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More Dead Cavalry
Author thomaso827
Method Solo
Victor Germany
Play Date 2014-12-30
Language English
Scenario SiFo015

This scenario pits a mixed Soviet partisan, cavalry and OMB force trying to break through a loose line of German regular troops on the main north-south road. Soviets get 2 points per Cav and OMB and 1 per partisan (although losing partisans does not count against Soviet losses). I set up the Germans, taking 2 HMGs per board, so that they were each stacked with an infantry unit. There are enough leaders for each German stack to get one. The German armored car was filler in a wider gap between infantry units and formed a quick response force. Germans were dismounted but were stacked with enough trucks to load and move if needed. I attacked with the Russian cav in the south where they struck the Germans holding the southern loop of the east-west road, hoping their cavalry assault would help punch a larger hole for others to follow through but it quickly got bogged down and took the worse of the damage. Soviets were hard core and left behind any single units that were delayed by combat results except for the OMB unit that was worth too many exit points to leave behind until just past the halfway point, when if it wasn't moving by then, there was no way for it to reach the east board edge. Cavalry had taken the brunt of casualties, but was also the only elements to reach safety as they went through the large southern woods area and ran past a stack of German infantry that had mounted, moved around and dismounted to wait for such an event. Even with 2 activations, the Germans couldn't stop the Soviet cav, first missing with a direct fire point blank shot and then a 30-factor arty shot. But those 4 exit victory points were all the Soviets could manage. Game ended at the end of turn 9, as the Partisans were just beginning to start taking heavy casualties and there were no more Soviet cavalry units left with leaders that had any chance of running the gauntlet to exit the board. With only 2 steps of German casualties, it was an easy victory for the Fatherland.

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