Not only did MAG get misleading information, but apparently so did the Al Quesy organization, because their leader Joe "The Professor" Sommer also found no underlying discontent on which he could sow his evil seeds. In fact, Sommer's secretive right-hand lieutenant, known only as "Amir", was nowhere to be found, apparently having problems himself raising sufficent support from the surrounding country-side.

The long-awaited battle between good and evil would not take place this weekend.

	Will		SU-100
	Joe		Hetzer
	John		Panzer IV
	Billy		M520 Goer

	Frank		Tiger-1
	Steve		T-34
	Paul		KV-1
	Charlotte	Amphib

Although the field had recently been cut, the grass was quite thick and soggy from recent rainfall. The thick grass would cause all vehicles to slow down in a turn and the wet areas would cause the operators of vehicles with friction drive to increase their tension. One side of the field was bordered by some very tall grass and weeds about 2-3 feet tall (the Grasslands) and an area thick with small trees (the Forest).

The Red Team, on the other hand, had plans to take up strong positions on their end of the field, behind strategically placed hay bales. This strategy was pursued in part because the Blue Team had placed three hay bales in the middle of the field and the Red Team assumed they would be the prime target for the Blue Team. Actually, the Blue Team placed the bales there merely as a decoy to their plan to single out the Hetzer on the other side of the field.

As the battle began, the Hetzer as expected screamed out of the Red Team home base (west side of field) moving into the open field, while the SU-100 and Pz-IV took up their defensive positions. The Blue Team initially started down the center of the field with the KV-1 charging straight down the middle, then they swung to the north to take up offensive positions behind some hay bales placed by the Red Team near the Forest. With the KV-1 drawing fire in the center of the field, the Tiger-1 and T-34 got into a very strong position on the north side in the Red Team's half of the field. With a hay bale bunker in front and the Forest protecting their flanks, they prepared to attack.

While the T-34 and Tiger were getting into position, the Hetzer was literally strafing the KV-1 (3 hits), while the Pz-IV provided long-range support (1 hit). In only a few minutes, the KV-1 was destroyed in the middle of the open field (Paul, those hay bales were there for a reason) and went back to home base for re-incarnation. At about the same time, the T-34's gun failed to re-cock and Steve had to retreat for repairs. That allowed the Hetzer to make a high-speed flanking run on the Tiger, while the Pz-IV and SU-100 moved towards the Tiger's position. With no support at all, the Tiger retreated to the north and went straight into the Grasslands for protection. Frank knew that the plastic tracks used by the Pz-IV and Hetzer wouldn't be able to turn in the very thick weeds. That left only the SU-100 with it's attachment chain track to give it a try. Although the SU-100 could easily move back and forth in the Grasslands, it had trouble turning as well, because the grass and weeds got caught in the open tracks. Only the closed belt TTS tracks could manage the thick stuff, although even it worked overtime to turn and move around. For now, the Tiger was safe in the Grasslands, waiting for support to arrive.

Support arrived in form of the KV-1 who engaged the Panzer IV twice, both times getting hit three times by John's guns. With an extra hit each from Will and Joe, Paul's KV-1 was destroyed two more times while the Tiger-1 escaped back to home base to repair a gun problem. With only three lives allocated to each vehicle, the KV-1 was out of action after less than 20 minutes, leaving the T-34 and Tiger-1 to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, both the T-34 and Tiger-1 were having intermittent gun problems (the electronic triggers weren't firing and/or re-cocking all of the time), so they were never able to effectively shoot at any of the Red Team. Knowing this, the Red Team relentlessly conducted 2-on-1 and 3-on-1 attacks on whatever vehicle was not in home base at the time. That resulted in both the Tiger and T-34 being killed twice, without any kills recorded for the Blue Team.

After it was clear that the Red Team was in total control of the battlefield and that the Tiger and T-34 were having too many gun problems to make a difference, the KV-1 was granted more lives and again changed into the middle of the field. Although the KV-1 was able to score some hits with the only working gun on the Blue Team, with the entire Red Team in opposition, the KV-1 was killed two more times before the battle was mercifully ended by the clock.

At about this same time, the gun on the T-34 failed to re-cock. Eager to re-enter the fray as quickly as possible, Steve called a Time Out to fix his gun without knowing the dire fate awaiting the Hetzer. This fortuitous Time Out allowed Joe to easily replace the Hetzer's loose battery and become operational again. At the end of the Time Out period the SU-100, Panzer IV and the resurrected Hetzer combined to chase the Tiger into the Grasslands before the T-34 could come to its rescue.

The moral of this incident is clear: teamwork and communication rule the battlefield.