078 The Longest Ridge

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Total plays 1 - Last reported by pino on 2023-11-08 00:30:16

July 19, 1943: As the fighting for Kursk rages to the north, the reconstituted German 6th Army struggles to contain a serious Soviet assault along the Mius River. General Hollidt has ordered the 23rd Panzer Division, along with its newly acquired sIG 33b assault guns, to capture Hill 213.9. Unfortunately, the supporting attacks of the 16th Panzergrenadier and 306th Infantry Divisions have failed, leaving the panzers to struggle across the ridge alone.

	Soviet	German
Division 1	5 Squad Bases - 17 Regular Infantry - 1 Officer - 1 Machine Gun Crew 2 ZiS 76.2 Anti-Tank Guns 2x AntiTank 1x Concealed	9 Squad Bases - 22 Regular Infantry - 7 Elite Infantry - 1 Officer - 1 Mortar Crew - 2 Machine Gun Crews 4 SdKfz 251 Half-Tracks 1x Engineer
Division 2	8 Squad Bases - 19 Regular Infantry - 4 Elite Infantry - 1 Officer - 2 Machine Gun Crews - 2 Mortar Gun Crews 2x Engineer 1x AntiTank 1x Concealed	3 Panzer III Tanks 1 Panzer IV Tank 2 sIG 33b Assault Guns 2 StuG III E Assault Gun
Strategy Decks	Ground Support 1 Soviet Artillery 1 Combined Air Support 1 (Shared, with “Night Witches” card removed)	Command 1 SD German Artillery 1 Combined Air Support 1 (Shared, with “Night Witches” card removed)
Starting Strategy Cards	3	3
Operations Cards	040 Lack of Tank Radios 052 Lay Mines 002 Heavy Fog (Applies to Soviet squads and equipment units only. See Special Rules.)	049A SiG 33B (statistics) (see Special Rules) 049B SiG 33B (abilities) (see Special Rules) 011 Elite Tank Crew 005 Clear Mines
Deployment Zone	Division 1: Any of the hexes on maps 6A and 9B. Division 2: Any of the hexes on maps 1B, 8B and 7B.	Division 1: Any of the hexes on map 10A. Division 2: Any non-hill hex of map 5B.
Starting Initiative
Objective	Any other result is a Soviet victory (see German objective).	The Germans must control the victory objective at the end of game round 8.
Rounds	8
Actions per turn	3	3
Reinforcements	Status Phase 2: - 2 T-34/76 Tanks - 2 T-70 Tanks Status Phase 5: - 2 T-34/76 Tanks - 1 KV-1 Tank - 1 SU-122 Tank Destroyer	-
Special Rules	For the purposes of this scenario, ignore the text on the “sIG 33b (Statistics)” Operations card which states that “all the StuG III units in this scenario are considered sIG 33b units.” Both types of vehicle are deployed normally. The “Heavy Fog” Operations card represents the effective use of concealment by the Soviets as they used the extensive sunflower fields to conceal their positions.
Terrain Features	The stream is Shallow.

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alecrespi replied the topic:

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10 months 1 week ago

Well deserved German victory, match played perfectly.
The Germans easily managed to take over the 3 CPs in the upper right board and block the reinforcement hexes in 8B (thanks to the halftracks).

Unfortunately the objective point is right behind the central hill and this prevents the 2 Soviet ZiS from protecting them.

The lower reinforcement hexes surrounded by woods and river are difficult to cross and too far away for tanks to actively go into action.

I think the forced deployment of the Soviet AT guns in the lower part of the map is a strong limitation, also the Germans could deploy in the upper part of the 5B map and remain completely out of range of the ATs.

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