Dynamic Campaign: Volunteers Wanted

[Skirmisher]

Originally Posted by wulfir

Good work, comrade. The Fashists have withdrawn from ARTEMOVKA. The Party and the Motherland thanks you!

Intel gathered from dead German bodies left behind in the village indicates the enemy troops were SS - beloning to the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division. It might explain to some extent why the battle of the ARTEMOVKA village proved to be so bitter.

You push on west, reaching the town of PETSCHENEGI, and Corps orders an assault. A fresh rifle battalion, the only full strenght one left in the entire corps, is brought forward to help with the assault over the frozen Donets river. Some light tanks and what artillery that can be mustered to support you is also brought forward.

The town is likely held by the Adolf Hitler Division. You will have to fight hard to liberate it. Probably even harder than at ARTEMOVKA...

I am currently at turn 20.

The rifle battalion is at the edge of town,backed up by the very effective maxim machine guns. Some elements of the german presence has been eliminated or dislogded.
The battalion is on the north part of the map,hitting the closest part of the town to the deploy area.

In the south are all the mobile units I could muster,including
my core forces as well as all the T-60 tanks and the one mobile
mech truck infantry company to which I added the three Bazooka units and the remaining kosmolets with HQ and scouts.

Around turn 12 as my armored mobile group appraoched the town from the south, two motocycle scouts out front.
A large group,at least three or four companies, of armored
PZkw IIIm tanks appear from the south moving along the parimeter of the town.
Ground troops got out of trucks and we dug in at the frozen rivers edge. After a decent sized battle 5 enemy tanks are burning and one imobilized. Only one more is in close range of my forces.
The remaining german tanks are moving still along the town's edge further up now.
All but 4 of the t-60's were destroyed. 1 Immobile.
one bazooka team was wiped out,the motorcycles gone as well.

These forces will finish of that last tank then regroup and attempt to enter the city from the south.

The rest tomorrow.

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by Skirmisher

The rest tomorrow.

Cheers, Comrade Skirmisher!

[Ts4EVER]

The Russian attack was beaten back, but at a heavy price. At the end of the battle, the Company was driven back into the village. ONly one StuG remained operational, three having been destroyed and the rest being to damaged to fight on.
However, int he end the Russians were not able to press home the final attack: Marginal victory!

As support I had a 10.5cm battery, which proved decisive in holding back the waves of infantry, as well as an allied infantry company, which was bombed heavily at the start of the battle and only played a minor role. 2 88mm guns were also attached, but one got bombed quite early, while the other was retreated into the village.

The three dead stug crews as well as a veteran snipers will be hard to replace.

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by Ts4EVER

The Russian attack was beaten back...

The Soviets are holed up in the eastern part of MALASZEWICZE MALA. Their advance blunted, and for the time being a spent force. They remain calm until nightfall when they hesitantly edge forward probing for your defences...

...during the night two deserters, üeberleufer, slips away to surrender to you, volunteering plenty of information....

..friendly reinforcements also arrive, a worn out infantry battalion and some engineers pressed into infantry service. A counterattack seems to be possible...

...Corps has also promised heavy artillery to be availiable to support your attack..., you can not delay too long or Soviet supplies and reinforcements will catch up with their point element opposing you...

[Skirmisher]

Originally Posted by wulfir

Cheers, Comrade Skirmisher!

What happened after the intermission was-

Southern mobile forces finished of that tank,another immobile one and a couple of pesky german artillery vehicles.

Then we entered the town, but due to the fight from turn 12-22
various elements were not in place properly for the attack.

This cost us the rest of the t-60's, a couple kosmolets/scout vehicles, a couple more t-34's. Also the last assualt gun was destroyed,it had its weapon blown off,and I was using it to soak up fire.

By turn 40 the entire effort had become bogged down. In the south, I couldn't risk losing any more t-34's and advance was very slow.

Assets were running low. The rifle battalion,or rather what was left of it,was recuded to a few pockets of furious fighting.

The Pzkw IIIm tanks arrived up north and began attacking the victory hexes I has allready taken.These were hard to retake with unmotivated troops, and troops in short supply.
I destroyed 4 of the tanks when they charged the first victory hex.
The remaining tanks caused alot of trouble,gunning down routed squads left and right.

Also there was a battle for a shoe factory,which fell right at the end of the game. I gained 2 of 3 possible victory hexes there. (See attachment)

The Elite German troops were very tough,once I got into the city. Some area's I just couldn't breach.

I emailed the final turn files,thanks for the game.

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Hey, what if a campaign is compiled after it's over?like a regular one?

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP

Hey, what if a campaign is compiled after it's over?like a regular one?

Easily done - but some adjustments will be needed as most battles build upon the previous one and different players will have different solutions/different outcomes...

That said, anybody can download these files and install them right now should they want to play it out...