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

[The Coil]

Turn 23

The turn starts off with a bang - my Panzer gets a shot off at Leto's Priest, with this happy result:

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A second shot hits, and the crew bails out. 2 of Leto's smoke spewing taco wagons out of play, 4 to go. On a sad note, my little infantry half squads are taking a beating from small arms fire from pretty much everywhere in the village, along with an occassional HE round. Moved 'em up a bit too quick, and Leto is having his way with them. The lack of infantry is going to be a bit of a problem, I think. Hopefully I'll have a few teams left to babysit the flags and clean out any of Leto's infantry skulking around nearby.

On the right, Leto's infantry push in the woods moves forward. The satchel chucking begins in earnest, with Leto landing a shot that sends my green half squad packing. My boys retaliate with an area fire satchel toss that hopefully landed right in the path of Leto's advance:



My squad follows that one with a second satchel. Hopefully I'm hitting something - the fact that only one or two of Leto's squads showed up to shoot it out makes me hopeful I stalled his advance. 2 HMGs and the mortar continue to fire at targets as they are able, further slowing up Leto's boys.

At the end of the turn, here's where we stand:



My armor push ( 2 Stugs, 2 panzers, and a Grille) continues on the left flag (yellow oval) - don't be fooled by the flag showing German, Leto's got some unspotted infantry in there, and I'm sure the Flag Decider would give it to him if the game ended right now. The rest of my armor (1 Stug, 1 panzer, 1 Grille) is hanging out on the right (red oval), engaging infantry targets of opportunity, angling for shots on Leto's right most Priest pack (pink oval) and getting ready to support my other armor on the flank when they turn towards the other flag. The infantry fight rages in the woods (green oval). Leto has one remaining Priest behind the village (light blue oval), and a platoon or so of infantry headed in from the left towards the village and the flag (dark blue oval). His lone remaining TD is somewhere behind the village, and I expect him to show up somewhere inconvenient in the next turn or two.

I'm considering two options now - Option 1, Finish grabbing the flag on the left, and then have everyone hit the flag on the center. Don't think I can hold both big flags, but if I can get possession of one and neutralize the other, while he holds the small flag, I come out ahead in points. Option 2, Finish securing the big flag on the left and hold it. Send the panzer and a Stug racing for the small flag (held only by one or two units, it appears). I end up with a big flag and a small flag to Leto's big flag. Not as big of a points differential, but probably still enough to grab a minor victory, if Leto doesn't do a number on my armor by the end of the game. Leto probably wouldn't expect such a move at this point, but if he has a gun anywhere over there, I lose some armor and he keeps the flag, which would be sad...