TOTAL RE-COIL: The Battle for Taco Village (Coil no Entry... you Bastad)

[Copper]

"He who controls the Tacos controls the universe."
- Baron Vladimir Le Coil


And just how Evhul is Mon-sewer Le Coil?

Very Evhul... I should have known that his playing against Col T may have rubbed off on him. On the far east, 3 Panzers round the bend and begin to fire upon my engineers advancing up the road (I had sighted out the LOS, and I did not think that an armored advance up that road would be able to fire upon them). No worries, they were in formation that allowed them to duck into cover along the side of the road, and only one man in the entire platoon is wounded, and there are no panics or routes. The good thing is that moving anywhere else, I may not have seen that Panzer advance. And this my friends, is a good thing.



Also note, that the panzer IV?'s are still unknown vehicles. I suspect because there is a trio of them, that we have my STuG's as predicted... and that there will be a TIGGER crawling near the village quite soon. Le Coil has seen the tactical advantage of using the depression just to the east of the Taco Factory Flag, and I would infer from his 1st turn movements, that these "STuG's" are moving towards it to get hull down status on the Taco Factory Flag and to guard his flanks.

Unfortunately for Monsewer Le Coil, my quartet of TD's is moving down the eastern side of the map, still capable of flanking those STuG's if they go into the depression. Here is a good gaming tip for the process of stalking on a flank with AFV's. If you know that you can't be seen or heard yet, SLOW DOWN. Switch from fast to move, hunt or even contact. This will reduce your noise dispersion and hopefully keep you hidden until you want to pounce.

I will slowly move forward and let my engineers recon for any other obstacles that may stand in the way of knifing those StuGaroos in the back... (I will need all the help I can get, as the computer screwed me with selection and I have 2 green and 2 regular M-10's, purchasing them as a regular platoon.... sigh...)

In the middle and right in front of the Taco Stand, my M3 bolts forward, gun in tow and FT unit riding shotgun, straight to a very nice position that gains flank status on the eastern Taco Factory flag, with LOS down the middle road as well. The AT gun's back will be protected by the house and my FT unit may have to hold back some charging german infantry... but as his main tank thrust is coming down the east road, there shouldn't be much of an advance force of German infantry tank riders to contest the early stage Taco Stand flag:



The smoke works well, but remember its raining out... 105 smoke begins to dissipate on turn 4 so we need to be cognizant of how long the smoke remains in the rain...

So far so good.

Cheers!

Leto