Saving the Center ETO (id:#62510)
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Designer: Mattias Rönnblom
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Balance:
GermanRussian
26.470588235294%

Overview:

The Red Army mustered strength for an ambitious operation, aimed to destroy Army Group Center. The Kalinin and Western Fronts would press German forces westward from Moscow, and simultaneously attack from the south and north to meet at Vyazma. Not unlike the victory over Charles XII's Swedish army at Poltava two centuries earlier and that over Napoleon's army a century ago, the Russian army would behead the invader in one fatal blow. The 8th Airborne Brigade would be dropped southwest of Vyazma to complete the encirclement.
Attacker: German (4th Panzer Army Support Troops with 309th Infantry Regiment and 1st Batterie Strumgeschütz-Abteilung 201)
Defender: Russian (2nd Battalion, 8th Airborne Brigade)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:15.5 D:11.5
AFVs: A:4
StuG IIIB x 3
PzKpfw IIIF

AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0
5cm leGrW 36
D:1
45mm PTP obr. 32
50mm RM obr. 40

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: GS (E3.72), FS (E3.71), EW (E3.74) Drifts NA.
Overlays: Wd5 Wd12 X9
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2019-01-01(A) Richard Jenulis vs Doug Sheppard Russian winASLOK 2015
2018-07-04(A) Jason Wert vs Peter Rogneholt Russian winVery nice game with Peter for the CyberASL Match. Peter's counterattack in Turn 2 disrupted my attack on the German left. His cagey defense kept us unbalanced
2017-09-03(A) Ron Garcia vs Darryl M. Russian win
2017-03-24(D) X von Marwitz vs Martin Mayers Russian winPlayed this as the Russian. My plan was to yield the village as any Russian in there would probably soon fall victim to the Germans. So my defensive Schwerpunkt was in the G9/E9 area in the south and around L9 in the north. The ATG was placed back in the west and two squads were poised in the K3 woods area to hamper German reinforcements and to attempt to grab the I5 building later on. The at-start German HS were to be killed to have the Russian backfield cleared. The last stand was to take place either around the L9 building (providing hiding places in the woods) or the I5 building which would be hard to reach if I could overwhelm the German reinforcements from the west. It turned out, that all this pretty much worked out. But I have to state that my opponent was severly screwed by Extreme Winter breaking 2 MAs and 3SW, repairing one of these. On top of that, weather turned to Heavy Snow which worked out in favor of the Russians. It is an interesting scenario situation and thus recommendable to play. Extreme Winter can make it a bit dicey, though.
2016-10-04(A) Jeff Waldon vs David Perham Russian winFtF ASLOK: Lost, dammit.
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Hutch Modified the overview2025-08-28 12:47:06
Hutch Modified the gps location2025-08-28 12:01:33
Hutch Modified the misc. rules2025-08-28 11:55:09
Hutch Modified the Attacker's Guns2025-08-28 11:52:57
Hutch Modified the Defender's Guns2025-08-28 11:52:57
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StuG IIIB with troops advancing
 
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Avg Rating: 5.44Votes: 9
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Estimated Play time: 4.4 hours
Recorded Games: 8
Archive recorded plays:
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Russian7
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ROAR Data: (as of today)
Saving the Center [Confirmed]
[A] German 8
[D] Russian 18
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