Broompatrol Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 The esteemed Corvidae and I are currently engaged in mortal PBEM struggle in the "On the Edge" scenario. I am commanding the freedom loving English speaking defenders and he leads the sinister (albeit hardy) fascist airborne horde. I chose this scenario because except for a general idea of what happened I had no real knowledge of the battle. We are about 14 turns into the game and it is finally getting interesting, messy or whatever adjective you like. My trump was the 4 bofors "protected" by infantry but apparently the counter for Bofors is a ME 110. In the first few turns he destroyed 3 of them with a single pass. So I guess Bofors is latin for "bomb magnet". Luckily I blew up his cheeky flyboy on its subsequent pass with my remaining gun. In the initial stages of combat a squad of his snake eaters presented themselves boldly to the entire gun battery. While they were twisting getting chewed into gibs of meat (ahh, the memories..) another Fallshimwhatsit infiltrated my lines and essentially shot my FO in the back of the head leaving me w/o artillery support. So naturally I decided it was a good idea to send a platoon of green troops rushing toward what I percieved was a lone squad inside my lines. Whoops. He all but eliminated 2 squads and supressed the rest with the remainder of his platoon. Unfortunatly for him that platoon was now on top of a steep hill with just about the whole world shooting at them. They don't seem to be doing too well. My later attempts to shift forces to pocket him have been less than stellar. My green units really seem resistant to being shot at and they are quite fond of abandoning their carriers, guns, position, duty, etc. There now seems to be a German para behind every tree. From my perspective the map currently looks more like a WarTribes Deathmatch than any sort of tactical situation. I welcome Corvidae to post his remarks, analysis, taunts or gloats. If anyone wants to take a peek I'll send you a file but NO sharing my password! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Me and another player are also currently battling it out in the same scenario, but are only 5 minutes + from the end. Very entertaining and frightening game. You never know where the Germans will land or the kiwis will show up. And I can see one more surprise on the horizen in the form of a dirty great cloud. What next? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broompatrol Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 Right now I am wishing for a flamethrower and maybe just one Vickers? plz? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvidae Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Bugger that. The meager kiwis are being a slight pain in my posterior. While the brave German boys are stomping all opposition... The New zealanders are crumbling on all fronts. The reality is of course that I'm storming an entrenched position without any meaningfull support. Its messy and nasty, But darkly funny. I've taken a few casualties, (including a whole squad that was directly in front of his gun line). And I have to bring in my troops from all over the map. Its a tad tricky to keep everything going smoothly. More to come as we continue.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broompatrol Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 Never ones to dissapoint, the Germans seem to have found a way to turn trees into soldiers. Obviously the result of some dark occult Nazi machinations, or perhaps a hideous mind control experiment? Either way the bombs the Luftwaffe dropped into my trenches were real enough. Ironically the unit that actually took the casualties fared the best. My Battalion HQ took one look at the crater and decided to break. Very inspiring to the men, yes thank you, please report to a desk job. Equally inspiring was the Bofors crew that surrendered while still sharing a foxhole behind sandags with his Company HQ. Its not all bad. The bombs that landed on my head sent his boys diving for cover, too. My opponent seems to think there is a "front". It is more of a perverse form of solitare with blue on red on blue. Wait till I pull out my aces! One thing that puzzles me. For Paras they seem to have a lot of ammo... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Haha nice game i'll check in later for more "battle memories" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvidae Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 It became a slaughteryard when my air support decided that my foremost units looked like Kiwis. The resulting disaster has rather taken the balls out of my attack. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broompatrol Posted August 6, 2007 Author Share Posted August 6, 2007 Another turn and more fun! Another accurate bombing run landed a stick of bombs into my trenches and some of my lads defending the flag. Another squad is cowering and Battalion HQ continues to flee in panic. There are German para's cresting the rough terrain around my trench network tossing greandes as they go. They seem impervious to mg fire. Obviously a result of their "ubermensche" brainwashing. I have discovered that not only can they turn trees into soldiers, but rocks as well. I can't wait unitl I am withdrawn from Crete and transferred to Tobruk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvidae Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Still at it. And discussing many off topic matters in the process. I must say that the Luftwaff does a fine job killing German paratroopers... Also my esteemed opponent is making very good use of his infantry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broompatrol Posted September 19, 2007 Author Share Posted September 19, 2007 Originally posted by Corvidae: Still at it. And discussing many off topic matters in the process. I must say that the Luftwaff does a fine job killing German paratroopers... Also my esteemed opponent is making very good use of his infantry. Yes, Apparently the Luftwaffe have their own plans. Very kind of Corvidae to comment on my Inf. Tactics. I wish I could see what he is seeing. From my perspective they just duck and crawl whenever a Jerry says, "Boo!" Grass is always greener I suppose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broompatrol Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 Ha, another turn and I have figured out his secret. If you have seen the "War of the Worlds" film with Tom Cruise you will get this: The dark powers from beyond that my enemy serves had planted dormant multidimensional creatures in the Earth Millennia ago. The bombs the Luftwaffe are dropping are actually occult devices that awaken the creatures which, in order to become corpreal must possess the body of a fanatical SS volunteer at their secret Bavarian Temple. The Volunteer's soul disappears into a black hole in the Planet's core that feeds the Old Ones and then the reconstituted corpse bursts from its grave in Crete where the brave men of the Commonwealth are forced to fight these supernatural horrors. If you don't beleieve me I have proof. I will upload some pics shortly. Thansk To MikeyD for some nice sky mods Inspiring the men More evidence http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1804/treesintogermansro1.th.jpg' alt='treesintogermansro1.th.jpg'> Infantry indeed! [ October 10, 2007, 05:28 PM: Message edited by: Broompatrol ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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