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

[The Coil]

Turn 18

My Grille that ended last turn facing down the Priest kicks it in to reverse...ah, safely away. Until, that is, I realize that he ends his move still in LOS of the Priest:



Through two patches of woods, and skirting the smoke. What the heck... The Priest fires, and leaves his shot well short. My Grille fires back...



Just short with a HE round...a bit closer and I might've done some damage. My Grille counts down it's command delay and backs out a bit further before anyone gets another shot off.

Over on the left, my 81mm mortar has targeted some likely cover just ahead of Leto's infantry moving to the center.



Success - Leto's lead infantry unit is sent head down as he hits the trees I'm zeroed in on. Another unit goes head down and scampers away after getting some sniper fire and an MG burst from my Panzer.

My two lead Panzers and the Grille from the left finally make it into the fray:



About time they got here - next turn, it's time to launch the assault. Leto has been moving infantry up in the village, but I've got pretty good spots on their locations, so it should be no problem to light 'em up with HE.

Over on the right side of the village, Leto finds an improbable sight line with his Sherman.



The Sherm and my Stug exchange a few shots to no effect. Not sure I like the idea of a one on one fight, my Stug being green, and I'd bet that Sherman is a vet or better, if I know Leto...

Another vehicle, this time a Stug moving left, gets bogged...



...but once again frees himself in about 10 seconds, and carries on. If only Leto could see this, I'm sure he'd be howling at my luck and the injustice of it all, especially after I notice this:



Looks like Mr. Leto has lost himself a TD to the bog monster. It pays to check those "lost contact" markers from time to time, they can tell you stuff... A quick check back (is it gamey to look back at past turns?) reveals that sucker bogged on turn 16 and then got stuck for good. Only one TD to go, that's certainly good news. The fact that I've now seen 5 Priests makes me wonder if the sixth isn't stuck somewhere in the mud over on Leto's side...

Looks like it's time to send Leto an email which casually mentions his "2 remaining TDs". Let him think I still think he's got 2 running, and sort of rub it in on the sly that one is out of commission...