Panzer Grenadier Battles on March 28th:
Spearhead Division #15 - Dillenberg
The Last Battle
Author waynebaumber (Poland)
Method Face to Face
Victor Germany
Participants vince hughes (AAR)
Play Date 2011-03-15
Language English
Scenario WhEa020

This scenario was one of the most one sided I have ever played. I am however not sure if it is totally unbalanced or I messed up BIG. I suspect its a bit of both. The scenario is played over four boards with VP's for town control and step losses. Although the forces are about equal in strength the Germans have some major advantages : Higher Morale, Strong OBA, Mobility, Time (44 turns) and generally better firepower. The Poles have to defend 5 towns two of which the Germans can take on the first turn without any chance of the Poles stopping them. Now to where I messed up. The Polish forces come on from two board edges, I split the forces up even more and entered in 4 groups. The major town on board 10 which is held by the Poles is also the focal part of the battle, I failed to reinforce it enough and then tried to do a staged withdrawal which turned into a rout. In 10 turns I lost 16 steps without inflicting a single loss on the Nazi hordes. IMO the Poles have to bring all their Infantry forces on to the south edge board 10 and reinforce the town and hold that line, the Cavalry come onto the east edge of board 21 and assist best they can, screening the two towns and possibly trying to harry any disrupted demoralized enemy units that come in range. I still think that the Poles may struggle to win but the tactics above may at least make for a better defense than the rather crap effort I did. However I think that the scenario is an interesting situation and with a little tweaking could even become a classic. in fact I plan to play solo, taking my own advice and copying Vince's attack which a usual for him was well planned and executed. Its got a two rating at the moment but watch this space!

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