Fought At Frankfurt
2428 days 23 hours 35 minutes ago
Battle Report
Frankfurt Gauntlet
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Warsaw Pact
s3
VS
West German
Iandaredh
After being repelled on the bridge, W.German made a local counterattack. BTR rifles were rushed and dropped down, along with two platoons of tanks. Anti-aircraft unit was not provided, and the main hope remained on insufficient air support from NATO. German reccon allowed for quick advance, almost helping to encircle Soviet troops. Our infantry had to move up and secured positions for tanks.
Our troops exchanged several shots, most damage was done on our scouting BMP unit. Our tank platoon got ordered to move up, and push for objective, rolling onto Gepards. Lurking Leopards 1 forced us to keep second platoon ready, in case of hard-flank movement. We hesitated to advance infantry, loosing a round of movement.
With the ammount of incoming fire, was made decision to push on and all or nothing. Infantry raises and advances, wildly shooting their RPGs. It pays off, both scout platoons destroyed, Marders knocked out! Tanks roll onward. Sadly incoming airstrike reminded us of Luftwaffe, but it failed to do any damage...for now.
The temporary success is immedietly spoiled. Germans open fire from everything they got killing large number of infantry. Even tanks now move and keep motor rifles under gun fire killing even bigger ammount of unhappy infanterymen. Meanwhile Luftwaffe performs air strike, destroying two t64s and last one flees in panic.
But there is still a chance. Our last tanks ride towards objective, trying to mg down infantry securing it. We fail to mow them, so go for assault. But Gepard shots dead one tank, overwhelming fire devastating its rear. While infantry is pushed away, the remnants of Gepards encircle tanks and with support of milans, knock them out. The reinforced company ceased to exist at this point.This was the first game where my infantry kept dieing like flies. Hence why Iandareth thought he did not get enough dice to stop them....then what shot = hit = kill (same with his light vehicles).
I positioned my tanks into a linie thus blocking my LoS to Gepards. As result i could shoot only at one of the two (killing it¨) with the other happy for side shots. And while you get good side vs Gepard it is still six dice.
By random i took spearhed element and without it, i would be squeezed into tiny box of 24" * 8 inches and strangled. When i saw how we deployed i thought he will push hard from all sides overrunning me, so it went better than i expected.
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Nice photos and terrain! I like photo+comment format of this report!
Just win next time, tawariszcz.
Nice write up, a little more detail would’ve been great.
Great terrain.
Fun battle
Nice terrain and well painted, better luck next time
Nice looking table and forces, condolences on the loss… 🙁
cool pictures, nicely painted
Nice battle and nice with painted armies! Sad you didn’t win Comrade, next time!
West Germans are tough opponents. This one seemed like a close battle.