Completed the T 55A!

As you may know I've been trying to finish the T 55A campaign for a while. I had LT-15, HT-15, and SPG-15 completed (some of them with orders) and I had enough orders left to unlock either MT-15 or TD-15. 

In chasing it I was playing my Tier IX/X MTs and TDs moderately often, in hopes of knocking off one (or both) of those missions. Both missions required doing a certain amount of HP in damage and I figured the high tier tanks have better DPM, better alpha, and - critically - the enemy team would have more HP on the field for me to collect.

Since I wasn't sure which of those two I'd get done first, I held the orders back. I also was playing my HTs and SPGs to see if I could recover an order or two from earlier campaigns...a longer road to the T 55A was to recover enough other orders to use orders on BOTH MT-15 and TD-15.

TD-15

For the T 55A the TD-15 mission is to cause 6,000 damage. Completing with honors means doing the 6K and destroying 5 enemy vehicles in a win.

In pursuing this one I tried the Grille 15, FV4005, FV183 (Death Star), various STRVs, Conway...and one or two others. I got pretty close a couple of times but just couldn't quite get that last shot or two that I needed.

MT-15

MT-15 for the T 55A SEEMS like it shouldn't be that hard. You only need to do 2500 HP...but it all has to be to tank destroyers. To do it with honors you also need to damage 7 tanks in the battle and win.

Chasing this one I often did 2500+ damage, but just couldn't seem to do 2500 just to tank destroyers. Again, I got close a few times, within a shot or two, but just couldn't quite get there.

Adding to the frustration, it often seemed like I'd load into battle and the enemy would only HAVE 2 or maybe 3 TDs. Hard to get 2500 damage on TDs when the enemy only has 2400HP in TDs in the battle.

Success!

The last couple of mornings I've been playing my Tier IX/X Russian MTs hoping to get that magical game where I'd have a chance to do it. Finally, this morning, I loaded into Prok in my K-91...and the enemy team had FIVE TDs. We know most of the TDs go 1-2 line, so that's where I went too.

One snag...

Each team had 5 TDs....but no LTs. I was briefly worried that with no spotter that *I* might have to be the spotter and that would make it hard for me to harvest the HP I needed to finish the mission. As luck would have it we had a T95 and a T28...and they both were happy to use their armor and crawl up the 1-2 line, spotting as they went.

Things were going well. The Skorpion G, Charioteer, T28, and STRV all were on the 1-2 line and I was able to get some shots into each of them. I killed the SkorpG with a blind shot after he went unspotted...but when all four of them had been dispatched (and our team was winning comfortably) the only remaining TD was the T30 and I needed another ~700 damage.

I set off directly toward where he'd been last spotted and fortunately he peeked. I got one shot into him, but he pulled back across the railroad tracks. I held W and headed off in pursuit. I was still full health and figured I could eat a shot or two if I had to, but wanted to get the last 2-3 shots into him to complete the mission.

I crested the tracks, but didn't see him at first! He was behind me. He didn't see me either initially, so I whirled around and put a shot into him. As I was reloading though...

...wham. Two of my team shot and killed him to finish the battle. I was 209HP SHORT! NOOOOO!

But as the end plates were loading I remembered...wait, I'd killed the SkorpG with a blind shot! Was it enough? 

Yep.

Welcome to the garage T 55A

GLHF!