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

[The Coil]

Turn 21

I think I know what The Coil is up to. He's on a mission to get banned, so he has an excuse not to finish his DAR and chronicle the rest of his humiliating defeat. He's a clever fiend, that Coil. His intellect is matched in magnitude only by my ELO. Which if you'll note if you do a quick search is rather high.

You wish, Leto, you traitor to the cause of the C:censored:e Resistance. I shall only redouble my efforts to crush you as the only just punishment for your cowardice. Be afraid, my friend, be very afraid. It will take more than smoke fired everywhere to stall my assault!

The smoke Leto has fired everywhere has stalled my assault. Dang Priests hanging around behind a cloud of smoke where my armor can't get at them. Oh well, nothing for it but to push ahead.

My armor area targets the line of woods around the left flag:



I'm assuming Leto has his infantry a bit further back, but a mortar went into the woods back by the flag, and if he's got an HQ spotting up front, I'd love to send him packing. The HE flying into the woods from Grilles, Stugs, and Panzers should be enough to pin anything up front and let my infantry move up. I've got plenty of small caliber HE, and about 20 rounds of HE between 2 Grilles (with the 3rd Grille basically out after this turn). I'm going to use it pretty liberally here, the idea being take this flag in a hurry and leave me time to move on the second flag.

I advance two squads on the flag. The boys on the right take some fire...



...but make it behind some cover provided by one of Leto's ubiquitous smoke rounds, and continue on their way.



Meanwhile, over on the right, my boys have just been hanging out in the woods, trying not to get leveled by HE rounds while waiting for the left flank of my forces to take the flag and swing to the center. Leto isn't cooperating, and moves his infantry into the woods.



I get caught napping a bit, as I've been focused on my little assault on the left, and haven't paid nearly enough attention over there (that's the difference between a really good player and an average player - a really good player doesn't get focused on one part of the battle and forget about a whole flank). I have a mortar and an MG a bit further back in the woods that are a bit out of position, but should be set up and ready to return fire next turn. In the meantime, my infantry is going to get a bit pasted, which is too bad, because I don't have a lot of spare infantry to go around. Luckily, the left flank of Leto's attack has strayed into LOS of my Grille hanging back on the right, so if he can land a shot or two on Leto's line next turn, that should do some damage.