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

[Der Kuenstler]

At the Northwest side of the Oasis, Leto predictably lines up his green PzIIIJ(short)s and begins area firing the stuffings out of RD's British infantry. The iron beasts have panicked and pinned the men in the far clump of trees and now they are working on this clump. They have pinned or panicked two more of the squads already - it would be worse if not for their platoon leader's +1 heart rating. It appears Randy has given them up for dead. "we've written them off since turn 1 once i found the trucks were in the wrong spot, i knew they were hosed..", he says...




But even where he could do something, Randy appears to hesitate. Here South of Leto's holding town, RD's men have an opportunity to attack while Leto's tanks on the cliffs are being blocked by dust from an M3 Grant's area fire. Instead they continue to sit still.



Meanwhile back at Leto's setup area, RD manages to get a truck with some of his fire from the cliffs. The driver can be seen crawling away. Leto continues to hide his armour behind the houses in hopes that RD will become overconfident and try to push into town without proper recon. Leto says "Well I see you are starting to pluck away at the trucks and light armor cowering behind my little base town flag… perhaps you can even up the score on trucks put to the sword?" We can see a deliberate attempt at deception here on Leto's part, as he has no more trucks back there and the armour he has waiting is not light.



But it looks like Red Devil is not taking the bait - he is leading with infantry, not tanks as Leto had hoped, and his lead infantry are on the verge of discovering Leto's first layer of defense - his two 75mm guns in the rocks. These guns are out of command and could easily panic if hit by enough small arms fire. Realizing this, Leto starts showering the British area with 81mm mortar fire to try to keep RD's men from discovering the guns before they can hurt his tanks.



Lastly, a shot of one of Red Devil's 3" mortar teams. He is still almost 400 meters from being in position to hurt Leto's guns. Even walking on the road, he is only moving about 20 meters per minute. These means it will take him another 20 minutes - by that time the battle for Leto's setup area should be settled. Oh for a truck!



RADIO CHATTER:

RANDY: "i guess hoping for the Mummy to rise out of the sand and put the hurting on your boys is isn't going to happen..."

PETE: "Well, I’d rather that you didn’t bring your mummy into this, because if you did, then I would have to go get my mummy and say that my mummy could take your mummy, and you’d say, nuh, uh, my mummy can take your sorry arse mummy and one thing one lead to another and then we’d have mummies swinging purses and pulling hair and the decorum of the game would just be thrown right out of the window."



"BTW, I’ve shot a few cans of captured hash at your recon troops… I hope they appreciate it… I’m absolutely stultified that anyone can eat that canned meat, but your Brits sure seem to love it. One of the cans appeared to have opened on impact with your squad leaders helmet. I don’t know why you don’t just get pissed off and drive those Grants right up to my men and blast the crap out of ‘em."