Pictures, pictures. We have to take the next week or so off, my son is coming to visit for a while so this will have to hold you guys.
Got some glare and I'm not reshooting the pictures. Sorry.
We are going to forget about the one flank, absolutely nothing going on. The only thing that happened there was I had a 228 trying to recrew a mortar so he acquired it, rolled 1,1 and we think destroyed the unmanned mortar.
Anyone disagree with that interpretation?
So the battle is really moving into the main draw. The French that were here have pulled back as best they could with a few dying along the way. He climbed with several guys but my SR happened to land nearby. Might see some large harassing fire come down. My immobilized abandoned HT was attacked in CC and burned... rules seem to imply this was OK. I had a squad with mmg in the X49 foxhole but he got vaporized. The 228 with 37* wisely stepped back from the edge! The 457 in CC48 scared a climber back down. And you see 2 companies running into the exit of the draw, manning the RB that popped up this scenario.
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Bit of overlap in these pictures but moving closer to the river you can see the boats still bringing over 1-2 squads per turn as well as the bridges going up and the traffic jam caused there. I didn't have any radio that would survive to get LOS to the bridges so the OBA got reassigned to the draw. If I still had a HIP observer over here the game would be over I think if I landed the OBA here. One 8T is done with a 16T going up next door and a 2nd 8T languishing with not enough troops to assemble it. We are done with Smoke firing for his Turn 4 prep and he keeps recycling Smoke near the bridges because my hmgs are still hidden but I think he knows we don't really have LOS to the bridge area. Touch call on moving them because they will get every weapon shot at them if they move to where they could shoot...
On the cliff he did manage to get someone up the cliff into FF44 and I reacted to this with at least 2 squads. His guys are CX and ?
You can see how high I roll dice by the fires that are spreading even with the extra -2 for SSR but they are spreading in front of the wind...
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And the last picture shows the area where he seems to be setting up to put up another bridge during the night maybe.
The Cx guy on the cliff does have a 37* (the one next door had his crew vaporized). he can see the bridge construction. Not sure who he should shoot but the smoke will inhibit his shots for sure.
At the top of the path I have a 457/lmg that is about to get blasted (albeit w/o PBF) from below. Not sure if I have enough here to stop a forced climb by these guys.
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