From the past

Axis News dug out an old story from the disbanded squad Kampfgruppe Meyer Hoffbrau.

Tollwut tells the story (un-edited): " Shamus ,Ibra, Bark , and I took some 232s from Binche to Maub , first I think Shamus ctd then I rolled one, barks laptop locked up on him he rebooted.by this time shamus had got another 1 , so did I, then bark got back we moved up to the af , me and ibra ne bark and shamus Nw. we were hurting some planes when shamus's gunner died so he started playing bumper cars. I think shamus got killed by ai , then a s35 came out Ibra and I boked some butt from Ne side , think bark got it by then , then Ibra, I was running from the af and rolled it completely over, landing on my wheels , man what luck.
I then headed back to binches and was almost there when an Alllied tree tripped me and I rolled over on the side.But when I despawned I had 1 kill 7 damaged and a mission success."

And one from vHessen:
They just don't know when to quit! When I first logged on tonight, I cranked up the trusty ole 38t in the Signy E AB and set off to the NE toward Liart. Taveling about 500m E of the N/S road to Liart, I stopped about 250m NE of the first turn and took up an ambush position. About 10 minutes later, a lone S35 came bumbling down the road on it's way to Signy. I waited until he turned S and then low and behold, he stopped. Okay, I figured he was checking the road or waitng for another ET so I held my fire. 5 minutes later, he was still sitting there so I gave him 3 AP. He immediately smoked and despawned.

About that time, fattyj reported ET's N NW of Signy so I turned back to the SE and proceeded to a position about 800m NW of Signy where I could watch the road. Sure enough a Char, S35 and R35 were about 200m N and 50m W of the N road out of town. I watched to make sure they hadn't noticed my approach, checked the road to my 9oc and slammed the 38t in gear. Once I was about 200m directly N of them I turned S, put the 38t in 2nd gear and opened the throttle. Closing to within about 50m of the Char, I put2 AP in the rear turret hatch and 1 in the radiator as I passed to his left side. Then, I rotated the turret to my 1oc and fired on the R35 missing on the first shot but placing the next 2 sqaurely in the back of his turret from about 30m. He spun hard left and the 4th round smoked the engine.

Passing him, I next engaged the S35 which by now was looking; only problem was, he was looking W. I popped back to the driver position and corrected my course to pass him on his left side and returned to the gun. At about 20m, I gave him 1 shot to the turret and 1 to his engine upon which he despawned. Wheeew! I'm thinking myself, now THAT was fun! Three ET's dispatched in about 35 seconds only now, I begin to take hits.

I cut between two trees and pointed the tank at the AB about 250m away. Going back to the gun, I rotated the turret to see yet another S35 barreling down on my 6oc. Well, he was definately not very good at firing on the move so I returned fire, and missed! I was beginning to get concerned when as luck would have it, I hit a bump or something about the time I fired the 2nd round and hit his left track! He spun wildly to my right so I immediately jammed on the brakes, went back to my gun and gave him 2 well placed shots. I guess he had suffered enough because he despawned.

I rolled back into the Signy W AB and despawned. It was kinda funny because there were 4-5 Grens just standing at the N AB gate in the wide open where I guess they had been watching the whole time! One guy said "vHessen, don't retreat!" LOL! I almost fell outa my chair! On despawn I got credit for 5 kills; 1 Char, 3 S35's, 1 R35 and a well earned mission success. WOOT!

Gentlemen, this is a true story and a testiment to the effectiveness of speed, maneuver, cunning, stubornness and a good measure of old fashioned luck. I rarely see panzers firing on the move, but I am here to tell you that it can be done and with a little practice, done with devistating effect! It's not something however, that I would recommend outside of 100m. You'ld better have nerves of steel and tungsten balls before you try this but if you want a pure adrenalin rush, there aint nothing in the game that even comes close; IMHO.