Leto's View - To assault a Soviet. QB DAR vs Colonel Talvela ***

[Colonel Talvela]

Read Leto's very comical DAR. Love it. Anyway, I will make a few comments.

First, Leto pulled a lesson out of D. McArther's avoid-the-japs playbook to his great advantage. The map was so big and my men high quality but few in number (for the most part), so Leto basically just moved around them and bypassed them. And since about 1/2 my force was SMG units, I had limited ability to engage him.

And that was just another consequence of my kit selection that didnt work too good. My theory behind my selection was this:
1) I wanted to base my defense on Vet Guards Units that could engage his troops at range and stand up to counter-fire. That actually worked good.
2)I wanted a place to be able to find a place - deep in my defense - to stand my ground and then counter-attack. My goal when defending is not just to stop him, but to route them off them map. So i got the 2 platoon company of Vet SMG unit and two 107mm spotters with 4 TRPs.
3)I wanted one T34-85 for a mobile defense
4)I wanted one Su-100 to take out - or at the very least pose a threat to - heavy German tanks
5)Fill in the rest with Green SMGs/a couple mortars/some guns/barbed wire.

And I think my defense would have worked on a smaller map, but this map was just too big. When I saw it I knew that I just didnt have enough troops to cover the map. I spent a long time trying to think of some way to defend it better, but had to settle for the defense I mustered. And before we started I knew that if he went down either map edge, I would have no way to stop him. And that is what he did.



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Leto]

After a brief hiatus (where I am sure that Dave was trawling the streets for any help he could get to bolster his failing defense) the Soviet Colonel T returns to the battle.

In the East my flanking Imperial sturmtroopers force the lethal SU-100 to retreat.??I've been teasing Dave about the 200 panzershrek's I bought, and even though his bravado propoganda huffs at my threats, the retreating SU validates that my own propoganda has the greater of the schwartzes!



This opens up the doors for ye old hetzers to lead the way for my 150 assualt guns.??I plan on pounding the forest and then smoking my way forward.

I didnt pull the SU-100 back because I was scared of panzershreks. I pulled it back because I wanted those 150s to come forward into the sights of my other gun

In the West Dave continues to drive erratically with his T-34/85:

Erratic??? I think my T-34 play was some of my best. A huge advantage that a T-34 has is their great mobility. I managed to avoid getting into the LOS of your hetzers until all but 3 HE shells were gone. And I almost escaped from that noose - in fact, really you were had a minor blessing from the CM gods to not lose that hetzer.

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