Moscow '42 AAR: Sukhinichi II : We Will Rescue You

[Dog Soldier]

Russian Turn Twenty One
14:00 24 January 1942 Visibility 5km

Sukhinichi Front
The cavalry regiments continue to close with the retreating Germans of 18th Panzer Division. I move two rifle battalions and the engineer company of the 324th Rifle Division NE of Sukhinichi to threaten an assault next turn. Three rifle battalions of the 324th Rifle Division now menace the NW trenches of Sukhinichi manned by a unit of the German 216th ID. It is all out now. All good order units will now move forward to engage the Germans. Maybe I will get some lucky breaks.
Not all goes well. A German artillery bombardment disrupts the recon unit before they can launch their assault on the western 10 VP location village. I now can spot the artillery. I may not be able to do more than that soon.

At Proloskye the German cavalry move out of LOS into the valley to the east. I move my Rifle battalion north again to block the road. The Russian recon unit moves to the hex just south of the village. This play is over for now. I will simply rest and wait for the Germans to try something, or they may not.

In the NW I move two more rifle battalions to hold the German infantry as my single rifle battalion creeps up on the village further south. A German infantry battalion continues to assault my two rifle battalions back down the road towards Verk’ Syaglova. Nothing I can do there. I move the AA unit south to see if the German left the victory location in the woods empty. At the least I might cause one of the two German infantry units here to call off the attack to occupy the woods.


Dog Soldier