Gunner Scott
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Well, another CG day comes to an end with the Russian night attack causing casualties but coming up short on winning the CG date. Total casualties for the Germans was 31 CVP infantry plus 12 CVP in armor. The Russian losses were 29 CVP infantry only. The Russians ended up losing I think two engineer squads and the Germans lost an Engineer full squad and HS. The Armor losses were due more to really bad luck with ESB rolls then Bob exploiting that fact in our game, the funny thing though is when my immobilized Pz III melfed its CMG in CC, the Russian HS had to keep rolling to either kill my tank or roll boxcars, the Russian HS ended up killing my tank with a 3DR. As for the VC and this really goes to show how well balanced this CG is, I ended up taking 10 stone locations, where as Bob ended up taking 21 stone lactions, so 10 - 21= 11, the Russians came up short 1 stone location to win. Amazing.
Bob really really tried to push me out of building C25 and almost did it, but when gusts blew his smoke away, he was then exposed to some mighty German firepower that threw his attack back. All in all, he managed to regain only one hex of building C23. In the middle, I pretty much gave up on the big factory to avoid the Russian 120's and his slowly creeping forward units, there were a few losses for the Germans in the big factory, being that it was gutted, his guys can peer right into it from higher levels. To the east, my boys managed to secure building Z1 and a few more buildings near the Chemists house, a nice fire base to use to pour fire into the chemists house as well as some nice jumping off points to maybe roll his eastern flank.
There was no battle for day 6 as I elected to take an Idle day and rebuild my shattered infantry companies. So day 7 will be brutal and it will be interesting to see how the Russkies defend an extended front (the whole west edge is now opened up) A few notes to round out this AAR, yes there is a Pz III in no mans land and yes again, Bob is burning down buildings further south near the bread factory so as to give the Germans less cover.
Scott
Bob really really tried to push me out of building C25 and almost did it, but when gusts blew his smoke away, he was then exposed to some mighty German firepower that threw his attack back. All in all, he managed to regain only one hex of building C23. In the middle, I pretty much gave up on the big factory to avoid the Russian 120's and his slowly creeping forward units, there were a few losses for the Germans in the big factory, being that it was gutted, his guys can peer right into it from higher levels. To the east, my boys managed to secure building Z1 and a few more buildings near the Chemists house, a nice fire base to use to pour fire into the chemists house as well as some nice jumping off points to maybe roll his eastern flank.
There was no battle for day 6 as I elected to take an Idle day and rebuild my shattered infantry companies. So day 7 will be brutal and it will be interesting to see how the Russkies defend an extended front (the whole west edge is now opened up) A few notes to round out this AAR, yes there is a Pz III in no mans land and yes again, Bob is burning down buildings further south near the bread factory so as to give the Germans less cover.
Scott