About His Shadowy Sides ETO (id:#61772)
(Best of Friends ID: BoF04)
Prior Publication: FrF19 Friendly Fire Pack 3
See Also: About His Shadowy Sides by Friendly Fire
Dubysa, Lithuania 1941-06-24 ()
Designer: Erik Leander
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
RussianGerman
43.589743589744%

Overview:

The German advance seemed to progress as planned. But up north, the Wehrmacht had another thing coming. Beginning 23 June, repeated Russian attacks by units supported by heavy tanks met occasional success. The ponderous but heavily armed and armored KV-2s seemed impossible to handle for the unprepared Germans. One of these attacks prompted the hasty retreat of Panzer Abteilung 65, and even the battalion staff found themselves entangled with other units trying to get out of the way of the Russian juggernaut. Suddenly, it appeared as if a breach of the German line was a distinct possibility. Forces from the surrounding area were immediately ordered to counter the threat.
Attacker: Russian (2nd Tank Division)
Defender: German (Panzer-Abteilung 65, Panzer-Division 6 and Kampfgruppe Seckendorff and Abteilung II, Panzer-Regiment 11)  
7.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:12.0 D:11.5
AFVs: A:2
KV-2 x 2

D:4
PzKpfw IVD x 4

Guns: A:0
50mm RM obr. 40
D:0
5cm leGrW 36

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Crews or AFVs may not control Buildings/rubble. D: 10-2 leader Wounded and can HIP set up
Map Board(s): 17 19
Overlays: NONE
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DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2020-11-30(A) Andy Bagley vs Carl Roberts German winOh dear. This should be a really good scenario, but the Russians do need those super-heavy tanks. Out of six reliability DRs I rolled two 11s followed by a 12, so one tank immobilised and the other out of position. That combined with a German critical HE hit on a stone building, and a couple of other 3 DRs from him meant that I threw in the towel at the end of turn 5 - still a building short of what I needed and with no chance of surviving the German counterattack.
2019-02-11(A) Scott Sherer vs D. Bruce Weston German winRussians got smacked around pretty good in this one. I brought the MMG and the MTR on my right flank with the idea to try to interdict the German reinforcements crossing the open ground, but that plan was ineffective. I managed to get a toe-hold in the village, capturing six of the nine buildings, but lost a KV-2 to a CH and malf'ed the other's MA. Repaired it eventually, but by that time, the Russian infantry had been decimated by determined German counter-attacks and I threw in the towel.
2018-12-15(D) Jeff B vs Tom Arnold German winI thought when Tom and I played this it was for the CyberVASL IX Final but, due to some misinformation on my end, it turned out to be a Fake Final. Too bad too, because it would have been sweet revenge after having lost to him in the CyberVASL VI Final. I had dummies on the front line to try and slow his assault (which I did), though he sent a little over his half his force north with the dual intention of harassing my reinforcements and widening the breadth of the attack. Turn 2 he cleaned up the rest of my dummies, while managing to get a tank around to the far side of the village. My reinforcements stayed at arm's length and ran to reinforce my troops (who desperately needed help). My scrubs tried to maintain concealment as long as possible (their only hope to survive). We both came crashing through the trees in the forest north of town, with both of us having two tanks to support our infantry. It looked like this was where the bulk of the battle would take place, but my Germans took fairly firm control of the woods, while his Russians mostly pressed forward to grab six buildings. By Turn 5 he had his eight buildings and I had lost a tank, so the onus was on me to retake some ground. The rest of the game was spent in a whirlwind of battle, but it proved to be too much for his Russians to hold all the spoils they had gained with the dwindling supply of infantry they had. Very fun game.
2017-01-07(A) Tom Kearney vs Walt McWilliams Russian win
2017-01-07(D) walter mcwilliams vs Tom Kearney Russian winAfter the King of the Hill debacle, Tom mentioned he had been the attacker in the last two scenarios we played so we chose About His Shadowy Sides. This one was a nail-biter and it came down to a last ditch crazy charge by some German infantry to engage a mobile KV-2 in CC to win. They failed.

My initial force failed miserably to keep the Russians at bay until the reinforcements could arrive and by the time they came on the board the village was in Russian hands. However, Tom's commissar was low on ammo for his Tokarev and by the end of turn 2 he was down 3 full squads. I had aligned my infantry in the middle woods and that was fortunate as it secured them for my incoming reinforcements.

On turn 3 my PzIV's rolled on and finally completed my OB and Tom was one building location short of gaining the required 9 locations and they were empty. Turn 4 was a loss, I made a mad dash to grab the building and was shot down, so on turn 5 in order to regain the initiative I sent one PZIV on a flanking maneuver to the east and another straight up the middle to threaten his infantry and draw their attention from my planned counterattack next turn. Tom attempted a gambit to eliminate the rogue PZIV in his center rear; counter attacking with infantry and a KV. It cost him his commissar KIA and several squads broken/ELR. In that same DFPH one PZIV had a ROF run and shattered Tom's forward infantry. So the next turn I smoked the remaining KV froze or MG Hosed the remaining infantry and managed to retake almost the entire village and route most Tom's infantry out of the game for the balance of the turns left.

Tom countered with KV's, which dominate this scenario; every shot they take kills something, if they miss don't wait around, get the F!@# out of dodge you won't get lucky the second time around. 

Like revenant's they stalked Dubysa and crushed my panzers which apparently had come to the fight with nothing but HE and one round of smoke. In the end I succeded in immobilizing one which it's crew abandoned and I destroyed in the final CC phase before my forlorn assault by a battle hardened elite 1/2 squad and a hero failed.

Overall a challenging scenario where both players are burdened with the responsibility of the attack and a hell of a lot of fun. In our AAR Tom and I spoke of other optional Russian avenues of approach and different German options so I think I will keep this one on my to play list a little 
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Avg Rating: 5.92Votes: 13
Views: 765
To-Play list count: 2
Estimated Play time: 5.9 hours
Recorded Games: 9
Archive recorded plays:
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Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of Nov 2019)
About his Shadowy Sides [Confirmed]
[A] Russian 13
[D] German 17
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