First blood to the bouncers! Captain Dale’s hurty half-dozen surprise a German sniper team halfway through the turn then find themselves hurling lead and stick grenades up one of Schloss Nottingheim’s ornately carved staircases.
The bullets and bombs behead a carved eagle and blacken a bunch of gilded grapes but don’t appear to discourage or denude the enemy MG team (?) firing from the landing above. Perhaps another minute of American aggression will do the trick.
MG bursts from Scarlet’s armoured car fail to flush out any foxholed defenders close to the rail bridge during Turn 3. However, as the Brits cautiously close on the southernmost crossing, they realise its eastern end is screened by two barbed wire obstacles not one. Navigating the thorny chicane in a wheeled vehicle looks tricky but possible.
The closest thing to an Allied SNAFU this turn involves Fletcher’s halftrack. Frustrated by an unexpectedly steep slope on the southern side of the railway cutting, it fails to reach its assigned firing position, and finishes up flashing its left flank invitingly at the 3, 3, 5 building.
Shells from the off-map 25 pdr battery should begin landing in the vicinity of said building at the start of Turn 6. Possibly because he’s now reliant on secondhand spotting info (Hood is acting as his eyes) it takes artillery spotter Tuck the entire turn to switch targets.
The situation at the start of Turn 4:
Merry and Venison’s two half teams can see the 3, 3, 5 building, and the two barbed wire entanglements from their current positions.
The Jagdpanzer and the halftrack in the village didn’t move in Turn 3.
Neither did the scout car.
Turn 4 orders here, please. Commenters are cordially invited to suggest moves for the following five unit groups (First come, first served. A maximum of one unit group per commenter. I’ll try to execute the turn as quickly as possible after all orders are in.)
(See screenshots for unit locations)
****anyone****
– Corporal Much’s Humber scout car
– Corporal Fletcher’s M5A1 halftrack + Sergeant Venison’s rifle squad + Lieutenant Merry (Four-man platoon HQ, Venison’s boss)
****subscribers only****
– Captain Hood (Six-man company HQ) and Lieutenant Tuck (Two-man spotter team for a battery of 25-pounders. 120 rounds)
– Sergeant Scarlet’s Daimler armoured car
– Captain Dale’s party (Six POWs armed with pilfered rifles and pistols) + Corporal Whitehand’s team (Two POWs armed with a pilfered Panzerschreck)
Please start all order comments with ‘ORDER’ and any later revision comments with ‘REVISED ORDER’. This will help me distinguish firm instructions from suggestions and advice.