Long story short is that 17D ist kaput at end of Russian turn 7. I was kind of banking on it to get a few key tasks accomplished and lucked out. I had a lot of prep fire and it was all ineffective except a shot that revealed dummies in R36. SAN continued to be active but it didn’t really change anything in the larger context.
First move was the berserk 2-3-7 charging X20 from Y20. They made it and soaked up some fire from the defending Fanatic 2-3-8 and a 10-2 deathstar. In DF he also got tagged by a 75 INF. I didn’t realize you could individually target such a non-moving, non-melee enemy unit in the same hex with friendly forces without adversely affecting your own guys. Never came up before in my gaming experience so I learned something new although we didn’t find the rule cite. Everybody in the hex died in HtH CC.
I skulked a lot of guys (Z20 to cellar, when he advanced up he had sole control of the entire waterworks), BB20 to BB19 (he got fired up and just broke with a 4,5 DR on an NMC. I didn’t rout him out so we could retain control of the 2 hexes of the State Bank while Dr D’s 5-4-8 was in CC21. Q34 skulked back to R34 because he looked like he was going to take a lot of PBF and get encircled. W32.C self-rallied and advanced up to W31.C so he could PBF the HS/HMG in W30. The StuG w/acq on him got the hit and a 2,1 effects DR for K/3. I passed the 3 ck but lost a HS. I pushed a 2x? from T36 to the street and eventually advanced in to take the now vacant R36.
We got REAL lucky on the stuka attacks. All 3 either blew their sighting TCs or missed. They targeted the dug-in T-34, the broke 4-5-8 in the State Bank, and the 9-2/HMG in Y13.1. AF was mostly ineffective except a shot that revealed dummies in P34. No routs. I advanced my 4-5-8 from R31 to S31 to insure I controlled the knocked out StuG. The next time the Germans look inside that vehicle they are going to think the burnt out wreck is a crack den. No recovery possibility, I wanted it gone for good.
Big win for the Germans who gained 83 stone locations to the Soviets gain of 6. The attack was much more successful and less costly than the 15D attack (~20 squads lost as opposed to 30 squads).
I did make sure the perimeter isolated some of the Germans by connecting X9 to X20 (the German HSs death was key). Mike P preferred to pull back the 9-1, 3-3-8, 4-6-8 than hide within the loop. The 4-6-8 CR’d on the way out adding another HS to the tally and bringing us both to 21.5 squads lost for the scenario. The death toll has been high as you can see below. The Germans have lost 87 squads to date of the potential 190 squads the Germans can have until 20 Sep when the 194th Inf Regt and other elements of the 71st div are released (which potentially adds ~81 more squads if all are purchased and un-depleted). The Soviets have lost 109.5 squads to date. This seems like a high number but 26 of those were conscripts. Any of those lucky enough to survive to 15D got promoted to 1st line.
Final scenario death toll:
German losses: 1.5x8-3-8, 2.5x5-4-8, 1.5x4-6-8, 13.5x4-6-7, 2.5x4-4-7, 1x1-2-7, 10-2, 2x9-2, 9-1, 8-0, Stug IIIB, 1-2-7 = 63 CVP
Russian losses: .5xNKVD, .5x6-2-8, 13.5x4-5-8, 7x4-4-7, 2x2-2-8, 10-0, 6+1, 8-1, 8-0, 9-2, 9-0, 7-0, KV-1 M42, captured 45LL = 69 CVP
Naturally, the Soviets declared a night attack (our 3rd). We kick that off in 1 week. I should be able to get some pics and the perimeter up soon.
First move was the berserk 2-3-7 charging X20 from Y20. They made it and soaked up some fire from the defending Fanatic 2-3-8 and a 10-2 deathstar. In DF he also got tagged by a 75 INF. I didn’t realize you could individually target such a non-moving, non-melee enemy unit in the same hex with friendly forces without adversely affecting your own guys. Never came up before in my gaming experience so I learned something new although we didn’t find the rule cite. Everybody in the hex died in HtH CC.
I skulked a lot of guys (Z20 to cellar, when he advanced up he had sole control of the entire waterworks), BB20 to BB19 (he got fired up and just broke with a 4,5 DR on an NMC. I didn’t rout him out so we could retain control of the 2 hexes of the State Bank while Dr D’s 5-4-8 was in CC21. Q34 skulked back to R34 because he looked like he was going to take a lot of PBF and get encircled. W32.C self-rallied and advanced up to W31.C so he could PBF the HS/HMG in W30. The StuG w/acq on him got the hit and a 2,1 effects DR for K/3. I passed the 3 ck but lost a HS. I pushed a 2x? from T36 to the street and eventually advanced in to take the now vacant R36.
We got REAL lucky on the stuka attacks. All 3 either blew their sighting TCs or missed. They targeted the dug-in T-34, the broke 4-5-8 in the State Bank, and the 9-2/HMG in Y13.1. AF was mostly ineffective except a shot that revealed dummies in P34. No routs. I advanced my 4-5-8 from R31 to S31 to insure I controlled the knocked out StuG. The next time the Germans look inside that vehicle they are going to think the burnt out wreck is a crack den. No recovery possibility, I wanted it gone for good.
Big win for the Germans who gained 83 stone locations to the Soviets gain of 6. The attack was much more successful and less costly than the 15D attack (~20 squads lost as opposed to 30 squads).
I did make sure the perimeter isolated some of the Germans by connecting X9 to X20 (the German HSs death was key). Mike P preferred to pull back the 9-1, 3-3-8, 4-6-8 than hide within the loop. The 4-6-8 CR’d on the way out adding another HS to the tally and bringing us both to 21.5 squads lost for the scenario. The death toll has been high as you can see below. The Germans have lost 87 squads to date of the potential 190 squads the Germans can have until 20 Sep when the 194th Inf Regt and other elements of the 71st div are released (which potentially adds ~81 more squads if all are purchased and un-depleted). The Soviets have lost 109.5 squads to date. This seems like a high number but 26 of those were conscripts. Any of those lucky enough to survive to 15D got promoted to 1st line.
Final scenario death toll:
German losses: 1.5x8-3-8, 2.5x5-4-8, 1.5x4-6-8, 13.5x4-6-7, 2.5x4-4-7, 1x1-2-7, 10-2, 2x9-2, 9-1, 8-0, Stug IIIB, 1-2-7 = 63 CVP
Russian losses: .5xNKVD, .5x6-2-8, 13.5x4-5-8, 7x4-4-7, 2x2-2-8, 10-0, 6+1, 8-1, 8-0, 9-2, 9-0, 7-0, KV-1 M42, captured 45LL = 69 CVP
Naturally, the Soviets declared a night attack (our 3rd). We kick that off in 1 week. I should be able to get some pics and the perimeter up soon.