Colonel Croesus: Turn 2

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This turn’s butcher’s bill:

211 mosquitos,104 wood ants,1long-fingered bat,1Italian cave salamander.

It was the PONK that almost cost PFC O’Brien his life. The sound caused the startled 2nd Squad soldier to notice the pair of abandoned Carl Zeiss binoculars and reach for them. If Sgt King hadn’t barked a baritone “Don’t you dare!” in his ear, and then, with callused forefinger, pointed out the filament connecting the binos to the Stielhandgranate wedged between the tank’s road wheels, O’Brien might have ended up as dead as the Fledermaus.

But O’Brien, like every one of his comrades, survives Turn 2 – a turn in which…

Crabmeat 2 completes her traversal of the minefield and finishes up in the eastern end of an apparently deserted tunnel (As the Sherman has just emerged from the smoke and dust, its possible the emptiness is illusory).

Captain Crosbie badmouths Battlefront when he discovers that Crabmeat 1 isn’t allowed to fire speculative shells thorough the swirling murk at oo11.

Captain Squires' breach team earn their cut.

1st Squad’s point man spots a suspicious sandbag wall in ‘LEAD’ as he enters the two-storey storeroom through its new, ragged backdoor.

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