Dog Fight - Ostkreig Tournament Round 2

[Dog Soldier]

German turn 5.
12:00 PM December 12, 1942
Snow Conditions
Visibility 2km.


Victory points after the German
turn five.


The Russians continue to give as good as they get. Or is it the other way around? Victory points continue to move in the Russians favor. This turn by only 12 points. I was fforced to give up another 25 VP location, since it was being flanked. No sense in losing my mobility and units in a surrounded VP hex at this early point in the game. The Russians will soon surge in victory points when they occupy the 100 VP in two hexes.

The Russians broke through in the west with one T-34 battalion. As per Rick’s usual smart play, he sent the unit deep as he needed to make it impossible to spot with the low visibility. I have no real idea where it went. I can bet it is close enough to the front to help surround one of my units to reopen my lines. My guess is somewhere in the red circle. Thus I have tried to pull back as far as my troops can on my left flank. I sewed the front closed again. At least his exploiting tanks are now isolated and reduced in morale another level. I focused several artillery shots and managed to disrupt one of his T-34 units near the breach I closed. If they stay disrupted in his turn, they will be a smaller threat to bust open my lines again. Now we will see if splitting his five T-34 units in the Novoder’skly bridgehead was a good gamble. I have brought my 11th panzer armor west to seal off a large section of my rear. Next they will move to swarm his T-34 units on my left one at a time to fatigue and disrupt them. Maybe I will get to destroy one. In any case I need to rob them of their offensive punch before pulling out my panzers for the next hole that will need plugging.

My attacks on the Sulatskiy bridgehead continue. I was able to inflict more damage this turn to wear down the defense. Three assaults failed, but did not disrupt my units or cause me excessive fatigue. I did manage to destroy four tanks, further weakening the defense. The Russians assaulted in turn four towards the southeast. The Russian infantry disrupted leaving only the T-34s in good order. This brought them into the open for me to launch a counter assault in my turn that destroyed two tanks and some infantry.

I am concentrating on leveraging the northeastern tip of the bridgehead by attacking the village of Gelovsky. We both know holding this village gives an advantage to peeling the bridgehead away from the bridge. Rick positioned three battered, but good order infantry units next to the village so they will move in to replace any worn defenders. I will just have to keep up the pressure.

Dog Solddier