Just had a really fun match at Carpathians.
Started out as Jagdtiger at the northern spawn (not the one in the hole) and went to the top of the mountain. Mode was conquest so only 1 cap and it was at the castle. I sucked at that position. Drew in too much fire and eventually died, only getting one kill. Then the criers starting whining about us not capping A. Tickets for them was still at max and we were under 1/4. So I used the backup Jagdtiger and went to A as fast as I could. Luckily where the cover thins out on the top, there were two Maus' taking up the fire so I was able to time it when I needed to get past them to the base.
I get up to the base, and I see a T34-85, knowing that as soon as I climb this hill he'll have a lower glacis shot and that'll be the match. Lucky for me, half of my team was still where I was at when I first died, so that took his attention. I put one good 128mm to the back of his head and he was gone. Proceded to the base and finished capping.
Our tickets 56, theirs... 14000. It was as if the match never started for them. So after watching the movie "Fury" only a few nights ago, I went into beast mode and held up by a wall, right underneath one of the castle arches, and started to pick them off one by one. I peeked out a little and saw something that I've always had trouble killing... a T95. Luckily for me again, there was a T10m that decided to help me cap, and he was at least 500 feet to my right, I called him out and we both readied up. However, as soon as I readied up for the T95, an IS2 popped out and I couldn't take a chance with 122mm gun that close. 1 shot as always and he was gone. The good thing was, he was stopped right in front of the T95, giving me time to reload. After I did, I took a shot at his Copula, and then the T10 knocked his engine out right when he saw my lower glacis. I reloaded and hit the copula with an HE shot... gone.
But that was only the first. I had to then take out a Jagdtiger, the one who killed me first, who also decided not to move, easy two shot kill to the lower glacis (in other words, not a good driver). Next up was a a few SPAA's, a ZSU 32 and a flakpanzer. Both easy kills. Then, trouble. An M103 came up the hill but the T10 was able to knock his engine out. Unfortunately for him, that didn't stop the loader, and the T10 was gone after that. I had the 103 in my sights but behind it was an IS3.... I contemplated for what seemed like minutes what to do, get the IS3 or the easy kill.
Of course I opted for the M103. If he repaired, there's no way I could traverse that fast enough later on, and if I missed the IS3 on the first shot, they'd both get me. Right now I was asking for everyone that had a bomber, light bomber, and fighter to knock the IS3 out, after I took the M103 on my own. Bombs, artillery and gunfire were bouncing off all over the hill. I then drove out around one of the castle walls to bait the IS3, which I was actually able to take a shot to his side while he was up-hill with no shot. Unfortunately for me, it bounced. I reloaded, and hoped he would think that I'd look out that way again. He did. He took the bait and I readied up for my second shot, just enough time to reload. He then came to the arch, and I tried to think of where do I shoot an IS3, even this close? I couldn't think at all right now, so I hit his turret, another bounce. He returned fire at me and knocked my engine out and three crew. Leaving only the driver, commander and loader, the prime crew, I sat to reload again, but had no shot. I had a heavy bomber option, or light bomber. Looking at it now, the light bombers were spawning right above A, while the heavies were clear across the map. As you can guess... I took the heavy to reduce the chance of rockets failing to get him. However, in the kill feed to my right I saw he got me already.
As I approached him and my dead tank I dropped a good salvo where he had stopped, and noticed a T54 and another M47 had made it up the hill... I respawned after dropping a failed payload into the Jagdpanther for maximum speed, but it was all too late, as soon as they took the cap our 56 tickets were gone. If only we had five seconds left, they would've lost. Their total ticket count...
34.
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