Hell's Headache ETO (id:#66392)
Gremiache, Russia 1942-07-25 ()
Designer: Pete Shelling
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Balance:
RussianGerman
62.264150943396%

Overview:

With the VII Armeekorps drive to Voronezh stalled by both Soviet counterattacks and their own exhaustion from the summer heat, General der Artillerie Ernst-Eberhard Hell implored his landsers to dig in as "whatever they could not achieve with sweat would be paid for with a lot of blood." As General Mikhail Katukov's 1st Tank Army counterattacked along the Bol'shaia Vereika River, the fighting eventually broke through the defensive lines into the village of Gremiache, where Generalleutnant Arno Jahr's Infanterie-Division 387 was waiting with bated breath.
Attacker: Russian (237th Rifle Division with 89th Tank Brogade and 1st Motorized Rifle Brigade)
Defender: German (Infanterie-Regiment 542, Infanterie-Division 387 with Panzer-Regiment 33 and Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 201)  
5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:19.0 D:15.0
AFVs: A:3
T-34 M41
T-60 M42 x 2

AFVs: D:3
PzKpfw IIIG
StuG IIIB x 2

Guns: A:0
50mm RM obr. 40
PTRD-41 ATR x 2
D:1
5cm PaK 38
5cm leGrW 36
ATR 7.92 PzB 39

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules:
Map Board(s): 89
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultComments
2023-07-30(A) Dan Best vs Dave Goldman Russian winSt. Louis ASL Tournament 2023.
2023-07-08(D) Andy Goldin vs David Varick Ready Russian winI got hit hard by the Russian turn 1 PFPh, probably because I set up too far forward, and didn't really recover until my reinforcements entered Turn 3. Highlights for me included my AT Gun getting a rate shot with APCR on his heavy tank, first immobilizing it and then knocking it out on the second. Another was rolling a '2' while outnumbered in CC, which resulted in me getting an 8-1 leader, redoing the odds and surviving and killing an enemy squad instead of dying.
That said, it was my hot dice which kept me in the game. Although I took a few high point value buildings back in the last couple of turns, Varick had 'banked' 7 CVP in captured prisoners by exiting them and their guards off the board. It was too hard to come back from that loss and CVP deficit, resulting in a strong Russian win.
2023-05-27(A) Richard Jenulis vs Diane Spangler German winEnfilade 2023. I got cocky with the Russians and launched a turn 2 Human Wave that resulted in 5 squads surrendering. The rest of the game was an uphill battle. The final score was Germans 10 Russians 9. This is worth replaying.
2023-05-07(D) Ian Morris vs Ian Ainsworth German winUnder the cosh in the first three turns, lost some troops. He committed his tanks on the lower road : my AT gun was in the grain. I brought some of the reinforcements on too far from the village. Feeling the game slipping away, I sent a Stug around his flank to threaten rout routes. Checking LoS for one such rout, we found that the Stug had a spawny LoS to the rear of his T-34 : in my next fire phase, I turned and managed to Shock the T-34, subsequently KOing it in CC. Meanwhile, my infantry was busy disrupting his and taking prisoners, while the AT Gun was shelling infantry in wooden buildings. He sent his Commissar to rally a broken leader and squad in the AT-acquired building, and the following rate tear destroyed them, at which point Ian conceded. Nice little scenario with tricky VC.
2023-04-14(D) nathan wegener vs Tom Kearney German winAble to force the Russian to stay funnelled in the village. immobilised the T-34 with a mortar round. Reinforcements pushed the Russian back. Btrend23
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Danno Added a playing2023-07-30 17:34:57
von Garvin Modified the gps location2023-07-25 11:23:16
Agoldin Added a playing2023-07-09 02:42:53
Agoldin Rated the scenario2023-07-08 05:00:42
RJenulis Added a playing2023-05-28 05:44:49
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Estimated Play time: 5.2 hours
Recorded Games: 15
Archive recorded plays:
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German8
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Hell's Headache
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[A] German 26
[D] Russian 12
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