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The Guards Counterattack ETO (id:#56508)
Avalon Hill (Classic ASL ID: A)   [next]   [previous]
Prior Publication: SL 1, AH: The General 22-6 ASL A(Revision: MMP Website (Download))
See Also: The Guards Counterattack by Avalon Hill The Guards Counterattack by On All Fronts
Stalingrad, Russia 1942-10-06 (9 others)
B: The Tractor Works (Classic ASL)
C: The Streets of Stalingrad (Classic ASL)
A: The Guards Counterattack (AH:The General # 22.6)
B: The Tractor Works (AH:The General # 22.6)
C: The Streets of Stalingrad (AH:The General # 22.6)
St3: Dark Menace (Stalingrad: Valor of the 37th Guards (2nd Edition))
O42.1: The Guards Counterattack (On All Fronts # 42)
O46.1: Mean Streets (On All Fronts # 46)
3: Report For The Fuhrer (Stalingrad: Valor of the 37th Guards (1st Edition))
Designer: Unknown
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Balance:
RussianGerman
48.895434462445%

Overview:

The very first scenario for the original Squad Leader. 25 years later this all infantry affair is just as challenging as it was when it first appeared. A must play for grognards and newbies alike.. . ."After an extremely successful summer campaign, the Germans came upon the Volga fortress of Stalingrad. Here the Red Army had dug in and was determined to make a stand. Sensing total victory, the Germans threw more and ever more troops into the fighting. But for the first time in the war, German infantry found the Russians their equal. Rebuffed by stiff resistance, the Germans committed crack assault engineers. Gradually, the Germans cleared one block, then another—only to lose them again to sudden Russian counterattacks. By October 5, the Germans had almost taken the key Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works. However, the fighting had been so heavy that the line troops occupying the surrounding area were exceptionally weak from the previous week’s combat. At that point, the Russians counterattacked with their crack 37th Guards to break the ring the Germans had thrown around the factory and reinforce the desperate defenders."
Attacker: Russian (308th Rifle Division / 2nd Battalion, 37th Guards Division)
Defender: German (Company H, 389th Infantry Regiment)  
5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:21.0 D:13.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0 D:0

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: A7.72 supersedes SSR 2, 2, 3 and 4 respectively
Map Board(s): 1
Overlays: NONE
Errata (source)
A7.72 supersedes SSR 2, 2, 3 and 4 respectively.MMP
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DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultComments
2023-01-27(A) Rick Galli vs Brian Kaschyk Russian win
2022-12-07(A) Alvaro Radigales vs German German winDown to the last roll. A first successful human wave took the building at F5, killing all the Germans inside; I7, however, proved much tougher to crack – three of the charging squads made it inside, but were eliminated in close combat. On the rest of the map, frequent sniper activity kept both sides pinned down for much of the fight, killing two leaders and reducing a broken squad. In the end, the Russians did not manage to capture the second building on time, and failed keep a 3:1 superiority by the end of the game.
2022-10-14(D) David Garvin vs Adrian Benigno German winFor Tanksgiving 2022
2022-06-17(D) David Garvin vs Jacques Buchanan Russian winJacques is a new player, but he is quite good. His attack was deliberate and plodding and we saw it all. His sniper took my SAN down to 5. He had 3 squads (and a leader) go berserk. His commissar failed to shoot any of his own guys; however, he did direct some key attacks. His 10-2 ended up leading a successful Human Wave that saw my defensive shots at him do little (though I was aided by a sniper attack on him). In the end, he had 10.5 squad equivalents and I 3.5 squad equivalents, giving him exactly the 3:1 ratio needed. What a fantastic match!
2022-05-09(A) Jonathan Kapleau vs Neumann, William Russian win
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My first ASL game (AAR.txt)After Action ReportBrederic2037
AAR in .pdf for easy viewing. (AAR - Scenario A - The Guards Counterattack Reduced.pdf)After Action Reportgweiloh1300
End of Game Germans win (GuardsCounterAttackEnd.jpg)After Action ReportAgoldin746
Guards counterattack AAR (Guards counterattack.pdf)After Action ReportZuppotto Pacioso656
Starting setup for this scenario (ASL Scenario A - The Guards Counterattack.vsav)VASL SetupBrederic1384
Fixed VASL setup for VASL 6.0 (counter offset), added turn track (ScenarioA_setup.vsav)VASL Setupjalava1039
The last turn on VASL (QQ 20140324173232.jpg)Imageleozhu2170
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VASL Log file (guards-martin.vlog)VASL Game LogDave356
VASL Log file (guards-simon.vlog)VASL Game LogDave254
VASL Log file (A_The_Guards_Counterattack_Alexey_Fedor.vlog)VASL Game Logmcrstar176
(guards counter map.png)Map Imagehoxson1827
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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 7.19Votes: 230
Views: 28046
To-Play list count: 10
Estimated Play time: 3.9 hours
Recorded Games: 166
Archive recorded plays:
Russian78
German81
Drawn:3

ROAR Data: (as of November 2021)
The Guards Counterattack [Confirmed]
[A] Russian 254
[D] German 266
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