"Come back here ya coward, it's only a flesh wound..." SFS Round 2 Sitrep Thread!!

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Blocking Action at Krupki Allied Turns 2 - 3 (Yes I have been slow but the football is on)

Comrade Geneal Diggerovish listens carefully to radio reports coming from his commanders in each sector over the last few minutes of action..

In the north T-34's probing forward wer fire upon by a 75mm HT battery and then by a radio ambitious halftrack crew..these fascist aggressors were destroyed in quick sucession and then their supporting infantry broke and ran into the open only to come under direct fire from M4's and then rounded up by armoured cars and herded to the rear under the watchful gaze of an SMG platoon..It's the Gulag for these Germans. More tanks arrived from the rear to obtain LOS on the lip of the hill in front..Colonel Raskolnikov had done well in this area, at present there were no casualties and the German pickets had been destroyed..Reports of heavy tanks to the rear of the German lines urged caution..The advance would be measured and methodical..

In the Centre the Rifle platoon had one of its squads wiped out whilst trying to maintain LOS on the 88mm and the edge of the town..Their sacrifice provided useful information as a Panther platoon was spotted..Surging up the road again the final remaining 88m was dispatched by an M4 after it fired wide, Engineers rushed forward along the road towards the mines...dropping smoke to conceal armour movements from behind..Despite the Corps Commanders order General Diggerovosh was unsure that rushing up the main road was such a good idea..better to test out the enemies strength before commiting his valuable armour assetts..

In the south, Artillery Fire provided smoke cover as an advancing Rifle platoon attempts to gain LOS on the factory complex..The Germans have scouted forward with a HT and flakHT which were destroyed by OP fire..an engineer platoon which wandered into plain site was wiped out by direct fire from the T-34's of Col Tolstoy..closer to the centre..Tolstoys older T-34's bumped a German infantry platoon driving them back with loss towards the factory complex, another picket discovered, these T-34's had been acting as a rearguard scouting the roads for probing German recon units..

General was satisfied with what has transpired so far...Concerned about revealing all of his armoured strength and well aware of the capabilities of the defenders..He was content to probe the enemy defenses at the moment feeling them out rather than just blundering into Krupki and unleashing an orgy of death on his tankers..The factory complex could be the key the the town, it was well covered and would provide excellent cover for his infantry..

The radio crackled with static, it was Dottski from Corps HQ..

"How is the advance going, Comrade General"

This could only mean one thing the advance,would have to be hurried..