PBS VS BSC WAR: PBS VS BSC - 29/06/2025 20:30

[Lokisdad]

The update arrived and after a huge struggle with the Steam download mechanism and I got onto the server to play the El Alamein map. When I say play, I should really say ‘Get killed a lot’. I get killed a lot on any map, as a quick look at my training stats would show, but Alamein is so open!
I wasn’t there for the whole game and my SL was very quiet, which is never my favourite experience, but my general feel was that it was the hardest map I’ve played so far. ( I’ve only been playing for about a week, so I’m not sure I’ve actually played every one!)
I did notice that the update changed the ‘non-verbal’ communications so a revisit to the Field Manual is very much required.
One note that jarred with me was a cosmetic one that doesn’t affect gameplay at all, and that was the sight of Lancaster bombers on the airfield runway. Given that the second battle of El Alamein took place in October/November 1942, there was no way that Lancasters would have been there. Lancasters did put in an appearance in North Africa but only to use landing bases after the RAF bombed the radar production facilities at Friedrichshafen and La Spezia. They took off from England and landed at USAAF bases in Algeria. Ths was late June 1943.
Anyway, as I said, it’s just a cosmetic thing from the point of view of the game. Given how famous the Lancaster is, I guess it’s a way of making a statement ‘this is a British airbase’.

[Nimodoji]

El Alamein feels like a death trap to me no matter what, really like Driel however seems like a more balanced and fun version of Remagen

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