Panzer Grenadier Battles on April 24th:
Grossdeutschland 1944 #17 - Spoiled at Pascani Road to Berlin #72 - What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Wiped out by dawn
Author scrane
Method Solo
Victor Hungary
Play Date 2010-12-02
Language English
Scenario FiAx002

This is a quick-playing battle wherein the Slovak defenders, with a weak battalion, must retain control of at least 1 road hex on two boards, but they are required to spread their forces out at start and may not begin to move or fire for 1.5 hours or until Hungarian units move adjacent or attack. The battle begins about 4 hours before dawn.

The attacking Hungarians have a reinforced battalion, and deployed in three roughly company-sized groups. One would attack the first Slovak-held town, one would attack the second town, and one would bypass those targets and engage the last Slovak roadblock.

The Hungarians advanced under cover of darkness to positions just beyond visibility range of their respective targets. Beginning on the sixth turn, they crossed their lines of departure and commenced their attacks. Since both sides had low 7/5 morale, the Slovak defenders opted to stay dispersed in their town hexes rather than stack and risk catastrophe on a few bad morale rolls. Both sides exchanged fire for about an hour with little effect, until the Hungarians had moved enough units in place to simultaneously assault both defended hexes in the second town. In the next three turns, that town was captured, an assault in the first town took out half the defenders there, and the remaining Slovak INF, retreating to a position farther back, was overrun by a company of victorious Hungarians advancing out of the second town.

Halfway through the game, the Hungarians had eliminated half of the Slovak defenders for just half a step loss to themselves. The game's second half saw the Hungarians form up their three company sized forces into a full battalion that deliberately assaulted the last Slovak roadblock. Control of the road by Hungary was assured. Major Hungarian victory.

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