Hello Lads and Gals!
Today we are featuring a 200 pts battle of the Warsaw Pacts finest, the Volksarmee(also known as East Germans). They are facing of against 2oo pts of the NATO's most capable fighting force, the Americans.
Both forces have decided to lay siege to one another in the heart of Leipzig's infrastructure. The war is taking placing among industrial buildings, residentials houses and even a spiritual church is dragged into the war. Not to mention the many farmlands scattered all across the warzone.
Initially this was suppose to be a 90 pts battle but a friend of mine that was unablet to join before joined in and instead of him having to feel left out for a few hours as we played, we decided to play 200 pts, well they did and I obliged :)
I played against Max 400 and Pelikanen :)
I was lacking a few points since some artillery is at home and the aircrafts wern't fully built. So in the report you will notice that I use west Germans LARS as my Hail Artillery and a few A-10's as my Frogfoots.
War by proxy, yay!
I do hope you all will enjoy this battle report, I feel that this might be my last battle report for this campaign since all of us are running out time and can't play as often due to work and family activites.
Anyway, I have had fun playing :)
Kommendant Baron along with Hauptmann Wilhelm looked out over the units assembled in this sector. There was alot of fighting units eager to fend of the Americans. Wilhelm had already begun setting up a forward scouting section on the right flank. Baron wasn't sure if that was the right move to send out valuable tanks to support a unit of BRDM2 scouts. But he trusted in Wilhelms mind and wouldn't want to undermine him so close to the engagement.
They could see the Americans on the other side of the road massing their own force. He had been promised Mi-24 helicopters, aircrafts and lots of infantry. Sadly he had only hastily set up defensive positions with a handfull of men defending the radio station along with two full companys of T-72M's.
One waiting in ambush, concealed, should an enemy dare to approad to close. The other was waiting behind the Radio station, anxious to get their order to engage the enemy.
The Abrams tanks wasn't something easy to crack. They had good armour but a weaker cannon than they. But still enough to rake in scores of Volksarmee tanks. He wished he had more tanks.
Movement on the American side revealed that they where doing an aggresive. They knew that many of the houses on the side held American infantry with short range missiles. Getting close to them could prove fatal.
A unit of Abrams arrived just infront of their position and began shelling their lines. Wilhelms command tank took a ricochet.
They both knew that they wern't ready yet, they still needed more anti-tank units. And the air support was 15 minutes out. The combat reserves a little less, 10 minutes.
He guessed the enemy had found out of their approach and hoped to seize the area before their arrival, or atleast deter them from joining the combat.
The war for Leipzig began in full.
The game was 200 points per side and it took a long time to finish it, despite setting up at 8.30 AM it still took as till 3 PM to play and we didn't have a clear winner. An inkling, but not a clear winner since he still needed to come to me in order to win and claim the objectives. I had a few units lying around that could harass him as he tried to move forward but it would all be down to the luck of the draw. We where both fairly tapped out on units.
Sadly, I had to leave and the game came to a stop. We talked it over and all parties agreed a draw was a suitable end to such an amazing game.
Being on the recieving end of the missions for once is fairly interesting. Having half your force off table. The MVP of this gme where the Frogfoots and the BMP-2 with infantry :)
We are all going to rejoin for the second part, hopefully with painted models all the way!
Simply delightful!
Nice, nice! Another marked improvement on your graphics and report! You’re my favourite (enemy) commander! 😉
Wow what a battle and your report was great.
Massive battle there comrade! Fanstastic looking effects on the missiles, aircraft streaks, and explosions. Mind sharing the software used?
Nicht Ich will die Wevlt in Brand gesetz, aber Sie machten. Loved all that burning equipment.
I love that! Huge games… a lot of armour… hot stuff guys!
great battle and report, love those games
Good report and nice map graphics.
Looks like you had a great time
epic carnage!!!!!!
Great looking report and a hard fought battle! Table looks awesome!
The table looks great! Love the visual effects! Looks like a fun game… Shame it didn’t go a little more favorably for you…
Another absolutely spectacular report… hoping mine this afternoon turns out this well!!!