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Designer: Pete Shelling
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Balance:
German (SS)Russian
50.724637681159%

Overview:

Scenario 2/3 of Broadway to Prokhorovka campaign (page 60 of Journal 3). Both sides chooses their OBs from available groups. The unit list below lists everything available, but the players only get to use about half of them.
Attacker: German (SS) (2nd SS Panzergrenadier Regiment/Armor and Assault Engineer Support)
Defender: Russian (3rd Battalion, 26th Guards Airborne Regiment/Artillery Support/57th Heavy Tank Regiment)  
5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: Russian     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:12.0 D:10.0
AFVs: A:7
PzKpfw IIIL x 2
StuG IIIG x 2
PzKpfw IVH x 3
PzKpfw VIE x 2
SPW 251/1 x 3

AFVs: D:4
KV-1 M42 x 4
KV-1S x 4

Guns: A:0 D:2
45mm PTP obr. 42
82mm BM obr. 37
50mm RM obr. 40
PTRD-41 ATR

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: DLV, Ov3
Map Board(s): 33 44
Overlays: Wd3 X12 X13
Errata (source)
BPSSRs apply (see page 60 of Journal 3); in Victory Conditions replace “33G6” with “33GG6”.MMP
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DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2022-09-22(D) Scott Sherer vs Jeff B German (SS) winGreat description by Jeff of a fun and enjoyable game!
2022-09-02(A) Jeff B vs Scott Sherer German (SS) winThe Germans will have to kick off their assault in high gear and never let up if they wish to stand a chance in this one. I think the exit will be most difficult, as they would have to exit more than 3/4 of their initial force even if selecting the maximum level possible. That number is still over 1/2 when factoring in the reinforcements. Considering they'd probably have to take a circuitrous route to do so, leave themselves exposed to OBA, and have to deal with four Russian tanks I just don't see that happening. So my plan was to go for the buildings fast and hard. I figured the western farm compound would be heavily defended, and rightly so as it is the best way to hedge your bets on going for either VC. So I made for the central farm, which was mostly stacked with dummies. Unfortunately for me the pre-reg OBA hex was near enough that Scott decided to go for an immediate harassing fire conversion that paid off for him nicely, breaking the majority of two full stacks of my men. But not all was bad news for me, as the sole defending Russian unit in the upper levels (who had quietly held his fire during my approach) was caught as well. He would soon be a POW. Also, a defending AT gun in the east broke on its first shot, and a nicely-placed (and unexpected) big mortar in the middle saw its crew broken with some lucky shooting. This will be a high-casualty scenario from start to finish. As my two piles of broken men regrouped themselves around the farm, the rest of my force bulled straight ahead through mostly open ground, surprisingly successfully. We had initially each blazed up a tank after the Russian reinforcements entered, but at the start of our next session realized we had forgotten the (rather silly) SSR about AFV THs being affected by dust. Considering we had each just managed hits in the first place, we voided both these shots. With a breeze already in place this drastically changed the battlefield, but was an easy (and necessary) change to implement. Going forward we had many would-be hits miss due to dust. On my half of Turn 3 I knocked out the first tank for real, this time non-blazing, while a lone Russian tank in the east with a broken MA was being ganged up on by two Panzers. My men continued to charge forward to the farm compound in the north, soon to be joined by my reinforcing HTs, but ran into the first minefields. The Russian part of Turn 3 went very well for me, knocking out two more tanks and seeing the AT gun gone for good with an X-out. I did lose my first tank. The first half of Turn 4 was bad for me, as the many minefields surrounding the farm caused me no end of grief. The final straw being when a HS was eliminated for FTR while toting POWs, who were then replaced with a conscript HS, who then caused another squad and leader of mine to be eliminated for FTR. Things went a bit better on the Russian half of the turn when I knocked out the last Russian tank. On my last turn I had to deal with a berserk Russian squad holed up in one of the VC buildings, a Russian squad and leader tied up in melee with one of my HS in the other VC building, and the encroaching Russian 9-2 and squad making their way there to reinforce. The berserker was eliminated with a lot of firepower, the melee had two DCs dropped on it, and the 9-2 and company were both KIAd. After Scott's last ditch effort to blow my southern men up with his OBA failed he threw in the towel. Certainly an action-packed game.
2022-08-12(A) Andy Bagley vs Mike Grogan Russian winI thought Mike would defend the board 44 buildings heavily, so decided to risk a 'right hook' going for the exit VCs, and selected the PzkwIII and PzkwIV option to maximise VPs for this purpose. This failed spectacularly, partly because Mike had placed plenty of defenders on board 33, and partly because one of them - the 45LL AT Gun, repeated got RoF and low TK numbers, decimating my AFVs. Even then it wasn't quite over, as I was able to put my reinforcements and a few extra troops into a late attempt to capture the board 33 buildings. This came close, and might have worked if my FT or a late CC attack had shifted his last units from 44AA10. But they didn't, so the Russians held on for the win.
2022-07-30(D) Dave Mareske vs Dave Ramsey German (SS) winSo my defending forces had none of their anti-tank defenses work, AT gun failed to secure a hit on the side armor, the AT mines failed to go off and my reinforcing tanks became target practice for the German AFVs. Seems the dust effect got in the Russian eyes, but not in the German's. There was little to be done in the end and the infantry and vehicles rolled over the defending infantry. There has to be a better defense! Good job to Dave to push through.
2022-07-29(A) David Ramsey vs Dave Mareske German (SS) win

(VASL Log)		Nothing fancy from my Germans. Just headed straight for the two left hand buildings and grabbed the third with the half tracks. Dave M had no luck with his tanks or Gun, despite one of my tigers malfing on one of its first shots and the other immobilising itself on his first attempt to start the engines. It felt like there was little finesse - just a sledgehammer attack.
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Estimated Play time: 5.4 hours
Recorded Games: 21
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