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SPUD has a thread for clan stories. This deserves a wider audience, because I simply don't understand how it happened AT. ALL.
Two days ago, I'm platooned with HumbleRumble in Tier X, my FV215b and his IS-7. We're on Yamato Harbor, and we start in the warehouses, nothing too special. He's up front brawling, and I'm 50m behind him sniping. We're mixing it up with most of the red team. Meanwhile, red is also capping.
HumbleRumble kills two red tanks at very close range. Very close range. VERY CLOSE. He is, in fact, boxed in by a wall, a crate, and the burning hulks of two dead red tanks. Meanwhile, there are still red tanks shooting at him. I blast one of them. Then, I try to free my platoon mate. At full speed, I collide with the dead JPE 100 that is double-parked against HumbleRumble. Nope. So I pull around and then back into the JPE 100, because I've heard that we have better torque in reverse (could be a myth). Nope. A green leopard PTA comes by to help me. We cannot make any progress. The JPE is not moving. The crate is non-destructable. Meanwhile, it's only 3–2, I've lost all situational awareness trying to bulldoze a clear path for HumbleRumble, and we still haven't seen two of the biggest red heavies: Maus and E 100.
The cap is at 50 when I give up and head for the battleship to reset. Here's a picture, which I snap so I can tease him about it after we lose the game:
Here is a zoomed-in version:
And here is a super-technical diagram version:
As you can tell, I feel very optimistic. My optimism knows NO BOUNDS when I peek around the corner to see the Yamato, cap counter at 80, and see the Maus sitting there, looking right at me. The red E 100 is behind him, sidescraping/hull-down off the gigantic Maus. I have APCR loaded, and I put one right into the little square on the Maus. Boom. 400 dmg.
Cap counter is at 70. The Maus only had 12 capture points. The E 100 has all the capture points. So I do the sensible thing: I panic.
Okay, well in addition to panicking, I look around for a shot at the E 100. I do not have one. He is being smart and only kind-of looking at me, so his turret is about 10° off perpendicular to my gun. APCR on my FV215b, and the E 100 front turret is a red wall. Both he and the Maus have shot me, because I am a panicked idiot and the FV215b doesn't have much armor anyway. I load HESH and shoot at the tiny little bumps on the E 100 turret. No damage. Little voice says "That didn't go through."
But the cap is down to 10. Because my HESH round
Broke
His
Little
Glass
Peephole
So there.
Nice, but now both red heavies are focus firing on me and I'm in a world of hurt. I die, the team dies, everybody dies except HumbleRumble, who is out of commission. So I click over to see poor HumbleRumble get executed. Except he is free. Somebody explain to me how, because a minute ago he was locked down tight.
That doesn't really matter, though, because he is alone against three red heavies, and two of those have made most of the kills. So he's doomed, right?
I've seen plenty of Tier X aces. I have a few myself. But I have never seen one like this. It was flat-out magic.
Edited by SonnetVolta, 10 June 2017 - 01:18 AM.
