Continuation war - DerC vs. Kez

[VikingNo2]

Sounds like a good battle I have enjoyed reading it. when yall are done, I like to fight one of you, or both.

[DerC]

Originally posted by Kez
Ïn case you still havent seen any trace of my northern attack, I'd say your blind

Oh well.. The turn-based structure of the game may have something to do with this.. :rolleyes:

The norhern sector is still holding pretty well. Reinforcements have arrived and the Russians haven't captured the VHs yet.

Central sector is under bombardment, direct fire from a BM13 Katyusha and some indirect from 120mm mortars. I'm pretty confident I'll hold those hexes.

Southern sector, the VHs are changing colour. One out of four now have the Finnish flag on them.

The final turn will be worth seeing. At the end of this turn I fired some countering fire to stop the northern attack, but seems like most of the bombardment missed its target! Oh well..


Viking, I might be able to play you, but since I'm a bit busy at the moment and already playing other games as well (including Kursk) I will at least have to delay our possible game.

[Kez]

The recapturing of the northern hexes isn't progressing as smoothly as I thought... Most of the troops are routed because of the finnish arty.

Down south my Guard inf uses their last vodkabottle to destroy enemy tank.

It looks like I'm going to lost control of the southern hexes, but hey, who cares? We won the war anyway and put up the iron curtain and shouted "Hurrah Communism" for 50 years.

With the assistance of one Katyushka I'm trying to take back the middle hexes also..
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Viking. I have currently only 2 games on "active" status and I have slots 6-9 free so... send me a message and let's talk about details.

[DerC]

Okay, my final turn is now complete. I got all the northern and central VHs plus three out of four of the southern ones.

In the north I believe the blade of the Russian attack is shattered as a 50mm ATG blows a KV-8 flametank into pieces with a frontal hit at point blank range. You gotta love that APCR ammo!

Several squads of infantry are fended off both in the north and in the south. A screen of smoke is now set covering the central VHs from any more direct fire from that Katyusha.

The final OOB, casualties and "Grand battle plan" (;)) coming right after Kez has played his final turn.

[Kez]

Final turn over.

I got none of the northern hexes, all but one of the middle hexes and two of the southern hexes.

The final points were 7424 (FI) - 6230 (SO) so it was a mere draw...

My troops were:
4 x SU-122
6 x OT-34
4 x KV-1E
2 x SU-76
3 x Guard inf co.
2 x SMG co.
1 x Conscript co.
1 x Partisan co.
1 btn 203mm
plenty of scouts and snipers
several 120mm mortars
and some Katyushas

I lost 889 men, 20 AFVs, 2 artys and some transports...

...I assume we will meet again at...let's say 1944?

[DerC]

First, my OOB for this one.

1x FI HQ
1x AT Co (6x 50mm ATG, 4x Molotov team) If I remember correctly
2x Prime mover platoon (4x A20 Komsomolets each)
1x 152 H 37 Btn (3 Bty each)
1x 152 H 30-10 Btn (3 Bty each)
1x 75 K 17 Bty
2x Forward observer
4x Rifle Co (Rifle sqd 43, plus 4 molotov teams and 4 HMGs per company)
10x Sissi platoon (Total of 30 teams, dumbest thing I bought.. :rolleyes:)
1x Engineer Co
4x Captured T34 section (T34 m.1942, 2 tanks each)
A large quantity of scout teams and some dozen snipers

I called in as reinforcements (mostly to help with the breakthrough in the south)
2x Jaeger platoon (Jaeger sqd 43)
2x 122 H 39 Bty
1x Rifle co (w/o HMGs)
2x Truck platoon (5x Molotoffi each)
1x KV-1E section

Then to my plan.

This was a sort of an experiment to test my strategical skills in SPWaW. It worked to some extent, but I lacked the troops to make it work correctly.

In the very northern and southern ends of the map I tried to make a breakthrough with Rifle companies. These breakthroughs would then allow tanks to move in and devastate the soviet rear area, flank VHs and such. One Rifle company and Engineer company were set to stop any attack attempts through my central sector, and they were to start attacking only after the 'Breakthrough companies' had finished their work. The ATGs were also supporting this defense. The remaining Rifle co was left in reserve.

I ended up committing my tanks to battle too late. The infantry took horrendous casualties trying to break through the enemy lines without the fire support from tanks. After I got the KVs as reinforcements and sent them south along with some Jaegers I instantly started making progress and was at maximum some ten hexes behind the south VHs. A bit off on the north-south axis but I could effectively attack them from the south.

After maybe 12 turns the attack in the north was classified as a bad joke, the remnants of a Rifle company, some reinforcements and maybe a platoon of engineers spent the rest of the battle defending northern VHs. I also had most tank losses in that sector.

The central sector was surprisingly easy to capture since I used fresh reserve units with tank support on a suppressed enemy. Artillery surely is the king of warfare.

This strategy of mine still needs some work. Oh well, I seem to have written a long story about it.

I'll compare the casualties here, first Finnish then Soviet.

Men 1041 : 889
Arty 3 : 2
Soft veh. 11 : 8
AFVs 7 : 20


A couple of screenshots still coming.
Overall the battle was very satisfying. Rematch in 1944 would suit me perfectly. Maybe later winter war and such. Thanks for a great game!

[DerC]

South at the end

[DerC]

Center

[Kez]

You broke a hundred! Huray!

[DerC]

And finally north.

[DerC]

Originally posted by Kez
You broke a hundred! Huray!

Thanks! You're not too far from fifty yourself.