The colored lines represent movement to engagement and speed of movement

Light Purple = Move Fast

Blue = Move = Move

Yellow = Sneak

Dark Purple = enemy Hetzer movement

 

The numbered Red X’s are the locations of Russian tanks or infantry in the order they were engaged. The numbered Black X’s are the locations of my armor in the order they came in contact.

After moving my infantry into position around the Northern VL, I spotted 1 a group of Russian infantry supported by a couple of T-34’s one of them being a 2 flamer. My recon team had just got into its ambush position when it fired on and destroyed the flamer. The heavy infantry assaulted and suppressed the Russian infantry while my other recon team engaged the T-34. Once the T-34 was immobilized, I assaulted it with another heavy infantry squad which forced a surrender. This gave my 3 King Tiger free reign over the northern section of the map, allowing him to mop up the stragglers left from the Russian attack.

While the action intensified around the Northern VL, I noticed a group of infantry sneaking onto the Southern VL. I began moving a 1 King Tiger and a 4 Hetzer out of hiding in the stream when the Hetzer came under fire and was immobilized by a JSIII which was crossing the clearing. I began a mortar barrage on the infantry to suppress them and sneaked my recon team into position to attack the 5 JSIII. They were able to immobilize it and the King Tiger finished it off. I then switched the fire of the King Tiger and the still alive Hetzer to the 3 Russian infantry, destroying them with ease.

Back in the Center area of operation the recon and heavy infantry I had sneaking though the treeline across the middle of the map came upon an 4 assault gun headed to the North. Without hesitation they had fired on its left flank with their Panzerfaust 100’s destroying it and its crew.

My 2 command tank took up a position to defend my mortars from flanking attacks of infantry which might get through my assaulting force. I hadn’t anticipated an attack south of its position but that’s exactly what happened at 6. A group of close combat or medium infantry had infiltrated my line to attack my mortars. I don’t think they were expecting the mortars to be in halftracks though. The mortars were already reset to defend and did so superbly. Their machine gun fire broke up the attack in seconds while my Panther command tank turned to mop up.

I had started my Northern assault group on a slow sneak down the line of VL’s when my opponent decided he had lost to much of his force to sufficiently defend the rest of the map and withdrew. I was glad to have won and gotten my revenge on this worthy foe, but at the same time saddened because it was another win for the Germans.