Those "Aww, sh*t!" Moments

[Riun T]

I can only claim to have had one really biq OOOPPPPPSSS!!! lately and that was dropping my HQ off into a stone building and then having the LVT4 they were riding in go threw that same building when I tried to pull it around said building to get to the firing side of the village we just occupied. WHAT IS THE RANDOMNESS or oftenness of the buildings in SPWAW for the structures to collapse after damage as opposed to drivethrew?

[Terminus]

I actually had something happen to me once. My A0 was holed up in a building, and I accidentally ran a Sherman through it. The building collapsed, and killed my A0 unit. I said a few bad words that night![8D]

[KG Erwin]

The lesson now is -- the Battalion Commander has no business being in the front lines. For you guys who can't resist being a Patton or a Puller or a Peiper, you are taking your chances. [:-]

[Korpraali V]

No need to be Patton etc. Being Finn is enough [;)]
Traditional leading style in Finnish army is "follow me" - really.

Of course it costs: During Winter war in Tolvajärvi Finnish forces (less than one division) destroyed two Soviet divisions. Finnish casualties: soldiers 25%, officers 30% (dead or wounded).

Ok, Hq is not the first one, but it often (not allways) moves right behind my units. Sometimes it looses a man but very seldom. Maybe not very wise but sometimes have saved it from spec ops. [:'(]

[Korpraali V]

Just have to tell this!

3/42 Burma

Tried to shoot at Japanese infantry with my British Stuart III/IV. Clicked... and Stuart drove in the middle of the Japanese platoon![X(]

SIX(!) Japanese infantry squads panicked and turned from "ready" to "retreating" mode![X(][X(]

Lucky Stuart was able to run back home and I'm still catching my breath...

[Swamprat]

Japanese Infantry panicked? Sounds like v8.4 to me.[:D]

[Korpraali V]

Yup, 8.4.[;)]

It actually didn't said "panicked", but no one shot and everybody turned from ready to retreating.[:'(]

[steelpanther]

Actually had that last one happen to me. Had 3 engineer units in a hex making a mine field. (AI assault) The M4 105 sherman goes over the mines into the hex with the engineers and nothing. On my turn I removed two (got shot up) and assaulted with the third no effect. The M4 fires back, range 0, makes my engineers surrender and routes both of the other 2, into the mines. . What did I do to deserve that. LOL

[chief]

My biggest blunder was playing Viking 2.......[&o][:o]

[Riun T]

Hey guys thought of another one that happened to me in the 8.2 game saves that I was going threw the other day. had a me110 do a direct bomb hit on my hq the first turn of a long british campaign in 39, made the rest of the battle litteral hell to continue but I did manage to exit most of my forces to a marginal victory, because one of my tanks stuck around long enough to find the german hq and halftrack they were riding in. RT

[Takuan]

Hi Everyone,

i also had lots of that moments - the biggest sh** was in an assautl scenario:

I had som Engineers mounted on my STUGIIIs for assaulting the enemy positions. I also loaded my HQ on one of my Tanks to secure a rapid advance. [:)]

The advance was so rapid that i lost the overview [>:] who was riding on wich vehicle - the end was an engineer plattoon sitting in a safe place behind the main-combat-line while my HQ jumped of a tank right in a minefield in front of some enemy MGs, pillboxes and Tanks an decided to disperse[:(]


the good news - the engineer platoon survived unharmed [8D] - clever guys...

[Puukkoo]

In SP1 I was attacking the French in 1940 with Germans. I was examining the map while I hit the wrong mouse button and my HQ unit, that was loaded into Sdkfz-251, just decided to hit the road and ran directly into French ambush.

Guess what. It survived.

I'm used to have mad colonels leading he charge from the front, but if you accidently lose your units by hitting wrong mouse buttons, I wouldn't sue anybody for restarting the game.

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

Have you ever done this: you have a tank stacked with infantry adjacent to an enemy stack, and when you attempt to fire the tank, you hit the wrong mouse button and advance INTO that enemy hex? *BOOM!* Tank is destroyed, and all you can do is mutter, "aww sh*t!"

Here's another one: your infantry unit blunders into the enemy, and when it retreats, it retreats INTO the enemy?

And, for good measure, one more: the moment when every piece of arty the AI has seems to pound just ONE of your unlucky units?

Personal note: is it because I'm southern, or is "sh*t" actually pronounced as two syllables? [;)]

Have you ever wondered, "If the AI is that dumb, what does that say about MY mental acumen?!" [:o]

I'm not alone in this, am I? C'mon, guys, fess up. [:D]

I will have a tank stacked with infantry, and invariably the tank will "respond fire", which triggers enemy fire from MG42's,etc, killing my infantry in the same area !!!!!!!!!!
(One of "Murphy's Laws of Combat" sez to avoid large objects like tanks, as they attract attention from the enemy, and will piss them off........)