GREEN LIGHT TOURNEY

[PoorOldSpike]

TACTICAL NOTES

Once you get behind schedule on your spear head every flag becomes harder to gain.

Yo, there are still results to come in, but I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say that's why I settled on a strategy of always maintaining the panzers momentum eastwards like bats out of hell on 'fast' in all the games, bypassing the Russian garrisons while detaching just a few tanks, halftracks and infantry to deal with the garrisons, except until I reached the hill where I dropped the 'bypass' strategy because I didn't want to run pell-mell into the Russian tank reinfs that might be coming out of the town.
Below are a selection of screenshots from different games to illustrate my German strategy which turned out to be generally successful-


The River- My leading panzers scream across the bridge straight through the Russian positions without stopping and are already vanishing eastwards into the city in the distance to catch newly-arrived Russ reinfs by surprise before they can properly deploy..
I've held a few tanks, halftracks, inf and SiG back to deal with the Russian River garrison, they can race east themselves later when their job's done here, apart from a few inf squads which I'll leave as a flag guard.




The City- Another game, here the main panzer column completely bypasses the city centre and races eastward to hopefully catch the Russ wheatfield garrison by surprise. Meanwhile I've detached a couple of panzers to assault the city centre but they take hard knocks at the hands of the Russian 57ATG and 37AA guns, one is ko'd and the other is immobd but they take both Russian guns with them. Over the next turn or two another panzer, halftrack and infantry came up to mop up the Russ inf in the city centre.




The Wheatfield- Here again, I keep my main panzer column's momentum going, bypassing the Russian garrison completely while detaching a small force (foreground) to deal with the garrison (note Russian body count)
(Incidentally in all these screenshots many of the bypassing panzers also contributed to each garrisons demise by firing into it on the move)




The Woods- Another game but exactly the same drill.. my panzers race on eastwards while detachments hold back to flush out the Russian garrison before moving up fast to rejoin the spearhead later, apart from the usual stay-behind flag guard squads.




The Hill- At this point in all the games is where I dropped my 'bypass' strategy and adopted a more cautious approach rather than risk running into Russian tanks before I could form into one or two tight panzer fists. By slowly overunning the hilltop garrison on 'hunt' I hoped to meet the Russian armour as it came out of the town and defeat it in a tank battle, leaving the way clear to sweep down into the town unopposed..




The Town- Another game. After defeating the Russian armour, my surviving panzers race down to the Volga. It didn't always go as smoothly as this of course, as often my panzers took a battering in the tank battle or were whittled away by guns and Sturmovik attacks etc and ran out of steam..