valos german adventure

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Battle of Bjelovar

After the holidays in france my cavalry platton hass been motorized and the cavtransports have been retrained for other infantry jobs(at rifle, sniper pioneer lmg). The transpoertw e got consist of an opel truck an horch truck an armoured truck and a bren carrier we found at the beaches of dunkirk.

Our first job was to secure the road running through the city of bjelovar in croatia. since the city is in croatia one of our new allies the yougoslav army had to move in itself and a better of manouver began.

the yugos ran head on into the village were they were met by my motorinf.
My infantry was retreating from the town centre while the foot infantry advanced to the south of the city covered by the elite sniper.

The tanks moved unopposed at the northern flank taking out the 90mm mortars ( a good piecee of equipment i hope i can get some) and then attacking the yugos in bjelovar from behind.

meanwhile a recon group of spws and panzergrendiers destroyed an infantry company in the south that was trying to block the road there.

then they moved north to attack the remants of the yugo company in bjelovar that was now on its retreat.

at the end of the battle all yugoslavs were either dead or captured.

we had 8 wia and 2 kia and one mia( amember of th at gun cew went to take a leak in the woods and hasnt reported back yet). enemy causalities were 11 dead 400 prisoners.

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After some movement along the roads into greece with i only minor greek harassment attacks and village clearing were we supported a Fallschirmjaeger+stug platoon we arrived at the metsovon plains.

the italians wanted to make a move and it was my job to make sure they wouldnt fail. My troops were mainly used to guard the italians northern flank while they smahed a britih recon group and advanced along the asphaltroad routing some unsupported infantry platoons in the process.

meanwhile the brits tried a cavalrycharge with some cruisertanks and were surprised by one of their 2pounders that is now in my use. Fldwbl Albert got 3 more kill rings on his gun.

the italian airforce provided cas and was able to immobilize a matilda tank that was later taken out by a tellermine from the bulgarian platoon now under my command.

As can be seen on the map the english succeded in getting completly surrounded and in the end after turn 29/40 they surrendered. we had one wounded anthe italians lost 4 men in their little tankettes to inglis aa guns.

there were also some shrapnel wounds from english mortar and 25 pounder fire.

the british losses were much higher with 125 dead 300 wounded and 300 taken prisoners.