Spells and Louds
Chapter 272: Game Stream 3.2
Sunset: What is up my people, this is Sunset and welcome back to Shimmer Cove and as of right now we're playing something else. Get ready for some RTS!
The game starts with the title of Company of Heroes and they enter online multiplayer.
Lincoln: I'm set and ready. Which map are we going to?
Sergei: Well we are the allies so maybe we should go for a map that could give us some open room and provide some structural wide areas for some open combat.
Sunset: Coming from someone who's been in war you know a lot.
Martin: Alright! So which map is it then?
Sunset scrolls through the maps and finds one.
Sunset: Got it! City 17, Russia.
Lincoln: I'm reading the history, this place has a lot of open areas for an ambush, let it be sniper or tank.
Sergei: This kinda reminds me of Stalingrad, except Stalingrad was way more devastated than this industrial zone.
Martin: We're gonna start somewhere in the south, that's where we're outposted. Also, who the hell are we fighting?
Lincoln: We are 4v4, so obviously from the text I got earlier, we are going up against Leon, Victor, Boomer and Gyro.
They all remain silent.
Sunset: What?
Sergei: So they're the axis powers we're up against?
Martin: It's gonna suck for them, we got three factions on the allies and the axis only has the Wehrmacht and the Obberkommando West.
Lincoln: So let's get to it then. I call dibs on the US forces.
Sergei: Obviously I'm picking the soviets.
Martin: Guess I'm the British faction.
Lincoln: What about you sis? US Forces? Soviet Union? British Empire?
Martin: Dude, the way you said that was nice.
Sunset goes through the different bulletin boards and commanders useful on all three factions.
Sunset: Okay, I guess I pick the US of A.
Sergei: So we have two Americans, one brit and one ruski. Sounds fair.
Lincoln: Let's lock and load, and be careful with the opposing side.
Sunset: Everyone ready?
Martin: Our opponents are ready.
Sergei: Let's do this thing!
Sunset: And start!
The game loads up and shows the names and factions chosen by both side.
Sunset: US Forces, Lincoln: US Forces, Sergei: Soviet Forces, Martin: British Forces.
Leon: Wehrmacht, Gyro: Wehrmacht, Boomer: Obberkommando West, Victor: Obberkommando West.
Lincoln: If i should be honest, then i have to say that we have to be careful with the opposing side. The Obberkommando west is pretty dangerous even with their Sturmpioneers alone.
Sunset: Did we pick our commanders for the job?
Martin: Sure as hell. Got me hands on Mobile Assault Regiment. What did you guys pick?
Sunset: I picked the Rifle Company. I like the looks of that Sherman Tank.
Sergei: Lock me down with Shock Troop Heavy Tactics! This is what I like to see!
Lincoln: the skis are mine with the Airborne Company.
Martin: So, we got ourselves a sort of balanced economy. Let's hope the opposing side didn't pick anything ruthless, otherwise we're done for.
Sergei: Games starting.
The map is shown and they set out their Combat Engineers, RE Sappers and Rear Echelon Troops onto the front line
Sunset: I'm taking the city ruins with Martin.
Martin: (chuckles) Guys, this is awesome. One US force for either of us.
Sergei: So, me and Lincoln are at the open field zones. Let's try not to get too much attention, but I can requisition Shock Troops now.
Lincoln: Taking the hill top sector, and I have Pathfinders inbound. I just need to find a safe zone for my Paratroopers to land.
As they secure some territory, Sergei stops his Shock troops.
Sergei: I hear something.
Lincoln: What?
Sunset: What's going on over there, we're locking down a sector for ammo.
Martin: on my end I'm locking down on fuel. What are you hearing anyway?
Sergei listens closely and spot something terrifying!
Sergei: Track mine! Track mine! I hate those things!
Lincoln: What?! That would mean it either belongs to Boomer or Victor!
Sergei: I'm sure it's Boomers! He likes blowing shit up!
Sergei then uses his Shock Troops to destroy the Goliath Track mine and it explodes.
Sunset: Whoa! Heard that explosion all the way from here!
Martin: Be cautious, those things could be hidden anywhere on the map. This just got hard for us.
Then Lincoln sends down some Paratroopers and a Rifleman squad and unlocks grenades and weapon rack.
Sergei brings in a Conscript squad and unlocks Molotov's and AT grenades.
Sunset brings in two rifleman squads and finally unlocks the Lieutenant and Martin sets up a forward operation base, calls in another RE Sapper squad, refits them with M2 Flamethrowers and then calls in an Armor piercing sniper.
Lincoln: Any signs of enemies?
Sergei then sends his troops into cover.
Sergei: German Scout Car on my radar, has an anti-air gun! I'm killing this bastard!
Lincoln: Hang tight! Rifleman squad support inbound and we got a bazooka!
They both go toe-to-toe the German scout car and take it out. Combined US and USSR arms.
On Sunset's end, she sends her Rifleman squads to scout, then they run into some trouble.
Sunset: Assault Grenadiers in front of me, engaging with the BAR!
Martin: I don't have any forward troops yet! I'm sending my Sniper to assist!
Then they hear the sound of an engine and coming out of the breached wall is a Luchs II Light Tank.
Martin: Oh Jesus Christ!
Sunset: So that's how it us huh? Two Obberkommandos and two Ostheer factions on either side! My men will keep the tank occupied, knock it out with the armor piercing sniper!
Martin then sends in a vehicle support, in the form of the British MK IV Cromwell Tank. And they take out the light tank, the sniper gets a veterancy from that kill.
Martin: I should've saved up the fuel on my part, but this was necessary.
Sunset: You made the right call, you can requisition Hammer Tactics later.
Lincoln: We still have a lot of fight inbound to us, also I'm calling down a .50cal M2HB HMG.
Sergei: Good! I just unlocked the Conscript Repair Kit and Armored Vehicle Detection. Have you unlocked anything on Anti-Tank yet?
Lincoln: No I did not, we'll have to stick with what we have.
Sunset and Martin eventually run into a German emplacement of an MG42 HMG Team in a bunker and they send their troops to take cover.
Martin: I can call in some Infiltration Commandos from the building behind it!
Sunset: Do I dude!
Martin activates the ability and four commandos come out from behind and building and toss grenades onto the bunker, killing the MG42 team.
Lincoln and his paratrooper squads fight off a squad of Grenadiers with G43 rifles and an MG42 LMG, one Pioneer squad and Panzergrenadiers with a Panzershrek.
Sergei using the tactics he has unlocked, traps a sector with land mines and he sees a Panzer IV medium tank, it has no clue there are land mines and its treads and engine are damaged. Sergei sends his Conscripts to throw AT grenades and they knock out the Panzer.
Things go wrong when Sunset loses her Rear Echelon troops to an Early Warning Territory trap. Dang it!
Martin claims two sectors and lock them down with Fuel Caches. He then unlocks advanced cover bonus and Vehicle repair crews.
Sergei sends has unlocked the T-34 76mm medium tank, and he calls in two of them to provide support. But one of them is crippled in the hands of a Jagdpanzer Tank Destroyer. Sergei loses a Shock Troop squad to a light artillery barrage. He has to muster more forces, and thankfully he unlocked HQ medics.
Lincoln then calls in an M15A1 AA Halftrack, he uses it to lock down a sector and gun down a squad of two Sturmpioneers. Lincoln then unlocks Paradrop M1 57mm AT-Gun.
With Sunset, she has taken down a German 251 Halftrack with Assault Grenadiers and successfully stopped a 251 Walking Stuka Halftrack and it was about to send a barrage on Martin's forward operation base.
Sunset got some combat points form that and she was now happy that she unlocked something.
Sunset: Yes! I finally got it!
Lincoln: got what?
Sergei: What's happening?
Sunset: I'm bringing in two M4A3 Sherman 'Easy Eight' Medium Tanks! This will definitely help!
Martin: Well, I got enough fuel to activate Hammer Tactics. In the meantime I'm sending my squad to capture a point.
Sunset: Take it easy out there fellas, they rigged some of the sectors with traps.
Lincoln: So someone is using an Early Warning system. Very clever, but dangerous!
Sergei then smiles after his T-34 destroys a Panther Medium Tank.
Sergei: You know, these guys are trying their hardest to knock us out. I mean they just sent a Panther Medium tank on me and I killed it!
Lincoln: You unlocked something didn't you?
Lincoln then calls in the Major into the battle, and he teams him up with the Captain with BAR's and Bazookas as their weapons.
Sergei: I just got me some IL-2 Bombers in the fucking fight! We're gonna nail it!
Martin: God damn it!
Sunset: what? What's going on Martin?!
Sunset then kills 2 SdKfz 234 Puma's and unlocks Rifleman Flares and White Phosphorous Smoke.
Lincoln: Talk to us! What's the play-by-play?
Martin: I lost my Cromwell Tank.
This was concerning.
Sergei: To what?
Martin uses his snipers flare and is scared at what he sees.
Martin: Guys! Heavy Hostile in the fight! Tiger Tank spotted!
Sergei: Could be Leon, maybe.
Lincoln: Where is it?!
Martin's sniper stays in stealth and holds fire as the mighty Tiger Tank drives by.
Martin: I got eyes on it!
Sergei: I can't send a bombing run unless it stays fucking still!
Lincoln then destroys another Goliath track mine and unlocks something scarier than an IL-2 bombing run.
Lincoln then redirects his screen and he spots the Tiger Tank, he has enough ammo for this ability.
Lincoln: Incoming!
They all hear an airplane sound, better yet two airplane sounds.
They spot the shadows of two planes pass onto the map and what is revealed are two P-47 Thunderbolts, both are armed with Anti-Tank rockets!
The two planes circle the Tiger Tank in the sector as it tries to flee, but the armored piercing sniper uses its snipe engine ability and the Tiger is rendered to a slow crawl, and the sniper runs for it.
The P-47's get a lock onto the Tiger Tank and destroy it.
They all cheer.
Sunset: Tank hunters! Oh hell yeah!
Sergei: (Chuckles) Nice one kid! Worth the ammo!
Martin: Thank god that thing is dead! Holy Chrysler!
Just then Sergei loses all of his conscripts to a single shot.
Sergei: Whoa! What the hell?!
They all redirect their screens and spot the scariest monster in the fight. Almost scarier than the Tiger Tank.
Lincoln: Dang it! Are you kidding me?!
Sunset: SturmTiger! And it's not alone!
The SturmTiger reverses itself and a King Tiger drives forward.
Lincoln: Sergei! Pull back your troops! You can't take it with just your T-34's! Let my AT guns hold the line!
Sergei then notices he unlocked something and smiles.
Sergei: Better yet, I'm sending something for some extra damage!
They then spot the Soviet Union's beast killer machine, The ISU-152 Heavy Assault Gun.
Sunset: We are bringing in a lot of good firepower into this fight!
Martin: Good for you guys, I just captured an enemy munitions point, and I unblocked the Land Mattress.
Sergei then uses the ISU-152's ability, Focus forward. He then distracts the tank with his T-34 and the ISU fires a Concrete piercing round, the Tiger Tank however was not destroyed.
Sergei: Wait what?
Sunset and Martin team up their forces and fight off a group of Grenadiers, Volksgrenadiers and Obersoldaten.
Lincoln: thank you Sergei!
What happened? The King Tiger didn't blow up, the crew were knocked out and are bailing out of the tank. Lincoln's .50cal MG shoots the retreating crew and he sends the three star Major and they requisition the King Tiger.
Sergei: Smart thinking kid, and you are welcome!
Lincoln: I'm sending this thing to Martin's forward base, we need this repaired and ready for a fight!
Martin: My Sappers are waiting for the beast to arrive, standing by!
Sunset then makes the push with her tanks and she also kills some garrisoned troops with the White Phosphorous barrage.
Sergei is busy tank hunting.
Sergei: Guys, don't get cocky just yet. We still got that SturmTiger in the area. Where the fuck is it?
Then Sergei hears airplanes, so does Sunset and Martin.
Martin: Stuka's!
A Stuka flies in and strafes the area and coming in from the ground is a Tiger Tank and Grenadiers.
Sergei uses his T-34 to ram the Tiger Tank and his ISU-152 knocks it to death. Even though he lost the T-34, it was worth it, he can build another one.
Lincoln spots the annoying Stuka and locks down his Halftrack and it uses its AA guns and the Stuka is shot out of the sky.
It almost crashes onto Martin's troops, it just flies right past them and luckily it crashes onto a Racketenwerfer Rocket launcher team and a Mortar Team.
Martin: What the hell?! Who did that?!
Lincoln: Sorry, my bad.
But Martin loses his infantry section from the territory they were capturing, it was guarded by a Stuka.
Martin: You kill one Stuka and another one arrives, are you kidding me?!
Sunset: Guys! I got eyes on the enemy's base and they look like their bringing in some anti-tank weaponry.
Sergei: You know what's odd, has anyone seen any SWS Supply Halftrack HQ's? I haven't.
Lincoln's pathfinders scout a root ahead and they spot two vehicle repair SWS Halftrack HQ's and the SturmTiger is there reloading its ammo.
Lincoln: Sergei, you seeing this?
Sergei: Yes!
Sergei sends in an IL-2 precision bombing run, but the SturmTiger is not killed, just crippled.
Martin: I got ya covered.
A hail of battle ship rounds come hailing down and the two HQ's and the SturmTiger are killed.
Sergei: What was that?
Martin: Boys, I got the Land Mattress! I got three of them and they are awesome! And all I had to do was kill the last stupid Stug Assault gun!
Lincoln: Good job, has anyone seen any airplanes lately?
Sunset: Nope, but we gotta move fast. I think their trying to bring out another King Tiger.
Sergei: I just killed a Mechanized Assault Group! Eat on it you bastards!
Martin: I'm moving them to Sunset's position so we can rain down on their base!
Sergei and Lincoln use their forces to create diversions all over the map, and with the enemies confused by the aircraft, assault gun and captured King Tiger.
And with all of the enemies being diverted, Martin sends down a barrage and levels the base to the east. This gets the other bases attention, but then their base gets hit by an IL-2 bomber, and the shot from an ISU-152.
Lincoln uses his AT guns and .50cal MG to defend the Assault gun and he secures one of the territories with a P-47 rocket strike.
Martin places his armored piercing sniper into a building with the Infiltration commandos and Infantry section carrying PIAT launchers.
Sunset sends in her Easy Eight Sherman tanks so siege enemies trying break out of the base, and the Land Mattresses reload and hail down more rounds.
The enemy cannot leave, nor can they secure the territories they lost, and they decide to give up. GG!
Sunset: Yes! We won!
Sergei: And that's how it's done! Suck on it Leon!
Lincoln: Oh wow! That was awesome!
Martin: And we scored it big time! I love the Land Mattress!
Sunset: Well, this has been a hell of a fight and game. Thanks for joining me on Shimmer Cove and Company of Heroes 2. I'll see you guys next time. Peace!
Sergei: Drinks on me people! Hell Yeah!
To be continued …..
A/N: I thought this was a good idea, since I used to play CoH2 back then, I miss it a lot. Why did I mark some of those names in this chapter? I have no clue, it just felt right I guess. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
And as a bonus, here are the players, Tactics, Doctrines and their abilities.
Allied Forces.
Sergei - Shock Troop Heavy Tactics: Shock Troops, Armored Vehicle Detection, Conscript Repair Kit, IL-2 Precision Bombing run and ISU-152 Heavy Assault Gun.
Lincoln - Airborne Company: Pathfinders, Paradrop .50cal M2HB HMG, Paratroopers, Paradrop M1 57mm AT-Gun and P-47 Thunderbolt Rocket strike.
Sunset - Rifle Company: Fire it Up, Flamethrowers, Rifleman Flares, White Phosphorous Smoke Barrage and M4A3 Sherman 'Easy Eight' Medium Tank.
Martin - Mobile Assault Regiment: M2 Flamethrower, Advanced Cover Bonus, Infiltration Commandos, Vehicle Crew Repairs and Land Mattress.
Axis Powers.
Victor - Elite Armored Doctrine: Signal Relay, Emergency Crew Repairs, High Explosive Anti-
Tank (HEAT) Shells, Panzer Commander and SturmTiger.
Boomer - Overwatch Doctrine: Forward Receivers, Goliath Track Mine, Early Warning, For the Fatherland and Sector Airstrike.
Leon - Lightning War Doctrine: Jaeger Light Infantry, Relief Infantry, Tactical Movement, Stuka Close air Support and Tiger Tank.
Gyro - Mechanized Assault Doctrine: Assault Grenadiers, Mechanized Assault Group, Light Artillery Barrage, Stug Ausf.E and Tiger Tank.
Date made: 3/24/20.