Pain In The Neck ETO (id:#62297)
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Designer: Michael Koch
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Balance:
German (SS)Russian
44.705882352941%

Overview:

Berlin fell on 2 May 1945. Hitler was dead. The 10th SS-Panzer-Division crossed the river Elbe at the city of Dresden on 6 May. As most other German units on the Eastern Front, they retreated west or southward away from the Red Army steamroller. Realizing that time was running out, the remnants of the division made use of the windy roads around the town of Schmiedeberg to reach their destination: the American frontline in the south. They did not realize that Russian spearheads had already bypassed German defensive lines. The main roads were already in Russian hands. Like a constant "pain in the neck" the Russian troops of General Rybalko's 3rd Guards Tank Army pursued the retreating Germans. Unbeknownst to the SS soldiers, local Volkssturm had set up roadblocks as a pointless last ditch effort to stop the Russian advance. Those roadblocks hindered the Frundsberg in their escape.
Attacker: German (SS) (10th SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg")
Defender: Russian (23rd Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade, 7th Guards Tank Corp, 3rd Guards Tank Army)  
6.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:9.0 D:11.0
AFVs: A:6
PzKpfw IVJ x 2
M4A3(75)W x 2
JgdPz IV(L)
SPW 251/1

AFVs: D:6
T-34/85 x 3
T-34 M43 x 3

Guns: A:0 D:0
PTRD-41 ATR

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: D: Hidden Roadblock on Bd 41. Streams are Deep.
Overlays: P2
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-04-01(A) Tuomo Lukkari vs Alessandro Demichelis German (SS) winWild movement in the scenario. I simply diced my opponent. I'd rather be lucky thn good.
2023-11-04(A) Eric Partizan Eric vs Ray Wolozcyn Russian win
2023-11-04(D) X von Marwitz vs John Tait DrawPlayed this as the Russian in round 3 of GRENADIER 2023.

Interesting scenario, and the first time for me to play it as the Russians.

My opponent moved everything but one tank across the bridge and left little to guard his back except for the Jagdpanzer.
I had quite some trouble catching up, with the T-34/85 with my Armor Leader first bogging, then miring, then immobilizing while trying to trailbreak through the woods on the right. I botched and wasted one T-34 by moving it on the level 2 knoll within the woods, where it was promptly picked off by the Jagdpanzer rearguard. My remaining T-34 and T-34/85 were eventually set up to despatch the Jagdpanzer on both flanks ADJACENT with Acquisition. What could possibly go wrong?

It's ASL, right? T-34/85 goes for APCR, has none. Makes regular shot, misses. Other T-34 goes for APCR, has none. Makes regular shot, misses. T-34/85 makes IF shot, rolls boxcars to be recalled!! Other T-34 makes IF shot to finally burn the sucker!

All this cost me very valuable long-range assets. My infantry was beginning to break German Infantry struggling up the hills into the village from the rear, while the village garrision was hard pressed. The sole German Sherman on the other flank had finally bogged while attempting to circumvent the Roadblock in the third Bog hex - but it was able to free itself subsequently.

Unfortunately, we ran out of time when the game was still entirely open. Despite hasting through a number of decisive rolls & maneuvers skipping a few phases, this did nothing to tilt the balance this way or the other. For that reason, we called it a draw when time was up.
2023-11-04(D) Hennie van der Salm vs Frank Strasser Russian win[Imported from ROAR]
2023-10-22(A) Eric Partizan Eric vs German (SS) win
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Estimated Play time: 6.1 hours
Recorded Games: 21
Archive recorded plays:
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Russian10
Drawn:1

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