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The advancing TB starts to come to the rescue

The end of the command cycle. My next one is 50 minutes long....

Hope the tanks can turn the tide: it looks bad in the city.

I hope they can too. It is going to be a while though. The TB will not start moving for another hour! Damn.

I'm going down fast...

It is all done...

The Germans did not even have to use all their firepower...

I will review and post my concluding remarks in a bit. I enjoyed the battle, but I like winning more than losing.

AAR

What did I do right?

Use of the Tank Battalion. I used the initial TC as recce to make sure that the TB did not run into an ambush.

My initial plan was alright. I think the idea of defending inside the city was correct, but I could have done a better job of deploying the initial MRB.

Reaction to the German attack. Overall, I think that my response to the attack was good. I tried everything I could think of to rebuild the defence of the VP locations. The Germans just had too much.

What could I improve on

Initial plan. Couple of things here. I should have grouped the 3 MRC more closely. Also, I blew the wrong bridge for the way I deployed. The Germans were able to take on one MRC at at time because of my deployment.

I need to monitor ammunition levels better. Too often, I had units resupplying at the wrong time. In some cases, I had too many units resupplying at the same time and right beside each other.

Reserves. I had two TCs in WESTERBRUCK and I should have given at least one of them move orders much earlier. The move orders would have been for them to attack/reinforce the lead MRC. Instead, the TC arrived too late.

Final thoughts

This was fun and frustrating at the same time.

It is very challenging working with a command cycle of 30+ minutes. It was hard to watch my units being pounded for so long.

The ability to see and engage in the town was very surprising. I think that this needs to be investigated a bit more. I’m not saying it is wrong, but I think that the defender should have more advantage defending in a town/city than they currently do.

The German artillery was devastatingly powerful. They really did a number on me. As a gunner I love that. I found the Soviet artillery to be less effective than I would have suspected – my 3 batteries had 10 kills. The command cycle did not help, but even when they hit the mark, they did not cause many casualties.

There were just way too much Germans to mount a defence anyway, i suspect.

My feeling too. They did not even use them all... Thanks!

Thanks to you for your AARs, i'm an avid reader of them [8D]