Psel River Line / Last Line Before Oboyan ETO (id:#57284)
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Krasny Oktabyr-Kliuchi, USSR 1943-07-10 ()
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Designer: Dave Lamb
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Balance:
German (SS)Russian
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Overview:

As the battle of Kursk intensified in the southern half of the salient, the Totenkopf division reached the last Russian barrier before Oboyan. Lightly defended fortification lined the River Psel, constructed over the previous weeks and months. Pressed by the German advance, the 6th Guards Army hurried portions of the 52nd Guards Rifle Division into these fieldworks just ahead of the arrival of the SS tankers.
Attacker: German (SS) (3rd Battalion, 6th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment)
Defender: Russian (52nd Guards Division; 96th Tank Brigade)  
6.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: Both     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:19.0 D:13.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:2
T-34 M41 x 2

Guns: A:2
10.5cm leFH 18 x 2
D:3
45mm PTP obr. 42
82mm BM obr. 37 x 2

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: HB SSR, LV w A: Raft6
Map Board(s): K1
Overlays: NONE
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DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultComments
2023-08-10(A) Jeff B vs John Fedoriw Russian winBefore we started my opponent pointed out that he thought this scenario was broken. After he told me his rationale (the basically unopposed tanks alone can win the game for the Russians) I had to agree. So we decided to play it that the tanks couldn't fulfill the LOS part of the VC. Well the Germans need smoke, and lots of it. So it sure didn't help matters when I red-chitted out my OBA before it ever got going. Thankfully both guns were able to at least get some sort of smokescreen going. Still, it would take me at least a couple turns to cross that river, and with only 7 turns to accomplish an extremely difficult task it would be a most-likely near-impossible challenge. Because the Russians have a ton of toys. A ton. And the terrain is very brutal. Besides all this, the map is not visually appealing, and often confusing at times. My first impressions of this pack were not positive at all. Turn 2 saw both guns continue to drop smoke, and there was only one unprotected corridor to my approach. Unfortunately most of this would dissipate before my men could even hit the far side of the river, and then I'd be back to crossing open ground versus all the heavy weaponry the Russians had (unless I continued to be lucky enough with the smoke). Sure enough, Turn 3 saw one gun lose smoke ability and my men started to get mowed down as I lost 2 squads (including a valuable AE). In Kliuchi my reinforcements saw the entry heavily mined and wired. Still, most of them made it on unscathed (though vastly slowed down). This left me only 4 turns to evict him from some hard-to-reach places, and I hadn't even scrathed his front line defense yet. Some of my men even contemplated climbing the cliffs, but with his tanks coming on the next turn all he'd have to do was park them there and wait for them. Turn 4 saw me make some headway, but he was just now setting up his OBA to lower the boom. Of course his low draw pile didn't stop him, and next turn I lost 2.5 squads, a FT, and used up 3 DCs in cracking his front wall. The good news was I had two AEs on the western mortar's doorstep, a hero (one of three I generated) had climbed the heights to reach the northern mortar (and assumed phone operator), and I completely ousted him from Kliuchi. Plus I wised up and dropped some smoke on the upper reaches after I realized I could do so in a gully hex. The bad news was he had repositioned a squad on the western cliff in position to fulfill the VC. But things were at least looking potentially attainable, though the task was still mighty tall. Turn 6 saw me kick the western crew to the curb and make some more headway in the middle, but he dropped some smoke to protect his western squad, shifted his OBA to make it difficult for my men up there to reach him, and drove a tank into one of the two VC hexes on the northern hill (which also turned out to be mined). He of course moved some men in behind via the partial trailbreak. I would have no such luck. Turn 7 saw the silly mad game-end dash take effect, and when my 17+5 shot actually casued a NMC on his western squad I had a chance. But he shrugged this off and the rest wasn't worth playing. The game turned out more interesting than I thought, and perhaps if the Germans didn't immediately lose OBA I would've had a chance, but this one was truly impossible.
2007-10-03(D) Paolo Cariolato vs Nando Ferrari Russian win
2002-10-16(A) Fred Ingram vs Dave McLee Russian win
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Estimated Play time: 7 hours
Recorded Games: 3
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ROAR Data: (as of November 2021)
Psel River Line [Confirmed]
[A] German 1
[D] Russian 5
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