Fresh meat

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 5:49 pm

GRRRRR! Your paratroopers have no more targets for their Mines because you destroyed a platoon or so of my AMDs!!!

There will be hell to pay!!! 2 more AMDs roll forward to take up the fight against the paratroopers, reducing a squad of them to almost nothing.

A squad of legionnaires, fuming because of the humiliation of having their armored cars destroyed charged from the town, only to be engaged by an unseen machinegun and 2 squads of paratroopers. The legionnaires stand firm but are reduced to less than !50%!

Up front, my tanks score some hits against the German panzers, none of them penetrating.

Your artillery is killing me (through constant suppression) !!!!!

And as I've said before, my troops just won't RALLY!!!!!!

YOUR TURN

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 6:09 pm

Originally posted by Vetkin
And as I've said before, my troops just won't RALLY!!!!!!

Welcome to the wonderful experience of commanding the French Army

Katana · Post by **Katana** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 6:48 pm

Paratrooper, good. PzII,bad. Lots of thunks, few booms :rolleyes:
Guess I'll have to get up close and personal with those Chairs.

your turn.

PS: I can see your house from up here!

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 8:15 pm

This is a much better turn for me.

Your paratroopers are going nowhere hehehehehe

Whatcha gonna do huh? You parachute punks? To the right you have a platoon of legionnaires, up front you have a platoon plus machineguns and snipers, to your left nothing and to go back, retreat. hehehehehe :p

Up front, one of my Chars smash a Pz-II. Nothing else much, it seems my tanks have a LOW rate of fire in addition to a pansy crew. (A platoon or so of tanks fall back due to uknown causes)

I can hold this line, and might win this battle.... If only my troops HOLD!!!!!!!! Mon Dieu! For the glory of France! HOLD!!!!!!!!

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 8:19 pm

Belisarius! Do you have any tips on how to handle the French!?!?!?!

I am really really baffled. Compared to the Germans, the French army is a very difficult one to use.... very challenging. Inferior equipment, inferior morale, I don't know about the infantry.... although I don't think even the foreign legion will hold against SS.

So what are some tips on how to use the French!?!?

Since their morale is so bad... what do the French have to compensate for this? I'm sure there must be SOMETHING good about the French army! :rolleyes:

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 8:37 pm

Vetkin, a quick reply:

The French 1940 tanks are really up to par compared to their infantry companions.

There are very few German weapons that can dent the armor of a Somua S-35 or Char-Bis. (The S-35 was probably one of the finest tanks around in the early war years)

Trick is, ofcourse, to NOT use French tactics. They have to be deployed in numbers like their Wehrmacht counterparts and not as infantry CS tanks.

There's much to be said 'bout how to use the French Army, we'll return to this in a bit.

Katana · Post by **Katana** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 9:15 pm

Those paratroopers will be fine, I'm wondering what's keeping the rest of them. Heard some planes fly over, but other than that...

The armor on those Chars seems to be holding up well...
So far.

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 10:17 pm

You're right, your paratroopers are holding... so far.

I've seen some planes last turn pop out but drop nothing.... hMMmmmmm

Remind me to buy AA guns next time

I got showered by heavy artillery and planes this turn.

Thankfully the heavy artillery scattered somewhere insignificant. I think your planes blew up one tank.

All my tank fire up front is ineffective, but my tanks are trying to get into better positions.

Come closer little Mark IVs, I'll show you what French cannons are made of!!!!!!

YOUR TURN

Katana · Post by **Katana** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 11:39 pm

Clunk, bing, gloing, thunk, ding, d*mn those chars

And d*mn those paratroopers. The second wave declined to jump and is on its way back to berlin apparently

A couple MG34s jammed, one Panzer isn'tgoing anywhere and most of my artillery crew have run of after some French girls

Looks like the tide is slowly turning...

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 5:56 am

Almost nothing happened this turn, I really couldn't get my Chars to the south to rally although my R-35s scored some hits, none penetrated.

Tsk tsk tsk misjumped eh?!? hehehehehe GOOD, now we'll see how German parachute infantry is against Legionnaires.

I just wish I could see that pesky MG on the hill. It's annoying...

Your artillery fire scored some direct hits but mine also did, I don't know how much damage I caused though....

Your Turn

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 6:49 pm

BTW, the tables are NOT turning

Not yet anyways :p

Katana · Post by **Katana** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 7:10 pm

They never jumped at all

According to the hq menu, they're still in the planes.
They'll jump pretty soon, one way or another.

Now where did I leave that flak battery?

The para's that did show up bagged another squad of legless, er legionnaires, at the expense of one trooper.

Artillery didn't do much, but that sniper at the edge of the village is getting annoying...

Your turn

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 7:36 pm

How dare tu insult le armee francais!?!?!?!

Nous legionnaires are ze best of the best!!!!! They are tres bon at what they do!!!!

Your paratroopers will never escape that valley!!!!

My Chars down south just won't rally.... even though the Mark Ivs have really come close and vulnerable to the French lines... My R-35s fire at the German tanks piecemeal, trying to score a penetration.... but Mon Dieu! Not even a HIT!

My artillery commander is trying to fix his sights on the incoming wave of German tanks.... Maybe this might save the morale of the retreating army!.... :rolleyes:

Katana · Post by **Katana** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 8:44 pm

>Your paratroopers will never escape that valley!!!! <

I'm not in the valley :rolleyes:

The Chars won't rally, but they don't die either

Let's try something different...

bonjour monsieur, avez-vous un feu s'il vous plait?

your turn

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 8:57 pm

What's 'feu' ?

I guess I need to brush up on my french...

Anyways, I'm sorry Katana but I'm having a really bad technical problem right now, my hard drive literally burned... I'm using my laptop and am NOW in a state of downloading SPWAW all over again... Please bear with me

Sigh@!!!!

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 9:42 pm

Sorry for interrupting again

'feu' means 'fire', so he was asking the Char crew for a smoke.

Funny enough, you obviously had a smoking HD.

Katana · Post by **Katana** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 11:29 pm

Oops, sorry.

Man, that sux. hope you get it fixed/replaced soon.
So, how's the dowload coming along?

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:54 pm

I'm BACK! WITH A Vengeance!!!!

A brand spanking new 60 GB HD

anyways, I'll post my turn later today hehehehehe,

Vive la France!!

Katana · Post by **Katana** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:57 pm

All right, then.
Maybe your tanks will have rallied by now :rolleyes:

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 10:04 pm

Here's the file.

Where are your paratroopers now!?

Can't take the heat huh? I guess a couple batteries of artillery was all they needed as a hint

Down south only the Chars are stopping the mixed armored assault group.... But now they are slowly but SURELY retreating. I see husks of dead German tanks, but I kill none this turn.

Hopefully the French 2nd line will hold better than the first... :rolleyes:

Fresh meat

GRRRRR!

Re: GRRRRR!

Better Turn

To Belisarius

You're right

FIRE FOR EFFECT!

GRRRR!!!!

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS

I'm BACK!

FILE