It is Day 1 of Fall Weiss when elements of the German 7th Division cross the Czechoslovakian border to invade Poland. They almost immediately stumble upon an unfinished fortified zone. The polish defenses hastily deployed a border battalion, trying desperately to man all the strongpoints and entrenchments. Others dug in deep and anxiously awaited the German onslaught whilst word was sent to the hinterland, hoping that reinforcements might arrive ASAP.

After a barrage of tremendous proportions, the Germans started their assaults. Largely outnumbering the defenders, they approached the fortified line through a line of minefields. This line proved murderous! Quickly, the Germans adopted different routes of approach and started to assault the strongpoints, whilst avoiding those dreaded minefields. Most of the strongpoints turned out to be unfinished, and as such they fell with ease in German hands.

At that moment, the Poles received a boost of morale: reinforcements arrived! Some National Guard units entered the battlefield, but failing to grasp the tactical situation, they immediately made a bad decision by failing to occupy an unmanned entrenchment. This proved a fatal error when that trench fell into surprised German hands without a shot fired.

However, the other Polish fortifications proved to be made of much better stuff. Turn after turn, German assaults failed to even hurt the entrenched defenders. German planes ruled the skies, but apparently they hadn’t been trained for ground assaults. During the whole scenario, only a single Ju88 unit managed to do some damage! Other heroics were being performed by a lone polish mortar platoon that defended a part of the town. They managed to beat off assault after assault for more than 2.5 hours!

But heroics alone don’t win wars. German numbers proved too hard to resist endlessly and one by one the defended positions started to crumble. The Germans achieved their minor victory conditions in turn 21 and during the last turn of play (t24), the last surviving Polish troops were driven of the battlefield. Only 2 demoralized Polish units and a disheartened Major could escape the carnage to warn HQ that the forts didn’t hold the line.

A last turn major victory for the Germans!