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Army Group South Ukraine #3 - Expanding the Perimeter Iron Curtain #20 - Insanity Laughs
Broken Axis #12 - Târgu Frumos: The Second Battle Scenario 1: Preliminaries New Zealand Division #10 - Medaglie d’Oro
Broken Axis #13 - Târgu Frumos: The Second Battle Scenario 2: Spoiling Attack
Cavalry Screen AAR
Author Blackcloud6
Method Solo
Victor Draw
Play Date 2012-02-26
Language English
Scenario AFro001

This AAR will be the Twitter posts I made as I played each turn. You can see these along with pictures on my CSW blog with the set up here:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@@.1dd17da2/11365

and the turns starting here:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@@.1dd17da2/11408

1600 hrs 13 Nov 1939. The Soviets move out to attack Terijoki. Finns fire mortars at the advancing infantry, no effect.

1615 hrs Russians close on the town and are hit with small arms fire. Artillery and mortars fall on both sides.

1630 hrs Vicious fighting on the NE outskirts of Terijoki. Soviet artillery has effect. Soviets push around the north.

1645 hrs The Russian pressure is being felt. Finns fall back other town as the sea of commies wash around them.

1700 A Finn counterattack stalls the Soviet assault in the north while Soviets make some progress in the east of town.

1715 the Soviets make slow progress and as Finnish casualties mount, the Finn commander ponders a withdrawal to the SW.

1730 The Soviets continue slow progress as the Finn cavalry tenaciously fights. The Finns reach their loss limit.

1745 Soviets push the Finns hard, killing a HMG platoon. But Soviet C2 problems cause follow on units to halt.

1800 hrs: Fierce gunfire erupts across the center of Terijoki as the Soviets press. But the tenacious Finns hold.

1815 The Russian press hard with 3 assaults with mixed results. The Finns hold fast as more Russian infantry enters.

1845 The Soviets push hard but the Finns are steadfast causing casualties and breaking Russian Units. It looks grim.

1900 Darkness falls and the Soviet Commander calls off the attack. The Finns hold half of the town. The Soviet Commander heads to HQ...

As sporadic fire continues in the town, the Finn cavalry prepare to slip away into the night. Grimly the Kommissar escorts the Russian Commander to Div HQ to face his "relief." The scenario is a draw. The Finns kept the Russians from taking the town but suffer too many losses to their valuable force. One more stymied Russian attack in the cold Winter War.

This one goes to a draw because the Finns lost too many cavalry steps. But they held the Russians fast with their superior morale as they could recover quickly and stay good order during the assaults. Russian fire power was deadly but the artillery could not get results when needed. Russians were also hampered by lack of sufficient leadership to be able to force the entire town while rallying troops.

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