So this one starts out with a vastly outnumbered Slovak force holding the entire board, getting attacked at night (and surprised to boot) and needing to kill Hungarians and hold the road. Sadly to say they were unable to do much of anything of the sort. Helping the Slovak cause was the existence of the 1-10-2 Porocik who, in assault combat, especially defending a town, is gold, right?

Well, with an intro like that, of course he failed completely. Within the first three and a half hours the town falls with half the Slovak force. I had heavily manned the town with the intention of delaying and possibly stopping the Hungarians through the strength and resistance to demoralization of the Porocik (a minus three in a town for any attempt to recover morale helps a LOT). Unfortunately he managed to get demoralized himself and a subsequent assault on him along with the demoralized troops blew through the town and left a slightly dented Hungarian force to assault the remaining 1/2 of the Slovaks on the ridge outside of town.

A spirited resistance was expected but somehow didn't appear and the Hungarians virtually destroyed the entire force (most of them being lost on compound demoralization so the forces were not killed they just ran away (thus the title of the AAR).

Relatively normal infantry assault stuff here and of interest primarily due to the "early war" nature of the action. I give it a 2 due to the limited options available to the Slovak player. One of these times I will have to try an indirect defense. With the double blind approach described in the article section you could hide off road and mount an ambush on a section of the road after the main force had assumed that no such attack was possible.

I see a lot of end gaming on road control scenarios which gives the game some tense moments but is completely unrealistic as the "defeated" troops would have left the area in order to regroup.