Unique Battle and Impossible Barrage

[Charles22]

First, unique battle. I can't remember which version of SP it was, but I have had an offensive battle as Germany where I actually shut out the computer. I wouldn't had thought that was possible. To make it even more unbelievable, I recall the computer had dumped at least 10 rounds of HE into a good mass of troops, and didn't cause any losses. I don't know if I very effectively eliminated his artillery after that, or not, because I recall I either had no more bombardments against me, or I was deliberately advancing quickly enough that he missed for the few additional turns his artillery must had been firing.

I can recall some detail from that game, but I think later on I had another game where I shut out the computer as well. In any case I suppsoe it's exceedingly rare. How about any of you, have you ever managed a goose egg?

Now for the impossible barrage. I was playing in a Polish long campaign in the first battle against Germany. For AA support I had 4 taczanka's assigned to guard my main armored thrust. The Germans threw out 155mm artillery, and about 8-10 rounds hit. This resulted in all of that AA getting destroyed by one hit apiece, including one that was destroyed two hexes away from the bombardment. That is the first time I have ever seen a portion of my army's entire AA assets destroyed, and I certainly hadn't seen them through one-hit wonders, and to make matters worse it all occuring through one barrage in that one turn. There were no losses or damage to anything else, only one hit to those guys and poof! It was really weird seeing that. You would had thought the men got scared and set the carriage on fire themselves it was so bad.