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Scenario Rank:
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| Parent Game |
Polish Exiles |
| Historicity |
Historical |
| Date |
1940-06-16 |
| Start Time |
00:15 |
| Turn Count |
16 |
| Visibility |
Day |
| Counters |
78 |
| Net Morale |
0 |
| Net Initiative |
0 |
| Maps |
3: 26, 31, 33 |
| Layout Dimensions |
129 x 28 cm
51 x 11 in |
| Play Bounty |
239 |
| AAR Bounty |
227 |
| Total Plays |
0 |
| Total AARs |
0 |
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Introduction
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Near Chaource, France
Masses of refugees fled along the roads while French soldiers wandered beside them, unarmed, leaderless and aimless. The Poles watched in despair as they themselves joined the sad retreat. The French 4th Army’s withdrawal towards the Loire River opened up a huge gap between the two wings of the army, into which the German units rushed southwards. After crossing the Seine River at Bar-sur-Seine on the evening of 15 June, Maczek's brigade regrouped in the forest of Chaource. In the early hours of the 16th, the Polish brigade received the order to move out as an advance guard to occupy Montbard and open the road to allow the 42nd Infantry Division and 240th Light Infantry Division (DLI) to pass southwards.
The 10th Brigade established itself in this new position at dawn, after exchanging fire with patrols of the German 13th Motorized Infantry Division approaching from Tonnerre. Later that morning, behind the Maczek brigade, German armored cars harassed the remnants of the 240th DLI. The whole French maneuver had been aimed at getting the encircled units out of the trap and preventing the Germans from advancing towards Dijon.
The Poles now had to rush to block the Germans. The Maczek group would take Montbard and pave the way for the 240th DLI’s escape. However, fuel shortages forced the Poles to abandon some of their tanks, and they only retained 17 R35s when column started marching southward around 1500.
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Conclusion
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From the outset, accurate German machine-gun fire targeted the Polish rearguard. As the convoys formed up, the R35s covering the Chaource road came under fire. One damaged tank had to be abandoned, while the others opened fire and protected the advancing troops. The anti-tank platoon that should have filled this role failed to carry out the order and had to be brought into position by Major Wladyslaw Zgorzelski himself.
Once on the road, two motorized platoons missed a fork in the road and rushed straight at the Germans but managed to get away. Meanwhile, other retreating French units tried their luck pushing southward, crossing paths with the Poles. Some of these units made heroic sacrifices to stem the German onslaught: one French company held the village of Balnot-la-Grange until the evening, against repeated attacks. Once they had reached the main road, the Poles faced traffic jams and a panic triggered by an explosion.
Late in the afternoon, the rear-guard was surprised by panzer-reinforced enemy infantry. An immediate counter-attack put the attackers to flight, leaving 30 prisoners behind. Despite the victory, the Poles had been cut off.
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Additional Notes
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Use French 25mm AT, 25mm AA, 47 APX, and R40 units to represent Polish units. There is a DIY countersheet for a Polish version of the French substitute counters.
Counters from White Eagles may be used instead of those from The Deluge. |
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).
- 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.
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| 2 Errata Items |
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The reduced direct fire value of the Heer HMG became 5-5 starting with Fall of France.
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The morale and combat modifiers of German Sergeant #1614 should be "0", not "8".
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