german 200 battle campaign

[valo2000]

this is my last try my ever repeating erman campaign. usually i get fed upafter france and start again......
i spend most of my time fighting the polish.

i start with a reeinorced inf kompanie.

HQ

Kmp HQ Inf Grp

1.zug
Sw inf grp
inf grp
inf Grp
at-rifle

2.Zug
4xInf Grp

3.zug
4xSicherungs Zug

Mg Zug
2xMg34(2)

Mörser
2x8cmMrtr Grp

Spähgruppe
2xSpäher
Scharfschuetze

2xPz 35 as AT and AP help.

[Charles22]

If you EVER want to get out of Poland and France, you better cut that battle amount WAY down. I play a 60 battle camapaign and my first three are against Poland, and I haven't played enough to see if I will be stuck there 10/39 also. If I am getting three or more in Poland, you must get a minimum of triple that. I think somebody said they played 100 battles and 10 of them were in Poland.

[PanzerBob]

I to am currently attempting (For the First Time) a 200 battle LC. One, to see if operations like Demark and Norway etc show up. Secondly I'm trialing using 140% for both sides for Searching, Hitting, and Rout/Rally plus 250% on artillery Effectiveness to see what the effect on game play is.

Keep us abreast of your Campaign.

Bob out

[valo2000]

there is no denmark i never noticed it. you can get to norway for some 3-5 battles.

the furthest i ever got was russia after going through the balkans.

now i usually stop after france....

iwill also try to only use R&R after each month

[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.

[curious123]

i never got denmark :< i only got 1 battle in norway (i think it wen't straight to france afterwards). in my 200 battle long campaign the poles phase was 5-6 battle long.

[Charles22]

The number of Polish battles seems pretty inconsistent then.

[PanzerBob]

Good day C22

Poland was only a month in game terms, can't see where 5-6 would be low.

V2K

Looks like a typical day in Poland, keep the SITREPS coming.

Bob out

[Charles22]

Originally Posted by PanzerBob

Good day C22

Poland was only a month in game terms, can't see where 5-6 would be low.

V2K

Looks like a typical day in Poland, keep the SITREPS coming.

Bob out

It is low when you consider that he had 200 battles selected. Even at the current rate I have, with 3 polish battles minimum in 60 battles, that's at a higher rate than 5 or 6 in 200. If my current LC stops at 3 in Poland, my percentage spent there is 5% and given I'm still in 9/39 I will probably see at least a 4th in Poland. At 5 or 6 in 200 battles, the ratio would be 2.5% or 3%, much lower. That's what the time in Poland was for the longest in the SP series (1 battle per month).

[valo2000]

And so the second battle commences....

the fight is bronszki around the city of bronski.

it has a huge forest in the southeast that is ofno interest to anyone. the city is close tothe polish lines and they are the first arriving there. my plan is to stop them in the city and move ith tanks and some inf around it.

thsi way i can trapthem in the city and bomb them into retreat.

when they retreat my tanks will finish them.
speaking of tanks i have 4....

the north ofthe city is full of fields and some wood patches.

here my core will move forward. the main part will defend the city outskirts and keepthe enemy busy. one inf platoon the scouts and the tanks will move trough the fields.

in the south the auxilliary inf company will move forward.

first contact has been made. one Pz4 is already immobilised. at least in agood overwatch position of a road.

the infantrie is moving forward carefully even if the polesdont shell at all. sooner or later the usual 4 howitzers and one mortar will fire....

my tanks are holding the polish infantry and cavalry back that try to cross the cities roads.

my 105er batterie deals heavy damage to them too.
once mymachineguns are in place thetanks will start their planned
advance.

no enemy tanks have been seen yet.

one infantry company is attacking from the sout one trough the city. more to come i guess.