Having played POS three times before, i knew he's an armor heavy guy. That's why i decided to gamble everything on one card and went ahead without tanks. I figured in the end all i'm risking is some public humiliation. And becoming theblitz's laughing stock
My force pick consisted of two reinforced companies, each of the 6 platoons having 1 Corsair and 2 RPG teams attached. 2 platoons were motorized, with 6 conscript MT-LB serving as battlefield taxis. Additionally, i purchased no less than 4 Tunguskas. I don't know about you, but i absolutely love those things. From what i can tell, it has a (slight?) spotting advantage over armor. While the 30mm guns aren't enough to penetrate a T90, it does a fairly good job at trashing the tank's precious subsystems, thus seriously reducing it's combat value. On top of that it does a terrific job at bringing down buildings. You have some tough infantry in a building holding your advance? Send the Tunguskas and problem solved
Now, i knew from the start i had no chance of reaching the objective zones first. Not with POS's armor roaming around. Thus my plan was to steadily advance, using the woods as cover for my infantry, and try to flank his tanks and positions.
The game didn't started well for me. I decided to risk rushing a MT-LB towards the middle city; i figured having some AT assets in the area to scare POS's tanks while my infantry advanced might pay off. A minute later my MT-LB was burning after coming toe to toe with an enemy T90. Still, POS's advantage only lasted for a couple of minutes. He send a lone T90 wolf on my left flank, no doubt trying to hunt down my tanks
This approach might have done wonders, if only i had tanks
Instead, the hunter become the hunted and 2 minutes later it was a burning wreckage after a RPG team fired a round in it's rear armor. Pretty much at the same time - in the middle - one of my Tunguskas exited the woods and spotted an enemy T90. It started to fire and managed to immobilize it. POS can correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm under the impression it also took out some critical subsystems - including the APS. With the tank immobilized and thus just a siting duck, it was fairly easy to sneak up another RPG team in it's side and take it out. At this point, POS pulled back his remaining tanks and tried to hold on the positions he controlled with his infantry. Still, slowly but certainly my numerical superior infantry pressed forward and with 5 minutes before the countdown i had control of the 3 objective zones. Of course POS wasn't happy with me claiming all the objectives so he pressed forward with 2 mins before the countdown. He already did a fine job covering this particular phase of the battle in his previous post, so i won't go into to much details. The game finished with me holding two zones, with the third one neutral.
In the end my tactic of spamming the map with AT units paid off, although ,granted, it wasn't an action packed game. Still, my goal was to capture the objective zones with as few casualties as possible and in the end i pretty much managed to achieve it. Many thanks POS for organizing this tournament!
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