jgdpzr Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 Last night, I fired up a quick battle that I thought was going to be an armor slugfest. Only problem was, I left the AI with random force selection rather than toggle it to armor. So, the enemy sent a battalion of nothing but infantry at me. I had a trenchline in a reverse slope position (I was defending) in which I placed a couple of Luftwaffe infantry platoons. It became quite humorous watching a huge writhing mass of brown clad Russians top the hill and then get chopped to pieces. At battle's end, all of my squads in those two trenches eventually succumbed, but each had bodycounts of 50+. Then I checked Unt. Buchbinder's squad at the far end of the trenchline. This squad started the battle with two casualties, but by the end had amassed an astounding count of 132 casualties! Now, I've seen huge arty and a sturmtiger take out that many casualties, but I have never seen a single (particularly an attrited one) infantry squad with that kind of total. Anyone else experience such a phenomenal bodycount? [ November 21, 2002, 08:23 AM: Message edited by: jgdpzr ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 BUTCHER !!!! Monty aka Moose aka Mossie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 Well, I had a MG42 HMG with a pretty impressive body count. Rottenfuhrer Dank got 65 infantry casualties and 1 mortar destroyed. Same battle, the AI had a Regular 82mm 6-tube battery that killed 9 of his own men and none of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 128 and one mortar with an 81mm 4 tube mortar spotter 123 with a 150mm IG - both were fairly small battles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgdpzr Posted November 21, 2002 Author Share Posted November 21, 2002 All impressive numbers. But anyone have an infantry squad wreak this kind of carnage? Unt. Buchbinder was one bad ass mofo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewSocialistMan Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 Best I've ever done was in the old game with a Sherman 105. I think the bodycount was somewhere around 160 with mortars, vehicles, and guns in their too. Easy to do when you have FOW off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha_Field_Marshall Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 Who plays with FOW off? That cant be very challenging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewSocialistMan Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 Just to see how many fascists I can kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgdpzr Posted November 21, 2002 Author Share Posted November 21, 2002 Just to stem any potential confusion here, Unt. Buchbinder's men plied their trade while the overall commander (me) was operating under extreme FOW (the only way I play). But ya know, I can certainly see how an all-seeing Sherman 105 could reach out and touch so many Germans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgdpzr Posted November 21, 2002 Author Share Posted November 21, 2002 Originally posted by NewSocialistMan: Just to see how many fascists I can kill.Ah yes, but doesn't that make it easier for the fascists to kill your men? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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