Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea ETO (id:#61982)
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See Also: Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea by Multi-Man Publishing
Designer: Mattias Rönnblom
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Balance:
GermanRussian
33.333333333333%

Overview:

On 26 January the breakout attempt of the now-encircled 4. Armee began. The main blow fell on Russian 53rd Rifle Corps of the 48th Army. Two Russian rifle divisions were enveloped and two more driven to the rear. The 131. Infanterie-Division supported by Jagdpanzer IVs and Jadgpanthers of Panzerjager-Abteilung 563 seized the village of Scharnigk after heavy fighting. During the next day the division would attack Liebstadt, heavily defended by Russian infantry and armor.
Attacker: German (131.Infanterie-Division and Panzerjager-Abteilung 563)
Defender: Russian (53rd Rifle Corps, 48th Army)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:11.5 D:12.5
AFVs: A:2
JgdPz V x 2

AFVs: D:3
SU-85 x 3
GAZ-MM x 2

Guns: A:1
8cm GrW 34
D:1
45mm PTP obr. 42

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: GS, FS also in effect
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-11-25(A) Michel Bongiovanni vs François Boudrenghien German win
2021-02-21(A) nathan wegener vs Paul Works Russian winLot's of board area for the Russians to cover. I pushed across a broad front but with only a squad in the back building it was tempting target. Fate with me early game and I pushed up to the edge of victory building compound when the SU85s came on. I knocked out one with a JPz and the game looked within my grasp. However a snakes on a TK at point blank took out a JPz and a bounding fire snakes at a moving JPz took it out. I still had enough infantry in the area to make it interesting but a third snakes on an 8-1 and squad took it out crossing the road and the coup d'etat was a snakes in CC by his 6-2-8 vs 1.5 squads of mine.
Ouch 4 snakes in 2 player turns that totally decimated me...
2021-01-12(D) Simon Staniforth vs Russian winTough armour battle vs those Jagdpanthers the Russians got lucky in knocking one out in CC. German infantry squeeze the Russians on the hilltop they look like winning but a lucky snakes MC in the end game Fanatics the 6-2-8 / creates a Hero who are able to withdraw from the subsequent CC and survive fire in a stone building (with heavy snow) to deny the Germans VC
2019-03-23(D) Andy Beaton vs Richard Hooks Russian winIt was a close fight until a lone German squad failed to find a panzerfaust allowing the last SU-85 to get behind the German tank destroyers and knock them off with successive APCR shots. This freed up the squads held in bypass freeze allowing the massacre of the remaining German troops.
2017-07-15(D) Neil Andrews vs Matthew Evans Russian win
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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 6.72Votes: 25
Views: 5566
To-Play list count: 2
Estimated Play time: 4.7 hours
Recorded Games: 22
Archive recorded plays:
German8
Russian14
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [Confirmed]
[A] German 6
[D] Russian 14
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