Dog Fight - Ostkreig Tournament Round 2

[Dog Soldier]

German turn 7.
16:00 PM December 12, 1942
Snow Conditions
Visibility 2km.

Victory points after the German
turn seven.


This was an interesting turn. Victory points are dead even with last turn. Since RickyB has more troops this is not good for me.

I am not sure I can hold the State Farm VP location. I need to collapse the Sulatskiy bridgehead and take the VP hex there to stay even. What a tough nutcracker this game is; and the Axis are the nut at this point.

On the plus side I hurt one of those T-34 battalions by destroying four tanks and inflicting a lot of fatigue. That should take the offensive punch out of two T-34 units in the west. I took the village of Gelovsky this turn. That puts me in a position to take the next village or push down the river bank. The Russians won an assault against my pz gr battalion there in their half of the turn. I made them pay for coming out into the open. A hundred Soviet infantry are dead in the snow between the northern two villages of the Sulatskiy bridgehead. I will concentrate next turn on the any units of the Russian 333rd ID next turn. They are lower morale than the 1st Tank corps troops and will not be able to stand their ground. RickyB is trying to stiffen these units by stacking them with the other better morale units to prevent easy assaults.

I will need to switch my artillery barrages to hit the western flank Russian infantry. Next turn the Russians will close with my infantry in the northern tip of my “bulge”. By morning I hope to smash that Russian attack to protect the rear of the 11 PD infantry as they drill into the Sulatskiy bridgehead.
I could not get my 11th PD Pz Gr unit into the ruined village of Kulpinskiy. The Russian cavalry have rallied. My defending unit is low ammo and could be over run next turn. That would be a bad thing.

The virtual spotters in the exit hexes report no VP. That implies there is still alone T-34 unit running around in the Axis backfield. RickyB has been very careful to not let it show on the game turn replays.

Dog Soldier