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Sedan, huh? I was in 3CD for a while...you ever play around Namur or Andenne? :)

Man, I remember one of the campaigns that lasted about eight or nine weeks. For 3 or 4 of them, we were fighting between the Namur/Andenne/Huy/Anhee/Profondeville area, back and forth, night after night, hanging on by our toenails against everything that particular portion of the Axis players could throw at us. That's one of those times that made a truly persistent game like WWIIOL (as opposed to one of the arena-based ones like, say, BF1942) really great. 3CD *OWNED* Namur. That was OUR town, our AO, and you'd have to roll over our virtual dead bodies to take it. (And French jokes aside, it was nice to see them actually rewrite history and win against the Blitzkrieg. The guys who played the French were the hardest-core mothers in the game to stand up under all the crap they took.)

I hated Anhee and Huy both. Nothing like getting shelled by Pz IIIH fire from the cliffs overlooking town. For days. Continuously. Andenne was a hell of a town to fight in, less of the cliff shelling and more straight-up fights.

I remember you from the forums. I didn't know you got banned, I thought you'd just had enough and quit.

I never heard about the WWIIOL crowd hitting DU, but I don't doubt it. A bunch of them started playing a small MMOG called "Second Life" and ended up largely getting banned and censored for putting pro-Republican messages, Confederate flags, and WWIIOL advertising bitmaps on the outside of their player-built dwellings. (Second Life's developers were from San Francisco...need I say more?)

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Yeah, Andenne was an interesting town. I'd go to bed thinking we had secured it and the next morning you guys had capped it back. Sometimes that town, along with Namur, would take weeks to finally suppress and move past. Usually it would require us to move two army groups into the area in order to cap it but that always was a risk because it left other areas wide open.

My favorite areas were either central (Vireaux southward) the deep south (Verdun area) or up north near BOZ you could almost always find me down south. Since I wasn't in a squad, I'd go where ever defenders were needed. My favorite weapons were the Flak-36 or the Stug-III. I can't even remember how many precamps I busted up or at least disrupted with a Stug-III. I never got to use the Panzer-IIIH since I was gone long before it came out.

As for the Frenchies, they were the side most of the Axis detested. That is one reason they usually got stomped first. We'd throw everything at them and wipe them off the map just to tick them off and watch them whine about how the Char wasn't "uber" enough or the Panhard (Panchar as we liked to call it) died too easily. They also had TGIF as one of their main squads and anyone who was around from Day-1 remembers why the Axis hated them.