Fought At Leipzig
2409 days 16 hours 26 minutes ago
Battle Report
Lunging into Leipzig
80 POINTS
West German
Oberst Hunts
VS
Warsaw Pact
Jeremy
It was late in the afternoon when the orders came down to continue the attack into Leipzig. Our previous push put the Russian forces on their heels and now it was time to exploit the initial gains made by the 142/342 PzGren Btl. We would move forward early in the morning just before BMNT and hit the Russians just at sunrise. For this fight the Grenadier company would be augmented with a small company of Leopard 1s and priority air support from two separate bases. This would give each company direct air support which would be needed to take out the enemy's heavy tanks. This attack could prove tough if the enemy got rapid reserves and could push through their heavy tanks. We will plan well to deal with their armor.
The Germans protect the objectives and prepare to dash around the flanks to get the Russian AA systems.
The Russians set up with motor rifle troops in the buildings, BMPs to protect from the flank and a T-64 company in ambush.
Infantry with Milans dig in to protect the objectives from attack. No one has targets to shoot so things move on to turn two.
The Luftwaffe comes in like gang busters to pound the northern Russian elements with good results. BMPs take a pounding and the Battalion commander is lost.
German reinforcements arrive in the form of a Gepard platoon the pushes forward to engage motorized rifle elements in the buildings while the Marder platoon decides to take a break in the woods.
The Luftwaffe agin comes in hard and again tries to take out more BMPs around the objective. Leopard 1s are able to engage the enemy ZSUs from long range and kill both before the air strike.
The Russians get a reserve platoon of T-64s in on the flanks and they fire up a Leopard 1 platoon killing one. and BMPs near the objective fire up the Marder platoon killing two of them.
Our second reserve platoon arrives and the Jaguars set up to fire on the BMPs next turn while the Marders run toward the BMPs and the objective to help clear the way for follow-on units.
We continue to push hard on the flanks for the objectives and move Marders and Gepards forward in anticipation of grabbing one next turn.
The Russians aslo push their tanks forward in the south to drive on the objective after having killed all three Jaguars in the south on turn five. Now our infantry will have to hold out.
The Germans get another reserve and push them forward toward the objective. At the same time the northern Jaguar platoon fires on the Russian T-64s protecting the objective killing two of them.
In the west the lone operational Marder is on fire and kills two BMPs with three shots. The dice gods are favoring the Germans.
In a bold drive the Gepards and Marders pushed up to swarm the objective in hopes that somehow the last two tanks would be killed.
The infantry Milan teams fire on the Russian AT vehicles and get a kill. Too bad the T-64s are too close to fire on.
The Russian's last two northern T-64s moved to get close enough to the objective to hold it but one bogged in the woods and after getting hit and saving the final T-64 took a morale test and failed and they left the field leaving the objective open for the taking which our Luchs did.
For one last time the Luftwaffe came to the rescue and killed the last two southern T-64 tanks. The end was in sight.
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Ooft, that was turn heavy! Enjoyed the formatting on this report, good job.
That is an evil amount air support, and I’m an AF guy!
If you take two separate companies they can each have support units. So in theory, your two companies could each take 8 PAHs but they aren’t worth it.
That is also why they both had Gepard platoons.
One Marder mech company and one Leopard 1 company.
Trouble = double?
How were you able to trouble the airforce?
All of the planes
Great looking Wessies there! The double air support dealt death like they’re the angels of death!
Very good report!
Great report – loved everything but the outcome!!! 😀
I thought that he might push hard with his tanks a bit earlier but he just couldn’t handle all the air power and large number of German platoons.
Looks like it was a real slog, though mostly from the air. Congrats on the win for the West!