A Strong Response - DAR

[Ratzki]

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It took a couple turns, but we have contact. A Russian Squad comes out of the trees, sees my Tank Hunter Team hidden in the field and quickly wipes them out. My guys do not fire a shot, they are on very short covered arcs. I want to lure as many Russian squads into the open as possible before I start shooting. I was hoping that my machine gun would start to fire at the visible enemy squad, to give him something to look at and maybe make the enemy make a bad decision that I canpounce on. I may have to play with his covered arc somewhat. The machine gun is out of command so I placed him out of range of most infantry weapons.

The Russians get a little taste of what I have in store for them as I manage to turn back the lead squad with some close range fire from my lead squad. More Russian squads show up and they quickly return fire. I was hoping that he might come at me ine a line abreast, but this was asking too much. He is using a singgle squad or half-squad to scout with the remainder on what looks to be Move to Contact.
I will get chewed up rather quickly at this rate, I will have to start to think about pulling back already. I have to get my guys into a position where I can bring multiple squads fire onto single Russian units. Right now it is the other way round.
I kinda expexted the enemy not to come straight at me, but suprise-suprise, here he is. I wonder how many platoons he has comming this way? If he blasts through me at any point, there is nothing standing between him and the large flag. On top of that worry, I already see one light tank come out of the trees for an instant, then just a contact marker. I thought I might get a couple turns without seeing any enemy tanks. I expect him to now come through the trees with his infantry and sqeeze me from the other side with his tanks. And it would seem that I have setup my men to allow this plan to go off without a hitch. Worst is that I cannot repositio without giving away the locations of my troops. This is not even on the chalkboard as suprise is the most powerful weapon that I have right now.