Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20151018170726/@comment-14850713-20151028073052

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The tanks of Gruppe Holste surge over the Highlands Highway and steamroll over the SAU positions in support of the 3rd Batallion infantry. But the aggressive action by the AFOH mechanized force in Wabag, sending light tanks to menace the right flank of the advance (knocking out several Leopards and Pumas in the process), stops them in their tracks. Holste himself, whose HQ is co-located with the 2nd Battalion, is pinned down in one of the houses they have captured, and thus cannot see what's happening. He picks up the radio. "Command, this is Holste", he shouts amid the din of rfile and cannon fire, "we have overrun the southern approaches to the town. Suggest to move the available reserve of Todt to this sector to complete the breakthrough. Resistance is stiffening."

The 1st and 2nd Battalion troopers advance through the now deserted streets in order to  flank the stubborn AFOH defenders and lessen the resistance to Gruppe Todt battering its way through the town. But after another wave of air strikes, Todt's units are now disorganized and scattered around the central area in several pockets. Holste and his staff are able to mount their Pumas to join the leading units. That's when he gets news of the defeat of the massive invasion force everyone in the pocket hoped would relieve them. "Say again, command," he says over the communicatiions net, but he had heard and understood loud and clear. The attack, for which his men have given the supreme sacrifice, is not destined to succeed. All that is left now is to save them.