22-09-2016, 09:47 AM
With the Home Guard in retreat to regroup, Leutnant Springen takes a view of Princes Golf course where he hopes the long fairways and beach will enable some glider landings to bring additional support.
He takes stock of his men. His first squad took the brunt of the Regulars Bren fire and four of them will continue with some minor field dressings in place that wont stop them fighting. Their squad leader Obergefreiter Ebene was not so lucky, he got hit two or three times and though his wounds are minor he still needs to recover for a few hours. Soldat Kabelbaum gets a field promotion to lead the squad until he returns.
By now Springen is hoping the rest of their support cannisters have been found and opened, he wants the 80mm mortars and observer available to provide supporting fire, but when he checks on available support, he learns some of the kit landed in the river and some is floating on the tide. Shisten... ...and the reserve platoon recalls its loaned squad to help with the search. That's ten men less to push on with. Then again he hadn't wanted to shell the fairways, with his own handicap in single figures these courses look good for a game once controlis established. Oh to be back at the bank! (He was a bank manager on civy street...)
Advancing ahead there is another golf course to clear, St Georges, more relatively open terrain to cross, but this time in the distance is a club-house and some prepared defensive positions - outposts. These are likely to prove more tricky. Hmm... Prepared defences and a squad down for this advance, a double challenge for Springen...
Still, if he can get through this, he can rely on additional support to arrive to help with the assualt on their main defences.
"Zey do haf main defences don't zey...? After ze Pioneers arrive and fix ze pier, ze final mission iss to take zis Valmington Castle... Hah, stupid Inglanter, iz probably just name of ein public houzen... commander play joke on poor Springen, it is just celebration beer-fest, ha!"
He takes stock of his men. His first squad took the brunt of the Regulars Bren fire and four of them will continue with some minor field dressings in place that wont stop them fighting. Their squad leader Obergefreiter Ebene was not so lucky, he got hit two or three times and though his wounds are minor he still needs to recover for a few hours. Soldat Kabelbaum gets a field promotion to lead the squad until he returns.
By now Springen is hoping the rest of their support cannisters have been found and opened, he wants the 80mm mortars and observer available to provide supporting fire, but when he checks on available support, he learns some of the kit landed in the river and some is floating on the tide. Shisten... ...and the reserve platoon recalls its loaned squad to help with the search. That's ten men less to push on with. Then again he hadn't wanted to shell the fairways, with his own handicap in single figures these courses look good for a game once controlis established. Oh to be back at the bank! (He was a bank manager on civy street...)
Advancing ahead there is another golf course to clear, St Georges, more relatively open terrain to cross, but this time in the distance is a club-house and some prepared defensive positions - outposts. These are likely to prove more tricky. Hmm... Prepared defences and a squad down for this advance, a double challenge for Springen...
Still, if he can get through this, he can rely on additional support to arrive to help with the assualt on their main defences.
"Zey do haf main defences don't zey...? After ze Pioneers arrive and fix ze pier, ze final mission iss to take zis Valmington Castle... Hah, stupid Inglanter, iz probably just name of ein public houzen... commander play joke on poor Springen, it is just celebration beer-fest, ha!"
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