Marders move up to machine Russian as they break from cover!
My fourth game was against Ben and his massive Russian infantry. The mission was Cauldron which meant I was going to be attacking Russian infantry who are dug in around the objective in rubble. Ben is also an engineer so he and I hit it off right away. It looked like I was going to have my work cut out for me as he had a massive amount of infantry I was going to have to chew through in order to take the objective.
Big Willie's Pioneers
OC and 2IC
Full Armoured Pioneers
Half Trucked Pioneers
Armoured Mortars
4 x 7.62 Marders
2 x 8-Rads
2 x 2cm SP AA trucks
2 x Panthers
Ben's Russian Infantry
OC and 2IC
Full Infantry company
Small Infantry company
Anti-tank rifle company
Pioneer company
6 x Heavy Mortars
4 x Spetznas
3 x SU 85s
Set Up
Objectives are in front of both hills in the centre of the board on the right
Scores of Russian Infantry surround an objective
More infantry by the other objective
Panthers deploy on the left in an attempt to corner the immediate ambushing SU 85s
Pioneers, 8-Rads and Mortars all deploy in the same area by sheer luck
Turn 1
Panthers re-position immediately and take out the first of the SU 85s
Marders fan out and start trying to pick off stands of Russian infantry
Pioneers move up to gain contact with the Russians
Turn 2
Realizing that their back door is unsecured the Marder move to cover all directions
Slowly the German fire begins to take out stands of the largest infantry company
Marders catch another SU 85 in the open and take it out but the stubborn Russian refuse to break
Turn 3
Marders move to intercept reinforcements
The Anti-tank rifles that were not attached out arrive from reserves and are wiped out to a stand
Turn 4
Marders re-position to continue digging out Russian troops from the rubble
Half-tracks and 8-Rads move back to the front lines to continue digging out the Russians
Turn 5
Spetsnaz arrive from reserves but stay within the woods
The OC makes sure that he is close enough to the objective to keep the game going
Pioneers attempt to break into the rubble...
But are repelled by the Russian hordes
Turn 6
Heavy mortars arrive from reserve and are immediately attacked by the marders and the 2IC
Between machine gun fire and an assault the Marders destroy both the mortars and the Spetsnaz
Turn 7
8-Rads and AA trucks attempt to add their weight of fire to digging out the Russians
Panthers, Marders and the Company HQs begin to move forward on the left flank
Turn 8
The Russians move flame throwers forward in an attempt to take out one of the small German platoons the final volley of fire from the combined German force breaks the large Russian company despite 3 fearless rolls!
Turn 9
With the Russian battalion below half the remaining forces get out of the rubble and attempt to assault the remaining Germans
A birds eye view of the Russians being machine gunned in the streets while the Panthers take out the final SU 85s
Ben called it here giving me the 4-3 win. He asked me why I didn't move my AA trucks behind cover to make sure that he couldn't take them out and give me the 5-2 just allowing him to keep rolling until he failed. I suppose that would have been the smart play but it just didn't seem fitting. I really enjoyed playing Ben and after the failed Pioneer assault that was wiped out it was an up hill struggle. Good times were had by all and my overall performance is 2-1-1.
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