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Hunting JSII
Author leonard (Soviet Union)
Method Face to Face
Victor Soviet Union
Participants unknown
Play Date 2018-09-06
Language English
Scenario BrAx041

Nice small scenario including one JSII guards platoon, some SU85 SP guns and lend-lease shermans assaulting a high hill while trying to control the main road going through. I was commanding the Soviets and my (usual) opponent set up Romanian PzIVs (T4 tanks) on the hill. Since we play face to face, we use the hidden units optional rules and some of his T4 tanks are completely hidden. My Soviet troops following the main road are flanked on the west side by some SU85 and sherman platoons. The JSII platoon is the threatening spearhead with all the other Soviet tanks hiding behind, in the light woods and other limiting terrain. The first exchanges of fire result in several shattered sherman platoons (Soviet loses 9 VPs) but the returning fire of the JSII is devastating for one T4 platoon (hit by boxcars on the first shot !). At that point, I became berserk and drove ahead with the shermans and infantry still backed by the JSII... It could have sealed my bitter defeat but all the Romanians shots missed their targets and my back fire wiped out two T4 platoons and all the Romanian infantry (I rolled a '2' in assault...). Another duel (1 X SU85 + 1 X JSII vs 1 X T4) eventually ended in full Romanian defeat and Major Soviet victory. A tense scenario really fun to play and it could have gone the other way... A slight remark : the predominance of light woods seems a bit strange for heavy wooded Romania.

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