[valo2000]

the first battle was of course a meeting engangement.

booth sides aim was to capture the center crossroadson the debewielke map.

my units werein the center to stop the attack while two inf companies attacked over the flanks.

the poles had one platoon of tankettes with only one of the dangerous 20mm versions. target practice for my tanks. later 2 37mm armed 7tp attacked over a ridgeline but they never fireda shot of returnfire as they were ambushed by 2 aux pzII.

after this tank battle was finished i triedtotakeout the enemy arty with my 2 me-109. a complete failure because of the 40mm flaks in the way.

still the 4 howitzers and one mortar the enemy fielded didnt cause a single causality.

my scouts and the sniper were overlooking the crossroads and directed a mortar barrage on the first wave of polish troops that stopped them long enough tobring the tanks and machine guns in position to overwatch this area.

the sniper had great succes taking out 7 at rifle teams. but hedidnt get allofthem because three infiltrated in the south were the sicherungszug was behind the mark IIs and his cost me my two aux tanks. one destroyed with one shoot by at rifle. the gigantic explosion killed all crewmembers.....
the other one was badly damged and tried to escape until he was immobilised with 3 man down of the 5 man crew.

my AT-Rifle dindt fire a single shot as always.

the rest of the battle saw he rout of an unsupported polish inf attack by manchine gun and mortarfire and the later envelopment of the retreating forces.

my losses started to mount intheend of the game as i ran into aamgs placed in the woods.2 aamgs were cause for 10ofthe 20men killed and injured. the rest was due to enemy small arms.

the next meeting engangement will probablysee the same enemy some tanks some inf. main goal is to minimize losses on my side since there will be no refit until the poland campaign is over.