Author	goosebrown (Germany)
Method	VASSAL
Victor	Germany
Participants	Grognard Gunny (AAR)
Play Date	2024-10-20
Language	English
Scenario	TBRa001

This was a tremendous game with my esteemed opponent Grognard Gunny.

This is the first time we've played Raseinai and I don't normally play Russian front games so this was really a treat. I played the Germans and I played a pretty heavily motorized column with a solid recon element, including armored cars, and my mission was to clear the road through the forest and to Exodus many troops as I could.

The Russian player placed a solid defense across the bottom of the forest where I had to enter the board. The road meandered slightly off center east through the forest, forcing the Germans to pass in front of the forest and the Russian defenses. I wasn't about to do that so I decided to run my motorized units and my recon unit up the right of the forest along a well prepared defense that the Russians had placed including a 76 mm gun.

Over the first couple turns things went relatively well and then I got a very good role and knocked out the 76 mm. My initial plan had been to move around the east of the forest and then attack into the forest doubling back to the west to bypass the Russians and then clear that road.

But the opportunity presented itself for me to wheel to my right and head directly into the forest itself with all my infantry where they just slowly went through couple hexes at a time and handled Russian defenders as they found them. The Russian player handled this well and did what they could, but frankly, this is the biggest force of German infantry I've ever commanded and they had a lot of fire power and so I would get clos, fire and then I would assault and the morale differences just made the day. So by the end of the game I cleared the forest on the on my left and cleared the road hexes fulfilling the objective.

I like the scenario and I would love to play Grognard Gunny again, and I believe we are set to do that for the second scenario of of Raseinai.