Das Tiger seems to be putting up a much more spirited fight now. There is still alot of bite left in his force as my T-34 is about to find out.
DasT. dumps some light arty on my advancing men in the last turn. It allows two things to happen. First it ROUTES my infantry HQ and stops the platoon from gaining any more ground until the HQ comes back online. Second, it effectively separated my T-34 from my infantry. I was trying to swing the tank around to some safer location until I could rectify the situation when out of thin air comes this lone German squad, running like the wind. Once I realized what his intentions were, I got a little worried. It was exactly like the scene from Chariots of Fire, except for the guns, grenades, uniforms, and the fact that it was taking place on my computer, but other then that, exactly the same.:)
So as the picture shows, I am staring down a grey lawn dart that immob.'s my T-34, then I machinegun him down like the dog he is. Well at least I am in a not bad position, good LOS. I just have to keep that from happening again. I have to wait for the shelling to stop before I can get any troops over to help this T-34 out.
This shot is kind of the overview of what has been going on between flags D & E. His arty has cut off any hope of me moving to protect the T-34 or advance to the flag E.
I have started to drop some 120mm arty of my own on his men in the trees near flag D. As well he set off my covered arcs on the pioneers and they have all opened up on his men. At the end of the turn, I can see one of DasT.'s squads on the run, and several more crawling away. I have another rifle platoon on the way to this flag now, and should get there by the end of next turn. If they don't get shot up on the way. I would like to area fire with my m39 gun but I have no HQ to keep him in command so will have to rely on the covered arc to try to get him to fire.
Near his Pz IV? a AT Gun? shows itself by taking out my T-34 HQ tank. I figured that was what he was up to but could do nothing about it. I can get a line on the gun with an infantry gun of mine, but again, no HQ in command of this gun so I do not manually target, I will put a covered arc on him and hope for the best. I fear that this is a large calibre gun that he has by the sound of the firing. I am able to get some small arms fire to the gun but will need something just short of a miricle at those ranges.