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Dead Heroes Can't Hold
Author thomaso827
Method Solo
Victor Germany
Play Date 2015-09-05
Language English
Scenario WhEa016

My first game with the White Eagles book, this little fight has a company of Polish bycicle troops supported by a 37mm gun defending a bridge against 2 German infantry companies supported by an HMG, mortar and engineer platoons and a company of Pz-1s. This early war fight shows the proper use of a 37mm gun when used against the light armor of the time. As the German panzers made for the bridge with the infantry right behind them, the 37mm guns were able to take out 4 of 6 steps of tanks before finally being overcome in 3 turns of assault. The high Polish morale kept the troops going long after most would have been falling back. The Polish Captain held the hex adjacent to the east end of the bridge with 2 bycicle platoons while a good LT held the bridge itself with one more. Both hexes were assaulted early on as Germans struck directly from the west and also having crossed north of the bridge using the engineers help. As the defenders started losing steps, the Germans were able to switch out demoralized troops with good order troops, and the Polish commander succeeded in getting out of assault to join the troops on the bridge on turn 11, hoping to hold out there in a last stand, but the German luck won out and the last 2 steps of bycicle troops along with both leaders were killed to a man, demoralizing most of the attack force in the process, but leaving one good order platoon and 2 disrupted leaders to claim ownership while the closest Polish troops were in the town with no leadership, and the last Polish LT had earlier fled towards the woods to the west of the bridge and had no chance of regrouping an attack force to contest the bridge. Very good fight right up to the last.

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