Ratzki's DAR vs 107thCav

[Ratzki]

107th must have decided that he has finally had enough of me and launches attacks across the map. At the flag in the woods where I have the lone infantry platoon, it looks like a blue light special at K-Mart. There are Russians comming from all directions. They break the covered arcs that I had set and my men open fire to try to hold them off. By the end of the turn I have about half his advanceing force on the ground but he has made some good ground with what he has left. I will be ordering my Pz to fire with HE on any targets that make it to cover.

Near the church my Pz and R-35 give the enemy platoon a good roughing up. I want to deny him access to the church and do not want to destroy it. Right now the church is giving my infantry good concealment and I will be using it as cover for a squad once I get there in any numbers. 107th probably does not have enough large cal. guns to bring it down, and I am not going to rubble it if I can help it.

Just before the turn ends 107th makes a made dash with his men to assault my Pz at the church. A half dozen grenades and a molotov later, I am still ok, my Pz is moving away from his men, and I will have to swing the gun around and take on this new threat. I just kicked a platoon out from this flag and he goes and moves another one in here.

Overall, my advance on this flag is going quite well. No real losses to speak of, if that arty of mine had not let me down this would have been done earlier. Better late then never. I think that a good plan is worth sticking with. I wanted this flag from the onset of the game as it again divides the map with great cover and a good vantage point. I took a bit of a bloody nose the first time that I tried to take it. I wanted to give up on it then, but it is a good flag. Once my troops were back online, I knew that i would have to go for it again.

My R-35 moving to flank his infantry on the extremem left of the map is taken out by the ATG of 107th. My other R-35 is in trouble as well, he is well within the LOS where this one started to take fire so I can't stop now, I just modified his move orders as much asI could but will proceed and hope for the best.