Tunisia - Ground Assault Arcade

Ground Assault (Tunisia)

Objective

Players use ground vehicles and helicopters to defend the zone on the map centre from incoming waves of enemy tanks. Helicopters are allowed only in the top tier bracket (BR 8.3+).

The main objective is to not let the enemy units capture the area on the centre of map and slow them down as much as possible. If the AI units manage to enter the capture zone, it will start to flash and the team will start to lose tickets, the more AI that enter it, the more tickets the team loses. The enemy units slow down upon entering the zone, and their shooting accuracy is also lowered. After successfully defending the zone and destroying enemy waves your team regain a small amount of lost tickets. The battle is lost once the team's tickets reaches 0. The counter in the bottom-left corner shows the remaining amount of waves to beat (including current one).

Destroying enemy planes is optional but highly recommended, some of them are equipped with weapons that can destroy player's vehicle in a single attack. Sometimes a pickup can appear outside the zone, it can repair the tank and replenish its ammunition. The number of active players affects the amount of AI units which is being spawned by the game.

Waves

Waves can be composed of four unit types: light tanks, medium tanks, slightly better medium tanks, and heavy tanks. Every wave, two planes are also spawned which attack ground units and player controlled helicopters. In top tier assault battles, SPAA units can also appear, they will engage only flying units. Usually the game spawns one SPAA unit per player in a helicopter, their range is so large that they can reach players very soon after they leave the helipad. SPAA units spawn during the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th wave and it happens 20 seconds after the tanks start to appear. Spawn position of ground units is random, they always spawn from seven different predetermined directions.

Some enemy ground units can attack player controlled helicopters by using their roof mounted machine guns, such as the Russian tanks on Kursk map. The accuracy of the AI remains very high even when driving at full speed.

Note: It is a viable tactic to destroy track of the front most vehicles to make them stop, but keep in mind that they can repair damaged parts, including the engine and extinguish parts that are set on fire.

A table showing when and what type of units spawn during the mission (Light (L), Medium (M), Intermediate (MH), Heavy (H) and (S) Air Cover (in top tier battles)):

Waves
Wave	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Type	L	M + S	H	M	MH	H	L + S	MH	H	MH + S	H

The amount of spawned units can vary depending of battle level (1-6) and amount of beaten waves, the more of them are destroyed the more of enemies are spawning and the game increases their number up to 4 times per battle (that happens every 3-4 destroyed waves).

Enemy types

Depending on level, the game spawns different units, the higher is the level of battle the harder they are to destroy.

	Researchable vehicles	Premium vehicles
	Vehicle Type
Level 1 - (1.0 - 2.3)	Light Medium Intermediate Heavy Air Support	M13/40 (I) M14/41 ▄M3A3 P40 B.R.20DR
Level 2 - (2.7 - 3.7)	Light Medium Intermediate Heavy Air Support	▄M24 ▄Pz.III N ▄Sherman V Sherman Ic Re.2001 serie 1
Level 3 - (4.0 - 5.0)	Light Medium Intermediate Heavy Air Support	▄M18 ▄Sherman V ▄Pz.IV G ▄Sherman Vc Z.1007 bis serie 5
Level 4 - (5.3 - 6.3)	Light Medium Intermediate Heavy Air Support	AUBL/74 ▄Sherman Vc M26A1 M47 (105/55) ▄Bf 109 G-14/AS
Level 5 - (6.7-8.0)	Light Medium Intermediate Heavy Air Support	C13 T90 M26A1 OF-40 OF-40 Mk.2A ▄F-84F