Boom... headshot

Sgt Tharival , reported from the front: C.O. Bluekill surveyed the town through his bino's and nodded slowly, "There it is. The CP we need to capture." He pointed towards the north and I could clearly see the German flag waving in the breeze. "How many do we have with us, sir?" I asked quietly. Blue looked back at me with camoflauge paint distorting his facial features, then back towards the objective. "As far as I know, command only sent a small team of raiders to do this mission. In pairs, we'll attack the German's and capture the strategic points on the map."
He nodded towards the CP, "We'll be hitting this one." "Ready when you are, sir." I said quietly, looking around the trees and brush. Blue smiled and racked the slide back on his SMG. The reassuring 'chink' of a round being chambered was all that needed to be said between us to move forward. The building grew large in our sights and we stopped, taking position only a stones throw away from it. Blue listened intently, his eyes squinted and from experience I knew that he was sensing that something was wrong. He signaled me to deploy my LMG and he'd flank the building to see if anybody was inside.
Blue ran quietly into the street, circled the building and approached carefully. I watched him methodically scan his surroundings and then he froze. The look of an animal who had been spotted spread across his face and he shouldered his SMG. Silence, quiet.
"POP POP POP!" "BLAM!"
Read the whole After Action Report over at Combat Stats & Records.
Started Jun 08, 2009 in a French LMG from Boom. Ended with 2 kills and 1 capture.

12 minute dogfight

12 minute spitfire dogfight by Panzerkanone44. Bf109G vs Spitfire over St. Niklaas.


Panzerkanone44: " This is my first video (well, almost) from WWIIOL. I'm in a Bf109G-6 and encounter an enemy plane. The entire dogfight lasts more than 12 minutes."

Battleground demographics

Alexa is a Company that provides information on users visiting websites. They rank Battleground.com the 145,552th website regarding traffic with a 0.00061% Percent of global Internet users who visit battlegroundeurope.com (not to bad considering From the Front recieves 0.00001%) and twitter.com (ranked #1) 1.508% (that's 1/100). So how about the demographics? Who checks out the website? Does it reflect the customer base? Well look for yourself and form your own opinion (Battleground Europe does have a customer/visitor base of 55+ but thoser are not taken into account by Alexa - Sorry Doc ;)

Panhard gymnastics

Panhard Flips Over People( TURN DOWN YOUR VOLUME) by ShelledyJ

The capture

Corporal Tharival reports from the battlefield: " As soon as my boots hit the deck I was off at a dead run towards the enemy held town of Achel. Along with about 6 other men, I ran to a nearby enemy held building in time to hear the angry bursts of SMG's, Rifles, and LMG's. The shots were frightening compared to the relative peaceful day we were having, but I never became lax in a firefight. My body immediately pressed against a wall and the other men did the same as we rounded the first corner and then the next...bodies lay everywhere, friendly and enemy. Nobody was left, they had all shot each other down. Quickly, without words, we realized we needed to defend the building from a counterattack. Capturing this building would lead to other captures and increase the morale of our troops. As we defended enemy troops ran inside, only to be cut down by our accurate fire. Now supported by our tanks from outside, no infantry could enter without being ripped apart by heavy machine guns. The enemy attack slowed to a stop and we remained to capture the bunker as well. Tanks supported by infantry, I learned, is a beautiful sight indeed."

AAR Sortie