Absolut Märkäjärvi ETO (id:#60574)
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Märkäjärvi, Finland 1940-03-10 ()
Designer: Martin Svärd
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
RussianSwedish
57.142857142857%

Overview:

The first two weeks of front service had passed without any major incidences for the Swedish Volunteer Corps. Both sides tried to find weaknesses in the opposite line of defense. On the very day Lieutenant Colonel Viking Tamm took a section of the 2nd Rifle Company to conduct the final scouting of an area targeted for attack by the Swedes, the Russians surprised by attacking 2nd Rifle Company's now weakened front line. The attack was initiated by a Russian Scouting patrol that bumped into the engineers from the 2nd Plow Platoon, who were, under the supervision of Corporal Alm, laying wire on the moor. When the shooting started, Russians started pouring out into the field.
Attacker: Russian (420th Rifle Regiment, 122nd Rifle Division)
Defender: Swedish (2. Skyttekompaniet & 2. Plogplutonen, II. Stridsgruppen)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: Russian     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:14.0 D:9.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0 D:1
81mm Granatkastare m/29

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: DS (E3.73), EW ((E3.74) Exc: Brush remains. Bd 52 road is plowed
Overlays: B2 B4 OW1
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-01-20(A) Jobbo Fett vs Rob W. DrawThe game ended in a draw due to the Swedish side forgetting the objective, and it felt a little harsh to claim victory on a momentary lapse, especially between friends.

The Russians took some hard losses and the setup wasn't optimized to strip concealment off of the Swedish defenders. As a result, OBA wasn't able to take full advantage of it and use the added hindrance to make a swift advance. Rob's men were surprisingly tenacious whenever the Russians could finally manage something better than a PTC. Ultimately, the defenders were a little too passive, and refused to take risks, which allowed the Russians to mass up adjacent to multiple woods hexes on the victory board and could simply Advance in to win the game. A fun scenario marred by bad dice, it has potential for some repeated play.
2022-10-04(D) Michael Rodgers vs Georges Tournemire Russian winRussians had only one fire mission with sporadic radio contact. Game not decided until last turn. Actually AP146
2022-08-30(A) Rob MacGinley vs Ian Willey Swedish win lots of chocies and hard to concentrate the attack
2021-04-14(D) Indy Lagu vs Rob Oler Russian winRob's Russians had terrible luck. He lost his OBA without getting a
fire mission. He lost both two MG on their first shot. The Russians still
won.

This feels like a scenario that has a bit of a trick for the defender...miss the
trick and you won't win. Obviously, I didn't figure out what the trick was.

I'd play it again to see what can be done as the Swede.
2021-03-10(A) Stephen dedier vs Jim Holt Russian winDidn't really enjoy this one.
Another scenario where the Russians have to HW across OG against the Swedes
Much will be dictated by the guessing of the setup and success of the Swede HMG.
My Russians slammed into the Swedes 2/3 of the way across the OG with a lot of casualties on both sides.
Kind of a chess match after that trying to get Russians to the woods and rally broken squads.
My OBA was useless. I should have run the leader up close to the HW and brought down OBA later in the game. Russians are as usual short of leaders.
I got a lucky sniper against a Swede stack of the 9-2, FS and HS that killed the leader and then broke the FS and HS with the LLMC.
I wouldn't play this one again.
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Hutch Modified the gps location2025-03-12 13:20:54
Hutch Modified the misc. rules2025-03-12 13:20:16
Hutch Modified the gps location2025-03-12 13:17:37
Jobbo_Fett Added a playing2025-01-25 18:38:10
Jobbo_Fett Linked the scenario to ROAR2025-01-21 01:07:35
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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 5.92Votes: 13
Views: 3613
To-Play list count: 0
Estimated Play time: 3.5 hours
Recorded Games: 9
Archive recorded plays:
Russian5
Swedish4
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Absolut Märkäjärvi [Confirmed]
[A] Swedish 3
[D] Russian 2
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