The Airfield

Call to Arms: Panzer Elite - In Game Screenshot

Just a quick post today, I've been trying to recapture an airfield all week in this game and am steadily improving. I start out with four M5 Stuart tanks and am up against a mix of German scout vehicles and small tanks, think Pzkw II. There are a bunch of halftracks wandering around as well. Many of them pack nothing stronger than an MG 42, but ...

They also carry infantry who tend to have Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks (German version of the bazooka). Those infantry are sneaky bastardos and love nothing more than to let a tank drive past and then shoot them in their weakest armor, the rear.

Of course, the Panzerschreck wasn't bad against the frontal armor of a Stuart, so I've got to keep an eye peeled for those guys. In the screenshot above my platoon has captured a supply dump, which was needed. You can see there's infantry there as well, those are my guys. I try not to outrun them because they are very good at suppressing their German counterparts.

Call to Arms: Panzer Elite - In Game Screenshot
(Map in lower right corner enlarged)

In the map above the orange circle is where I started after the most recent in game save, this only happens at certain checkpoints, I'm sitting on the checkpoint where this happened. Up until Thursday I never managed to get here with more than two tanks. But now that I'm used to the game, and know where most of the German hidey-holes are, I made it to the first save point with the entire platoon.

Thursday evening I actually made it to that supply dump (circle in yellow) with all four Stuarts intact. Got everybody refueled and reloaded with ammunition then pushed on to the main area of the airfield (the "3" inside the diamond above).

Came around the corner and WHAMMO! Damned anti-tank gun took the lead Stuart out, then proceeded to pick off the rest of the platoon one by one.

So this weekend, now that I can get to the supply dump with a full force, I plan to take the damned airfield. I just need to smack that AT gun. Little bastard doesn't look much bigger than a 50 millimeter, but with the light armor on the Stuart, that's all it takes.

Break a leg!

Next week things could be quiet around here, I'm off to California. LUSH claims to have a computer, so I might be able to log in there and blog from California. Otherwise it's just the cell phone. Which is nice, but ...

It's still a cell phone with that wee keyboard and me with my fat fingers!

We'll see how it goes!