New NGP'85 article by HirooOnoda.

[JDR Dragoon]

And so the game described in "example 2" in the article ended in an inconclusive "Draw" :P

-I used the polish 20th TD, 94th GMRD and the 36th Naval brigade (helped by a few regiments of 16th Tank passing through for a day or so) to smash the 6th PzG (plus the extra PzG brigade from the 3rd PzD) over a period of 3 days. Total wipeout and netting me welcome VPs plus taking a NATO unit out of the equation for good.

-In the short 56 turn "Initial Campaign" I would probably assault them just as I did here. The VPs are just too good to miss. In the longer 161 turn affair I would probably leave them to the polish 2nd Army following in 2nd operational echelon (and keep them bottled up using the 94th GMRD and the Naval Brigade untill then). They will be just as dead and you get to use the polish 20th TD for someting else.

-Absent the rest of the LandJut Corps the defence of the peninsula is impossible, so withdrawing 6th PzG into hamburg is probably the best solution to a problem that didn´t exist in real life (where withdrawing into Hamburg was an option dreaded since it would mean that the 2 divisions of the LandJut Corps would be split apart and the danish Jutland Division would be faced with defending the width of the peninsula alone). I don´t think that reinforcing 6th PzG accomplishes anything though. That PzG brigade from the 3rd PzD goes a long way towards NATO holding WAPA (temporarily?) at bay at the Weser and in "example 2" above my opponent definetely needed it there, not lying dead among the ruins of Hamburg.