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BTW, can you give me a rundown of your forces again, including the Italians (which we will revisit soon)?

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ok i ll will do it completely:

HQ KG Hauser

1st mixed company

HQ Squad

Infantry platoon (Slovak)
3xInf
1xPioneers

2xScouts
1xSniper
2xATRifles

Recce Platoon
Commander w/o vehicle(soon t34 maybe since 2 have been catured recently)
1xMatilda
1XT-34
1xBren carrier

Fallschirmjaeger Platoon
3xFallschirmjaeger
1xPioniere
1xScouts
1xSniper

Hungarian Platoon
2xInfantry
1xengineer
1xscouts

2.Kompanie

Kmp_HQ

3xplatoons
3x infantry
1xPioniere

mgplatoon
2xmg34

Transportzug
3xAPCS
1xTruck

Pzjgdzug
1xt-26
2xstug3e

ind Pzjgzug
2x2pdratgun
1xvickershmg

1.Artillerybatterie
3x75mminfgun
105mm howitzer
75mm gun
40mm boforsflak

2.Artbat
3x25pdr
40mmboforsflak

Ind PzKmp(5 tanks....)
2xpz38t
matildaII
pz2c
pz3f

3.Kmp(bulgarian)
HQ

scoutplatoon
2xscouts
sniper
atrifle

3xInfplatoons
3xinf
1xpioneers

mgplatoon
2xmgs

mortarplatoon
2xmortar
aamg

4.Kmp Gebirgsjaeger

HQ

3InFplatoons
3xgebirgsjaeger
1xPioniere

wpnssquad
1xsniper
1atrifle

scoutplatoon
2xscouts

1xmg

Mortarplatoon
3xmortar
1xaamg

5.Kmp Romanian

HQ
mortarsquad
Mgsquad

4xinfplatoons
2infsquads
1xengineer/scout/Infantry

1xsniper

Gunplatoon
ATgun
Infgun

2xIAR.80 fighters

i am still not clear what made it from the itaians to northafrica

probably one infantrycompany, one tkplatoon(3 tanks,italian....),
2xmortars,Atgun(s),2 trucks and some aaguns and mgs.

meanwhile itlooks toughto take the ridges in time while the russians are counterattacking looks like an objective to far i am just not so fast in the snow.

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Hmmmm. I wonder if you shouldn't leave the Romanians and Hungarians on the Eastern Front. We can revisit them later for a huge final battle ;)

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Well the romanians will probably stay at the beautiful eastern front (my condolences) one platoon of them might go to the dessert just as observers. The hungarian marines beeing marines are just made for these kind of expeditionary missions...(its just a platoon anyway 4 units..)

I aslo have to think about the bulgarians but probably they will happily join in the expedition to the african dessert.

(its hard to leave core units...)

But reports about moving the KG to the mediterranian theater are just rumours for now maybe produced by wishful thinking as the soldiers are freezing in the russian winter.
So far they have managed to crawl into the first trenches in the north that were empty to their surprise.

Some counterattacks from north and south were repulsed the most serious one in the south by a company of t-34 tanks which was taken out by panzergrenades and a lot of heavy insults accompanied by satchel charges heand grenades and whatever was on the hand of the bulgarian engineering troops. one section under Milenov destroyed 3 Tanks using flame throwers gernades and satchel charges. they earned themselves an extra ration of slibovitza or probably vodka here and some shiny metal peaces to hang on the uniform.

Appart from the destruction of some enemy units the reconaissance showed only weak defences and KG Hauser sits now entrenched in the northern Ridgeline and was moving into the center one when the operation was delared over by HQ.

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Ok, the big finale in Russia...

So close and yet so far... the frozen terrain and strong Russian counterattacks finally stopped the great offensive before Moscow could be taken. What's more, the Russians brought in reserves from Siberia and forced us to withdraw. Now our front is under attack at several points. Not even the thought of service in warmer areas can lift the spirits of your men, as you are tasked with holding a quiet part of the front, along a major river. Only occasional sniping and the nightly attacks of those blasted biplanes attest to the presence of the Bolsheviks.
Recently the river has frozen over. This gives you an idea: You will not leave the Ostfront without a final feat of heroism. Radio intelligence confirms that there is a Russian command post in a major school building in a village behind the lines. You will pick a special force of platoon strength from your infantry, let them sneak through the lines in the night and take out that post. The rest of your force will hold the western bank of the river against similar Russian incursions. You have three bunkers at your disposal which you can place whereever you like.

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HQ was a bit unclear with their objective description i see which buildings are important for me to hold but which building should i raid with my "lucky" raidingparty?

Maybe you could add someobjective hexes?

And some hexes are called tramlines trenhces hole? i guess they are supposed to be ice what happened there?

btw thx for all the inventive mission :)

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Sadly, this is all the intelligence HQ is able to provide.

About the ice issue: I have no idea why, but whenever I place ice in the editor, it comes out as that... I will try to get it sorted out.

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Ok, here is a fixed version. I also added a map text of the suspected command post.

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Report from KG Hauser to division HQ:

russian probing attacks during the early night turned out to be main push to cross the river on the whole front. so far the line is holding all units have been ordered to the river bank to combine their firepower for the short range fighting in the night.

northern bridge has been taken out by soviet heavy artillery taking down one of their own tanks with them. crashing the ice beneath it.

use of the frosen river has also been dangerous to our tanks with the captured t-26 and its crew gone while they advanced to far on the ice.

another captured t-34 received a hit in the turret rendering the main gun an cmg useless for this night.

main russian armor attacks are going on on the northern and southern end of our sector. in the north a company of t34 could be destroyed (one left) in the south 3 kv41 have almost crossed the FROZEN river.the enigineers are waitng with bombs and molotov cocktails. heavier guns are needed for this kind of target then what our panzers have.

our own little raiding party has fought its way to the school building where it appears a general and his staff have been trapped as they came forward to observe the attack. hopefully they can be captured before they receive reeinforcments.

The whole situation is quite chaotically as can be expected during a night attack. meanwhile some sectors are very quite. the bulgarian company sppent the night just watching the fireworks around them with nobody contesting their area of control

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Sorry for misleading you a bit, but I wanted to achieve an actual surprise offensive for once ;)