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

[The Coil]

Turn 17

Apparently Leto's taco stand in the village has caught fire, because there's smoke everywhere. The biggest threat to my men now isn't Leto's bullets, it's the prospect of getting lung cancer. If only my force selection would've included Smokey the Bear, the Smokester would be wrecking house on Leto's men (but let's face it, with the rarity cost, he's never worth it...).

On the right, I finally get spots on the guys who've been throwing out all the smoke - another couple Priests.



That's four I've seen now, and their Americans, which means Leto probably brought a whole platoon, which means there are two I haven't spotted yet.

I take advantage of the Ring of Burning Taco Smoke that Leto has thrown up to speed all my Stugs and Grilles to assault positions on the left. Cleverly, my leftmost Grille finds a hole in the wall of smoke with a Priest at the other end.



Not good - my Grille is moving fast, his orders will end him still in LOS of the Priest and he's facing a bit away. With the slow ROF of the Grille, I don't like the odds of a one-on-one duel. I move his 'fast' waypoint behind him and change it to 'reverse' (I cleverly almost forgot to change it to reverse - would've been so frustrating to watch him slowly turn 180 degrees and get blown away. I've done it before...), so he'll back out of LOS with no command delay.

On the left, Leto's infantry that was harrassing my Panzer force starts to move to the center, and gets treated to some MG fire from my retreating Panzer.



My sniper and HQ keep moving to interdict them.

My infantry in the center takes advantage of Leto's Wall of Secondhand Smog to move up a bit closer to the flag.



My Panzers finally make it to the road and start down it. About time - it's taken waaaay too long to get them back in the fight. Time is precious now...