A Strong Response - DAR

[Ratzki]

I am still somewhat on edge as to what the Russian total force consists of. I have gotten another sound contact for an enemy tank comming through the woods. I have to assume there will be more infantry as well.
The only real action taking place is with my isolated platoon. The Russians are moving more and more men into the area. Thus far I have been able to deal with them effectively, first they have to run through some of my machinegun fire, then once in the woods, my men have been putting them to flight one squad at a time. Mostly I have been moving my lone platoon around what limited ground that there is here trying to stay out of enemy LOS while still being able to fire at the Russian squads as the present themselves. So far so good. When I do decide to bug outa here, I will have about 110m of open ground to cover before I reach the safety of more woods.
The Russians seem confused and have stalled elsewhere on the map. I am stilll shooting with all my ATR's as they get targets, as well, my artillery is firing away at his exposed infantry. I have been repositioning my FO's target to buy time and slow down the ratte of fire. So instaed of firing the whole turn, they only fire for around 25 seconds as my repositioning the target causes a delay. All I am really trying to do is waste time as I am out of effective rifle range and have little in the way of machine guns.


At some point I notice the enemy tank has the drooping gun look. This means one down, more to go. I do not know if this is just luck and the crew has abandoned the tank or I scored a good KO hit.


I am still shuffling my men around this small clump of woods. When I locate a Russian squad, I am able to get most of the platoon in on the fight quickly and route the Russian squads. I do not know how long I can keep this up though. I am sure that my enemy is figuring out what I am doing and comming up with a plan. I do have a hidden Tank Hunter Team out of they way in case a Russian tank or two decides to come this way. These units are tough to spot, so unless the Russians step on some of my guys fingers, they should be able to remain hidden.
You can see the couple more armour contacts emerging from the woods, I have to think that there are more infantry as well.


The great news this turn is that I have received a 25mm AT gun and some more infantry, one platoon. I will be moving the infantry into position around the large flag just out of the screenshot. The AT Gun is going to be towed here and pushed into these woods so that I might be able to get off some killing shots on some of that Russian armour.
You can see the machine gun team that is working over the enemy as he moves towards my single platoon in the woods. I think that he is doing a fine job of softening up the bad guys. More importantly, more time is slipping away from the turn count. This is a good thing.
The last of my HE falls on the Russians, now he will be able to come at me with the troops that I had pinned. Again, this was more to waste time off the count, I am so out classed here and outnumbered, really this is all that I can do.
I hope the the Russians are at a loss as to where I am and what my defences look like. I am trying to look stronger then I am, will have to see how it works.