MAIN EVENT VI! Red Devil vs. [hirr]Leto

[Der Kuenstler]

Red Devil sends his speedy Stewarts on to the top of the ridge in hopes of catching sight of Leto's truck column. We can see his last Stewart that was left at the start line is catching up...we can also see that some of his men are tired - those aren't the only ones.



As the minute ends both lead Stewarts button up and begin to pivot - they've picked up a target already! Looks like one of Leto's Marders coming over the high plains...



The Marder has a very favorable angle on those two Stewarts. But wait - we can see from a different angle that a tank in Red Devil's Southern attack force has also Picked up Leto's lead AFV. This next minute should be interesting. (By the way - notice how many of Red Devil's men are "tired"...they won't be able to fight as effectively)



From Leto's view, we can see that the Marder is his platoon leader - and as the minute ends he has not picked up either target - he's still zipping along on "fast". Also notice that one of his best tanks, a IIIJ(Late), has bogged at the rear of the column...



Meanwhile back at Leto's home base, we see he has backed everything behind the shelter of a nearby cliff to set up a welcoming committee for RD's Southern spearhead...



Red Devil has somehow botched his truck orders and they end up in a gnarled traffic jam at one of the gentle curves in the road. The two lead trucks are now driving on the slower arid rock and two of the trucks are stuck at skewed angles at the rear...



With the result that Leto's lead trucks are now cruising into the Oasis unopposed....



Intercepted radio chatter:

PETE: "Into the Valley of Yorkshire puddings rode the Afrika Korps!"
RANDY: "the party begins.. but runaway rommy is going the wrong way! come back you black forest ham.."
PETE: "Just remember you aren’t facing Feld Marshall Erwin Rommel, but his younger half retarded brother Leto Rommel: The Desert Buttox. Up may be down and down may be up… honestly, cause I don’t even know which is which anymore…."
RANDY: "a lot of dust telling me I'm going the right way :)"
PETE: "Yes, but when you are up against the Desert Buttox, and just when you think you have him exactly where you want him and it looks like you are about to put a buttload of hurt on him, paint him with tar and dump a few tonnes of feathers on his arse… well, he craps his pants and runs away… clucking preferably… so the feathers don’t go to waste…
Put the pedal to the medal their Fritz! Deutschland, Deutschland we have no balles! : ) Dammit man! Can’t these panzers go faster!!!"
RANDY: "damn German trucks have higher gearing than my bulldogs..."
PETE: My panzertruppen actually boiled down some saurkraut and distilled it into nitrous oxide. It was a far better alternative than actually eating the sauerkraut. Tonight we dine on Liban cuisine!
BTW, nice take down of LB btw… He’s quite a dreadnaught in the CM world I hear. That experience should have you all warmed up for taking down another arrogant CM bully…Moi. : ) I don’t mind boots up the arse, but please, just not in the face. I’ll need to re pursue my modeling career after you’ve destroyed my CM job as the “Arse Knight”


From Leto's private Journal: "Hmm… RD appears as aggressive as ever. Starting to kick myself that I didn’t have those tanks in ambush position to begin with, but oh well. I checked the rate of movement of his tanks and the LOS of the first vantage point for the Brits into my domain. As much as I wanted to break my tank group into two halfs and create a “gauntlet” for RD to run, I just could not take the chance that they may be in LOS and flanked as they move to the right. It looks like RD is bringing a large hammer with him over to my flag, so perhaps this will work out well for me… I don’t have to suffer the slings and arrows of AT guns on defence and get to employ my own. I may also perch the 3rd AT gun being hauled with the Sdkfz on the hill overlooking my base flag and keep the rest of my vanguard moving to intercept his own northern thrust to the main flag area. I am not sure he will charge in recklessly though, especially with my main force moving up the plateau in good position to swing back around and engage him."