We had a good spread of new people (new for this game or this scenario playthrough anyway) joining in: Barthheart and W8aminute, and one of Cyrano's friends whose nickname I can't clearly recall (not 'dopplenator', but that would have sounded awesome). W8 ran my company until he had to quit for the night.
Fortunately, my computer problems turned out to be one hundred percent the fault of Avast's Cleanup Premium, which Falcon tech support helped me deduce and then clean out (when Cleanup just happened not to want to be uninstalled completely
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So I was able to join up only ten or fifteen minutes late, and hung around spectating and commenting (and sometimes asking game-process questions). Then when W8 had to go, I picked back up on my company again, and led them to glorious victory! -- thanks in no small part to the last few remnants of Panzerde's carabiner company, who under the command of Cyrano's son performed an amazing screening maneuver to secure my second platoon's flanks! You'll be proud of them, Doug, whenever you watch the fight!
(My tactic was inspired by Tuna's company under his leadership, not-incidentally!
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