Wednesday night found 13 souls online, so I figured by the time I threw in chips and the landing came up, we would pick up another couple… I was wrong. Our first landing was the Steppes of Crimea against Hardware_RUS, and fight time found 11 brave souls entering the battle. Imagine our surprise when we encountered 11 brave souls on the OTHER side, too. They were a little more heavily armoured, with 3 IS-7s, a Maus and 2 T-92 for arty (along with a G-Type I believe). Their scouts took down our arty early, but we brought down their Maus and a T-30 before we fell to their bigger guns… we wished them well on the landing, and turned our attention to the second landing.
The Netherlands brought us to Ruinberg where we faced Phoenix Company. StompAE86 made his triumphant return bringing his Maus, jimmy, fiddler and HaTz bringing their IS-7s, and we felt good entering the match. Of course, the enemy came pretty well stocked, too, with 5 IS-7 and 4 Maus, and we were heavily outgunned. We gave a good showing, taking down 6 of the enemy, including a Maus and an IS-7.
At the end of the night, we gave a good show. Even though we lost,we gave a good show both times. More people on in the first match might have tipped the scales, but the second was purely an issue of firepower… more grinding will take care of that, and then the world will be ours!
