Re: Your greatest victory and worst defeat
I recall that SP2 campaign. As I recall, the final mission involved an assault on a Soviet-held city, which was across a river with only a couple of crossing points. That scenario was a nightmare, because getting to the bridges meant exposing your units to fire in the flanks from Soviet T-80s for a kilometer or so, and there were so many Soviets that there was no easy way to take them out. After 6-7 tries, I finally won the scenario through a combination of prodigious use of smoke ammo, leapfrogging advances, and sheer luck. Only about a third of my units survived the battle, but the final victory still ranks as one of my favorites.
My worst defeat came in another NATO-WP campaign (I can't recall which one). On the first turn of the first scenario, a MiG came in on a bombing run. One of my Stinger units successfully shot it down, whereupon it managed to crash right on top of my HQ unit, wiping it out. Dead HQ=campaign over.
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