Blood Libel
White Eagles #15
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(Attacker)
Poland
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Germany
(Defender)
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Total |
| Side 1 |
0 |
| Draw |
0 |
| Side 2 |
5 |
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Total |
| Side 1 |
0 |
| Draw |
0 |
| Side 2 |
5 |
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Total |
| Side 1 |
0 |
| Draw |
0 |
| Side 2 |
0 |
| Overall Rating, 5 votes |
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Scenario Rank:
865 of 913 |
| Parent Game |
White Eagles |
| Historicity |
Historical |
| Date |
1939-09-01 |
| Start Time |
15:00 |
| Turn Count |
16 |
| Visibility |
Day |
| Counters |
41 |
| Net Morale |
0 |
| Net Initiative |
3 |
| Maps |
1: 17 |
| Layout Dimensions |
43 x 28 cm
17 x 11 in |
| Play Bounty |
121 |
| AAR Bounty |
227 |
| Total Plays |
5 |
| Total AARs |
0 |
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Introduction
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On the northern end of the line in the so-called "Polish Corridor" of West Prussia, the Pomorska Cavalry Brigade faced heavy attacks by German mobile units. Taking half his regiment on a wide flanking attack, Col. Kazimierz Mastelarz surprised a German battalion sitting down to dinner.
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Conclusion
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Acting as though they were not in the middle of a shooting war, the German infantrymen carried on with their summer camp routine. Mastelarz's men rode down many of the Germans, but armored cars from the divisional recon battalion arrived just in time to prevent their annihilation. The colonel and 20 of his troopers were killed in action, and the Germans proudly showed their corpses to Italian war correspondents, claiming that the foolish Poles had launched a saber charge against tanks. A myth would spread from this incident, one that still surfaces on occasion.
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Display Relevant AFV Rules
| 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).
- Open-top AFV's: Immune to M, M1 and M2 results on Direct and Bombardment Fire Tables, but DO take step losses from X and #X results (7.25, 7.41, 7.61, BT, DFT). If a "2X" or "3X" result is rolled, at least one of the step losses must be taken by an open-top AFV if present.
- Armored Cars: These are Combat Units. They are motorized instead of mechanized. All have their own armored car leaders, who can only activate armored cars (6.85). Do not provide the +1 Assault bonus (ACC).
- Reconnaissance Vehicle: 8.23 Special Spotting Powers Both foot and vehicle mounted recce units (1.2) possess two special spotting abilities. The first ability is that they can spot enemy in limiting terrain at one hex further than the TEC specifies for other units and leaders. For example, an enemy unit in town can normally be spotted at three hexes or less, but a recce unit can spot them at four hexes.Their second ability is that they can place a Spotted marker on any one enemy unit they can spot per turn, just as if the enemy unit had "blown its cover" by firing. Such Spotted markers are removed as described earlier.
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| 2 Errata Items |
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The reduced direct fire value of the Heer HMG became 5-5 starting with Fall of France.
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One unit of Polish Calvary from White Eagles has a printed movement of 5, it should be 6 like the rest.
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