If You HAVE To Play This Then Do

As I am attempting, amongst other things in PG to play the Rumanian battles in chronological order, then, as a 'completist' kind of fella, I had to play this. The game was played face-to-face, but was a pretty poor one. In fact, I rated it the lowest score I could give. Its just not interesting.

As the Rumanians, you have two choices. Either lose by moving around the board in a vain attempt to achieve something, or draw, by digging everybody in on the main hill and hedgehog the thing ! As I always play so as not to lose, I had to go for the boring draw. Here is what occurred.

On arrival at the front I saw our men from two battalions of the 35th Reserve Division positioned atop of a hill that overlooked the plains that the Russians would have to advance over.Our loyal troops had deployed much as a hedge-hog, all concentrated on the main high ground position.

As the Soviets came into sight, our lone mortar platoon was directed by an OP officer and scored success immediately on the enemy’s mortars that were plodding along on wagons. Within 30 minutes, this Soviet force was maneuvering itself into a position of attack. But before they could so, they needed to find where in the high ground us Rumanians were located. A smallish enemy recon force, consisting of a platoon each of infantry and machine-guns probed up the slope. As they neared our men, a most awful maelstrom of bullets was let loose at them. These Stalinists were cut down where they stood, around 70 plus of them including their leader, just lying still on the hill. The remaining group, about 15 machine gunners, galloped off back to the main body.

One would suppose that when they reached their superiors, they must have explained the hill was too manfully defended, for the enemy never did attack again that day and the encounter subsided into a watching stalemate.

A very boring draw ! However, we did get 2 x Airborne scenarios in that day as a result of it.