Dampsquib vs Dundradal - Der Ost Front GC

[Dundradal]

Here's what the map looked like before he fled.

[Dundradal]

Operation Results - not too shabby.

[Dundradal]

Grand Campaign Status

[Dundradal]

First battle of new operation...the stats really don't tell the whole story of this fight. Damp put a serious defense that took me a while to literally blast down.

[Dundradal]

This shows the main area of death for my troops. To the north as well there was a small engagement but Damp's mortars really nailed two teams in those hedges.

[Q.M]

Looks great guys!  Makes me want to fire it up and have a few games seeing all this again.

[Dundradal]

Current Operational Results for my offensive...not so good.

[Dundradal]

Current Map...Damp put up a stiff defense on the previous map...so much so I forgot to grab some picks of the combat.

I'm about to launch my attack through this map.

[Dundradal]

Here's my current battle group. I've got quite a bit of points. I have to say that it seems Der Ost Front really favors the Soviets (which does make sense...I just wish I had realized how much because I then I would have chosen to be the Germans) Much of it is resting after the hard fighting on the last map.

[Dundradal]

The start of Damp's counterattack...

[Dundradal]

Here's how I laid out my battle group. I ceded 80% of the map to him but it still took him 12-13 minutes to cross the terrain at the same time I could harass his movements with my 3 mortar teams.

He closed from the two hilltop points and got about 30% across the open ground when I let loose. Then his Tiger tank showed up and switched the balance. It destroyed 2 tanks, 2 guns and killed perhaps half a dozen troops and wounded double that number before I brought enough fire onto it that Damp accepted a truce I had offered moments before fearing the loss of his tiger.

The red lines are what I think his lines of advance were with infantry. The ends of the line are roughly where I sprung the ambush. The light blue line is the Tiger. That was the only time I saw it on the map hence the incomplete advance route. The blue X's represent units destroyed/made useless by the Tiger. The 2 tanks circled with light blue and have X's inside were also killed by the Tiger in those areas.

[Dundradal]

This is where the Grand Campaign stands as of quitting time to tonight.

Thanks for reading! We will keep grabbing screenshots. We just get too involved in combat to remember to save all the different ones [;)]

I'll get on Damp's case to keep up his German campaign logs as well.

[DampSquib]

Yes after a few games i had enough points to get a Tiger tank.
How long i can keep it is another story...we shall see.
I have spent a few games on a slim BG...not that that makes a difference.
I still die at full strength...[:D]. Yep that was basically my route.
I would go faster IF you stop trying to kill me [8|]. Every now & then i see a flash from a tree or hedge line enough to give me a idea of where he has placed his AT. By then it's usally too late...Man even the trees are trying too kill me.
Here is the Battle Debrief screen shot.

[DampSquib]

This is the only other screen shot i got...Not very good...Yeah we do forget to get screen shots as the action starts. (Scenario Map 1.)
I killed off Duns AT gun with mortar rounds. Hit the tank with my own AT..I had a 8.8cm Flack in the bunker.
Dundradal would bring his tank along the North keeping it out of my LOS..supported by his men. He was quick to kill my men in that area. My men in the centre only held for a few minutes if that. This map was a washout for me.
In the north area i had a ATR Team + MG 42 team + a 7.5 Pak gun.
The centre was a mix of light infantry & Machine gun teams.

[Dundradal]

The fight continues this evening...

Here's a cropped shot of the third or fourth battle tonight (sorry we spaced grabbing any earlier!). It shows my defensive emplacements being overtaken by a Tiger and supporting infantry.

There's a destroyed 152mm gun in the north. That's a 85mm AA in the center trying to draw a bead on the Tiger and there's a command T-34 '42. In the end my forces in this area were overrun. I cropped in the map as well to show the different action areas.

[Dundradal]

Here's the remains of the southern sector. Note the wreckage of 3 German tanks. One is a Tiger that Damp advanced a little too quickly and met the end of a Soviet flamethrower. The other two were MK IVs I believe.

[DampSquib]

Here is my BG for that last few battles.

[Dundradal]

Operation Results

Damp did pretty well in his counterattack.

[Dundradal]

Overall Campaign Results

[DampSquib]

Pics from tonight's battles.
As you can see from the screen shot my AT team was hit by mortar..Dundradals tanks finished off the last AT man..Poor sod. They did help too kill off 1 tank as you can see.
My MG team in the same area were ripped apart by Dun's tank. I tried in vain to take out the other tank. Another AT team sat at the west but they had no LOS.