That’s awesome, love it when you manage to get a good team, regardless of the game, and you manage to get far. I remember back when I played No More Room in Hell years ago, I had a great system for facing waves of zombies. Collect as much ammo as you can and bring it all to one particular room. Put it into piles. .22lr, .45 ACP, 9mm, etc. Don’t stockpile it because you might die. Keep some firearms and SOME ammo for it, but not as much as you can possibly carry. Use melee weapons always unless you get cornered in a desperate situation or if there are running zombies whom are VERY dangerous to take on in melee. Sometimes a prick would enter the server and take advantage of our organization, grabbing all the ammo, sometimes even just shooting it all out of spite but that was thankfully rare. When everyone cooperated though… it was beautiful.
I have stories about Red Orchestra II and Rising Storm as well when I became commander and got everyone performing their roles admirably, but damn, I can pour the paragraphs out way too fast… I’ll keep it brief. Joined while the Japanese were losing the campaign in Rising Storm, joined them because sometimes I root for the underdog, became commander, lead the troops capably with lots of good verbal communication, and we had the Americans nearly beat. I got bored, joined the losing Americans. Became commander, and we had the Japanese nearly beat in the campaign (in campaign mode you have various matches while you fight for control of locations on a map). This happened again where I switched American, and POSSIBLY another 2 times where I went Jap and then American again, then when we had the Americans almost beat some mouthy pipsqueak commented on how America was beating Japanese because we’re just better. I laughed and said to him in my own voice, “Buddy, I’ve been bouncing around from one side to another as commander. Japanese almost lost, then we almost beat the Americans and I switch to American, then we got the Japanese almost beat so I switched to the Japanese, and so on.” I found it pretty funny. I had gotten several compliments on my leadership ability, not just on that one occasion but others, including that I have a good voice for radio. Bloody good times… squad leaders can put down artillery markers for the commander to use. Of course, some squad leaders consistently had GREAT markers, but I did what I could to make sure that SLs whose markers I never used or rarely use, I would select theirs when it was in a halfway good position. I think they appreciated that. Told the light mortarmen to check their maps when I called recoil, to dial in their mortars accordingly… they performed damn well, and I gave SLs crap if I found that someone spawned as one ONLY to use their SMG and didn’t use smoke grenades or give arty markers. I even managed to get 'em to vote-kick such useless SLs.
Sorry for the ramble, good times… as far as tanks go though, pretty sure I used 'em a bit in Red Orchestra II and I recall I REALLY thought they did a great job with it, but I’m more into it with Enlisted. Occasionally getting stuck sucks, and it’s a shame you can’t get a team working together, but as-is, I think they did a really good job with the tanks. A shame I’m too ignorant to truly understand all the details they put into it. Hopefully it’s far more realistic than I am aware.
