Tanks and Mortars....Assault

[saracv3]

I just had a situation in PoCr similar to CJ’s. A lone German mortar rolled disruption on two full strength good order Greek infantry platoons with 10-1-1 Lt. The Greek stack moved in for an easy kill, but this German 81mm didn’t budge. It’s 8/7 morale against the Greek’s 7/6 was key.

When the German’s time for activation came, he did nothing. He didn’t move because of the threat of the Free Shot; he couldn’t Direct Fire due to Assault Hex restrictions and he couldn’t Assault because he had no leader. Without the leader he couldn’t go through with an Assault attack. He could have attempted to move out of the hex because he was moving away from the enemy.

Am I correct here?