[SotM] 2012 December - Scenario Selection Voting

[Poor Yorek]

About to start this off. As there are no "Before Action Reports" and some do not like AAR's on-the-fly, I thought to post my initial dispositions here:

Soviet Set-Up:
"LEFT"
0811-6: Cpt 8-0-0 + 2xINF
1010-6: LT 10-0-1 + HMG + INF
1005-6: 81 mm + wagon
1307-6/0107-9: LT: 8-0-0 + 2xINF (reinforcing element)

"CENTRE or CROSS-ROADS"
0409-9: INF+HMG
0510-9: Cpt 10-1-1 + 2xINF
0609-9: INF + HMG
0509-9: LtC: 9-0-1 + KOMM(10) + INF + 45mm

"RIGHT"
1109-9: LT 7-0-0 + 2xINF

GERMAN INITIAL ASSAULT PLAN:
(1) Maj 9-0-1 + LT 7-0-0 +2xINF + 2xHMG north along board edge as an initial "blocking force."
(2) LtC 8-0-1 + LT 8-0-0 with CAV into the southern marshes of Bd 6
(3) Cpt 8-1-0 + LT 8-0-0 + 4xINF + HMG north along column 5, then NE along road.

The Germans hope to use their one and only combat bonus ldr and OBA to attain sufficient DIS/DEM to allow CAV charges into assault some modicum of survival vs OF. That is, use CAV as "shock troops" rather than as flanking harassment (which I doubt would attain much). Group (1) will engage any Soviet relief from the East and/or assist with attacks on the Soviet road outposts on board 6 if the Soviet just bunkers down.

Whatever happens on board 6, the Soviets have a very strong force holding the cross roads, especially having drawn Hero of the Soviet Union Captain Iam Kickassitoff and Kommisar Youvant Leadinzekranium whose favourite aphorism is: "German bullets send you to the Great Collective Farm in the Sky; a Soviet bullet means you work for 100 years in Siberia paying off the debt to the People (as fertilizer)."