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

[Der Kuenstler]

Leto sent in a nice overhead pic and explanation of his current thinking:



Leto says: "Here are some of my strategic thoughts on the battle so far. Take them in the context of “if the world were over run by brain eating zombies, I may be one of the only people with little to fear”. So take the following very lightly if you expect it to be strategically educational in any way.

Area 1

We must all remember that FOW can cloud the judgement of the enemy. With RD’s massive push towards Area 1, and my move backwards with KG B, I am hoping that he suspects that I do not have any armour at all in that group, and that what he may be up against is more infantry in trucks or HT’s with some recon. If that is the case, then by moving my KG B back to the safety of the town, I may be telegraphing to RD that KG B is not heavily armoured and thus try to entice him into the trap I have set up for him with the 3 AT guns. Now, the only way that RD can find out what I have there is by attacking en force, or sending scouts. If I were him, I would be genuinely leery of making any kind of well committed attack on my base flag in area 1. My guess is that he will attempt to use the high ground to the north east of area 1 to stage for a crossfire between his units at area 2.

My plan if I were him would be to play the man, not the ball, and attempt to find ways to destroy my KG’s without paying much attention to flags… for now.

Area 2

RD quickly pulled back, but the dust registers no real movement backwards to join up with his units in area 1. My hopes is that RD has decided to bivouac the men and order them to bake a few oversized blancmange cakes and then deliver it unto my doorstep knowing I have a love of cakes, and knowing that I would most likely bring the blancmange inside my defences… well, you see where I am going with this (yes, the blanc-mange almost won Wimbledon, so one must respect its destructive powers).

For those of you who do not get this eclectic reference: http://cake0rdeath.blogspot.com/2009/07/...ve-we.html

I think this may just be a “biding his time” move in order to get some of his infantry out to recon. The next few turns will be interesting in terms of watching the “dust” fly. Also note, that even on slow movement commands, dust will be created, although not as self evident. Thus there still may be ways for RD to attempt to use stealth. Problem for him is time.

Area 3

It appears that RD has moved several half squads to this small flag. They have received a warm welcome from my panzertruppen, and we’ve shot the hell out of one of his bulldogs, causing the half squad riding in it to shat in their knickers and crawl off sobbing. But that is as far as he will get due to my own defences in the town area. He will need armour to help him break through and at this point, and there are no signs of help coming anytime soon. My armour will drop off my panzertruppen that will then scale down the cliffs (yes, they can do this, I checked by running tests… it would be a real bitch to find out I couldn’t get them down to the large flags) to hold the town and large flags and then return to the middle of the plateau and go hull down somewhere.

Area 4

This is of no real concern to me. It is a small flag with more cons than pros. My only goal is to shoot up hapless Brits that were left to defend the small flag. By circumnavigating past it using the higher plains, I have effectively sequestered this flag area and all the troops he has within it (and I am beginning to think he only has the same level of protection that I have left at my own flag). The ATR is the only real unit of concern, and I am sending a trusty HQ squad to move up and cut off any ability for the ATR to scale back to the top of the plateau and target the rear of my Marders or the tops of my panzers. The 4 panzers will also be a reinforcement group if RD does manage to sustain an attack on Area 1… the PZ III L42 50mm guns can kill the Stuarts as easy as the Stuarts can kill them, so they are definitely too valuable an asset to me now that I know RD chose a great many Stuarts for his kit, even if my PZ III’s are green.

I will continue to enact my own plans, confident that I can flexibly react to any of RD’s limited attack options without being too fretty about it. My only fear is that he masses his two groups and attacks before I can get KG AAA back to the middle of the plateau to help out KG AA.

The Desert Buttox

(those cheering for the Desert Buttox will receive a free SHAMWOW!)"