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This was a very old AAR, but a FTF with a old friend. He took the Soviets and I had the Germans. I was still learning the game but he was generous with his strategy. The perspective is all from the German side as these were my notes. Setup - The tanks and armored cars were setup on the road close to the board 8/3 border. The infantry and artillery were loaded on trucks on the road back near board 8 west edge. The Soviets had infantry companies setup in the town on board 3 and the woods east of the river. Dug in AT guns and HMG's hold the bridge and several infantry platoons hold the north and south flanks. The T-37's and mortars were located on board 1. Germans start moving the armored cars up the road to attack the bridge. The tanks move to the woods in the north to provide support. Truck loaded infantry move up the road and bailout near the boarder with board 3/8. Long range Soviet AT fire hits a truck unit for a quick kill. (my mistake was to keep the infantry and leaders back so I did not get to us the masive German OBA.) I moved the armor forward to fire on the Soviet HMG's on the bridge. Soviet AT fire gets another kill, at this point I get the infantry moving and get a leader so I can spot the AT guns. OBA silences one AT gun and disrupts the other. A German company moves to assualt the bridge and is hit with OP fire, HMG units move up to provide support fire. The Soviet HMG on the bridge is demoralized and runs when it tries to rally. The armored cars move forward and get hit with 45mm AT fire, luckly missing. Tanks move across nexts as well as some still mounted infantry. The Soviet company in the woods moves to the edge to open fire on the mounted infantry. Soviet morters start lobbing in shells with no effect. German OBA goes after the Soviet company in the woods east of the river. The German tanks move around the town to move in on the flank while the mounted infantry dismount and move up. Soviet OP fire disrupts several German units, but German ENG units move up to assualt with infantry. The Soviet tanks move up to try to support the defense of the town. German Pz IIIh wipe out the attack. The German assualts start on the town. Several get bogged down and take several turns to resolve. The Soviets try to bring up several reinforcing units but it was not enough to hold off the attack. By turn 18 the town on board 3 is taken by the Germans. The Soviets don't have any mobile force and the German armored cars and a couple of tanks move to attack the 82mm mortars in the town on board 1. The mortars get overrun and the Germans have the win. A good scenario but slightly unbalanced in favor of the Germans. |
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