill and ended up getting shot and killed.

What I didn't notice during all of this was that those 3 were the advance scouts for a multi-tank offensive aimed at G1. Oops! Germans thought it was just an infantry or two coming through the South Forest so we got caught a little off-balance.

(Wish I had it on tape because some of the order of events is a bit jumbled.)