MAIN EVENT VI! Red Devil vs. [hirr]Leto

[Der Kuenstler]

In this first pic we can see what I expected in the East - Red Devil's Stuarts are picking up men. The arrows show they are turning around. Funny - one of Randy's Stewarts already had a 1/2 squad on it when it left to pick up more men. He must have tried to give them disembark orders while the Stewart was in motion. (They won't get off that way.) When the Stewart arrived back South and stopped to turn, the riders got off and started walking all the way back to where they were!



At the West side of the Oasis, Red Devil's lead truck takes a face full of small arms fire from the house in the distance marked with an arrow. (There is a German 1/2 squad in there.) The truck dies and the drivers abandon it. It looks like Randy is going to try to make a stand there - his infantry are getting off the trucks and headed for the cover around the flag. Judging by the large German dust cloud rushing towards him he'd better get the rest of those trucks out of there immediately.



Back at Leto's German setup zone to the Southwest, we see he has noticed the British attack force to the East has halted. He does a little rearranging by backing his AFV's up. (Is he afraid of RD's men tossing satchel charges over the cliffs?) The two British squads that Leto's MG 34 was firing on earlier have turned into generic icons in the brush. He elected not to have the MG 34 continue to area fire them, so they will recover.



Here is an overhead shot of Leto's Oasis defense to the North. He has his platoon HQ in the hotel and all of his men split into half squads and widely spread out. None of them are in commmand. With this arrangement they will be able to see well what is coming and from where, but not stop anything. Leto no doubt is counting on his approaching reinforcements for that.



In this last shot we can see that Leto's IIIJ on the hill has managed to unbog itself and is backing to join the others. In the distance we see Leto's central force is getting closer to the Oasis....



In RD's holding town Leto continues to bombard one of the empty buildings with two of his green IIIJs. His two other IIIJs there moved a little closer to RD's AT minefield to try to get a glimpse of the trucks up the road, but there was still too much dust for LOS.