What an awesome round!

I was in Stickyjeans' armor squad on the us side on Kashan, about 12.00 CET. We used two tanks and an engi or two, sometimes an AA. SM's were also, elemanuel (definitely from Argentina!) who was a very effective gunner for the second tank. Sticky's tank had Trashearo as gunner, and "*soldier*". For some time, Warren was also engineer.

The match started out pretty smooth for the us side, with our tanks encountering not much resistance, and air superiority on our side with multiple A10's up and very effective use of CAS.



During the whole round our team would continue to cooperate in exemplary fashion, commanded by...it escapes me.
After killing a just a tank and some infantry, our team was ready to move on the south village.

The MEC had a surprisingly strong defense up though, that wiped out our two tanks+ a squad and choppers several times. This was also our first encounter with a tandem of tanks that were coorerating extremely well.

I was counterattacking at one time towards the south village, spotted one of them on a slope beneath me. We decided to drive around to come up behind them. Right when we were near them though, a chopper lands right on them. I think our fire alerted them. Still when I drove up we were quickly disposed of by what I thought was one tank. At this point, I started suspecting that I knew whe was running the other squad (or in it).

We had to fall back to the north and south bunker at that point, and had some trouble with the occasional Trogfoot (although Trashaero shot one of them down with the tank!). But after a while the same duel kept giong back and forth. Us


(Warren scanning reliably in the 50, Sticky's tank in the background)

against them.


(Fuzz's squad, driving away from an incoming JDAM that just missed em

Meanwhile the rest of the team was fighting a fierce battle over the bunkers with all the bells and whistles you could want.



In the end we were able to perhaps get the upper hand on the center of the map again when we drove around the north to their side of the complex and got to get some nice end of map kills.





We were trying to get 10000 points at that point, but I think we missed it by a few hundred.

The game felt very balanced, even though the ticket count in the end wasn't. This is the kind of game I love. A good contest, good teamwork on both sides, and every (legal!) trick in the book used. GG to everyone that made this round work, and especially to the enemy armor squad and our CO.

I got confirmation that it was indeed Fuzzhead and his squadmates that opposed us in the tanks, by seeing his squads' score match ours in the loading screens (one guy with 0 kills and lots of points followed by his guner with lots of kills and points).