River Defense

[J6A]

That is a great one.  I've played it about 3 or 4 times now.  You need some good luck on the lower direct fire columns but the low morale of both sides means that demoralization will take a unit out of commission for quite a while.

It's wild.  The Slovaks have demoralized a bunch of Hungarians with low rolls and killed a few steps.  However, lucky Hungarian fire demoralized the Slovak leader at the bridge and one of the 2 platoons there.  The other one was disrupted, giving the Slovaks a whopping 3 points for assault. The only thing going for them was the first fire from being dug in...and they rolled boxcars to stall the Hungarian attack.  Unfortunately, the Slovak leader who could have sent in reinforcements got disrupted and was 2 hexes away, so who gets initiative next turn will be important.  The map is scattered with demoralized units.  Heck, the Hungarian 11 morale leader even rolled boxcars on an M check...of course, he quickly recovered.  The Hungarians still have fresh troops to keep up the attack, and who knows how long that will last.  I'm only through 7 turns, so the Hungarians do have some time to pull back and try a second assault if it continues to go wrong, while the Slovaks who get demoralized aren't coming back soon, especially because there aren't enough Slovak leaders to run back and gather them up.

The next scenario is 4 maps, in one long row.  If you look at my records, I don't generally play 4 map scenarios.  And I'm having so much fun with these Hungarian/Slovak battles that I'll make an exception.