Author	Blackcloud6 (Germany)
Method	VASSAL
Victor	Germany
Participants	treadasaurusrex
Play Date	2022-05-26
Language	English
Scenario	RtDk001

This is an interesting scenario depicting a prisoner grab by the Germans. Both sides have little resources so thinking through their use is important. I played the Germans and planned to block the trail into Betting with a platoon, the HMG and the wire. The other platoon was set up east of Betting to make the POW grab. The enemy attacked towards my blocking position to clear it and on a lucky roll, I killed and adjacent step and gained POWs. Thus, I had to assault Betting to prevent them from opfire as I ran the infantry platoon with the POW around the town to head east for the Major VC. meanwhile the assault whittled down the Brit defenders. The enemy tried to reinforce the assault hex with his tank platoon, but a random event mired it just like in the real battle.

I rated this a five because of its different nature than most PG scenarios. It is tough to pull of actions like patrolling and POW grabs, so my hat is off to the designer for making such a scenario.

I played this one before against a human and won as the Germans by getting the POWs off the board. I thought that the brits should have a good chance at winning this one due to their firepower and mobility. With the new PG-HQ rules allowing one human v. human play and one solo play to be reportable, and this being a quick and small scenario, I figured let's have a go at it.

The brits set up ready to assault forward with their main force while defending Betting. they got a 1--2-1 LTC and put him in betting and this paid off. The Germans set up with an infantry platoon and wire blacking the road through the woods with an HMG overwatching the road to betting. The capturing force was an infantry platoon and engineer platoon with a leader.

The brits were able to get the mechanized force up to reinforce betting and the Germans go clobbered there by massed UK fire. the brit dismounted force with the tank platoon dealt with the Germans on the hill. The German firepower slowed this attack but the Germans, though, were forced to come out and attack and try to survive on the road. They didn't. In the end all there was left was one German officer with the brits suffering no casualties.

Son: I really liked how the troops have range numbers and attack power. I also liked how the tanks have armor and cannon power. What I don't like is when you get a tie on the initiative roll and crazy things happen.

The battle was fun and it was very interesting to me. I really liked it.

We had a lot of assaults in the battle. Most of the British troops were disrupted and it was very exciting.

Thank you for reading! And I'll maybe play again.

(Shad: Germans elected not to set up between the two towns, fearing the British AFVs. This proved to be a mistake as the British AFVs quickly caught up and relieved the isolated British platoon before the Germans could finish off the assault. A good scenario for a short evening. Would like to play again with roadblock tactics.)

The entirety of the "problem" was to grab off that Infantry unit in Betting and spirit him off before the reinforcements come up. Unfortunately this was not to be and with the Armored units sweeping through the forest and flanking the Germans, there wasn't much the Germans could do about it.