Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20151018170726/@comment-27015223-20151028093654

OOC: Are we starting to wrap up with an AFOH victory now?

IC:

Colonel Bennings watches the bloody battle from his HQ. It was a fight of attrition fought at close range across the front with tooth and nail. He grit his teeth in distaste. It wasn't the kind of battle he would've preferred to fight, but the need to hold Wabag made it necessary. Now though, the 1MEB was going to do what it did best: Maneuver Warfare. At his orders, Task Force Suckerpunch, consisting of the Recon Squadron and all 6 tank companies of the 1MEB, surged forward at the Millenium southern advance to the Highlands Highway and SAU 5ID's 1st Brigade.

"Time to give those Germans a taste of their own medicine," Bennings muttered to himself, then nodded at one of his staff officers.

An order was sent, and the howitzer battery launched a volley of smoke rounds across the front of TF Sucker Punch's advance. They roared through the streets and between buildings, all guns blazing. They lacked infantry support, but the light tanks merely bypassed enemy resistance and drove to the Millenium's rear echelons. They take several casualties along the way, but the vehicles only pause long enough to pick up the crews then abandon the vehicles. They're objective is not to kill the enemy or take ground, but to penetrate their lines and wreck havoc in the rear.

Meanwhile the battle in Wabag is the complete opposite: a stagnant slugfest. The Millenium tanks, having been stripped of much of their infantry support during their advance to the town, are vulnerable to constant ambushes by 1MEB's troopers. First, machine guns would open up to target their optics and force the tankers to "button up" inside their tanks where they couldn't see as well. Immediately RPGs and ATGMs would sing out to wreck havoc on the vehicles. The Leopard 3's advanced protection suite often succeeded in protecting the vehicle from the initial volley, but most of the ambushes were located on the roofs or upper floors of buildings, too high up for the Leopard 3's heavy weapons to elevate and engage, so the tanks were forced to either retreat or be destroyed. Nevertheless, the Millenium advance was relentless, crawling forward one bloody street at a time.

SAU 5ID's 3rd Brigade in reserve begins to prepare a second defensive line behind the 1MEB.

SAU 5ID's 2nd Brigade on the North remains unengaged, and Colonel Botha cautiously sends out patrols to locate any possible enemy attacks.