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

[Der Kuenstler]

MINUTE 21

Here Leto gives a good lesson for advanced players on cover arcs. He has some infantry targets in the brush already, but he knows he can inflict more casualties and conserve ammo by firing at them AFTER they move onto the arid rock towards the town. Only his MG34 HMG has a long arc, because the gun can hurt from longer distance and remain just a sound contact. Leto's towed guns remain intact and are firing on the infantry in the brush and cliffs.



In the pic below, RD has his Vickers MG area firing in the general direction of Leto's four Marders. This must be so that if the Marders pop up over the ridge again the MG fire will button them up and give his Stewarts time for an extra shot or two.



At the South of Leto's holding town, most of RD's men continue to wait it out. They could be delaying until the Engineer platoon on the opposite ridge gets into position. They do push what's left of what must be an unpopular Stuart crew out into no man's land, however. The crew has only two men with two pistols. What's worse, RD has them on "walk" instead of the safer "move to contact." It's likely these two poor schmucks will break and die before they even spot any enemy positions.



Reading through the fog of war:

Sometimes you can tell a vehicle is gun damaged by the way it's gun or turret points in an odd or unnatural way. This can be seen with the gun damaged Marder on the right. Notice the other Marders' guns are aligned normally.



At the West side of the Oasis, we can see the first prisoner of the battle. After Sgt O'Toole stops running out of the palm trees and screaming like a little girl, he realizes he's surrounded and promptly gives up. A German squad can be seen on the horizon advancing behind him.



Leto gets tired of RD's area firing Grant and decides to hunt it down. Notice he backs his PzIIIJ platoon under the cover of the dust they create - next he'll likely hunt them up to the ridge marked in the distance, where they will have LOS to the British beast while only exposing their thick curved turrets. The Grant has had his commander killed and is permanently buttoned.