Shock and Awe

[Live Mike]

turns out ... my opponent isn't on the ladder, so I can't report our result.
I'll do so here.

The scenario was "First Blood" and my brave Poles will has been broken.
My opponent Paulus has conducted an attack of unprecedented violence.
I have decided to concede.
Its wasn't war ... it was murder.

I'll share just one example .....all units have 6 sps .....
Paulus advances an eng onto a mine field at the corner stone of my D
The inf platoon covering the mines op fires ... no effect.
The eng fires back. into the woods, ... minus 5 retreated. (Odds 1 : 24,000)
Well .... we Poles are stuborn, so next turn ...
I advanced 2 fresh platoons into the same hex
fired at the eng, and forced him to retreat.
And ...
Paulus advanced the eng back onto the mine, fired ...
-3 retreated. (Odds 1 : 146)

The odds of these 2 events occuring,
on consecutive shots,
at Combat odds of 3 : 2, (it was worse, 12 to 7 with a .8)
is 1 in 3.5 million.
1 in 3.5 million.
8 sps lost, in 2 shots, into the woods.
Meanwhile, my trenches were filling with bodies too.
Simply Murder. Shock and Awe.

And so it went.
Unprecedented loses.
And all done without a single assualt !!
Not one.
Ironically, in retrospect, my units where far safer in the open than they were in a trench.

The victory is yours Paulus.
BTW ... if you register for the ladder, i can report the result.

--- Mike
ahhhh .... the memories

[Rebel__]

I played Paulus as well in the scn Tigers Forward, I also am waiting on him to register so that i can report our game. I played some hide and seek with him and he conceeded after turn 8. he also had the chance to assualt some of my poor Russians troops and make some certain headway but he did not and it allowed me to pick my shots at him, here and there with devastating point losses to the Germans....he had a nice plan, but i think he spread himself a little thin for this scn... a good game it was....

[Paulus]

Those were two very different games for me here...
I must accept a mirror game on First Blood with Live Mike, because it is true it seemed a one sided game due to tremendous Polish casualties at times.
On the other game, the defense was rich in AT assets/tanks/artillery, and I seemed to have no clue what to do. Mud was also a very disturbing factor. I think I could have had made some decent advance, but to a price in losses which, even in games, is not my cup of tea. Hence my acception of a major defeat in this other game.

Was night and day. With dice, too.