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The tank that knocked out the AT gun backed into the opening it came out of. One of my mortars can see the opening but not the tank. I'm going to drop some 82mm rounds on the area and see if I can get lucky. He's laying down a lot of smoke by that opening and I'm anticipating the next bit of aggravation to come from there.

@Macisle was spot on about the fate of the AT Gun crew. Unexpectedly a Mark IV came through a gap in the buildings and took them all out with one shot. Here appears to be gathering his armor along this street. Gotta keep an eye on that.

Up by Berliner Weisse I'm back to seeing a lot of lead in the air. My fresh platoons are still at 100%. I believe, and I know that I could be dead wrong, that the infantry I'm shooting at is in roughed up shape and there won't be the kind of attriting (is that a real word?) that there was last time. I see some red crosses and there isn't a lot of return fire.

I did catch a break. @Aragorn2002 you finally got to see a screenshot of the SPW 251/21. Now here is one of it blowing up and one of it burning. And the Sherman is high tailing it out of there while it still can.

You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. As @Macisle predicted. Tank rolling right past.

The mortars ...or heck, they be grenades...or whatever are making my Sherman uncomfortable. I've sat in this place for too long. Time to move it out. But then.....Are you kidding me? That damn SPW 251/21. Can I just catch a break once? Is that asking too much?

He also appears to be moving more armor toward Jagermeister. It looks like the Mark IV that was overwatching the park near Berliner Weisse is moving into action......Or that's my guess anyway. If so, that will help my human wave assault on Berliner Weisse when the time comes.

The Sherman has been providing some decent covering fire to the AT Rifle guy working the buddy aid. An enemy unit keeps popping up and taking some pot shots at the team and Sherman suppresses them quickly. However, it appears that he's dropping some mortar fire on the Sherman location.

Sacrifice it he did. @Macisle's concern about the placement of the AT was well founded. I've lost a man to those nasty buggers that continue to nag me.

Nope. He has at least 1 round yet that he fires as he rolls closer to Jagermeister. I guess he is planning to sacrifice it for intel.

Finally my main man is able to begin buddy aid to try and get the AT rifle back. I really want to get a shot at that SPW 251/21 with one of those things. Then a very unexpected thing happens. He brings the armored car starts moving on Jagermeister. My fist thought is that it must be out of ammo from hammering me so badly.

All of the patches include all of the patches released for Game Engine 4 EXCEPT CMFI. That needs to have 2.10 before the new patch is applied. The reason that was done differently is because the 2.10 patch was so big we didn't want people that already had the game patched to 2.10 to have to download multi-gig patch again. But all of the other, despite what the reade says, really only require that you have Game Engine 4 installed.

I'm putting it right here. And I'll have sight lines in the direction of the arrows.

Meanwhile, up near Berliner Weisse, he is moving infantry toward where I plan to bring those 2 platoons. It seems they are coming from where the attrition happened earlier in the battle. I saw a lot of red crosses during that. So hopefully they are just beat up inits. I sure wish I had an OT-34 up there to burn them up.

This team trying to get the AT rifle back can't catch a break either. He's pinned down pretty quickly. Fortunately the Sherman has a line of fire to the offending unit and suppresses it.

Ugh. I never in a million years would have guessed that he'd come flying up like that. The silver lining is that I am pretty sure the OT accomplished it's mission. I see lots of bodies and heard screams from soldiers whose bodies I couldn't see. Was it a good trade? No. But still...it's something. Then, right after he blows me up, he reverses back down the street. He did one of those "let me pop up there and see if I get a shot but back right out either way" moves.

What the.............? Why is that damn Mark IV moving forward?

Thankfully there were no more of them. I almost immediately got off a series of HE rounds and then started laying on the flames. Man, this is fun. Germans are doing a lot of screaming.

I've decided that keeping the path clear for the platoons is important enough to move an OT-34 down and deal with them. Of course, as soon as I arrive I am greeted with this thing flying overhead.

I'll start today's post with some situational things. I've moved a mortar team to have a view at most of the buildings surrounding the big park near Jagermeister. I've also taken the AT in that park and moved it so that it can see down two sides of the park and between a couple of the buildings where the SMG Company (mostly) died and has a small window at the road he's been moving his armored car and tank up and down. I've also spotted a couple of enemy units moving uncomfortably close to where my 2 platoons from 6th Company will be passing through soon.

I did the AAR for the base game release of Red Thunder. The situation was completely different but there was a point at a critical time in the battle where I had a similar "what the heck did I do that for?" moment.

I guess that's what I get for being gamey with the crews.

I never said that I wasn't a gamey bastige. This crew has gotten their hands on some rifles. I'm also going to see if I can sneak forward a tiny bit and get a shot at his Mark IV near Berliner Weisse.

I don't understand yet why he's bringing this armored car forward. Maybe he's just trying to draw fire. Once the Sherman is at the end of the street he spots some bad guys right away and fires on them. I didn't get any definite kills yet but they are cowering......so that's something.

I've decided to move the Sherman down to overwatch the large park near Jagermeister. Maybe I'll see some infantry. Maybe even that damn SPW 251/21 I'm also starting to soften up the area around Berliner Weisse. I've gotten some sound contacts in a couple of buildings. So I area fire at one then move forward a little and put some flames on another.