Withstand La Baronne
 

And one more new scen here:

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Anyone tried that possibly? I know scenarios are infantry heavy, but there is no feedback at all?

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I was scrolling the forums recently and I found this old scenario of mine. I believe it was omitted in game patches.

Did anyone played it and passed this one? I hope this is not too diggy as for nearly 3 years :P

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It's on the list for the next patch now

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Spent the weekend playing this challenging scenario. It is well worth adding to the next patch.

I managed an MV but it took a lot of work.

If the Polish player stays static he will get slaughtered.

I pulled back into the woods in the north after the lead German units got within 500m and managed to chew them up with ambushes in the woods and arty fire.

Grand Pre was quickly overrun but I managed to stop the advance with concentrated arty fire and held Avicourt until I was pushed out by the second wave. Stragglers hiding in the town managed to retake it later.


A few patrols managed to get into the German rear and destroyed several mortar units.

I will be trying the scenario as Germany to see how far they could have gotten had they used more smoke and if the Poles had not retreated into the woods.

My suggestions are to add a few Polish snipers and a few German scouts.

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One further observation: The rally % of most of the Polish units was below 50% so once they broke they were out of action for a long time. This made them easy to pin and destroy using fire and move tactics.

I can understand morale being low since their country had been defeated but I had not heard of their Officers/NCOs being ineffective.

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I will think about snipers, that could be a sort of addition. Thing is there was historically lack of those. I read a book, not sure if released in English, written by veterans of that division. La Baronne engagement - key one of battle of Lagarde - was fought from very static position against single, strong German wave. It all went to hell only after Colonel Dagnan's force suddenly broke to the south, what is represented by you know what (I would like to avoid spoilers for others :P)

As of rally... no units are modified when comes to exp/mor settings, only all 0 units (platoon leaders) have their surnames changed as entire list of all troops of the division is available. Poland in 1940 comes with 65/55 setting. Which is good, as officers are experienced after 1939 and they took extensive training prior. Privates however were mostly recruited from polish minority in France, only small percent managed to make their way from occupied country.
This book does not state this directly (as it would be serious self-criticism), but in the later stages division suffered from lots of desertions, as many troops felt connected to France and refused to conduct fighting withdrawal to the end.

So I wonder if that should not me for decreased rally? Also, isn't rally assigned basing on exp and morale of particular unit?


PS: If anyone wanted, I also have detailed polish book about Carpathian Rifles - including detailed depiction of Carmusset er Regem battle (present as scenario in SPWW2), but also Tobruk combat in general.
As for other scenarios, I have a huge list - I want to make a lot of Sicily, Fustian, Ladbroke, Gela (probably as 2-3 scenarios) and Centuripe.
Finally, I still have untouched book about General Maczek's 1st Polish Armoured Division. They had pretty rough fight work depicting. I will see what I can do ;)

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Since the books says that their defense was static (I am assuming from prepared positions) maybe some sandbag foxholes or other minor fortifications could be added to simulate these.

Just noticed that I have been promoted to Corporal. :)

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Bit of a cake walk as the Germans.

Using arty to pin the Polish units and then closing in for the kill I cleared the towns before the reinforcements even arrived and cleared the woods by turn 30.

Air strikes took out the rear area units moving forward.

AI failed to keep up a constant arty barrage when my units were sighted so they were able to move out of the danger zone with minimal damage. The AI kept shelling me rear area units rather than using arty fire to slow my forward advance.

Still was a fun scenario. Gave me a chance to do a classic infantry advance under fire.

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Is 'Lorraigne' the english word for french 'Lorraine', or there is faulty added 'g'? just to correct if historical and made official scenario. The remaining french names seem good.