Re: Long Campaign - German - Abrevated AAR
Battle 8
Core Force Value: 4216
Date: 9/1943 (East Front)
Mission: Meeting Engagement
Place: Sinelnikovo, Ukraine
visibility: 37 hexes
Terrain: Very open, grasslands with some rolling plains.
Support points: Bought the standard 10.5cm abt. 4x 2cm FlaKs. 2x Scouts sections.
Setup and Plan: This one is tough, very open ground, not much cover at all (in fact I don't see one single hex of woods on the map).
KG Gross mission is a meeting engagement across very open ground with little to no cover at the visibility is 37 hexes on a 100x60 map.
Hpt. Bertram company has deployed in the south (across from his company is a very large hill. Kramer platoon is directly in front of him, Ehrhardt is deployed on the extreme south and Krohner platoon is the northern most platoon (in this section), deployed in every other hex interspersed with Oberlt. Wiedemann (38 kills and a star) Tiger platoon.
Lt. Mayer (251/17 AAA tracks) section is setup on the very west side next to a small village.
Hpt. Osterloh (with 32 kills) Panthers are deployed just to the north of the Tigers.
Hpt. Hollmichihel infantry company is deployed to the extreme north with (again) the only east-west running road. Directly in front of him is Oberlt Witt platoon, on the right (south) is Oberlt Waldmuller platoon and in the south (of this section of the map ) is Oberlt Karthaus platoon.
Fewebel Rittenhaus (the new CO) StuG IIIg are deployed with each of these infantry platoons; Oberlt Wisch is in the North with Witt, Oberlt Scherrer is with Waldmuller and Oberlt Urbanitz is with Karthaus.
Oberlt Frey with his mech pioneers is deployed in a gully in reserve.
Oberlt Barnsdorf mech mortars are deployed in a reverse slope position.
And the support units are deployed as follows: The 2cm Vierling (4xguns) are deployed in the back within the two owned VH and the scouts sections are deployed one each with each infantry company.
It's the best I can do with this area and the location of units and the mission.
Germans go first. Balls to the wall and fight Ivan.
First contact on Soviet Turn 2, a Ba-64 over the hill took a VH and one of the panthers took a shot at him. Soviet Turn 3, 3 burning BA-64's. German Turn 4, one of the StuG IIIg killed the other Ba-64 recon unit. Soviet Turn 4, some 82mm arty lands behind my Panthers, some more BA-64's I spot and shoot at as well as some T-60's. Same Russian tactics so far. Scouts, and recon first, sure to see some tanks and infantry next.
German turn 6, crescendo of battle as per normal. Soviet turn 6, darn, BM-13 Katyusha hit near my Panthers and I2 is immobilised (Naumann), and Il-2 attacked .. and I have 6 AAA guns laying about and not a one of them fired! Soviet turn 8, heavy tank attacks in the center and south, the center may have been repulsed (for now!) and the southern section is unknown. Tiger >> had moved up to this hill just a bit ahead of the follow along infantry, and spotted several T-34's and Kv's, but some stinking infantry popped up and talk about scary!
German turn 10, crushed most of the center attack, the southern one appears to be stalling as well. Hum, turn 10 of 30, no the Soviets must be hiding a ton of stuff elsewhere, even though I have killed a lot of stuff, those Il-2 are still about. Soviet turn 10, the Il-2's came on but they attacked my most southern infantry platoon and Lt. Mayer damaged one of them.
Soviet turn 13 a major Soviet infantry attack in the lower central sector, in this area is a big hill, this is where I sent 1 infantry company and the Tiger platoon. Slowly repulsing the hordes of Russians.
Game turns 14-16 sees a lot of killing of Russians in the south. Turns 17-19 the main Soviet infantry push has been defeated and the Soviets are on the run. I estimate about a battalion sized rifle unit. Soviet turn 18 OberLt. Wisch StuG IIIg was shot by a T34/85, he escaped. It seems like the Soviets called up at least 2 platoons of tank reinforcements, but their is only one left alive now and he is immobilized. On Soviet Game turn 19 he attacked me with his last Il-2, and I found his 76mm artillery positions (rearward).
Found a MG nest with 82mm mortars and 2 37mm AAA, one of the AAA knocked out one of my Pioneer's 251/1 half-track, the crew survived.
Soviet game turn 23, that irritating Il-2 came on again, still has rockets and picked on a StuG, no effect but suppression.
Battle 8 ended on turn 25, German DV, breakdown of losses is incredible:
Germany Russia
Men 24 699
Art 0 20
APC 1 0
AFV 1 47
So far the grand totals of tank losses in 8 battles is Germany 19 and Soviets 307.
My force value is now 4316 (I only upgraded one unit from PzAufscout to a PzfaustScout) so most of this is due to experience. I have 3314 in the bank.
Next battle:
Sinelo, 9/1943 Meeting engagement
Status so far:
Promotions: A lot of infantry units promoted to experience, Langkeit and Osterloh receive stars)
Status:
Tigers (Wiedemann * in G0)
G0 Kills 44
G1 Kills 42
G2 Kills 25
G3 Kills 25
G4 Kills 15
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Totals 151
Panthers (Osterloh in I1)
I0 Kills 32
I1 Kills 42 (Osterloh *)
I2 Kills 17
I3 Kills 40 (Langkeit *)
I4 Kills 49 (Voss *)
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Totals 180
StuG IIIg Batterie
StuG Btr (Rittenhaus)
N0 Kills 1
StuG Zug (Wisch)
O0 Kills 7
O1 Kills 7
O2 Kills 7
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Totals 21
StuG Zug (Scherrer)
P0 Kills 7
P1 Kills 7
P2 Kills 8
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Totals 22
StuG Zug (Urbanitz)
Q0 Kills 12
Q1 Kills 06
Q2 Kills 01
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Totals 19
Grand totals
Tiger's: 151
Panther's: 180
StuG's: 62
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Grand Total: 393
Gearing up for 9th battle soon...
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