If you think that, then you weren't there. I saw what initially came over the hill. Once I died, I went up in a plane and the view was something to behold. There were at least 15 in the town alone with another 10 or 12 guarding the base side of the town to prevent our GVs from getting there. Then there were at least another 15 to 20 M3's, Osties and Whirbles inbound to the town.
If there were only 15 trust me, I could have slowed them down enough for Stodd to get there. But I died after 9 kills and there were plenty more shooting at me. Unfortunately I can only shoot one shell in one direction at a time. And I was getting hit by multiple shells from multiple directions. 
This wasn't meant to be a hording discussion. I don't consider it hording when that is the only logical way they could get the base. To try it by air would give far to much early warning for it to be successful. This was meant as a compliment to the organizational skills needed to take that base.
Again...Well Done 
I was there. I was in an ostie in town. When the mission launched there was about 3 osties, 4 or 5 wirbles, 3 panzers, 2 M3's with troops, an M3 with supplies, and a T34 or two. There might have been a Sherman but I never saw one. The first set of troops failed to take the base and the backup set was AWOL. Several people then ditched to get more troops. If it wasn't for the mad rush of M3's the 3 IL2s flying around would have saved the base by picking of any single M3 that may have upped.
