Whole round of Villers Bocage on 762 was a fail today:
- drove 6-pounder for nearly 10 minutes and then hit a hedge and rolled over. I was so depressed I didn't bother to bail out and died.
- drove it back where I was going and got shot out of it halfway there.
- grabbed a Cromwell and waited in ambush for enemy tanks, and got shot the second I lept from cover by a tank I didn't see following the StuG I wanted to kill.
- grabbed the 6-pounder again and finally made it to the spot I wanted to get to, to blast German armor crossing one of the little bridges. I shot a Panzer IV four times and it still didn't die, and then someone else shot it and got the glory.
- I heard the Tiger and loaded APDS, but somehow missed the first two shots, point-blank. Missed by a mile. Hit with the 3rd (last APDS shot) then a Sherman finished off the Tiger. Again no kill.
- Saw two tanks coming down the road, about to get blasted by my AT gun. I fired one shot, but was shot by infantry in the back. In death cam I see a Panther, two Panzer IVs and a StuG drive right through my trap.
- Respawned and grabbed the Cromwell, attempted to circle around a Tiger to kill it, but I got it burning and then drove into a tree and was shot.
- Had the Firefly once, killed a Panzer IV but was immediately geballte'd.
- Finally grabbed a Sherman and drove to Tilly (currently grey) while I lit a cigarette. Somehow, there were Germans everywhere. Fausts, schreks, geballtes, I was just running around for a good five minutes firing HE into windows and killing Germans. Three times I tried to bail to repair, but each time I was fired on by small arms fire before I could get much wrenching done (especially annoying when you bother to fire smoke for cover). My ping was jumping between 150-800 during this stretch too, so I looked like an idiot firing smoke shells at infantry and whatnot because my connection was so fucked up it took a few shots for the game to realize I switched ammo. I managed to kill a fuckload of enemies just in that one Sherman rampage despite the connection problems, but I felt bad as it was the same 3-4 dudes over and over again. I just wanted to cruise around smoking but I just raged about connection problems, and then got fausted
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The only real good moment was blowing up Moose's squad. I don't know what they were doing, I heard them drive past me but didn't want to give away my position, then I forgot about the half-track (no idea how many people were in it), and then I heard it coming back, and it was driving right through the middle of the field I was in. I don't know how they didn't see me
. It was too tempting not to shoot: