Steel Beasts ProPE - I'd Rather Have Tanks Than Being Just Lucky

[Asid]

Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Steel Beasts ProPE - I'd Rather Have Tanks Than Being Just Lucky

In one of my favorite movie scenes of all times,  Sergeant Horvath and an unknown grenadier aim guns at point blank from each other just to find themselves out of ammo. Both throw their helmets at each other and in the end resort to their side weapons. This scene from Saving Private Ryan presents unrelenting violence that doesn't go away when weapons fail. On the opposite end, a very much debated account from the Sherman tank commander Lt. Gordon during Operation Goodwood (WWII) explains how his tank crew and a Tiger's tank crew shared a slit trench after bailing out during a particularly intense firefight. Just a few "suspicious looks" exchanged, Gordon explains (Tigers in Normandy, Wolfang Schneider, Stackpole Books [2011], page 141)

In this scenario, one of my tankers has been closer to the latter situation.


A Leopard tank crewed only by a driver (all the others dead) stops to let a column of Soviet infantry. Unable to engage the enemy, the driver just watches. The Soviets, lacking any major anti-tank assets drive by, probably thinking they are the luckiest men. An RPG would have sufficed to end the live of this driver.

The above happened in one single-player scenario I played recently. Many of you would find the situation a bit goofy, but I am an unabated manchild and it was a memorable gaming moment for me.

How I got there and what happened after?

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