Turn 11 in freeze-frames: Sergeant Nemchik (Charles Bronson) hosing a halftrack with Crabmeat 2’s .50 cal. Captain Lynch (Harrison Ford) wriggling via a gap in a brick wall. Sergeant King (Carl Weathers) on his knees, blood trickling from the nook of his mouth. Hauptmann Steiner (Wolf Kahler) sprinting down the gangplank of the getaway U-boat, Schmeisser in hand.
(Colonel Croesus is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Fortress Italy during which Allied forces are orchestrated by commenters whereas German items are laptop managed. Each day by day flip covers one minute of WeGo motion. For a state of affairs define and accounts of earlier turns, click here).
Well and really cornered, the Sd.Kfz. 251 in SILVER dithers as Nemchik’s tank skirts the rubble heap looking for LoS. The indecision proves deadly. Predator locates prey and begins savaging it with MG hearth. The hail of .30 and .50 cal rounds is, after all, merely the prelude to a extra swingeing blow.
The first 75mm shell eviscerates the halftrack. The second – considerably pointless within the circumstances – punches straight via the flame-wreathed carcass – detonating towards the rock wall at m24.
third Squad arrive, bazookas on the prepared, to seek out SILVER comprehensively pacified.
Things go much less easily for the Americans next-door within the row 17 tunnel. The first Allied unit to set eyes on the U-boat and important quay at GOLD is the two-man portion of 2nd Squad that survived, by the pores and skin of its enamel, the mauling from the Panzer III in Turn 6.
The pair don’t get to benefit from the view for lengthy. Accosted by each the j16 pillbox and the U-boat’s flak gun (not noticed for lengthy sufficient to be correctly recognized), the scouts cease scouting – and respiratory – a number of seconds after the dock defenders open hearth.
The eagle-eyed pillbox additionally manages to espy the remainder of 2nd Squad additional down the tunnel and provides them one thing to consider. By the top of the flip the unit has misplaced its Thompson-toting figurehead and is down to only three males (BAR, Bazooka, Garand).
It’s one other irritating flip for Ashbridge’s Achilles. After attempting and failing to ascertain LoS to the pillbox, Roger Moore orders his driver to again up and head for the southern passage into SILVER at high pace.
The information from up North is actually good. While trundling to the briny finish of the row three tunnel, Crabmeat 1 makes use of its AA MG to bodkin the helmet of no less than one rifleman on the northernmost quay.
Rocca pots the goon on the BRASS catwalk, who, naturally, plummets from his perch autopsy.
Our pint-sized firestarter skid-steers into BRASS as one in every of Squires’ breaching expenses detonates, liberating Lynch and Bishop.
The scenario at T+60:
