In the 2v2 match I played, for the most part it was two isolated 1v1 games on different fronts; there was the occassional crossfire when my artillery caught sight of tanks moving towards my teammate, and the occasional one of his tanks wnadering down to try and shut up said artillery, but mostly it was my italian army against a british one.
My opponent was... well, a damned fool, in truth. Our first contact was when his engineer trucks moving out to try and establish a forward base and drove through a town sqaure I had placed some infantry in. Infantry in such positions, as well as in forests, will wait in ambush and do horrendous things to that which walks into the trap; needless to say, the poor defenceess engineers were wiped out before they knew what hit them.
His response to this was to spam fighters and fighter/bombers. Now, Italty doesn't have the best ground based air defence; historically they prefered fighters for air defence, but I decided that holy crap, that's alotta air superiority power, and trying to fight that from the air was stupid, so I bought some air defences. Then, I bought more. Turns out the light, stanionary anti-air units you can deploy can hide in forests, and there was a rather large forest just before a river on my border, so i set them up in there, with the town I had garrisoned just on the other side of the river. My opponent had no idea they were waiting there for him.
Then, I issued a radio silence order in the tacical sector, and tried to run some infantry out to the town. The fighters spotted them, and dived in for a straffing run; which sad to say for my opponent, put them in range of the air defences. The three units of infantry (at 5 points each) were wiped out, but I easilly lured about 150 points worth of aircraft into a killzone; only a few things managed to pull out of it. He tried to bring up artillery to take them out, only to find I'd beaten him to the punch and wiped them out with my own bombardments before they could set up.
Lastly, he sent forth a wave of the advanced jumbo tanks one only gets from the prototype base; they were ambushed by heavy infantry in that familiar town square, and then set upon by a squad of four medium tanks, with another two moving in from the flanks but arriving too alte to contribute; the enemy offensive was destroyed. Match time was running out when i was about to launch an all out armour offensive against him when sadly, one of his team suffered sudden and convenient connect problems, and he followed suit by surrendering and quitting.
