*** Scenario of the Month: December 2013 - Pairings

[Mad Mike]

Mad Mike and I have just finished this one and it was a slugfest. I took heavy losses every inch of the way, lost a tank to bogging and another immobilized, but managed to take the objectives. Germans won a minor victory but with casualties like these it hardly seemed like one. Good scenario though and Mad mike was a very good opponent. Our game also went an extra 8 minutes.

Cheers miller41, I think it was very well played by yourself as well.

*** SPOILERS ***

This is a quite frustrating exercise from the British perspective. You have a Battalion of Infantry to defend a town .. against a Fallschirmjäger company supported by three Pz IV. Sounds do-able, I know.
But the problem ist the state of your troops, which are mostly Green with poor (-1 to -2) leadership and average to low motivation. This means that these troops will break very easily, I swear some of them have been running away as soon as they saw a German shadow.
So the firepower was there in theory, but I almost never managed to properly bring it to bear on the Germans .. due to troops panicking, running away to the most unsuitable spots and subsequently and consequently getting cut down by the Fallschirmjäger.
Notable exception: A Sniper section which claimed 10 kills, quite impressive. But then again, those were one of the few Regulars in the bunch of Cannon fodder.

But still, very interesting scenario, if only to show how these factors (experience, morale, leadership) can influence such a battle that the odds can even become reversed.