THE MAIN EVENT! Walkure vs. Herroberst

[Der Kuenstler]

"Cat and mouse"
Three minutes of building blasting and small arms exchange later we are at minute 25. Both generals have become conservative with their heavy AFVs, realizing they each have only two left. Neither wants to risk his now precious armor in a possible game deciding confrontation. Here Walkure tries to go for a low risk knockout. He runs two of his schreks into position in the main flag rubble to nail the buttoned up T34 up the street once the smoke clears. (unlike heavy MGs and mortars, you can run schreks quite a ways without tiring them)



But the wiley Herroberst is not going to cooperate with that plan. He moves his T34/85 at the only speed they should be moved in town: fast. The T34 zips across the road before the frustrated schrek team gets a chance to aim and fire.



To the South, Walkure tries to get an AT team around behind the other T34, but Herroberst's M5 Halftrack spots them in the open and sprays them with MG fire. The helpless team ends up plastered against a fence.



Here at the close of minute 25 we can see the front lines of each force. Herroberst's front line is pinned and faltering despite being stocked with SMG troops. Why are they having so much trouble? The reason is Walkure has position three MG42s in the light buildings to the North - they have almost unlimited ammo and long range - they are firing within the orange triangle, and preventing the SMG troops from advancing any further. In fact, they are causing so much trouble that Herroberst has no choice but to order his two T34s to fire at them in an attempt to silence them. Towards the back of the map we can see Herroberst's supersquad approaching.



Meanwhile to the Northeast...Herroberst loads his second 57mm ATG back onto transport - so far it's been useless out there - he's got to get it into the fight. Hopefully for the Russkies it will perform better than the first one did!