Chapter 51 Author's Essay - Deep Game
Deep Game: Company of Heroes 2
The cruelty of war lies in the fact that it can erase humanity and turn the commander into a war machine, obeying orders, commanding armies, and achieving goals.
Many times, I would be angry or laugh at the battles in some movies and TV shows and games, and either despise or abuse the commanders inside, mainly because their orders made countless heroic soldiers pay for their lives in vain, as if they had no feelings for the soldiers under their command. sighed Xiang Yu Wujiang killed himself, yes, the soldiers who followed him are all dead, and what kind of face do they have to face Jiangdong's fathers.
It is with this idea in mind that any strategy game I play tends to be positional defense, elite raids, even to the point where they don't go out of the line without engineers and medical vehicles, and any soldiers brought out of the line, I want them to go back alive, even if they're just data.
In this game, the coolest thing is the defensive plot, the defense line I have arranged: the bunker; Gully; concealed machine-gun firing points; anti-tank guns with fixed orientations; logistical medical support, etc. Except for the barrage covering that forced me to abandon the defensive line, no one could pass through. Then watching the enemy come to death in waves, watching the flying artillery fire, listening to the pleasant machine gun, it is really wonderful, and at the same time, all kinds of complaints about the enemy's computer command.
However, I didn't expect that day, I also ended up becoming a cold-blooded commander.
The plot of the campaign is like this, our side launched a surprise attack, the battle line continued to advance, and I controlled 3 squads of levies on the logistics support line, escorted 3 tanks to the front line, along the way are tank wreckage and scattered weapons left after the war, along the way, there is no hostile situation, occasionally the tank driver who opened the road was startled by some broken tank wreckage, which amused everyone, suddenly, the plot CG was inserted, a tank hid in an abandoned warehouse, and the movement outside woke it up, It carefully adjusted the direction of the barrel, and when the first tank appeared and passed by the warehouse, it hit the armor behind it with one shot, and in an instant the tank was reduced to wreckage and blocked the way forward, and then, the tank ambushed in the warehouse rushed out with full power, and almost at the same time, the fearful shouts of our tank drivers and soldiers were heard, 'Tiger!' Tiger Tank !! Suddenly, the scene was out of control, our tanks adjusted their bodies, met the enemy with frontal armor, and rotated the barrels to aim, while the soldiers under my control were suppressed by the machine guns on the Tiger tanks and lay on the ground, commanding very hard.
Sure enough, it was a performance advantage, the Tiger's sudden maneuver caused the first round of tank salvos to miss, and its barrel aimed at one of the tanks at 2 times the speed of our tanks, I can even imagine the driver's expression and the panic of the tank crew, without any hesitation, the precise blow brought a deafening explosion, another tank turned into a beautiful fireworks, the rifle light machine gun did not pose the slightest threat to the Tiger, and in the screams of the soldiers, I had to order them to retreat, watching as the last tank was hit and its main gun was damaged, In the communication channel, the tank commander kept shouting, 'Support, support!' Request support! Discover the Tiger Tank! Request for immediate support, our main gun has been destroyed and is evacuating! Request ,,,,'. Then, the tank captain's voice also dissolved into an electronic noise.
Subsequently, the command of the game was really handed over to me, and I received a telegram pointing out that this lone Tiger tank had blocked our logistics support line, and there was a fierce battle ahead, and there was no extra force to support, and I was ordered to solve this Tiger tank as soon as possible at all costs
I was forced to hear this order, I only had three squads of levies in my hands, and on the opposite side were ace tanks! The weapons equipped by the squad could not hurt it at all, but since this order, there would definitely be a turnaround from the perspective of the game, so I commanded the soldiers to look for something in the war-burned town, while dodging the Tiger tank that I didn't know where to run, suddenly, to my delight, the report came, a squad found some scattered munitions, quickly assembled over, got about 5 anti-tank mines and two individual anti-tank rocket launchers and a box of individual grenades, and was thinking about how to get the Tiger type, suddenly, The earth shook, the wall on the soldier's right suddenly collapsed, and a behemoth roared out!
Tiger Pose! It's really not a problem to hit through the wall of that kind of residential area with the performance of the tiger, but who would have thought about it, there was no time to react, the machine gun was mixed with the explosion, and the main attack team was quickly attritional, and the other two teams were immediately evacuated by me, and there were still some casualties, but the team that was targeted by the tiger type, only two or three seconds, there were only 3 people left, and they threw out two anti-tank grenades, and the soldier with the anti-tank rocket launcher in the squad just fired a rocket, and the vision of that area suddenly became dim, yes, They were all sacrificed. Frightened, I manipulated a team to quietly circle around a house, and saw that the Tiger was still moving back and forth in place, crushing something, and the path was full of our corpses, and even a wounded man who was struggling, if I had a medical station, he would have been carried away and rescued, but now, he was actually crushed to death by a tank, looking at this scene, I felt very uncomfortable.
About ten seconds, the Tiger tank seemed to have fun, and went in the other direction, the soldiers silently passed, picked up the bazooka that was still held tightly by the corpse, silence permeated the hearts of the soldiers, and also permeated my heart, looking at the map without saying a word, the soldiers scattered to find traces of the damn tank, and it didn't take long for the roar of the motor to sound from my computer, although there was no vision, but it must be behind the wall, operating the soldiers to retreat quietly, at the intersection where it must pass, with resentment, Dropped 4 anti-tank mines, at the same time, another squad looked around the back of the tank, grenades and two bazookas were ready, I gave the order, the tail of the Tiger tank was blown up, the picture shows hitting the rear armor, which can be regarded as a fatal blow to the general tank, but the blood bar above the tank, only dropped by about 1/10, the joy of the moment just disappeared, the Tiger tank is worthy of being a Tiger tank, the rear armor is so powerful.
With the roar of the engine, the Tiger turned sharply at an extraordinary tank speed, and I manipulated the soldiers to run towards the minefield, just two intersections of the distance, but at this time it was so long, the Tiger tank had caught up and entered the firing range, the machine gun fire greatly slowed down the speed of the soldiers' escape, the flying artillery fire, although it did not hit, but its fragmentation damage still made the team's health bar continue to shrink, but, almost arrived, almost arrived, the squad had already entered the minefield, because it was an anti-tank mine, So the infantry will not detonate when they step on it, but the tank will press on it
Rumble!!! Two huge explosions rang out, so deafening, so tragic, why, why!? The mine exploded, how did the mine explode, my brain was blank at the time, I didn't know what was going on at all, there was only the wreckage of soldiers flying in the sky in front of me, the squad instantly killed 4 fighters, and the rest were crawling on the ground, and immediately, the tiger fired out the second shell, this time I saw it, I saw it clearly, he didn't hit my soldier, but it landed next to an anti-tank mine,,,,, boom! The fire flickered again, and the decoy team ,,, extinguished.
I was really crazy at the time, I wanted to punch through the screen, through that damn tank, and of course, that ill-conceived me. It's over, it's failed, I don't have the confidence to fight anymore, I slumped in front of the computer with a helpless face, and for the first time, my soldiers died so quickly, so ,,,, worthless.
After a moment of silence, the radio station that spoke to the command headquarters sounded the hoarse voice of the commander: Commander, the battle on the front line is tight, we must immediately dredge the logistics road, there are no more fighters in the rear, and there are two new squads, I have ordered them to go to support, and finally tell you again, unblock the supply lines immediately, otherwise, we will lose ,,,,,,,.
Looking at the two squads that appeared at the bottom of the screen, my heart was roaring, recruit squad, what are you calling them to do, are you here to send them to death!? Yes!? Sent to death!!?
I'm crazy too, no matter what, fortunately they brought a lot of grenades, let's do it, tiger style, TMD Lao Tzu won't kill you today, I won't be surnamed Lou.
So, the only remaining squad with two recruit squads, with a fury, searched the rubble for the tank.
Suddenly, the red dot flashed on the small map, the tank appeared, it seems that the tank has been waiting for us for a long time, and when we met the first shot, it accurately hit the soldiers in front, no panic, no panic, the soldiers desperately surrounded it, using the wreckage of the nearby ruins as a cover, and launched a fierce battle with the tiger, rifles, machine guns, individual grenades, throwing explosive packs, no matter what the effect is, I greeted the tiger tank in one go, whenever the barrel of the tiger tank moved, I was nervous to operate the troops to dodge, But casualties are happening every minute, suddenly, the main firepower, the individual bazooka, the soldier was still loading a new shell, was swept to the ground by the machine gun, the soldier next to him wanted to pick it up, was blown to pieces by a shell, I immediately asked a squad to rush out of the improvised bunker, close use of the throwing explosive bag, successfully attracted the attention of the Tiger tank, the other squad picked up the bazooka, to find cover in the other direction, and the recruit squad that attracted the Tiger was not very good at dodging machine gun fire, under the machine gun, escaped from the strafing range, there are only two left. At this time, the anti-tank grenades have been used up, and the remaining fragmentation grenades against the infantry, although not very effective, can also cause damage. At the moment when the Tiger attacked us, I secretly ordered a soldier to move to the rear of the tank and place the last anti-tank mine, but the placement was still ongoing, and the Tiger tank seemed to be unable to resist and wanted to escape, and as soon as it retreated, the soldier who was still planting the mine disappeared forever in the burst of fire, leaving no fragments of the corpse.
Because of his sacrifice, the Tiger tank engine was damaged, the main gun was damaged, and it could not move in place, but the machine gun fire was still firing wildly, and finally, as another rocket launcher shell accurately hit the rear armor, the Tiger tank was reduced to pieces in a roar.
At the same time, a long line of our supply convoys appeared on the map, heading towards the front line, and my screen vision was fixed on the tiger-like wreckage, as well as the only 6 people left next to it, full of gunsmoke and corpses, and finally, the game screen shone with a military merit medal for me.