Russkies in Oklahoma!

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TURN 2

Unless an FO or artillery unit spawned with an outlier very high experience rating, Epoletov should be dealing with 0.4 delay to pregistered points and 1.2 everywhere else, which gave me exactly 1 turn to show him some counterbattery love before needing to displace. (Unless, of course, one of my artillery pieces was sitting on a gold spot, in which case I would have been the one feeling the passion.)

The results were pretty good. One ammo carrier was destroyed, but I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't have another dozen back there. One Nona popped up as abandoned, which is a bit irritating, because you never know if the crew is dead or if the thing will resurrect. Still, I shouldn't complain.

I started my turn carefully moving some Chinooks. (Yes, Blackhawks would be more appropriate for a frontline unit, but I had to cut corners somewhere. Those 15,000 points end up pretty durn thin on the ground at 2008 prices.) This drew some SAM and 23mm radar gun fire. The radar guns must have been too far away to spot, and the SAM unit may have already been under my artillery smoke. Couldn't get a bearing on either.

I then pushed my Apaches just a bit further on recon, drawing another SAM round, but still spotting nothing Russian bearing down on me with evil intent. Given he has 27 or 28 field pieces blaring away, probably two thirds of them with CM loadouts, it seems even more likely that Epoletov has gone all Great War on me, with plans to arty-pound my half of the board into hamburger before peeking his head out. Again, I shouldn't complain. No Kornets sneaking/sprinting into my LOS is the exact right number of Kornets in my worldview.

The end of my turn brought another rain of Russian metal. One of my Vulcan AA units got caught in a CM burst. So far, Epoletov is outdamaging me by at least a 2:1 margin, as high as 4:1. But he's letting me play the white pieces without even drawing for the privilege. My knights have definitely beat his out of the back rank. I'm happy to sacrifice a pawn or two in process.

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