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T12
That was to close everyone is still loaded but several HTs were right on the edge of strikes
TF> The poor squads that took on KV took a lot of fire, they got a man but did worse one is running. A maxim opened up on them to from the next village scout doing his duty & spotting it before having palpatations as 2 squads crested the rise near him, Mk3 lent a hand but to little effect. A T-60 tried coming between the two villages which squad immob, think another tried & ran.
A BT tried coming round the bottom of the lower village, it was fired on & I just killed it
>> starts off with a lot of infantry ends up with hordes of them 2+ comp & about 10 tanks.
First thing save the scout so Mk3 & squad route them, 2nd thing is T-34 squad in the village makes a dash down the road checking its clear & saying hello to Mr Maxim & goodbye to a squad. Mk3 just North of village rolls forward recieves a lot of fire inc T-34 & unseen T-60 100m away, 2 Mk4s move up but fail to deal with T-60. Mk3 in village decides to risk his luck going round the corner which squad had not reached, several minutes later all fire at him stops mainly from squads along the road, fire at one now realy heavily suppressed we are not getting to T-34 this way so falls back to squads hex.
Another tries it can cut through coming out by T60 so a squad says hello just to make sure. Moves & places another 3 shots on the T-34 getting the turret with its last. T-60 will probably run & even point blank not to worried about so the jobs done.
Mk3 tries coming through a gap in lower village & takes fire, he has a nice rear shot on a T-28 if we can persuade it to turn so Mk3+4 in wrecks between buildings move out Mk4 killing routed T-60 on the way then trying its luck to no avail vs a BT. Mk3 takes on T-28 but even with rear shots takes everything it has to kill it. Another tank joins it but misses its targets though last Mk3 gets 2 more BTs. One tank is in a slightly dodgy situation here but with the way they have being shooting banking on a miss, a BT 7 T-26 remain plus 2 T-28s further back. Infantry here generally tries to get in position to attack next turn when the vehicles can give support but one misjudges it losing a man. MMGs are turning up but trying to spread about due to arty also several HTs are inbound but trying to pick a safe route coming out to the North so they can run round flanking. Despite what I said arty is staying on line to hit the lump of men in the North
CF> Was a bit worried for Ram & assault on a MK3 but fire held them back though all but one squad is in a ready state, a BT has made it to within 100m of a Mk3 but it missed, note to Ruskies training helps.
Arty did not quite land as expected AIs on the ball hitting 2 Mk3s in the gully & troops there so HT10 was safe. Think it hit lead T-28 as well because its running. Fire between troops here about a dozen was fairly even & 2 Mk3s that stayed damaged & destroyed BTs, this tank platoon seems to be drawing a lot of arty no matter what I do a couple at least are getting hit every round.
>> One of the gully Mk3 rallies the other does not so it reverses out of the gully taking fire from T-28 which it engages damaging, the other moves out killing the T-28 & damaging the other. One of the 4 tanks that has just come off the hill top rolls through the smoke sticking a shot in its rear then HT10 runs up killing the BT. Mk3 from BF platoon kills damaged BT eliminating armour threat on this side of smoke/wrecks. the infantry here decide to let the company or so to the south come & move NE as do reinforcements coming this way. they are to head through the smoke & try to cut off squads by the road. 3 tanks & MMG facing put fire into them to try & slow them but first Mk3 fires at BT from 250m, hits but no effect though BT is shaken & misses so the close Mk3 finnishes it & takes out the GazAA
BF> 57 mainly missed but got a T-26 in the end & is still in one piece. Forgot to say as 3 tanks moving to here were going flat out switched off main gun to save ammo so just fired at a couple of squads.
>> 57 crew moves back to its guns hex 3 squads get position on 2 squads threating the other 57 routing them. My ATG on the flank kills nearest T-26 then tanks take out 3 more leaving just one thats a major threat so 57 kills it. All but one tank move up & Mk2 plus 2 Hts alloted to defence force head this way to help with killing soft targets & help if decide to head down the road later traping center from both sides which is why I have fallen back there.

T13
Drove round arty better that go but it killed a 80Mtr, we got a GazAA in exchange. they probably lost 25+ men to our 6 & mtr & apart from far South advanced 50m or less.
NF> thought I had dropped off MMG ok but it lost 4 men to a maxim, as expected platoon tried moving on the scout but was repulsed as was a half hearted move on the village. T-60 recovered & died for trying to take on my Mk3, the vulnerable Mk3 was not so lucky this gunner actually got his act together pulling off a weak spot hit, the crew is not to exposed though. No enemy tanks were killed as only a few shots at due to the onslaught from Russian infantry. Both T-28s moved forward disapearing into a depression thats probably full of troops to >> Kill both visible tanks easily enough worried about imminent arty around top village so despite the odds push them back & move fwd costing us a few men. Have 11 tanks here now so they go some way to subdueing but not enough, they get maxims & squads near scout routed plus a few more. want to try & work North plus punch a hole further South trying to split but tanks move to try & get position to recieve T28s. Infantry have to get in position to defend them as going to have to set a few Mk3s to ignore them as AIs likely to move tanks last.
CF> Just fire at troops here >> The bulk of the troops are pretty much to our North we take pot shots at them but are heading East for the wrecks with the aim of swinging round some buildings here & cutting them off. No idea whats on the other side but a few troops make it routing a tank which pioneer mech assaults finnishing it. the 2 Mk3s furthest South help another squad who has run into a BT & squad. Between them they manage to route both but all end turn adj to the BT.
SF> 57 damaged a T-28 & the other is back at his gun, troops stopped squads moving on the ATG but had a tough time of it elsewhere as coming over a reasonably wide front & very little is taking them on in places. Tanks did little as vehicles are making good use of the cover available.
>> The 2 squads snipper & scout holding the north retreat to a bank so if they route will be hidden.
Others are trying to move South but mainly pinned down, vehicles fail to help much & move South to.
The main thrust is comming centred around the 57 but a small hill protects it to the East, troops are trying to protect & get in position, presently everything is to close to the 57 arty magnet. Troops cut a maxim here in half & take out a GazAA, 3 tanks roll forward killing a T-26 & damaging T-28 which the 57 finnishes leaving just one as the immediate threat.

T14
A bit of pain was dished out there on both sides, good job we moved the village does not exist any more it was flattened completly!! The 57 got hit to missed most of my troops but tanks got caught up in it one taking light damage.
TF> those maxims really hurt got them routed again but not before they took there pound of flesh. They did not try to move fwd as lots of targets I guess & are a bit thinner on the ground now. T-28 tried & died the other deciding to let me come to it
>> Those maxims have recovered again & later find a 3rd, Mk4s route them along with MMGs & the one that got hurt gets retribution destroying one.
Finding that T-28 proves hard as its taken position near the slope & there are heaps of squads here, finaly find it but fail to kill so 2 Mk3s wade into enemy squads finaly managing to get it. HTs arrive & every one moves forward forming a funnel making them all route to the same area, hard to tell but I have probably herded well over 15 squads into a little box which is starting to create paths on either side to run round & trap them.
CF> not a lot really they did move fwd I think as half have disapeared & squad holding the South end of the village had an eventfull couple of minutes throwing out everything it had
>> what did I say cut through here & swing round the village, its a good job the relief has turned up as in close proximity is a company & what turns out to be 4 maxims, the vehicles do a pretty good job here & in the end manage to get most running including crucially 3 of the 4 maxims. Pioneer crept up on 1 squad killing a man with rifle then he flamed it for another 10 dead. Think he has got the hang of making crispy critters thats a big hit.
BF> Vehicles did not move much & due to arty best we managed was to route T-28, a T-26 has appeared rather unexpectantly towards the North & a generally hard time was had by everyone in the bottom 1/3rd of the map. Its looking like a second wave of infantry is inbound & only a sterling job by the sniper saved the day. Even so ATG gun is under threat from several angles now as could not hold them back, did the AI just pull off a combined arms attack I think yes very close to losing control here.
>> Mk3 moves & kills the surprise T-26 vehicle fire vs troop is virtually innefective in fact troop fire does not seem to worry them to much either no wonder they advanced, HT10 that reloaded takes up position in case more tanks appear here. MMGs are now in position to help at range but if that does not stop them I am going to have to smoke & cover my retreat they are to close.
Wrecks block LOS for most ATGs & 57 is not in any state to fire. One tank rallies & they take out 2 T-28s closing the range on OP truck. I don't think they will have cleared arty completly & some troops probably wont but the platoon guarding the road where the other 57 is are starting to thread there way through the wrecks killing another GazAA & managing to stop the troops here. A bit of effort gets a shot at Op truck but only kill 1 man.
HT10s might not have the speed of armoured cars but the HE loadout makes them good little support tools, might not kill much but gets them running.

A bit of feedback would be nice guys how is this new way of reporting, its a bit more work for me so if its not any better will go back as now have an electronic post it sitting on the mini map to record stuff. As a note if see 7 & think its strange tis my typing its supposed to be & I just misssed the shift key.