Here’s a little about some of the games I’ve played in the on-line matches.
In one game I was playing as the Germans (I seem to get stuck playing as the Germans alot) and was fighting a night battle against the US over a partial destroyed railroad/industrial center. I had secured the central objective and then pushed hard to my left into the next objective (there were 4 objectives in the middle of the map, 3 of the 4 were in the half ruined railroad/industrial center in the middle of the map). The US had secured the two objectives on either side of me, plus the 4th one which was in a bombed out village across the road. I hit the objective to my left with the aid of a Panzer I and pushed the GI’s out. The tried to do the same on my right, this way I could clear the railroad/industrial center for myself and focus on pushing across the road and pushing the US off the map altogether. I botched the initial attack on my right and sent in the assault platoon first(which got butchered) and then the Panzer I, which was promptly blown up. I tried again but this time called in a Puma and another assault platoon, sending the assault to creep along the outside of the building while the GI’s focused on the Puma charging into their area. I was apparently fighting a group of US combat engineers who had rigged a number of mines along the only route into their half of the building, and my Puma was blown up, however this enabled my assault platoon to take a flanking position and mow the rest of the GI’s down (the ones the my Pumas initial advance didn’t get). After this I secured their objective and now controlled the entire industrial center area. As I began to re-position my squads and prepare to assault what I assumed to be the lightly held bombed out town, a M4A1 Sherman showed up and plowed into the center of the industrial center with guns blazing. I rushed another Puma into position to try and stop the damn thing and felt that I should make short work of it as I had realized in had backed into the building. My Puma rolled up, fired its shot into the rear armor of the Sherman, I watched in horror and angered disbelief as my shot BOUNCED OFF THE REAR ARMOUR OF A SHERMAN, it swung its turret around, fired, and blew up my Puma in one shot, which exploded masterfully. I promptly punched my lap-top and exited the game. Its a great game but it can be so frustrating! :-)
