Hungary Tournament END

[SGT Rice]

Many thanks to Sergio for leading this event :bow: and to my esteemed opponents von Nev and Barbarossa; both are excellent tacticians and reliable PBEM partners.

Unfortunately I've already deleted the game files so I can't recount specific turn-by-turn, hex-by-hex details.

Both of the "Counterpunch" games with von Nev boiled to down to several turns of desperate street fighting in Kecskemet. In both games the Axis held on to the 200 VP hex at game end; my Axis eked out a draw while von Nev's Axis suffered a minor loss. The difference came from two game situations:

In the early turns von Nev's Axis tried to delay the Russian advance with an armor screen in the clear terrain south of the city. They suffered heavily from Sturmoviks and massed T34s, especially the Hungarian PzIVs.

In the late game my Axis were able to infiltrate most of the Hungarian light armor into the Russian rear; for the last two (?) turns they shut off Russian supplies and took some of the steam out of the final Russian assault.

Both Cegled games with Barbarossa ended with the Germans in control of Cegled and scoring major victories. Not a very balanced scenario, but I don't recall many specifics from this match.