OK we got two more turns in yesterday along with 2 more bottles of wine! (Best Cab I've ever had if anyone is into big bold cabs message me!)
Highlights sitting at Russian T4 prep:
Russian OBA got one pretty meaningless stonk down with his OBA, it did drive me away but then he drew 2 reds...
Germans were 6,6 their way to 2 squads of booby trap deaths...
German FTs still speaking semi loudly.
Germans were getting the short end of the stick until the North Russian defense folded like a house of cards and 3 squads died for FTR. I think CVP is even again, although the Germans do have 2 immobilized AFVs and one with a broken MA.
Russians have promoted 2 or 3 leaders and the Germans got one finally.
And it is raining heavily which is a PITA for my gully guys...
More pics for your enjoyment...
Starting in the South again
We decided to push him back slowly south of the valley, one more reserve under the 527.
Tried to move my 24 FP stack to around N38 but a damn sniper hit and broke/pinned both hmgs so we had to split that up.
Moving North one section
Finally got into the N35 factory a bit more... might be hard for him to fight it out there without dying. 3 mmgs in L31/1 can see the outside of it.
I don't think we will be moving much farther forward here... unless something weird happens like a well placed sniper or something.
Next section:
the fire was started by my Rockets and you can see the blaze his OBA started in the back field. Likely to burn for a long time...
He mentioned that my Left flank near M28 is poorly defended and maybe warrants a counter attack but I think that might be a bit aggressive given I have no where to go with those factory guys.
Moving farther North: Decent German push here, we found a dummy or two and were able to bring up some support from the South wooden blocks to push him mostly out of P13 building. There are two 838s just begging to use their DCs... that MTR was a terror this day, critical hitting one stack and hitting some other guys too...
And in the very South we have the blue wave going about as far as we need/want. Since trees are not strategic locations we are leery of moving in there given the mtrs that can see them. Looks like I should get the school which was the goal up here. It was touch and go for a turn or two. Could have gone either way. He reinforced a melee that I got to hold one hex but than when he missed to attacks back at adjacent guys the tank and 2 squad stack broke everyone in T1 and U1 and the tank and 9-1 finished them off for FTR.