By the end of the second week in December the former defenders of Stalingrad were finally ready to take the initiative and begin their bid to recapture the ruined city. In the southern end of the Red October factory complex, two of those structures were Hall 8 (the Plate Mill) and 8a (an immense, caved-in warehouse). For almost two months, the troops of Guriev's 39th Guards Rifle Division had been locked in mortal combat with the Rhinelanders of Infanterie-Division 79. To help prepare for the attack on the Plate Mill, under cover of darkness six Red Army scouts cut their way through wire entanglements and approached the German-held shop. Moving stealthily, they took one prisoner and then stole their way silently back to their lines. Aided by information gathered from the night raid, soldiers of Major Legunin's 112th Guards Rifle Regiment rushed the enemy strongpoint in Hall 8. The fatigued Germans were forced to flee first one, and then another, section of the massive hall. The Soviets started to slowly realize that the playing field had “evened up” a little bit.
Attacker: Russian (2nd and 3rd Battalions, 112th Guards Rifle Regiment)
Defender: German (Infanterie-Regiment 212 and Sturmschütz-Abteilung 244)
5.5 turns
Players: 2 OBA: Russian Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:16.5 D:14.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0 D:2
8cm GrW 34 x 2
Misc Rules:
D: AS, FB6, Wire/trenches may not use HIP. GrWs have no Smoke.
I had that sense that Ian would attack teh western apporach in this typical Stalingrad slug match
I thus prepared some nice traps and in the east had all my fortifications
It worked well initally but sheer weight of numbers meant the Ruskies prevailed - just a few more good shots and a slightly better withdrawal from me and he was not going to make it
2022-12-11
(D) Dwayne Duval
vs
Kevin Duval
German win
2022-12-11
(A) Kevin Duval
vs
Dwayne Duval
German win
My Russians did very well getting into VC buildings quickly. OBA was accurate & deadly . I became over-confident (and cocky) & failed to double check the Victory Conditions closely. Realizing (too late) I needed "greater than or equal to " 15 VP more than Germans was my undoing!
2022-08-14
(A) Eric Partizan Eric
vs
Russian win
2022-06-01
(D) Doba Serge
vs
Xavier R
German win
2022-05-09
(A) Jeff B
vs
Phil Wentworth
German win
Russians kicked off their assault most strongly in the east central factory, evicting all German occupants except a mortar crew by the end of Turn 2. From there things would get a bit more sticky. A German kill stack situated itself in R37, and it would take a couple DCs to bring them down. Considering there were now only three turns left, I had yet to see a fortified location, one HIP was still unaccounted for, and most Germans were still concealed I didn't think I stood much chance. Turn 4 saw the assault really kick off, and I grabbed two corners of the west central factory. I had also finally sent a couple stacks into the sewers, but neither could emerge. The sewers would prove to be my undoing. Turn 5 was a very disappointing turn, as I was not able to make any further progress into the almost fully fortified factory. My sewer rats continued their bumbling, one getting lost, the other trying to emerge in a newly-discovered fortified location. I had failed to do the pre-game activities of selecting a row to remove wire and placing my spotter, and therefore threw my observer done in a random hex which proved to be very ineffective. In actuality the spotter should be placed as far west as possible to be able to see the westernmost side of the factory. On the last turn, out of pure desperation and frustration, I opted to convert my first battery blindly, luckily blasting all point-worthy units on the western side of the factory. Some more luck saw a sniper break another squad, and if I could connect on a shot or two I was looking to be in good shape. The shots didn't turn as I'd like, but by this time the German defense was paper thin and it would be close. When both my sewer stacks once again found themselves lost things looked out of hand, but in the end the score was 21-7, and thus I lost by 1 VP. A very close game that was not nearly as fun as the tight score indicated, and in fact felt quite gamey when I was ridiculously piling overstacked Russians at the end into the two corners of the factory I controlled.
2021-10-01
(D) Vilis Pavulans
vs
Matt Velazquez
German win
Russian attack in the center. Both german mortars malfunction. Right building falls rapidly but then trouble starts. Mines explode when russians try to enter to northern factory, breaking units who end up in CC and get eaten by hungry germans. Massive russian casualties and the russian OBA wonders off and can´t find targets at all. Despite a heroic last push with 3 HoB rolls for the russians, creating two heroes and a couple of fanatic, elites they had no chance of clearing the northern factory, instead they found themselves outnumbered by a spread out carpet of german squads.
2021-07-03
(D) David Garvin
vs
Andrew Luden
Russian win
A great slug fest! Had tons of fun
2021-02-21
(D) Michael Rodgers
vs
Carl Nogueira
Russian win
Full Russian left flank attack.
2021-01-23
(D) Ken Rutkowski
vs
Bill T
German win
2021-01-04
(D) Alberto González Ramírez
vs
Rafa
Russian win
2020-07-03
(D) Jason Wert
vs
Michael Daschbach
Russian win
2020-04-18
(A) Jeff Waldon
vs
Will Willow
Russian win
VASL
2019-05-26
(A) Lawrence Spangler
vs
Sam Belcher
Russian win
2019-05-08
(D) Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås
vs
Nils Bakke
German win
2019-03-23
(D) Allen Evenson
vs
Greg Barsness
German win
Germans were able to hang on to the end despite ineffective Mortors and good Russian OBA. Russian Infantry attacked German right flank that wasn't as well defended as it could have been but some lucky German rolls and the German Sniper blunted the majority of the attack. A very tense game!
2019-03-23
(D) Richard Jenulis
vs
Brent Morris
Russian win
Down to the last AFPH. Russian 9-2 tore the Germans apart. OBA opened a door for the Russians. Tunnels kept the Germans in the game to the end.