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RESULT JUST IN

MIKEY 69, POS 31 (Tac win for Mikey)





Mikey's panzer columns roll inexorably towards the Russian hilltop perimeter (circled) but were beaten by the clock..


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HALFTIME SCORES
(The second half will be the mirror rematches- also known as 'payback time'- after which the scores of the two games will be combined, so these halftime rankings shouldn't be taken too seriously)

Mikey (Ger)= plus 38
RT Pioneer (Ger)= minus 8
Risnervich (Russ)= minus 20
DasTiger (Russ)= minus 42

GAMES FINISHED SO FAR 4/66
(Tourney ends midnight Sept 30th)

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Resting..





And recuperating..

I played it cautiously, maybe overly so...

I wasn't able to take advantage of the extremely successful Stuka attack a couple turns ago... Most of POS's tanks had a dead commander, so they would have been easy meat for my Panzers... But to get to them, I would have had to fast move through the hilltop defenses, and probably suffer a few dead tanks to the AT guns there... I concluded it wasn't worth the cost, and opted to have my tanks hunt from the woods to the hilltop...

All told, I only lost a single tank...

I'll be interested to see how my Tac Vic holds up...

RESULT JUST IN

POS 34, ANDRE 66 (Tac win for Andre)





7 of my panzers advanced to the hill in the background and were butchered there (see earlier post #157), then on the last turn Andre sent this lone T-34 to seize the woods flag but I had a spare panzer in reserve to knock it out.
Although I ended up with 4 flags to Andre's 2, the price was far too heavy- a total of 11 wrecked panzers..

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HALFTIME SCORES
(The second half will be the mirror rematches- also known as 'payback time'- after which the scores of the two games will be combined, so these halftime rankings shouldn't be taken too seriously)


Mikey (Ger)= plus 38
Andre (Russ)= plus 32
RT Pioneer (Ger)= minus 8
Risnervich (Russ)= minus 20
DasTiger (Russ)= minus 42

GAMES FINISHED SO FAR 5/66
(Tourney ends midnight Sept 30th)

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Resting..





And recuperating..

COMBAT FOOTAGE- The Hill




CMant's Russian squad in the hut takes on my whole panzer group and blows the tracks off one, I never even knew he was there til he was spotted slinging his fatal egg out the window.
As fighter pilots say about dogfighting- 'It's the one you don't see that gets you'..
Needless to say I should have had infantry up with the tanks to flush out any brown bunnies, but they're still coming up..

COMBAT FOOTAGE- The Hill




As my panzers form into line abreast formation for the final drive through the trees down to the Volga, Mad Baron's Sturmovik entertains them with a fusillade of 4 rockets..



The missiles impact among the panzers but the German machines get off relatively lightly with nothing but one damaged gun..

COMBAT FOOTAGE- The City




My halftrack comes storming into town on only turn 3, its MG wickedly lashing Mikey's newly-arrived Russians..




But the Russian flame guy refuses to be cowed despite the tracer whipping past his ears and calmly cooks the halftrack..

Quote:Mikey's halftrack comes storming into town on only turn 3, its MG wickedly lashing the newly-arrived Russians..

It was your Half-Track, POS.

At the end of this turn, your Stuka arrived, and a single bomb landed right on target, making mince meat of...

3 full squads,
1 plt HQ,
1 57mm ATG,
1 37mm AA,
1 Flame Team,
1 Maxim MG...

34 casualties all told...

Ah now I remember..

COMBAT FOOTAGE- The Woods




Kevman's panzers overun the Russian position..

COMBAT FOOTAGE- The City




"Sorry we haven't got a red carpet bub, will this do instead?" asks the Russian head of the reception committee as he gives DasTiger's panzer a warm welcome..