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

[Der Kuenstler]

Here is a shot to the Southwest. Randy is trying to back his gun damaged Crusader out of danger. We also see his M3 Grant continues to shell the heavy building in town containing Leto's MG 34. With the Grant's huge HE load it still has 116 shells left. We can also see the remaining two Crusaders to the West have popped smoke.



Leto's PzIIIJs have located two Vickers MGs in Randy's holding town and are area firing them - one has already panicked and the other pinned. Once they are dealt with, there will be nothing to stop Leto here but a flamethrower, an AT Rifle, and some mines.



On the high plains, one of Leto's IIIJs gets LOS to two of RD's Stuarts to the East. It fires once and misses as the minute ends.



At the Oasis, we see Leto's infantry are making progress down the rocky cliffs to reinforce. Randy's British forces are remaining still in the palm trees, which is about the best thing they can do at this point. The three remaining British trucks seem to be trying to escape although two are taking German small arms fire.



The battle is about 1/3 over and neither combatant has dominated. Although Leto has better position at the Oasis, Randy has him flanked on the high plains and can fire from two angles. Leto has lost two Marders and Randy has lost no AFVs - only one gun damaged. Someone will need to make a decisive move to win. Which will do it?



RADIO CHATTER (Both showing a little frustration with their AFVs' performance)

RANDY: "actually i don't think you even put a hole in it, just knocked some paint chips back into the shell extractor mechanism and now the gun won't eject the darn shell.."

PETE: "Well at least I won’t have to shell out any iron crosses for excellence in the battlefield to these mutts."

RANDY: "no Victoria crosses for these boys either..."

PETE: "I’m not surprised that you chose so many Honey’s in your kit. I have found that they are a match for any German panzer of the era, are well armoured, deadly accurate and quite fast. But when you plug em with a 75 AP round, they ‘almost’ always tend to blow up."