Normally I find your best rounds are after you've played a couple warm-up maps, you get your eye in after an hour or so, but after work today I came home praying there'd still be a server up and lo and behold, 762 still had 55 or 56 people on it. The map was Goodwood, and I was already pissed I'd missed it as I love that map, but it turns out the map had only just started and I'd missed barely a minute.
I spawned at La Prieure with my PIAT as usual, and a couple unsuccessful attempts at advancing on Cagny led me to consider heading for Grentheville instead. I normally don't go there but I was in tank-killing mood and I figure'd it'd be the best flag for it. I jumped in an APC and heading off bravely over open territory. I used the up arrow key to bring the windshield armor down, which I always do for the sheer joy of seeing it fold down but which never in 4 months of FH2 ever needed to be done, and not two seconds after it's down - pingpingpingpingpingping! Bullets smashed across my windshield but not one of them made it into the Purple Heart Box. I kept on it and bailed near the Nebelwerfer.
Now, I'm not one to brag, and normally in FH2 I am more useless than tits on a duck, but the stars aligned and I was fucking ON IT this round. I charged fearlessly into Grentheville, pistol drawn, and killed two Germans. A Panzer IV drove by, reversing, through the field by the Nebel. I crouched down and fired my PIAT from a range of roughly 80m, and dropped a round neatly on top of the Panzer IV, earning two kills. I ran into the town and capped the flag with the help of a teammate, was killed by some inf, before respawning again and killed an advancing Hanomag with a shot from an upstairs window. I killed two inf with one PIAT round sneaking through the trees shortly afterwards, before nailing a Panther with three rounds (two hits and a miss) about five minutes later. A couple more guys fell victim to my Colt before I managed to snag a second Panzer IV with a shot to the engine deck as it drove past my window. And then, the crowning jewel - the King Tiger had advanced upon the British lines, only to be nailed by the Firefly and retreated hastily up the main street at Grentheville, right passed the door to the house I was hiding in. Up in flames she went. I only got occasional half-tracks after that but it was a hell of a round.
It was topped only a couple maps later when my squad had relentlessly blasted around Anctoville, capping and recapping and re-recapping flags, only to have Mairie fall for the eleven-thousandth time not a minute after we'd capped it. I'd been carrying a No4 around most of the map but for once had managed to grab a Sten, and, losing patience with losing Mairie (the bottom flag on the map, with the Opel Blitz in the courtyard), I ran into the building and killed three guys in six seconds. Defended flag! Defended flag! Defended flag! I enjoyed a pleasant moment of typing 'Mairie clear' into teamchat and earning a 'DAMN!' from my squad leader. I picked up a PIAT from a fallen teammate and then used it to kill a Hanomag that had blasted past us and then all the way across an open field, with a perfectly-timed shot that caught the half-track right in the upper-rear part of the body work just as it drove behind a building. Not a bad day of FH, tonight.
