Panzer Grenadier Battles on March 29th:
Spearhead Division #16 - Final Accounting
Iron Wolves Take Out Iron Chariots
Author thomaso827
Method Solo
Victor Lithuania
Play Date 2015-04-05
Language English
Scenario IrWo007

First try at the Iron Wolves book, I wanted a short scenario with a good mix of troops. This one has Lithuanian infantry and AT weapons vs Soviet light tanks and truck transported infantry, both sides with OBA while the Lithuanian 75mm guns were better for bombardment than for AT fire. Russians are to take out as many Lithuanian defenders as possible as they try to get as many Russian units as possible off the west edge of the board. The Lithuanians set up with one stack of leader, Inf and HMG on the eastern board in the northwestern woods supported by a 37mm AT gun with it's wagon transport, just close enough to the east-west road to engage tanks and trucks going by. The rest of the Lithuanian force was set up in a line from north to south using the central town hexes as a main base, with infantry & hmg stacks with leaders and in between AT guns with their wagon transports. The idea was that this would inflict some damage to any Russian force that left the road and tried to get around the flanks of the woods on the western board. Russians lead off with the truck mounted troops, who took the first losses as they got too close to the central town of the western board. The infantry stack in the woods in the eastern board fired but did no damage as those trucks went by. Next the Russian tanks came in stacks of 2, each one having the top unit with the tank leader. They stopped at the end of thier first move just in range of the 37mm AT gun but suffered no damage to that unit. Russian infantry deployed in the middle and tried to assault Lithuanian infantry and AT guns in the northeast edge of the southern woods while the Russian tanks moved up the road again, and again taking no loss from the weak AT guns. Lithuanian infantry in the central town moved to assault Russian armor while Russian infantry got bogged down in asssault with one of the Lithuanian 75mm guns and some infantry. Lithanians were devastating in assault, with rolling a 2 in two assaults, taking out the first full Russian tank units. After just a few more turns, Russian infantry survivors were headed back the way they came, exchanging OBA fire with Lithuanian troops, but Russian armor succeeded several times in breaking away from assaults, and succeeded in getting several units off the edge of the board. Casualty for casualty though, the Lithuanians dished out much more than they took. At the end of 18 turns, Russians succeded in getting 14 points of armor at 2 points per step off the edge of the board, but lost a total of 34 casualty points, which included quite a bit of their armor and all of their infantry. Game ended with 34 points to 24, Lithuanian minor victory. Great game.

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