This battle is 33+ minutes long. Both commanders are sensing the end is near and the action is picking up. Red Devil, happy with his lead Stewart making into Leto's setup town in one piece, now sends two more in there. He also sends one of his Grants out to confront Leto's menacing Panzer III on the hill. Notice he also has an engineer platoon approaching the Panzer.
The Grant comes into LOS of the Panzer and it's 37mm turret turns and gets off three shots. Two miss and one breaks up. Before the Grant can pivot its larger 75mm gun around, the Panzer hits home and kills it. Oddly, the British Engineer platoon on the hill never rushed the Panzer while it was fighting with the Grant - it would have been a good time to do so.
On the other side of the map, more German glory: Leto has maneuvered a panzer platoon over and taken out RD's two Stewarts. They were focused on the Marders to the West at the time...
Leto then sends his Pz III platoon blitzing past RD's last remaining tank on that side of the map. THis last Grant is buttoned from having its commander killed and hasn't reacted at all to the new German threat.
On a lonely stretch of road in the East, British Cpl Drake rests with his 3" mortar. Due to lack of transport he's still too far from the action to help and won't get to use his 51 HE. RD has another 3" mortar in the South with the same problem.
As the battle nears its end, Randy sums it up well with one sentence to Pete: "a lot more tanks than i thought you'd buy"
"Most sorts of diversion in men, children, and other animals, are in imitation of fighting." - Jonathan Swift