Infantry against armour

[PoorOldSpike]

OFFICER DOWN!
(A combat sequence from earlier in that game against Marshall titled 'Stug gets satchelled' featured elsewhere in this thread)

PIC 1 - I order my PzIIIL (late) to go 'Fast' down to the end of the dotted line to have a go at that T-34/76 sitting up on the ridge. (I'm pretty confident my boy can duke it out because he's a (late) model with hot green-class front armour that T-34/76's have trouble penetrating. I know the III's gun is only a 50mm-long but at close range it'll have a fair chance of penetrating the T-34's front hull)
Also, more III's and a Stug are close behind on the way as backup.
I decide to leave the TC unbuttoned so he'll see the T-34 quicker and start shooting the instant he arrives in position (note the small hook I put at the end of the plot so the panzer will be pointing smack at the T-34 when it gets there)







PIC 2 - Officer down! (a Crack platoon commander to boot!)...no sooner does the panzer start rolling than a burst of small-arms fire whips out of the trees (you can just make out a tracer), hitting the TC, causing the tank to go 'shocked'..








PIC 3 - However to their credit the crew continue rolling forward to the firing position even though still 'shocked' and therefore seriously poor at spotting, resulting in the T-34 having a field day by opening up on them several times before they even see it. (note the clock, they've been shocked and therefore near-blind for almost half the turn)







PIC 4 - They manage to get off just one shot without harming the T-34, and it takes them down..



PS -The moral? - Leaving TC's unbuttoned means they'll see and shoot at the enemy quicker, but risk losing their heads. Therefore the safest way to go is to start games unbuttoned, but keep buttoning them more and more the closer you get to the enemy. I took a risk by leaving my dood unbuttoned and lost him as a result but hey that's war, I went on to get a minor win anyway so he died for a noble cause..