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

[The Coil]

Coil, enjoying as always the colorful DAR.

Out of curiosity, concerning your plan to try to take advantage of the slow turret traverse speed of the TDs: did you consider driving your AC through the TD's line of sight? Can't tell from the map whether there was enough room to make it worthy of an attempt, but the thinking would be to get the TDs to traverse farther away from where your Panzers will show up by getting the TDs to "chase after" the AC, all the while hoping the speed of the AC protects it from getting hit.

Again, can't really tell from the map, but it looks like moving the AC forward and stopping won't get the TDs to traverse much, especially if they nuke it with a lucky first shot.

It just struck me as an interesting option, although, there may be a number of good reasons for not trying it here, e.g., ending up with the AC too close to Leto's advancing infantry.

Yeah, that's a pretty fair assessment. I thought about just running the AC through, but worried about getting too close to the infantry, which is going to be a problem in a few turns in any event unless I get the armor out of there (the lack of infantry in my OOB is going to start being a problem...). Also I was figuring it wouldn't be a bad thing if the TDs got a few shots off, and I could hit him with the panzers while they were reloading. Plus, on the off chance all the TDs missed, I wanted the AC to have a chance to shoot back.

All in all, it worked out OK, the AC did draw the fire of 3 TDs. If the remaining TD would've missed my panzer, I'd have been in great shape. As it is, their attention was diverted pretty well from the remaining 3 panzers, who got some licks in.

Of course, I know the sad ending, as Leto has posted the next turn already, so I hope this doesn't sound too much like Monday morning quarterbacking.

Bah, don't believe the Leto spin. This little scrum was a worst a draw. Not unhappy how it turned out, especially once you see the next turn (which maybe you have, if he's got that up already...).

Leto is a master of spin - take everything he says with a grain of salt. When I get a chance, I'm going to put together a post of email psy-ops techniques, using Leto's emails during this battle as an illustration. He's always trying to make you think something is better or worse than it is...might work on lesser players, but not on former Blitz ladder leaders like me.