And yet another very nice and intense round on a map which gets a lot of hate in allchat: Sidi Rezegh.
I played as Germans, most of the time I was in the squad of Steiner.Cross.
Some of you might not know it, but this one has a special way of winning it. The airfield and the three flags around it are central for control of the bleed. When the Brits start the attack, they bleed until they capped all three of those. The Blockhouse is a nice flag which gives you some assets, a bridgehead (as Brits at least) and subtracts 40 tickets from the enemy's total, but it doesn't play a role in the bleed.
So: the Brits started the attack and got blown away as usual by the AT guns until some enemy infantry had infiltrated and shot us in the back. Soon the easternmost flag was capped by them. After a long fight they also capped the westernmost flag and the southern flag (the bunkerbuilding as you might know) held fast. It was greyed while one of the other flags was being recapped by us, but the bleed turned on us, apparently because we weren't quick enough. We still had ~700 tickets, so we had a chance.
With armored reinforcements we tried to retake some of the flags and almost immediately capped one and drew the British attention to that flag, so the rest of the army could steam ahead. So we lost it again but recapped south soon after. In the north a squad was desperately trying to cap Blockhouse, but to no avail. From the south we launched attacks to the west and east, fighting off the British resistance. The Matilda was wreaking havoc among our ranks but after a while it was distracted enough to not see me approach in the Panzer IV:
It was a really hard fight, but we succeeded in recapping all three airfield flags. Now the Brits were bleeding again and we had some 350 tickets left, and they a bit more.
It didn't take the Brits long to retake two of the three airport flags, so the situation was dire. They had less tickets than us now because of the bleed, but they would win if they would turn the bleed on us. So we defended the south with almost all we had: in the north the squad was still trying to take Blockhouse. Attacks were launched from the south to try and recap both west and east and from time to time we succeeded in greying or even recapping them, but the Brits were quick to react everytime. After a while the bleed had gotten the Brits down to some 120 tickets and one of them was asking in allchat why they were bleeding when they had 3 out of 4 flags. I typed a short explanation and shortly after the Blockhouse flag was recapped by us. I'd like to think the two things were related
The capping of Blockhouse brought them down to below 100 and they were still bleeding. We recapped west, south was greyed by them, we recapped south and they recapped west. Another greying of the south made the tension rise again, but I was able to clear the bunker with some teammates and then they bled out.
German victory 122-0, after the airfield changed hands twice in this round, just like it happened in reality.
Forgotten Hope 2, the way it was meant to be played Thanks everyone who participated, and especially the guys in Steiner.Cross squad!