The Coil steals Leto's playbook, puts a hirrting on him...(No peeking Leto's, please)

[The Coil]

Turn 7

The Coil's Panzers flee before my onslaught. He was a fool to challenge me! Did he really think his CM skillz were a match for mine?

Yeah, yeah... For the record, The Coil thinks anything better than a tactical defeat is a win in his book.

Turn 7 passes fairly uneventfully - I spend it preparing a little counterattack on Leto's tank pack. To that end, I bring my two Panzers in reserve forward to join my Panzer and AC on the road by the church, in a little dip out of LOS of the pack (they have a brief scary moment of driving through LOS of the pack, but move too quick for anyone to get a shot off). My fourth Panzer, having narrowly escaped with his life, rotates back to face Leto's tank pack. Leto is moving infantry up through the woods on the left of the road, I have to move quick to hit his TDs before the infantry gets into the fight.

Here's how things look in the melee on the left:



The next turn will either 1) serve as an illustration of the limitations of a tank pack or 2) get my whole panzer force killed.

My plan is to engage Leto with all the panzers at once, from a few different angles. Hopefully the slow moving M10 turrets won't be able to traverse between targets quick enough, and I can bag his TDs while he's switching targets. Here's how I'll work it: The AC on the road gets orders to fast move forward just into LOS of the pack, command delay 11 seconds, so he'll move first. The Panzer next to him starts moving forward at 13 seconds, also just into LOS. The two rear panzers get reverse orders and 13 second command delays to bring them into LOS slightly further back down the road. The last Panzer is ordered to move forward, back into the death trap he just escaped, timed to bring him into LOS right about the same time as the other panzers. Everyone gets cover arcs centered on the TD pack. Here's how I'm hoping it plays out: The AC drives into LOS first, gets targeted by the whole pack, and a few TDs get shots off. As they're reloading, all my panzers pull into view. Leto's TDs will be reloading or have to resight on my 4 panzers, who are shooting from 3 different directions. Meanwhile, I have a mortar across the map who happens to have LOS to the pack dropping rounds, hoping for shocks/lucky top hits/hits on that unit riding one of Leto's TDs.

If all goes well, Leto loses his pack. All goes poorly, I lose my Panzers and probably the game...