3v4 Bitter-fought battle for the 1st place 4v4 AT

Our go-to Wehr support crashed minutes into the game.

The promised support from the Wehrmacht Panzergruppe Lehr never arrived - instead the ragged scraps of a recent festung loss were formed together into a haphazard Freiwillige batallion - spelling disaster to the 6th Heavy Panzer Division, which was pressing on to retake 'liberated' France and push the yankees back. The unforeseen arrival of the 2nd Shock Army of the Soviet Red Army from the east forced the 2nd Batallion of the Panzergruppe to dig in and hold positions, while the western flank saw tremendous artillery barrages and unyielding assaults as the Allied Warmachine pumped out tank after tank.

A fabled Königstiger, commanded by the zealous Sturmbannführer Hauptmann was lost to bad positioning and quick allied tactics, while an equally formidable Jagdtiger was bombed to bits by Priests, 120mm Heavy Mortars and the resounding "Oorah!" of Soviet mad-dash charges.

Still, the much improved Panzer Kämpfwagen V 'Panther' Ausf. G were coordinated into an elite speartip, which was then stabbed back and forth, from the east to the west flank, wrecking Allied advances and spreading panic amongst the ranks of the US Tankers. The Soviets knew no such panic, and charged in regardless of the risks.

A Knight's Cross with Crossed Swords and Maple Leaves was commended to Feldwebel Ernst Braun for his outstanding performance in the up-gunned version of the Panzer IV Ausf. H Medium Tank. Though Braun's innovative movements were at first seen as risky, it was quickly shown how effective a single, highly mobile gun platform could be in the hands of a skilled crew.

A second Kinght's Cross with Maple Leaves was also commended to the whole crew of the Stuka, which managed to utterly halt the enemy advance on several key moments. Had it not been for the crack training of this formidable crew, it is likely that the German infantry would have been utterly crushed in the face of impossible odds.

Little was known of the German Pak-43 positions, which, while not scoring a multitude of kills, were able to secure massive swathes of territory and at times giving invaluable support to the Wehrmacht's panzers which were being quickly drowned out against the Allied superior numbers and firepower.

Victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat, and to the dismay of the Soviet commander, the Americans opted to scurry out. Too much was lost, and a complete and utter annihilation of the precious Sherman and rare M36 Jackson battalions was out of the question.

Morale of the story: never play 3 us boys and girls.