Scenes from the first mission of that name, from the movie-based 'Fury' campaign for Steel Fury, here played in the STA 3.4 mod.

Here we are, rolling up to the camp to join Lt. Parker's platoon.



This looks like the place! I don't have the 'muddy winter' landscape mod enabled but it still looks pretty dull!



Yes it is the right place - the message confirms that we've now met up with Parker's four Shermans.



I tag along at the end of the line, but Parker, out in front, rapidly pulls ahead leaving the bunch I'm tailing well behind. Something tells me this isn't a good idea.



I try not to get too close but the tanks in front seem unable to get up much speed, or maybe it's enthusiasm that's lacking.



Suddenly we hear shooting up ahead and the boys execute a fairly good anti-ambush drill. Two of them, anyway.



Further ahead, Lucy Sue is in trouble and has been hit and abandoned.



I hose the trees on either side but see or hear nothing, apart from the flash and accompanying 'whoosh!' of a rocket being fired. I get a bit further down the track, and come across one of the tanks who drove off the road - and is now burning amongst the trees.



At that point, I'm hit myself! A enemy bazooka team puts a hole in the side of my turret and for Wardaddy and friends, the war is over. Maybe this isn't the best job in the world, after all.



Lucy Sue took a similar hit with similar results.



Further down the trail, Parker's Sherman has slewed across the track and takes another hit.



You can see the culprits crawling about in the grass beyond her, in the next pic.



Matador, a 76mm-armed M4, is the tank I saw burning on the woods to the right.



I don't know if it's the AI improvements I believe come with STA 3.4, but I don't remember this mission being so deadly before! Of course, it might have been somewhat different if I'd not got as close as I did to the tanks up front. I'll know better, next time!

well played

Only by comparison with the next couple of missions I played! My Chi Ha Type 97, newly arrived in our defensive positions in 1940 Mongolia, missed some fast moving BTs attacking us, then immediately got hit twice and knocked out...



...while on the next outing in a solitary Panzer I on the Leningrad Front in approaching darkness...well, nobody told me that the infiltrators I was supposed to block had brought a 45mm A/T gun.



I did a little better in this Crusader supporting motorised infantry, and even managed to clobber an Italian tank, but I didn't even see whatever it was got me.



This is why I like Tigers!

Or one of these...