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Throwing Good After Bad
Deluge #4
(Defender) Poland vs Germany (Attacker)
Formations Involved
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Total
Side 1 2
Draw 0
Side 2 0
Overall Rating, 2 votes
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3.5
Scenario Rank: --- of 913
Parent Game Deluge
Historicity Historical
Date 1939-09-01
Start Time 15:00
Turn Count 24
Visibility Day
Counters 93
Net Morale 1
Net Initiative 1
Maps 2: 1, 6
Layout Dimensions 56 x 43 cm
22 x 17 in
Play Bounty 181
AAR Bounty 171
Total Plays 2
Total AARs 1
Battle Types
Delaying Action
Exit the Battle Area
Inflict Enemy Casualties
Road Control
Conditions
Anti-infantry Wire
Entrenchments
Minefields
Off-board Artillery
Terrain Mods
Scenario Requirements & Playability
Deluge Base Game
Fire in the Steppe Maps + Counters
Slovakia’s War Counters
Introduction

SS Group Leader Paul Hausser, serving on the panzer division's staff, insisted that its commander, Maj. Gen. Werner Kempf, give his men tank support for a renewed assault on the Poles. Given the political realities of September 1939, Kempf had little choice in the matter and ordered the armor to accompany the militia's second attempt.
Conclusion

The panzers rolled up to the Polish positions, where the anti-tank gunners proceeded to shoot holes in them. Undeterred, the tanks then turned to find the Polish flank — now exposing their broadsides as they trundled along in front of the Poles, who gleefully put even more holes into them. When the attack finally collapsed, the Polish gunners had claimed 39 of Panzer Division Kempf's 154 machines.
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AFV Rules Pertaining to this Scenario's Order of Battle
  • Vulnerable to results on the Assault Combat Chart (7.25, 7.63, ACC), and may be attacked by Anti-Tank fire (11.2, DFT). Anti-Tank fire only affects the individual unit fired upon (7.62, 11.0).
  • AFV's are activated by tank leaders (3.2, 3.3, 5.42, 6.8). They may also be activated as part of an initial activating stack, but if activated in this way would need a tank leader in order to carry out combat movement.
  • AFV's do not block Direct Fire (10.1).
  • Full-strength AFV's with "armor efficiency" may make two anti-tank (AT) fire attacks per turn (either in their action segment or during opportunity fire) if they have AT fire values of 0 or more (11.2).
  • Each unit with an AT fire value of 2 or more may fire at targets at a distance of between 100% and 150% of its printed AT range. It does so at half its AT fire value. (11.3)
  • Efficient and non-efficient AFV's may conduct two opportunity fires per turn if using direct fire (7.44, 7.64). Units with both Direct and AT Fire values may use either type of fire in the same turn as their opportunity fire, but not both (7.22, 13.0). Units which can take opportunity fire twice per turn do not have to target the same unit both times (13.0).
  • Demoralized AFV's are not required to flee from units that do not have AT fire values (14.3).
  • Place a Wreck marker when an AFV is eliminated in a bridge or town hex (16.3).
  • AFV's do not benefit from Entrenchments (16.42).
  • AFV's may Dig In (16.2).
  • Closed-top AFV's: Immune to M, M1 and M2 results on Direct and Bombardment Fire Tables. Do not take step losses from Direct or Bombardment Fire. If X or #X result on Fire Table, make M morale check instead (7.25, 7.41, 7.61, BT, DFT).
  • Closed-top AFV's: Provide the +1 modifier on the Assault Table when combined with infantry. (Modifier only applies to Germans in all scenarios; Soviet Guards in scenarios taking place after 1942; Polish, US and Commonwealth in scenarios taking place after 1943.) (ACC)
  • Tank: all are closed-top and provide the +1 Assault bonus, when applicable
Display Order of Battle
Germany Order of Battle
Heer
  • Mechanized
  • Motorized
Schutzstaffel
Poland Order of Battle
Wojska Lądowe
Display AARs (1)
Good After Bad, #4
Author Juiceman
Method Solo
Victor Poland
Play Date 2021-06-08
Language English
Scenario DelP004

Initial thought on this scenario was that it would be one sided and all Polish, but the Waffen SS put up a good fight that could have gone to them with a little luck and if they did not lose so many steps early on, majority PzIs, tanks count double. By turn ten they were down 14 steps to the Polish 2, the SS did eliminate a few more Polish steps but not enough to make up the difference in panzer losses.

The two Polish batteries of French 75’s, along with two mortar batteries did an excellent job of breaking up the German advance, at one point during the scenario disrupted and demoralized SS units were strung out from north to south along the west map edge with their leaders trying to rally as many units as they could, the saving grace for SS that were on the southern map was the coming sunset and darkness which would mask them from the Polish artillery spotters and dug-in Polish infantry. Once night came the good ordered Waffen SS infantry, led by the remaining PzIIs moved off the south map edge, satisfying one victory condition but the SS needed to win two out of three for a minor victory and that did not happen.
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