Panzer Grenadier Battles on March 28th:
Spearhead Division #15 - Dillenberg
Siege of Leningrad, scenario #1: Uritsk
Author JayTownsend
Method Solo
Victor Germany
Play Date 2011-12-22
Language English
Scenario SioL001

I read another review on this scenario and it looked interesting so I drove in and gave it a try. The unit types and victory conditions seemed to hit the mark as well and I love scenarios where losing a leader counter hurts and in the special rules, if the Soviet lose a leader it counts towards initiative levels going down, which could be easily missed, as it not a normal rule.

My battle started with the Germans initial forces coming on from the south and instead of the Soviets just waiting back on the northern map 2 in the larger city of Uritsk, they had an ambush force in the forest in the middle and some of the smaller towns and fields, which consist of the Big KV-1 and a smaller T-60 tank platoon, also some AT guns, a few Infantry and Machine gun units. Farther back on board 2 on the larger hill the Soviets also had a couple of batteries of 76.2 mm guns and a 120mm mortar to support the forward units. Then the majority of the Infantry type units and support weapons and two more T-60 tank platoons defended the city of Uritsk as you might suspect.

The Germans came on the map and tried to avoid the forest but the KV-1 and one T-60 tanks platoons came charging out. The Germans lost two steps of StugIIIB and one step of PzJrI before the Soviets later lost the KV-1 and one T-60 platoons pushing their luck too much with the other StugIIIB and a German 50mm AT gun getting some nice cross fire bonus but that KV-1 was a work horse up until that point and the Russian on board and off board artillery started to put a small dent In the German Infantry but finally the German larger off board artillery suppressed the Russian 76.2 mm Guns long enough for the Germans to assault those dug-in units on the hill.

At this point the Germans reinforcement came on the map, just in time to setup and start the second phase of the offense, to eliminate the Soviet units in the smaller towns and to finally assault the larger city of Uritsk ,as now they had halftracks, engineers, armored cars and more Infantry and the Soviets were now reduced to defending but still with a little bite left.

In the final phase, the Germans controlled ¾ of Urtisk before I called the battle at this point, as the Germans also had a Major victory at this point with control of more town/city hexes and more enemy units eliminated with no real hope of the Soviets changing the outcome.

I did find this as an enjoyable scenario however and I think if I would have tried a different strategy with the Soviets, they could have possibly won this. Maybe concentrate all the forces in a forward positions on map 15 and not pull back to map 2 until they are really hurting or the German reinforcement arrive or group them all on map 2 to begin with and just defend there. Well, next time!

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