Luckiest thing that ever happened to you in CM

[McIvan]

I hid a miserable 45mm AT gun as German Panthers and Tigers ground closer and closer.....my infantry was routed around me, German troops started entering the Russian lines and a platoon of Germans more or less had the gun bracketed but hadn't yet spotted it (night scenario).

Finally a Panther presented a side on shot. Firing and missing, my crew frantically reloaded as German infantry less than twenty metres away spotted them and started rotating to fire. Three things happened almost simultaneously:

1. The 45mm fired its second shot.
2. The German infantry shot up the gun whose crew, well and truly surrounded, surrendered instantly; and
3. The 45mm - normal AP, not tungsten - described a graceful arc into the side of the Panther, penetrated through a weak point, and knocked it out.

My gun only got off a second shot because it had been effectively overrun before revealing itself, so the Germans had to turn a long way.

I thought that was rather fortunate :) Best use I've ever made of a 45mm popgun.