Ray Woloszyn
"Fire and Movement"
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Hot off the press and into my hands came this J13 scenario by Michael Koch, TD of the German Grenadier tournament. Again, my go-to opponent was David Stephens for our almost weekly match whose cumulative ASL gaming goes back to 1986. Problem is that our almost identical ages have caught up with us!
This scenario could be a great three player scenario, but the single Russian player, pressed on both sides of the Russian Lovat River, would have his hands full. In this case, David had his hands full with an attacking Wehrmacht force from the west and an SS force from the East.
For the first time in a while my Russians held tough with only one ELR failure the whole game while breaking two Wehrmacht and two SS officers in the course of play, disrupting the advances toward the river. The Wehrmacht had two early Stugs which did good service with a CH against my MG position taking out the 9-1 leader and his ill-fated squad and MG. I had guessed the Wehrmacht would try on their right side board edge and had my ATG HIP in the correct location but facing toward the open area in the middle of the #62 board. Because of the heavy INF accompaniment, I
dared not fire and waited until late in the game when the Stugs made for the middle of the board to garner the important VP's to win. Rear shot roared from the ATG but missed for motion and small target but got rate which prompted David to pop smoke and get away. CA now fixed in woods, the other Stug pulled a Bypass move to prevent the crew from Subsequent Defensive Fire vs. the German infantry which came a knocking. I could have tried an in hex hit but was not sure of hitting or whether it would be legal aim at a back hex side with a fixed CA.
Fast forward to the end with the Wehrmacht in position to advance and gain eight VP's. Now to the SS who ran every good order squad toward the river for the needed two VP's to seal the deal. I had plenty of men and an HMG to lay down a carpet of residual and a fire lane leaving one SS half-squad to win the game by joining the other squad and a half that had already traversed the gauntlet to the river. Just a 1 FP residual to traverse. "Pinned!" What a great game to start the new year.
This scenario could be a great three player scenario, but the single Russian player, pressed on both sides of the Russian Lovat River, would have his hands full. In this case, David had his hands full with an attacking Wehrmacht force from the west and an SS force from the East.
For the first time in a while my Russians held tough with only one ELR failure the whole game while breaking two Wehrmacht and two SS officers in the course of play, disrupting the advances toward the river. The Wehrmacht had two early Stugs which did good service with a CH against my MG position taking out the 9-1 leader and his ill-fated squad and MG. I had guessed the Wehrmacht would try on their right side board edge and had my ATG HIP in the correct location but facing toward the open area in the middle of the #62 board. Because of the heavy INF accompaniment, I
dared not fire and waited until late in the game when the Stugs made for the middle of the board to garner the important VP's to win. Rear shot roared from the ATG but missed for motion and small target but got rate which prompted David to pop smoke and get away. CA now fixed in woods, the other Stug pulled a Bypass move to prevent the crew from Subsequent Defensive Fire vs. the German infantry which came a knocking. I could have tried an in hex hit but was not sure of hitting or whether it would be legal aim at a back hex side with a fixed CA.
Fast forward to the end with the Wehrmacht in position to advance and gain eight VP's. Now to the SS who ran every good order squad toward the river for the needed two VP's to seal the deal. I had plenty of men and an HMG to lay down a carpet of residual and a fire lane leaving one SS half-squad to win the game by joining the other squad and a half that had already traversed the gauntlet to the river. Just a 1 FP residual to traverse. "Pinned!" What a great game to start the new year.