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

[Der Kuenstler]

Here is a pic Leto sent and some of his thoughts while preparing orders for turn eight...



"It appears I have finally encouraged the Brits to show up for tea…

As you can see, RD’s forces are aware of my AT gun (most likely due to units he had spotting on that location from his delaying area behind it) as he has opened up with an 88 at over 1300m. No shells have even landed close, but this now tells me that there will be no blundering into its LOF, either towards the plateau, or towards my base flag until he feels this threat has been neutralized. I’ve decided to return fire with my own mortar, with very little chance of success. (DK's note: apologies - I missed seeing that earlier)

I suspect RD’s plan is to now sit back on his part of the rear plateau and continue to bombard my base flag and then move his troops up to storm it with infantry. That is what I would do anyways.

On the large part of the plateau, for some reason, my platoon of marders was behaving erratically, almost like T-34’s do when fighting panzers in Russia. Something must be built in to them to cower at the “superior” british armour. I am moving them back to deal with the flank move from the RD’s middle side of the map, and am moving up my PZIII’s behind a very large hill that has LOS across the whole plateau. I want to stay out of LOS of his second force at the back of the map and effectively cut them off, making RD decide to move them forward or attack my base flag.

I have to take extra special care of those marders, as they do not have ammo loads that can sustain long periods of fire on the long range open desert battle, so I am going to ensure that they do not fire unless they have good opportunities, and thus will keep them out of sight for any long range duelling.

I’ve also managed to scare up an op fire from an infantry unit in RD’s delaying flag area, after killing off his sniper this turn… hopefully I can pot this unit too. (DK's note: this is Randy's Vickers MG in some trees)

The only thing I have to worry about next turn is RD’s Honey’s getting up on the hill to snipe my retreating Marder… I’m hoping dust will help to conceal this retreat.

Cheers!"