Apart from a couple of bursts of sketchy MP 40 fire in the first ten seconds of the turn, the flow of violence is all one way in Bounce the Bogen’s thirty-third instalment. As British and American forces surge towards the village, the handful of enemy units that haven’t surrendered or ceased to exist, scamper for the eastern map edge.
Vengeful Venison ensures the German platoon leader’s last glimpse of life on Earth is a wood ant scaling a mossy pine cone.
Improbably, the nearby Sicherung ‘squad’…
…reaches the forlorn ruins of the Eichhörnchenhaus before being eliminated.
Circa T+40, realising the game is up, Colonel Scholz, the commander tasked with stopping the Allies at the Bogen, leaps into a waiting Kubelwagen Type 8* and attempts to flee Nottingheim. Unfortunately for him, his departure is spotted by the gunner of the approaching M5A1.
* The ‘8’ sported experimental octagonal wheels.
As Lieutenant Tuck ends the sixty with just four arty rounds remaining, the Archer’s meagre supply of HE is now exhausted, and – concerned about friendly fire – Sergeant Pyle’s gunner is no longer pounding the 14,3,5 foxholes, Turn 34 promises to be considerably quieter than its predecessor.
