TOTAL RE-COIL: The Battle for Taco Village (Coil no Entry... you Bastad)

[Copper]

"The German soldier fights the fiercest when he knows that there may be Tacos on the line. Throw in some chipotle sauce and saurkraut and they are... madmen."


-Field Marshall Montgomery
Italy, 1943

To defeat the enemy, you must think like the enemy...

CLICKIES!! CLICKIES!! OOH LOOK A TACO!! CLICKIES CLICKIES CLICKIES!!!

Well that didn't help.

This is a 2000 ME QB, that should be a very interesting lesson to those out there on how one deals with the German advantage in this situation. Unfortunately, I will betray a few tricks of the trade (and then I will have to come up with some new ones, as these are actually getting old).

My strategy is simple. Find Le Coil, and kick him in the nuts. The process is not quite so simple though. Here is the attack from the western perspective:



This clearly shows infantry moving forward while my howitzers sit mostly silent. Moving infantry up first and tanks up second is a good plan if you know your opponent is a sneaky bastage... as I belive Le Coil is... even if you are playing someone who loves to drive like a bat out of hell straight to the objectives, and then park their fannies right on top of it, this unit selection is perfect, as you can indirect fire the crap out of his infantry, and draw his tanks forward to try and get the Priests, and then pop the tanks... Racing to and sitting on an objective is perhaps one of the dumbest strategies you can take... although sometimes that is the best option... the good players know when.

In the east, I am pulling the classic flankaroo, and hoping to pluck a feather out of a pidgeon's arse if things go right. IF thar be STuG's, then sneaking around and potting them in the flank is a neat way to go... you need to be mindful of guns on the German side, and of course hidden infantry etc... so there are risks:



Yes, I am a sneaky bastage (well at least I try).

This last screenshot shows the smoke and dump... if you know there is a chance that a panzer might just swing around the corner and cause your gun lorry driver to drop a load in his shorts, which is then scattered across the countryside when the AP round hits and blasts the lorry and soiled britches of the driver to kingdom come, this is the way to go. You betray a priest position, but you manage to get a FT unit into a building close to the (DRROOOLLL) Taco stand flag and an AT gun that has flank access to the Taco Factory... We'll see how it goes... it's not the end of the world if I lose those units.



I'm not sure what to expect from Le Coil... I know he would love dearly to beat me, and then dance around like an idiot pointing at me and singing: "NAA NAA NAA NAAAAA NAAAAAA."

That's the thing... a new opponent can sometimes spell trouble... and you may be left holding a really horrendously smelly diaper at the end of the game.


: )

Cheers!

Leto