![]() Jerry keeps up the attack, first one side, then the other, unwilling to commit to a single flank.Īs another wave retreats, I feel that great parasite of battlefield commanders taking hold: overconfidence. My machine gun positions and rifle squads, dug into foxholes or fortified in shattered buildings, hold them off. ![]() Small groups of infantry, supported by lightly armored half-tracks, probe my defenses, crossing the west bridge first, then the east. I’ve watched Band of Brothers like a dozen times and played a lot of games about World War II - what better training could you ask for? The dust clears, and my soldiers peek out of their foxholes. A hastily erected first line of defense - barbed wire, sandbags, and mines designed to slow down infantry - is annihilated by 88mm shells. Instead, heavy artillery hammers my forward position. Behind sandbags and barbed wire, my soldiers listen for the rumble of approaching armor. My unit is outnumbered, outgunned, and exhausted, but Jerry has only two ways into the town, bridges, and we’ve had time to prepare light defenses. After securing the port city of Salerno, my forces dig in to await the German counterattack. Day 7 of the Allied invasion of Italy (in Company of Heroes 3).
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