Kharkov '43 campaign game

[raizer]

Seeing that we surrendered, and the game was posted, I just ran my forward motorized stuff blindly ahead from volchansk W to crossing of the Donnets at Zavody Pervyye and SW to stary saltov, which is btwn 30 and 45 hexes away from the bulk of our force; the 1 hex per turn infantry. The primary road can only take so much traffic.

The remaining crossings (fords) have Das Reich along with GD and the LAH division all sitting in bunkers hehe.

At each crossing I came to there were bunkers stacked with troops. So give us a day and a half to get to the bunkers with our assault force (the grunts and any bridging equipment)-moving one hex each turn, while the germans bring any unit up to full strength that was at half. And LAH is virgin.

We got to volchansk battered, in 45 turns -trust me our stuff was spent. We gave it a good effort, you got the win and beat us down. We know the forces we had. Keith and I have been playing this game for 10 years; it was futile to keep going.

Now Im on the other side of this as well, playing the germans with keith-our opponents are going real slow and have only 2 vps at turn 27 but they will get izyum soon, making 3. I think we might have been at 5 vps by turn 30. We will see how they do by going slow and steady. At turn 49 in our game with lars and Arkan, we had 7 vps with the 8th about to fall, so figure 8 vps by turn 50-which is only half, to the required 15 for a draw, 16 for a minor. In doing so, you, along with our help destroyed our force. It was shot. Slow and steady might be the way to go. But the longer our current russian opponents take to drive us back, we are refitting and building bunkers.

One more thing: roads that run over streams. Keith and I are blowing every one we can because without these stream bridges along the primary roads, the russian wheeled arty and moto rifle bridges will slow even more-slow to a virtual crawl. We were slow enough as the russians without having to deal with this problem in our game with lars and arkan, for they did not blow one stream bridge along the primary road network. Turns out they did not have to.