Dog Fight - Ostkreig Tournament Round 2

[Dog Soldier]

German turn 12.
06:00 AM December 13, 1942
Snow Conditions
Visibility 2km.

Victory points after the German
turn twelve.


Four out of seven Axis HQ’s went out of command again as the Axis command structure failed from the 48th Pz Corp HQ all the way through the subordinate HQ’s for the second time. To make things worse, I had no idea the Axis AT weapons would be this ineffective. The Russian T-34s are invincible. Our shots just bounce off them. I might as well be throwing snow balls.

The victory points are heading back in the direction of the Russians. The state farm will fall, it is now a question of when. When it does the Russians will have a major victory. I assault some Russian motorized infantry which are on the road leading north of the state farm with my remaining two PzkwIII units. I lose a couple of tanks for my efforts. Maybe the Russian northern pincer is fatigued enough I can threaten it. South of the state farm, the Axis forces are so weak, they could not harm Russian motorized infantry in transport mode which assaulted and destroyed the Axis armored cars. I will just have to try and delay the Russian southern pincer moving in on the state farm.

No progress on the Sulatskiy bridgehead. I only managed to disrupt all but one of the Russian units that rallied this turn there. This left no units able to assault.

The Russian cavalry is contained for another turn. I disrupted one cavalry unit in the southern stack. I damaged the northern stack, but still left two Russian cavalry units in good order. With my infantry being disrupted, I can now expect an assault in the Russian half of this turn. It is costing me 40 – 50 men each turn to hold them. At that rate it will not matter if they break out.


Dog Soldier