MAIN EVENT VII! Ratzki vs Joonny....

[Der Kuenstler]

We'll begin minute one with Joonny's side - he had no troop riders on his armour to start with and he chooses to keep all of his armour still the whole minute, except for his three AFV's to the North. (He has them hunting forward.) Being still, this armour above the seacliffs quickly picks up Ratzki's T-34s which are racing towards town with their riders. 42 seconds into the battle, the first shot is fired from Joonny's Panther. A total of six shots are fired from this bunch of AFVs before the minute ends, but every one misses!



Joonny chooses to run his troops the entire first minute towards the woods by the seatown. That is usually no problem, except they had to run uphill part of the ways, which is more tiring. Now all of his troops are tiring and at least one squad is tired.



From Ratzki's side. we can see his T34/85s are flying along on "fast", still not responding to the threat on the seacliffs. An impact from one of the shells of the German AFVs can be seen landing in the grass dangerously near one of the Russian beasts. These Ruskies may be better off to keep going as fast as they can to the cover of town and not try to stop to fire from this disadvantaged position.



In contrast to the German sprinters, Ratzki's Russian troops were all ordered to walk to the flags. At their present pace with all of those woods ahead to go through, there's no way they can get there ahead of Joonny's men!



Lastly, a shot of Ratzki's gun towing jeeps. With a top speed of 65 MPH, they are the fastest units on this map, and are really booking down that dirt road, but cresting the ridge ahead are two Stugs and a Panther.