Last yr’s conflab of Comment Commanders almost committed a war crime. This yr’s truly commit one, albeit by chance.
(Colonel Croesus is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Fortress Italy through which Allied forces are orchestrated by commenters whereas German items are laptop managed. Each every day flip covers one minute of WeGo motion. For a state of affairs define and accounts of earlier turns, click here).
It’s the penultimate flip. What’s left of Colonel Croesus’ victimless crime syndicate is now so near the twice-stolen gold bullion, they’ll scent it (for many who’ve by no means been in shut proximity to massive portions of Au, burnt sugar and damp ferrets are the dominant notes). Steiner’s Tiger was dispatched final flip. Foes in want of consideration on this one, embody an armoured automotive, pillbox MG, and U-boat deck gun.
None of the small-scale encounters and exchanges that catch the attention early on, go properly for the defenders. Colonel Croesus’ HQ workforce change from dressing wounds to inflicting them when a lone Italian makes an attempt to make use of the row 17 tunnel as an escape route.
Crabmeat 2 thins out an already severely depleted deck gun crew along with her coaxial MG.
Debussing behind the pillbox, third Squad fells a sniper workforce fleeing GOLD’s two-storey constructing.
A extra balanced firefight appears to be within the offing, however fails to materialise, when enemy grunts begin streaming in the direction of the p4 cottage.
Pinned down by LMG (?) fireplace north of the constructing…
…ex-tenants Lynch & Bishop can do nothing to discourage the bid, however, hidden by Crabmeat 1’s smokescreen, their replacements, the remnants of 1st Squad and Rocca’s HQ workforce, attain cowl in time to stall the assault.
Rocked by an Achilles supply within the opening seconds of the sixty, the troublesome pillbox that settled Nemchik’s hash yesterday, performs useless till the open-topped AFV begins reversing, and a tempting goal seems on the nook of row 17 and column r. 2nd Squad’s tank hunter has his lethal drainpipe on his shoulder and the armoured automotive in his sights when he’s spreadeagled by an MG 34 burst.
But that is the final time the pillbox troubles the Montaretto Millionaires. As the bazooka man attracts breath for the ultimate time, third Squad’s frantic efforts to blow open the fortification’s rear door with pineapples, lastly bear fruit.
Corporal Singh is the unintended warfare felony talked about within the intro. After embarrassing himself in BRONZE with some atrocious pistol marksmanship (the German within the image escaped unhurt), the Wasp superintendent orders his miniature AFV to advance.
The first napalm candidate recognized by the Wasp on arriving at s12 is the U-boat’s deck gun. What isn’t appreciated till a dripping bow of fireside is on its means is that the boys within the neighborhood of the four-barrelled flak gun have their fingers within the air.
The flip’s ultimate act is one other execution of kinds. Busy riddling Rocca and 1st Squad (Nelson’s squad is right down to 1 man by the point clock stops) the eight-wheeled armoured automotive on the slipway fails to note that there’s a inexperienced Quick-Firing finger of doom pointed at its bottom.
The shell that scuppers the Sd. Kfz. 231 has enough power left after doing the deed to exit by means of the car’s entrance armour and chisel a gap within the northern quay, near Rocca’s crib.
The state of affairs at T+60:
The pillbox, deck gun, and AC are all hors de fight. Progress on the north quay continues to be hampered by an HMG and different unidentified infantry items close to the gatehouse.
