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Colonel Croesus: Turn 11
Turn 11 in freeze-frames: Sergeant Nemchik (Charles Bronson) hosing a halftrack with Crabmeat 2’s .50 cal. Captain Lynch (Harrison Ford) wriggling through a hole in a brick wall. Sergeant King (Carl Weathers) on his knees, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. Hauptmann Steiner (Wolf Kahler) sprinting down the gangplank of the getaway U-boat, Schmeisser in hand.
Well and truly cornered, the Sd.Kfz. 251 in SILVER dithers as Nemchik’s tank skirts the rubble heap searching for LoS. The indecision proves fatal. Predator locates prey and begins savaging it with MG fire. The hail of .30 and .50 cal rounds is, of course, merely the prelude to a more swingeing blow.
The first 75mm shell eviscerates the halftrack. The second – somewhat unnecessary in the circumstances – punches straight through the flame-wreathed carcass – detonating against the rock wall at m24.
3rd Squad arrive, bazookas at the ready, to find SILVER comprehensively pacified.
It’s another frustrating turn for Ashbridge’s Achilles. After trying and failing to establish LoS to the pillbox, Roger Moore orders his driver to back up and head for the southern passage into SILVER at top speed.
The news from up North is essentially good. While trundling to the briny end of the row 3 tunnel, Crabmeat 1 uses its AA MG to bodkin the helmet of at least one rifleman on the northernmost quay.
Rocca pots the goon on the BRASS catwalk, who, naturally, plummets from his perchpost-mortem.
Our pint-sized firestarter skid-steers into BRASS as one of Squires' breaching charges detonates, liberating Lynch and Bishop.
The situation at T+60:
