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Edelweiss IV #19 - Spring Offensive
Charge!
Author Matt W
Method Solo
Victor Germany
Play Date 2012-10-18
Language English
Scenario DeRa013

Well I think I finally have a bit of the hang of the advance and exit thing. At least in the situation where the defender has very low armor values. In this scenario a regiment full of Stuarts is trying to stop a mixed bag of German armor (IIs, IIIJs and IVEs) from exiting the board. They do have a chance, especially if they can get into crossfire positions as they need to knock off four steps of German armor without losing six of their own.

In the event they were able to get the four steps destroyed but to do it they lost 11 and the Germans were able to meet their "exit" requirement so the win goes to the Germans.

Basically the play worked like this. The Stuarts broke into two groups on either flank of the Germans to set up the crossfire. The vulnerable PzIIs ran out of range while the IIIs and IVs went straight towards one of the groups of Stuarts, they were able to knock out some of the IIIs but were savaged in two turns. The trailing group of Stuarts were unable to catch up and the 50mm AT gun took out a couple more steps while they chased the Panzers.

There really wasn't much else happening here. It is interesting to see how the open terrain causes a much more cautious advance. I rate this one a "2".

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