Author	cjsiam (Germany)
Method	VASSAL
Victor	Germany
Participants	OberstFrank
Play Date	2019-11-08
Language	English
Scenario	EFDx006

So this was an early game in the career of my opponent in PG, we thought a useful exercise in Infantry assault tactics.

The Germans have equal morale, fewer hvy weapons, no OBA--but have 2 officers drawn at random, and two picked by the Russians (these are german security forces...not well lead) Two of the officers that were random selected were ok, had a combat modifier on 1, and good morale on both (a 2!)....Russian officers were pretty good ---good morale---but only one with a morale modifier.

So the problem is the germans can't approach the woods directly (I felt) so we swept around the initial small forest(and through it) to get to the tree line which would be within fire range (for germans) and hoped to reduce the russians, then storm them....with officers to recover behind (at 7/5 morale for both, becoming a dem 1/2 platoon is a 3 or less to recover...'tain't happening)....

Tragically, my opponent, who I forgot was not born yesterday (way too much ASL in his genes) did not sit quietly to allow me to pummel him...and withdrew into forest a bit....I then had to run across, into the first line of woods and take his fire.... Which he promptly delivered and demoralized my best officer (9-1-2) and broke up my attack.... On the next round, what remained in my front line had to take a full set of russians 2deep firing adjacent...and other then like a single disruption in 4 attacks---came out unscathed...

At that point we jumped in, 3 deep, to the russian stacks with officers...and wrecked havoc.... After one more turn the Russians realized they were going to lose too many units...could not get officers into hexes that were demoralized and distrupted....and knocked over his king.

The Assaults did have Germans disrupted and some demoralized, but there were more germans ready, and good german officers---and the Russian could not take advantage.

A challenging puzzle for the Germans---putting together enough to leverage casualties, while keeping your own down.....maneuver into the southern clump of woods, which has 3hex attack ability against the russians in the woodline...seems the only sensible thing---just approaching in open without being able to reduce them seemed suicide....

Good game to explore Infantry maneuver and superior officers....if the germans did NOT have a few better officers, I doubt they could force this...