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Morning Encounter
Deluge #37
(Attacker) France
(Attacker) Poland 		vs Germany (Attacker)
Formations Involved
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Draw 0
Side 2 1
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Scenario Rank: --- of 940
Parent Game Deluge
Historicity Historical
Date 1939-09-04
Start Time 02:00
Turn Count 36
Visibility Day & Night
Counters 97
Net Morale 0
Net Initiative 0
Maps 4: 103, 104, 105, 6
Layout Dimensions 86 x 56 cm
34 x 22 in
Play Bounty 196
AAR Bounty 227
Total Plays 1
Total AARs 0
Battle Types
Delaying Action
Exit the Battle Area
Inflict Enemy Casualties
Meeting Engagement
Road Control
Conditions
Off-board Artillery
Reinforcements
Scenario Requirements & Playability
Broken Axis Maps
Deluge Base Game
Fall of France 1 Counters
Fire in the Steppe Maps
Parachutes Over Crete Counters
Introduction

Army Krakow’s command added several small motorized units to Maczek’s command and tasked him with continuing to delay the advancing German panzers. This could best be achieved, Maczek believed, by continuing to act aggressively. If the Black Brigade allowed itself to be pinned down for long in positional warfare, it would be destroyed by superior German firepower as so many foot-dependent formations had already discovered.
Conclusion

The Polish mechanized cavalry held off the German recon units for much of the morning, but the arrival of a German mountain battalion on their flank unhinged their position. Now facing elements of four different German divisions, 10th Mechanized Cavalry Brigade conducted a fighting retreat but suffered heavy losses before it could disengage from all of its enemies.
Display Relevant AFV Rules
AFV Rules Pertaining to this Scenario's Order of Battle
  • Vulnerable to results on the Assault Combat Chart (7.25, 7.63, ACC), and may be attacked by Anti-Tank fire (11.2, DFT). Anti-Tank fire only affects the individual unit fired upon (7.62, 11.0).
  • AFV's are activated by tank leaders (3.2, 3.3, 5.42, 6.8). They may also be activated as part of an initial activating stack, but if activated in this way would need a tank leader in order to carry out combat movement.
  • AFV's do not block Direct Fire (10.1).
  • Full-strength AFV's with "armor efficiency" may make two anti-tank (AT) fire attacks per turn (either in their action segment or during opportunity fire) if they have AT fire values of 0 or more (11.2).
  • Each unit with an AT fire value of 2 or more may fire at targets at a distance of between 100% and 150% of its printed AT range. It does so at half its AT fire value. (11.3)
  • Efficient and non-efficient AFV's may conduct two opportunity fires per turn if using direct fire (7.44, 7.64). Units with both Direct and AT Fire values may use either type of fire in the same turn as their opportunity fire, but not both (7.22, 13.0). Units which can take opportunity fire twice per turn do not have to target the same unit both times (13.0).
  • Demoralized AFV's are not required to flee from units that do not have AT fire values (14.3).
  • Place a Wreck marker when an AFV is eliminated in a bridge or town hex (16.3).
  • AFV's do not benefit from Entrenchments (16.42).
  • AFV's may Dig In (16.2).
  • Open-top AFV's: Immune to M, M1 and M2 results on Direct and Bombardment Fire Tables, but DO take step losses from X and #X results (7.25, 7.41, 7.61, BT, DFT). If a "2X" or "3X" result is rolled, at least one of the step losses must be taken by an open-top AFV if present.
  • Closed-top AFV's: Immune to M, M1 and M2 results on Direct and Bombardment Fire Tables. Do not take step losses from Direct or Bombardment Fire. If X or #X result on Fire Table, make M morale check instead (7.25, 7.41, 7.61, BT, DFT).
  • Closed-top AFV's: Provide the +1 modifier on the Assault Table when combined with infantry. (Modifier only applies to Germans in all scenarios; Soviet Guards in scenarios taking place after 1942; Polish, US and Commonwealth in scenarios taking place after 1943.) (ACC)
  • Tank: all are closed-top and provide the +1 Assault bonus, when applicable
  • Armored Cars: These are Combat Units. They are motorized instead of mechanized. All have their own armored car leaders, who can only activate armored cars (6.85). Do not provide the +1 Assault bonus (ACC).
  • Reconnaissance Vehicle: 8.23 Special Spotting Powers Both foot and vehicle mounted recce units (1.2) possess two special spotting abilities. The first ability is that they can spot enemy in limiting terrain at one hex further than the TEC specifies for other units and leaders. For example, an enemy unit in town can normally be spotted at three hexes or less, but a recce unit can spot them at four hexes.Their second ability is that they can place a Spotted marker on any one enemy unit they can spot per turn, just as if the enemy unit had "blown its cover" by firing. Such Spotted markers are removed as described earlier.
Display Order of Battle
France Order of Battle
Armée de Terre
  • Motorized
Germany Order of Battle
Heer
Poland Order of Battle
Wojska Lądowe
  • Motorized
  • Towed
Display Errata (2)
2 Errata Items
Scen 37

The set up for the Germans does not have any information on Initiative, Morale and OBA.

(Juiceman on 2023 Nov 12)
Overall balance chart for 63

The morale and combat modifiers of German Sergeant #1614 should be "0", not "8".

(Shad on 2010 Dec 15)
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