Russkies in Oklahoma!

[seabolt]

That's five waves of paras now eh?
That's commitment for ya :-)
Russian style hahahaha

A-art, Cart, Dart, E-art ... five, yeah. I think there's a reason that Epoletov didn't just drop the whole enchilada ~turn 18. His plan was to roll his neverending CM fire from LZ to LZ scouring the earth just prior to each drop.

My aggression required diverting some of those guns to my troops, and my CB fire dropped a few more guns out of his pool, so in practice his prep barrages weren't nearly as lethal as they could have been in theory.

At least, that's my hypothesis based on his decisions to date. I haven't actually asked him, given our nearly comical inability to communicate.

A brilliant read there chap, keep it up eh!

Thanks.

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[seabolt]

TURN 20

Oh, boy.

Epoletov's turn was hairy enough. Yet another AA gun popped up, all of 150 meters from the Apache that killed its mate. I was lucky; the copter bugged out before getting hit, and the overwatching Abrams minimized the number of shots that Epoletov got off. Then at turn's end three more transports arrived: One dropped in the southern LZ, the second left a trio of BMD-1Ps ~39,151, and the third drop was somewhere on the east bank of the river.

My Apache in Epoletov's backfield unloaded an entire round's worth of fire on the 203mm at 118,47 without killing it. (Personally, I wouldn't place artillery in stone buildings, but it's not something that we discussed pregame. So, eh, it is what it is.) So after some self-debate I turned the other bird around to help with the new paradrops on the island. It was just able to launch a couple of long-range bursts at the APCs, killing one of the BMD-1Ps.

Meanwhile, the Abrams finished off that sneaky AA gun, while its escort Humvee uncovered another ATGM at 104,59 (*without* getting killed in the process). After a little suppression fire, the Humvee rode up and disgorged its scout crew to finish the team. Then a Fox stumbled across an ATGM team at 82,68, *also* without getting killed. (Can't place them *too* close, Epoletov. Accuracy declines at short range.) So I had a lot of luck killing 158-pt teams this turn. My esteemed adversary will be none too pleased while watching that replay.

Other than that, mostly reshuffling yet again. Each time a major drop happens, my troop allocation has to adjust. It looks like the Russians plan for the major endgame fighting to happen in the south. At least until next turn's transports fly over ...

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[Epoletov [SPR].]

The boy in the north in city the help is necessary to yours.
If any more late ...

I do not recommend to come into a southern wood if the life is necessary to you.

Strange, so much time has been fired AH-64, and they till now have not departed away. :chin:
Only they also work.
Your tanks cowardly run not clearly where. :soap:
Is or already now with us there are no several courageous rangers.
While you have nothing to brag more !
It is too much attention of cost of army.
It not the market. :cheeky:

[seabolt]

LOL. We have *got* to find you a better Babelfish.

Apaches do not run away because Russians fire duds! ;)

I am not going in those southern woods. I am sending you U.S. gifts.

My accounting bothers you? I'm an American who keeps his books balanced. Apparently, there's very few of us ...

Good luck, godfather.

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[Walrus]

hahahaha
you guys!

[wigam]

I can see those US gifts being delivered by the storks now ........ ;)

[seabolt]

TURN 21

Epoletov's best turns seem to come after his rare forays into this thread to talk a little machine-smack. Maybe it's because he's already played the turn. Maybe it's some sort of web-trolling esprit de corps, though it seems that if the latter were true then my own play should be nigh omnipotent ...

Anyway, he kept grinding away at the huddled survivors of my ATGM alley attack ages ago, with good results. A scout that I'd been fruitlessly hunting for several turns teamed up with the HMG trotting down the southern highway to kill a TOW team at 79,158; that was a particularly well played fight. And my lurking Rangers failed to ambush one of the BMD-1Ps that he dropped last turn; instead, it got to give my boys the 73mm beatdown.

Then again, when he tried to move the other BMD up to join the fun, my Apache torched it, so it wasn't all kicks and giggles.

Surprisingly, no air drop sauntered over this turn, so I could concentrate on the already existing problems. My Apache closed on the last surviving BMD ... and took a burst from a lurking parascout. (That Mt Acme drop scattered size-0 units like fleas off a dog's rug. Epoletov must be taking tactical lessons from the creature in "Cloverfield.") Fortunately, the armor held up. Once I got the BMD in LOS, the first burst hit, registered penetration 36 vs armor 2 ... and no effect. Never seen numbers quite that dramatic before. The second burst rendered that little oddity irrelevant. The surviving Rangers even rallied up and knocked off the parascouts. Then the Apache ended its turn by zipping over to 40,196 and killing a Vodnik that had squirted out of the southern LZ. (That was its 18th kill, incidentally. Helicopters and their 0% or 500% return are the junk derivatives of SPMBT ...)

Meanwhile, some roughed-up Rangers seeking cover near VH 51,184 discovered that the 70-point bad boys in the southern LZ have approached to within 150 meters. I have no desire to poke my nose in those woods, so the call was smoke and buckets of z-fire.

I had a sniper rout the highway HMG that helped killed my TOW unit. Then the one-man Fox crew that scrammed from it two turns ago walked up and started popping away with his 9mm sidearm like Bruce Willis. Scratch one HMG. There will be a *whole* lot of boasting in the motor pool come sundown.

My worthy opponent gets riled up because I don't leave my tanks sitting to get all lined up on, which is true, but I did leave one within easy reach of LOS on that "last" AA gun in the central map. Once it was finished, my second Apache poked its nose out to sniff about, and promptly drew yet more AA fire. So, staying low, I used it to finish the 203mm gun that it had been pounding the last two turns, then it killed another in just two bursts. That was more like it.

Of course, all the juking with my armor has its downsides. I moved another Abrams 250 meters from 103,69 and dismounted its escort Humvee to pop some smoke. Only I completely forgot about the other HMG lurking nearby. Oof. It riddled my scouts pretty good before the MBT and some nearby units drove it back into cover.

Finally, at turn's end, Epoletov threw in his first counterbattery salvo in ~15 turns, and it paid off. I lost a Paladin, which probably hurts me more than the two 230mm tubes hurt him. I guess I'll have to consider displacing more often during these last few turns.

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[seabolt]

TURN 22

Ah, crap. I expected the size 0 lurkers to start showing up, and they did, with an RPG-29 unit popping up 200 meters behind the Abrams that triggered the HMG ambush last turn. Scratch one very expensive MBT. That smarted. And the hordes in the southern LZ began pushing toward VH 51, 184, destroying a half squad of Rangers in the process.

But most tragically, Bruce Willis will do no boasting. Epoletov popped a 30mm cap in his ass. No sense of aesthetics, the Russians. ;)

Other than that, more of the same. The Apache in the backfield killed two more 203mm guns, which is something like kicking individual pieces of sand to clear a beach. Nicked a few of the few Russians who are showing up on my radar.

Mostly, we wait. With four turns to go, there's almost sure to be some last big bang any second here ...

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[Epoletov [SPR].]

To your letter has not been attached turn.


It is necessary upgrade your tanks for fight in city. :cool:

[Walrus]

This is priceless
I cannot wait for the tale of the last 4 turns.
Good luck to both of you..:bow: