When the weary Finnish troops took up positions in the Mannerheim Line, with the Soviets right on their heels, the defense ran into trouble right away. After a week of battle, the Soviets managed to breach the line in several places, including at the Honkaniemi railway station. The Finns counterattacked, committing the only combat-ready armor unit of the entire army, the 4th Tank Company of the Armored Battalion, together with three infantry battalions.
Attacker: Finnish (Jaeger Battalion 3 and 4th Company, Armor Battalion)
Defender: Russian (84th Division and 112th Tank Battalion, 35th Light Tank Brigade)
7 turns
Players: 2 OBA: Finnish Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:20.5 D:20.0
AFVs: A:5
Vikkersi(b) LT x 5
AFVs: D:5
T-28 M34 T-26 M33 x 3 T-26S M37
Guns: A:0 D:1
45mm PTP obr. 32 50mm RM obr. 40
Misc Rules:
Deep Snow, Ice, NQ. Armored Assault is NA. A: WC, MOL (AFV only), Skis,
Started well with the 120 OBA killing a commissar, 4-5-8 and MMG and rubbling V2. The plan was to lead with the Vickersi and take out the tanks before the crews could get to them but 4 Vickersi malfed their MA by turn 2 (the last one was already KO). By turn 4, all Vickersi were destroyed. The Russians had 2 AFV remaining but both were useless - one was uncrewed (and the Finns could still not destroy it in CC) and the other disabled its MA, had no MG and immobilised by mechanical breakdown when it attempted to recall. Finns had passed their VP target and Russians were in no position to counterattack.This one definitely favours the Finns.
2022-05-26
(D) Kevin Duval
vs
Dwayne Duval
Russian win
Used Russian balance. Finns only managed 17 CVP before giving up in Turn 5.
2022-05-25
(A) Dwayne Duval
vs
Kevin Duval
Russian win
The Russian setup area turned out to be an impenetrable fortress and broken Finnish units cannot control building/rubble locations anyway. A humiliating defeat I will refer to as "getting diced".
2022-02-20
(A) Dan Best
vs
Scott Martin
Finnish win
Captured 6 buildings and killed 8 squads two leaders and a tank to get over 40 points. Good game with Scott.
2020-05-05
(A) Eric Partizan Eric
vs
Finnish win
2020-02-17
(A) Jonathan Kapleau
vs
Holland, Donald
Finnish win
2019-09-18
(D) Will Willow
vs
M. LaPlante
Finnish win
VASL
2019-04-05
(A) Gordon Jupp
vs
Neil Brunger
Finnish win
We swapped sides...It was a better game but still think favours the Finnis big style....
2019-03-29
(D) Gordon Jupp
vs
Neil Brunger
Finnish win
2018-05-14
(D) rene cote
vs
mrosberg
Finnish win
lots of options for set-up for the Russians. i opted to try to man my AFVs and fight it out with Finn vehs and defend front line buildings. Lost three manned AFV for 15CVP of the 40 required by the finns and there are at least 5 buildings (15CVP) within easy reach for them, so do the math.
I thought i was doing well but my losses and buildings got the finns their 40 CVP by turn 6. If I played again, would probably Alamo the whole force in south east corner and have the Finns ski all the way under some fire to collect CVP.
2015-04-11
(D) Rich Weiley
vs
Dave Wilson
Russian win
Paddington Bearz - April 2015. Playeed with the Soviet balance, didn't help.