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

[The Coil]

Turn 9

The fact that the pesky Coil is rejoicing over a plinked TD or two is evidence of how desperate he is to find any bit of hope in this battle. He has wandered his little tank force right into range of my impending pincer movement, where the combination of TDs on his left, infantry up the gut, and my sneaky Sherman/Priest armor mob on his right about to finish up his little panzer force for good.

Yeah, that's going to be a problem in a turn or two, but methinks I have a plan to deal with that...

I move the two panzers down the road up a bit, hopefully to get back in LOS of the TD pack - it's 3 to 3 now, with at least one of his guys shocked, and another behind a smoke cloud. I quickly score 2 hits on the lead (shocked?) TD, and knock it out...



Leto's remaining 2 TDs back out the way they came. Leto in his email (and, if MD's comments above are any indication, in his DAR as well) tries to frame this as a victory for him - he knocked out 2 panzers and an AC vs. my hitting 2 TDs. Don't you believe it for a second. He got a lucky gamey flank sneaking edge hugging cowardly back shooting little snipe shot off at my first panzer, killing it. But in the actual battle that followed, he lost 2 TDs to my panzer and an AC - clear advantage me. I mean after all, it was his guys who turned tail and ran at the end, not mine...

Don't listen to a word The Coil says. I'm absolutely crushing him. It was my plan all along to lose those TDs, to sucker him into my trap. I'm winning, I tells you. How could anyone with my absolutely gigantic ELO lose to a pathetic wretch like The Coil? Trust me, everything is going exactly according to my master plan.

Anyway, Leto creeps a Sherman and 2 Priests up on the left side of the village, angling in on my Panzers from their right flank.



This is going to get a bit sticky in a turn or two, as Leto's infantry makes it closer to my tanks, and he starts bringing armor in on both flanks. I've got the sniper, an HQ unit, and a mortar on the far left to try to pick up the infantry, and Grille deep behind the panzers lobbing HE in on any infantry he can get LOS to, but it's about to be decision time...

I'm debating between shifting a Stug or two to threaten the flanks of Leto's flanking armor and backing the Panzers out of dodge while I move up on Leto's right with the Stugs and Grilles to try to do some damage to the infantry in the town, which seems relatively unprotected by armor right now, since the only thing I've spotted over there is the Priest which Leto has since pulled for the flanking manuever. It's reasonable to assume he's got some armor out of sight behind the village, but he can't have too much back there...