That is one superb AAR, Zardoz!
Must take ages to write up all that stuff and add the pictures and all! The newspaper frontpages were especially cool!
Also - have you been making custom maps for the campaign?
In SP World at War kann man die Siegbedingugnen auch so einstellen, dass man Punkte für Einheiten bekommt, die man an bestimmten Feldern von der Karte zieht. Die Funktion konnte ich hier bei SP MBT nicht finde. Das ist schade, weil es gut hier rein gepaßt hätte.
Just a FYI if you did not know this - but you can withdraw units off the map by retreating them onto the grey area in your rear. Works similar to the retreat hex in SPWAW - but you won't gain victory points by retreating - so yeah, it is kind of hard to built an escape mission into a generated campaign, it would be easier in a user made campaign/scenario where you could be more creative with unit cost and deployment zones...