Many Axis soldiers in Arbuzov arose on a bitterly cold Christmas Day to discover that they had been abandoned. The main force had apparently continued on their retreat without rounding up all the soldiers in the column from their scattered nighttime resting places. The abandoned soldiers, about 1500 in number, mostly Italians, believed they were doomed and decided to sell their lives dearly. Soon they heard the sounds of approaching Soviet troops. . .
Attacker: Russian (44th Rifle Division)
Defender: Italian / German (Remnants of Ravenna, Pasubio, and Torino Infantry Divisions and elements of German 298th Infantry Division)
4.5 turns
Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:11.0 D:9.5
AFVs: A:1
T-60 M42
D:0
Guns: A:0 D:0
Misc Rules:
GS, 2 random building Blaze locations. WC for infantry on both sides.
Map Board(s):
48
Overlays:
NONE
Errata (source)
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With a building ablaze on the East side of the town, the Russian approach was difficult despite the drifting smoke cover. The few Russian scouts were met with deadly accurate Italian shots. The Russian tankette entered from the South and tried to flank the enemy without much success. It was eventually destroyed trying to freeze the Italian LMG squad. Gusts made the smoke disappear at a critical moment letting the Russians without cover. The Russians captured two squads but the defense was still strong in the center of the town. With too much routed units and still too many good order Italian and German squads, the Russian resigned.
2021-09-12
(D) Asad Rustum
vs
Jacob Elmqvist
Russian win
2021-09-12
(A) Jacob Elmqvist
vs
Asad Rustum
Russian win
The Russian won the day on the last turn. Two CC was the deciding factors.
2020-11-01
(D) Paul Works
vs
Doug Leach
Italian / German win
Sioux City Street Fighting Tournament; round one. Doug had a good attack with one platoon coming in toward the south-east clump of buildings, one platoon from the north with the tank, and his main force coming in directly from the east. His SE force got shot up moving to assault the buildings on the east side of the street and posed no further problem. His northern force shoved through my weak screen and into the north side of the village. His main force started off well, but got held up on the north-east side of the central crossroad. The Russians were able to break my stacks (and ELR many Italians), but I was very hot on my rally rolls; I rolled numerous "3s" and "4s" to rally Italian and German DM brokies (and even a "2" to battle harden an Italian squad!). My wounded 9-2 got a sequence of two low DRs to smash up a stack of Russians on Turn 3. The Russian Prep Fire on Turn 4 did nothing to my troops and by the end of the German Player Turn, I still had Good Order troops in five of the buildings on the south-west corner of the crossroad - the Russians had four broken MMC in addition to their losses of four full squads. Doug conceded at this point. This is a enjoyable, and stressful, little scenario!
2020-10-27
(A) Dave Mareske
vs
Wynn Policky
Russian win
We had a great game in the Sioux City Street Fighting Tournament. It came down to the last CC roll. Having one of the German walking wounded squads go Berserk in the final German turn made it tough on the Germans. The Russians had to muscle through 8 "12s"...many of them in CC allowing the Axis to escape and fight on. By the end the Russians had lost half their force, had to crash their tank into a building to overrun and break a squad one of the final squads and then gang up on the Berserk squad, narrowly eliminating it in CC.
2020-10-10
(D) Jason Wert
vs
Pierce Mason
Italian / German win
vASLOK 2020
2020-10-02
(A) Dave Mareske
vs
Dennis Dowd
Russian win
Russians pressed the defenders throughout the game getting some good breaks in CC.
2020-07-09
(A) patrick palma
vs
John McLoughlin
Russian win
2020-07-07
(D) Marco Pasquini
vs
Di Ianni Raffaele
Italian / German win
2020-07-07
(D) davide galloni
vs
Andrea Manzoli
Italian / German win
A dramatical situation for the axis troupes that must stay concealed and repaired from the russian advance. They come from east but Italians remain concealed without stacking so the soviet must search my mmc and lose time. A lot of CC that require a bit of lucky but at the end a great satisfaction for historical simulation of the battle.
2020-07-07
(A) manzoli andrea
vs
Davide Galloni
Italian / German win
2020-07-06
(A) Marco Pasquini
vs
Mazzucchelli Paolo
Italian / German win
2020-06-10
(D) Richard Webb
vs
Santiago Spenabella
Russian win
Russian chose to attack parralel tp the diagonal road, coming on from north and south. This limited defensive fire largely to the "end" building on each flank. AFV was largely unstoppable, and used this to VBM freeze a hex each turn. Disaterous Axis die rolling on GT 4 killed off any chance of a win, with the final 2-4-7 hiding out the way near j1 overrun on GT 5 to complete a fairly emphatic Russian win.
2020-05-24
(A) Dave Mareske
vs
Dan Best
Russian win
Moved fast with the Russians and lots of Close Combat wins helped secure a Russian victory. One of the highlights was my tank crashing into the last building with a German half Squad and did not BOG! German highlight was routing out of encirclement, rolling a "2" for interdiction, and thus created a Hero and rallied. However, they all died in Close Combat in the end. Great game with Dan Best!
2020-03-11
(D) James Lowry
vs
Patch Bunny
Italian / German win
2020-02-10
(D) Eben Johnson
vs
Italian / German win
Great game. Played Italians/Germans; bad setup against AFV and could not stop Russians entering from the east; later game rolls went my way and game ended first half Russian 4.
2019-10-11
(A) Andy Goldin
vs
Phillipe Briaux
Italian / German win
As the Russian player, I was too aggressive in closing with the enemy and took losses on -1 and -2 shots due to unexpected LOS sightings on account of the board configuration -- the angle of the road on the map created unexpected (to me) open shots. I positioned the MMG well in the center of the board and make nice use of the tankette to get behind the Axis player to set up encirclement and FTR situations but ran out of time and men to clear the village. Doesn't seem like much fun for the Axis player, as he's got to spend most of the game just taking it.
2019-07-19
(D) Tom Kearney
vs
Jonathan Kapleau
Italian / German win
Hallowed Ground 2019.
2019-07-18
(A) Jonathan Kapleau
vs
Kearney, Tom
Italian / German win
2019-01-18
(D) Jonathan Kapleau
vs
Dragonetti, Jay
Russian win
2016-10-06
(D) Andy Joy
vs
Neil Dennis
Russian win
2015-12-05
(D) Michal Bonaventura
vs
Russian win
2015-03-26
(D) Eric Van Horn
vs
Jacob Van Horn
Russian win
2015-03-23
(D) Russell Dewhurst
vs
Ivan Kent
Russian win
Axis resigned turn 3
2014-09-20
(D) Michal Bonaventura
vs
Italian / German win
2014-06-13
(D) Jeff B
vs
Daniel Soukup
Italian / German win
Stud dummies played a large roll in delaying the Russian advance just long enough to allow the Italians/Germans to lick their wounds and dish some pain back.
2014-06-13
(A) Daniel Soukup
vs
Jeff B
Italian / German win
2014-06-13
(A) Chuck Dye
vs
JeffF
Russian win
2012-09-05
(D) Kermit Mullins
vs
Scott Waites
Russian win
Two turns down. Axis forces are hunkered down and trying to weather Hurricane Ivan.
2012-06-01
(A) Ross Mulcare
vs
Tom Raymo
Italian / German win
2012-06-01
(A) Ross Mulcare
vs
Tom Raymo
Italian / German win
2012-02-28
(D) St La
vs
alban
Italian / German win
The axis was lucky to rally 2 squads in the last turn.
2011-06-26
(A) Paul Legg
vs
Simon Church
Italian / German win
Double One 2011
2011-06-26
(D) Aaron Sibley
vs
Sam Prior
Russian win
Lost in the last throw of the dice...good tight game.
2011-06-24
(D) Simon Staniforth
vs
Italian / German win
2011-06-22
(D) Paul Jones
vs
Steve Petras
Italian / German win
Not much for Axis to do except hunker down.
2011-05-28
(D) Simon Staniforth
vs
Italian / German win
2011-05-15
(D) Aaron Sibley
vs
Joe Arthur
Italian / German win
2011-05-15
(A) Ian Willey
vs
Simon Stanforth
Italian / German win
Great fun that came right down to the wire (gave the Axis balance) due to roar scores. Can't beleive it has so low raiting here
2010-10-01
(D) Andy Beaton
vs
Italian / German win
Russians couldn't finish off all the close combats at the end
2009-12-20
(A) Pablo Barreiro
vs
Alex, my son
Russian win
2009-12-04
(A) Michael Rodgers
vs
JP Raymond
Italian / German win
Lost as Russian because I dispersed my troops too much.
2009-05-22
(D) Joshua Walles
vs
Bruce Billett
Russian win
2009-02-05
(D) Jeff Waldon
vs
Keith Mageau
Italian / German win
FtF
2008-04-03
(A) Aaron Sibley
vs
Gerard Burton
Russian win
2008-02-19
(D) Fred Ingram
vs
Dave McLee
Russian win
2007-11-11
(A) David Ramsey
vs
John O'Reilly
Italian / German win
Outclassed completely, but great Italian dice compounded the situation!
