Russian against Russian [TANKS]

[Paul <ppittelli-at-comcast.net>]

Another View in the St. Charles Slaughter:

KV-1 vs. SU-100:

After a successful reliable morning battle, the KV-1 was feeling spunky 
for the afternoon session.  Unfortunately with her 12v 26Amh battery 
towards the end of the 60 minutes, KV-1, code named Crazy Ivan, was 
getting real slow and could not turn.  So against all desire, KV-1 
ignored commands from Cmdr Frank as he screamed, "Go flank them" and 
took up a defensive position in the high grass against a couple small 
trees.  And then we saw it coming, Will and the SU-100!  Now typically 
you don't see the SU-100 up close and personal, because Will is plucking 
you off with his super sniper scope from 50 yards.  The SU-100 was 
circling like a shark looking to back me away from my trees.  KV-1 
nature kicked in, I hit reverse as hard as possible and backed away 
facing Will as he moved in front of the trees.  That's when the beast 
within Crazy Ivan "Denisovich" said, No fish-eye soup for you!, and 
charged the SU-100.  After a couple point blank paintball exchanges, 
SU-100 attempted a reverse double gainer flank the slow KV-1 maneuver.  
At that moment, mother nature scored a major blow on the SU-100.  The 
SU-100 hit the small tree when in reverse and stopped her dead.  We mean 
completely dead.  Not knowing what happened, but realizing his tank was 
a sitting duck, Will revereted to the age old quick escape and called 
"TIME OUT".  Everyone on the field of battle froze saying, "Who called 
time-out?"  Over the next couple minutes, Will diagnosed the problem and 
realized he had a blown fuse.  Reports have it that the KV-1 left an 
empty paintball container by the tree as an improvised mine.  The SU-100 
ran over the container, it got jammed in the tracks and caused the 
motors to blow the fuse.

After the timeout, SU-100's gun was oeprational so the team decided to 
be merciful and each of us contributed to the final kill of the SU-100 
for the afternoon battle.

Lesson Learned: Don't charge an old tired Russian taking a siesta by a tree!

And yes, KV-1 had just enough battery strength to get off the field 
after the battle was declared over.

Paul