I loved FH1's Gazala for the same reason I loved FH1's (also vanilla) Bocage. The top flag (abandoned airfield) was a ton of fun to defend and could be defended loads of different ways. There were craters to snipe from (and a sniper kit spawned there), that three-engined German paratrooper plane spawned there along with 12 knife/p38/K98/grenades/riflenade kits, there two anti-tank guns, two jeeps, there was an Exp Pack kit so you could scare the shit out of any infantry trying to take the flag, it too had a Pavlov's Houseish feel to it. It's hard to describe, I would just get it in my head that no enemy will cap this flag this round, and despite me being virtually useless 99% of the time in FH I was a motherfucking legend defending that flag.

I remember in FH1 you could take out Shermans with the .50 cal .

I'm assuming FH2's Aberdeen is nothing like the EA Aberdeen from FH1? I loved that map too, firing 2 pounder shells at Panzer IIIs that were just brown pixels in a beige haze was immense when you finally got a kill. Having 10 shells bounce off the front of your Matilda right in front of your face was awesome too.

The title should make it obvious, one of each from me -

I love vanilla Bocage. I get why everyone hates that map, I understand it, but the top flag (the little house to the north, which although I believe is a server side mod, both TDP and PFC use it) is my favorite flag in FH1. Whether you're German or American, there's a million different ways to defend that flag; Park a Jagdpanther in the trees to the east and light up any advancing Shermans, take a deployable MG and hold off any light vehicles, etc. I also love how when you can get two or three other people to defend the flag with you, there's a very Pavlov's House-ish feel to it, as you know you will have to deal with snipers, Stuka bomb/Thunderbolt rocket attacks, tank attacks, 222 raids, Schwimmwagen/Duck assaults, even arty assaults. In short, it's off the beaten path, but you're almost assured of action and you feel immensely proud if you hold out for the whole round at that flag.

On the other hand, I just cannot see the appeal of Pegasus Bridge. It seems like a country version of Arnhem to me, only without any of the Arnhem fun. Perhaps it's another map I don't fully experience due to the shittiness of this computer, but hiding in the bushes all day and having your head blown off by a sniper as soon as you peak out doesn't appeal to me. Yet time and time again, it's played over and over. Sometimes it feels like half the time I typed !nextmap Pegasus fh comes up.

What are some of yours, then.

I tend to see the man that's hauling the Boys rifle around with him as the hero in any man versus jeep confrontation. Speaking from a public server perspective, half the time a jeep is used is to burn around the map and cap a back flag, and in that case, feel the wrath of my PTRS.

Can't go wrong with March of the Soviet Tankmen. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Soviet_Tankmen

Also a funnier pet hate, whenever you get killed because someone else is a retard. You're wandering around, a tank rolls by, you hide, and then some moron teammate tries to hide with you to, and you know the tank would have just kept rolling right by if it weren't for your teammate. And now you're dead too.