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

[The Coil]

A brief aside: You'll note over here in my thread, we don't resort to cheap sensationalism and oblique attacks on the character of esteemed members of the Blitz in order to attract a higher view count, as I've heard some other DARs do. Nope, here you just find straight talk about sound and proven CM tactics. And full frontal attacks on non-esteemed members of the Blitz such as [hirr]Leto. If you appreciate this hard hitting approach, for gosh sakes, click on my DAR 7 or 8 times every time you visit.

Anyway, on to turns 10-12

Not a whole lot to see - some brief skirmishes as Leto's infantry moves up on the right, and gets harassed by MG fire from my tanks and the HQ and sniper hiding in the brush.

I move my Stugs and Grilles left and forward, and drop another building in the village that seems a likely hiding spot. That little dude in the first building I dropped keeps running around - from a crater in the road, to a building across the street, and then back into the rubble of the first building. I'm kind of curious about what he is - I'm of two minds about him. On the one hand, he could be an arty spotter or something, that I'd really like to kill. On the other hand, he could be a half squad. Leto is running him around pretty carelessly in full view of my Grilles, so I'm sort of thinking he's a half squad that Leto is using as a HE sponge. Actually, if I had to guess at this point, I'd say all the infantry I've seen thus far is designed to draw fire and soak up HE - I wouldn't be surprised if Leto had his real main force at the back of the village somewhere, waiting to move up after he's bled off a bunch of my ammo.

I start backing my Panzers off on the left side - not liking how close Leto's infantry is getting, and I don't want them to get caught between the TDs and his Sherman/Priest pack. The plan is to regroup them at the back, and then move them up the road on the left flank of my Stugs and Grilles.

Here's where things stand at the end of 12:



Going to have my work cut out for me dislodging Leto's infantry from the village, but assuming I can keep the Panzers alive, I should have enough HE to do it. The second half of this battle is where my lack of infantry is going to start to be a problem...