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The last of the reinforcements come down the road, and my infantry are falling back quickly. I continue to flank some of the powerful armor, while my new tanks come down the road ready to figh. This shall be our last stand.

Your turn

My tanks continue their rolling advance towards the Soviet lines.

In the middle, the schwerpunkt has pierced and separated the Soviet's battle line, with a few tanks reaching until the main road behind enemy lines.

However, kampfgruppe commander Vetkin has realized his mistake a little too late. His extreme right flank is weak as only 2 Mark Ivs try to hold what seems to be two platoons of engineers. One retreats, one is left to guard the victory hexes.

Up north, the flanks are more secure as the Russians are slowly being pushed back.

Behind my lines, a motorcycle squad tries to regain my starting victory hexes, although they are pushed back by determined fire from a single Czech 38 tank.

This might be your last stand but my right flank hangs in a precarious balance...

YOUR TURN

"Comrade General, the Germans are in position"
"Dah, Comrade, begin the assault"

My mortars, hiding in sandbags, reveal themselves and fire 2 rounds at a tank. The PINGING sounds make the crew **** their pants, and they abandon their tank. My infantry provide fire on the crewman, but it's neighboring tank holds us off. My new tanks approach a panzer, one gets toasted, and another fires a clean shot at the tank, and it explodes. My infantry surround an immobilized tank, throwing grenades at it. The tank, damaged badly, is near-death, but survived our assaults. This was, our last stand indeed.

Man! What a fiasco in the forest!!

The German armored gruppe, thinking it has won the day has arrogantly entered the forests, only to be met with very stiff resistance. KV-1 heavy tanks block the road like walls, smashing one of my Mark Ivs. My other tanks try to flank the Russian heavies, seeing that the way is blocked by T-35s.

A few potshots result in nothing achieved. Down south the line is holding against a few engineers, but I don't know for how long.

The battle might look good on the map but Hauptsturmfuhrer Vetkin is wondering how long it will take before the white dots who have advanced too far into enemy territory hold.

Good one Kaio! This is getting into one intense battle! (for me at least, I'm starting to sweat because of those KVs)

YOUR TURN

One of my tanks carelessly sneaks up on a flamepanzer, only to be destroyed. My other tank follows it, and almost suffers the same fate. As soon as the crew knew what was going on, they fell back from the flame's range. My mortar creates barrages on the crewmen of the two abandoned tanks on the south road, and then a foolish tank rolls in to the northwest, and the mortar fires one good round into the tank, destroying it. I also disable two other tanks, and destroy one other. This truly was our finest hour.

The battle is far from over.

In the forest, a brave Mark IV goes one on one with a KV tank, firing its 75mm cannon and scoring some hits but doing no damage. The KV promptly blasts the tank silly and the crew bail out.

This however is a diversionary tactic. The single flammpanzer II rushes the KV while its back is turned and pours fire into its exposed engine, forcing the crew to abandon it.

The flammpanzer then goes a bit south to face the other KV. The KV fires but misses the diminiuitive tank. The heroic flammpanzer burns the KV out, completely, destroying it.

A Mark IV is disabled as it is entering the forest, but routs the engineer squad who disabled it. Another Mark IV enters the forest battle and hits a T-35 to the side, smashing it.

The situation down south is stabilizing with 2 Mark IVs and a Pz38 slowly pushing back the engineers. My own squad of engineers discover a flanking maneuver up north and forces that squad to retreat.


I am running out of tanks, and this will be the ultimate test of small-unit armored maneuvering and tactics.


This forest will be the Soviets' tomb, Hauptsturmfuhrer Vetkin promises himself. We will see now how good the Soviets are in defense.

"Block the points of entrance and exit" - Sun Tzu

On further analysis of the situation at hand... It seems that the battle is far from over..... The soviets are holding steadfast.... although their lack of armor will start to make things easier for my 2 platoons or so of tanks left. (some immobilized.)

I get some motorcycles and infantry through the lines, and I take out a tank. Fairly normal round, with a dozen casualties on my side. My three tanks, indeed destroyed, but they lost another. But it seems all may be lost. I order my less crucial units to evacuate the area, and employ my last brave units to snuff the german threat.

The German Armored Gruppe is stuck steadfast in the Soviet forests, as hidden engineer squads endlessly assault. Without recon units, the way will be slow. The last KV-1 still persists and my last Flammpanzer is in peril. If the KV manages to destroy it, rampant damage will result to the remnants of my armored company.

I still hold all VHexes except for the enemy's starting point. A Czech 38 is on its way to recon the area for my heavier tanks.

My engineer squads move into position to possibly assist my tank gruppe.

The fate of the battle is yet undecided. The German forces are overextended although the Russians are in full retreat except for a few pockets of resistance.

YOUR TURN

"Therefore do not repeat tactics that won you a victory but vary them according to the circumstances." - Sun Tzu

I carelessly move my tanks up, fall back my KV after taking massive flame damage, and take many casualties. No tanks were destroyed this round, but I am in the perfect position to send the germans back.

Where's the file? I didn't seem to get your email, can you send it again?

There

You sent me the wrong files man, this is your turn!!

It says security violationi etc., when i entered the password it says Soviet Union army's turn, so I exited that screen.

Send me the correct ones

Still waiting....:rolleyes:

Erm

I have to download SPWAW again.. ****!!!!

My HD really blew out, I don't know if the computer guys at the shop can recover anything.... Must've been a 76.2 mm hehehe

I'm BACK! GOT SPWAW Again, got a brand spanking new 60GB harddrive! I'll post my turn later today

Your last tanks (I hope) are smashed and what remains of my tank gruppe slowly moves forward, clearing infantry.

It seems the Germans might have taken the field... but the costs have been too high and the Soviets are known for their resilience in defense.....

My forces are mightily overextended and most of my tanks have taken one too many hits, having either MGs left or cannons left.

Your Turn

The commander orders a full retreat, decisive victory for ze germans, and a crushing defeat for the poor soviets. We will fall back to Stalingrad, where "the fate of the world" will be decided.

GG. Next up, 3 years later...at Juno Beach

The German commander surveys the battlefield and nods grimly at the carnage. So many men dead, so many dying... Orders have come in to take the remnants of his kampfgruppe to Stalingrad. This war will be decided on this industrial city and Hauptsturmfuhrer Vetkin is determined to end this war once and for all...

The End

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Wow, this Juno Beach battle is gonna be BIG

702 kb!

Let's do this....!!!:D