BFCElvis

I'm feeling my oats now. I have enough armor near Berliner Weisse to try to deal with the Mark IVs that set up camp there. I am going to send a Sherman and a T34-85 to go after them by sending them in tandem to a point that I expect to have a LOF at both tanks.

Yes.....Yes, I can. It really is a relief to have had such a good turn. Until now I've felt like I was treading water. It was a good turn for morale.

There's no way that I could go 4 for 4 is there?

WHAT!?!?!?!??!?!??!!?!? TWO MORE!!!!!!!

The next turn I'm feeling a little cocky so I give it a Hunt and Reverse order, knowing that if the Hunt order gets a target it won't be reversing. BOOM! 1 down! Frgive me for getting so excited about my first AFV kill of the battle.

I took a peek around the corner with a Sherman. I gave it a Move and Reverse order because I didn't want to get caught and defenseless. I've gotten a hard spot on 2 Armored Vehicles before backing out.

Wow. We got a lot of turns in this weekend already. I may be behind him now with postings. I'm gonna get some things together now.

It's actually one that @MikeyD probably knows.

2 tanks down and I've not taken out any of his.......And look what just showed up down the other street. The last shot may show how important this intersection has become. Getting control over that may be as important as getting control over the game objectives.

UH OH!

The HQ unit calling in the smoke got kilt at the end of the Street of Death (ugh....4th Company HQ). So, I fired smoke to the intersections from one of the Shermans. It provided me some smoke cover to move into the intersection. And into the intersection I went. I feel like I really have to get control over that intersection because it is seriously inhibiting my movement.

It must have been. I've had these in other battles take huge poundings. Not this time. There were no survivors on the squad or the crew. Yes, although everything that I have installed has it and I don't even notice it anymore.

Yeah. I got a message this morning that he'd posted about he SU-85...So, I figuredI'd bring things up to date. There is only one turn that I haven't posted about yet.

Let me recap where things are to give a better idea of what is happening in the only hotspot right now: - The purple circle shows where his Panther is. He has also brought a 75mm Recoiless gun there. It's still limbered. - The Soviet troops circled in gray are the ones shooting at multiple German units in building adjacent to Berliner Weisse. The yellow line is where they are located. Pretty close, right? The're paying a price for that. - The pink circle is where the Mark IVs have been since they were first sighted. - The orange circle on the left are the troops that can see the Mark IVs. He hasn't fired on them in a while. They're keeping their heads down for now. - The yellow circle are an OT-34 and T-34-85 that came up with the now kilt SU-85. - And finally, the other orange circle is where the SU-85 joined the choir invisible. I hope this gives some perspective that may get lost in the close up shots.

"............................................................................................................................................." (notice that the round went completely through the SU-85...in the front and out the back.. That is a heck of a shot)

"Uh oh. There it is......We're not supposed to be able to see it from here..........."

"La laaa.la la. This has been a nice drive. I can't wait until we get there and get to work knocking out that Panther. This is awesome, guys. We're almost there!"

Yes, and it goes beyond just showing the game as BFC will release it (although that's a big one....it wouldn't make sense to show screenshots that include things that aren't shipped with the game. When we beta test we do not use any mods. On the Help Desk over the years I have seen all manner of odd things happen because of mods. I'm not saying that to say that mods are bad, it's just that when you are looking for bugs you don't want any 3rd party content that may introduce problems. You end up chasing ghosts that way.

Feeling pretty good right now. Germans have moved into the buildings just south of Berliner Weisse. Initially I had just a SMG HQ squad there and they are doing a bit of killing and a lot of suppressing. This is buying me the time that I need as I bring my armor up to really get busy on these guys. My tanks are moving into position.

A separate thread is a great idea. I can point the appropriate people directly to it.

Nothing is ever final with a beta version until it is a release version. This kind of TO&E expertise isn't my forte. I'll mention what you've said to HQ.

Back at Jagermeister, I've decided to mobilize some armor now in preparation for the attack that I expect from all of the sound contacts and early movement that I saw. I am putting 2 T34-85s on watch. The park area that they are overseeing has high walls around much of it. I'm setting up where I can get an LOS on as much area as I can.

Enough already......I gotta get this armor up there and get on top of this situation. Here's where I'm moving a couple of the tanks as they are now ready for some fast movement orders. I'm running a couple of the OT-34 flamers to the area behind where most of my fire base is right now. I'm going to want to drop some smoke around there and move out in front to confront the Mark IVs. The SU-85 I am taking the "back way" and, as you can see in the movement orders, when I turn the corner it'll start using a Hunt move to (hopefully) get a jump on the Panther.

Time to get back into it, Thomm. All the cool kids are doing it.

I just double checked and I have them on.........hhhhmmmmmm