Dampsquib vs Dundradal - Der Ost Front GC

[DampSquib]

The results..see the mini map for the VL Dundradal now has.
He kindly accepted my truce if not..the Map would look a lot different..as i was about to flee.

[Dundradal]

Another battle on that same map Damp posted. These are the results from the first battle.

He put up a hell of a defense! I couldn't find several of his AT guns for a few minutes and paid dearly for it.

[Dundradal]

And the battle map...

[DampSquib]

Here is the Map we just did. I start on defence.

[DampSquib]

The map started well for me i placed 1 At gun in the monastery along with a MG team.
I had another AT gun in the building across the bridge to the north.
1 AT gun on the hill to the west.
No mortar this time as i was low on points yet again...ho hum.
I had a mix of light squads & SS Sturmgrenadiere.
The AT gun in the monastry would take out the tanks in the pic.
The end result would be a decisive victory for me...for this first match.

Dundradal would take the south VL's the VL on the hill & the bridge...pushing me into a small pocket.
By the time i got to the North pocket i had enough points with a swap around to get some
mortar teams..& boy did they come in handy.
I thought Dundradal would come across the bridge & finish the job quickly.
But for once good placement of AT guns..& a lot of luck would see me hold him.

[Dundradal]

The map above saw great use in the last two operations. Damp made me fight for every tree line and the last day of the op was a great battle in the upper left corner of the map. Which is what I have pictures of.

Here's a shot from that last battle. Note the T-34 wrecks in the area. That damn bridgehead was expensive!

In this shot you can see I packed the bridgehead with infantry hoping to force my way to the tree line. That didn't happen. The woods in the area suffered heavy bombardment from both of us as almost all the fighting occurred in the small pockets of woods on the map.

[Dundradal]

The Battle Map result of that last engagement.

[DampSquib]

A pic of the mess.

[Dundradal]

Combat Results

[Dundradal]

The operation ended and Damp went on the counterattack. We forgot to grab any pics until we got back to this map again. It once again was a fight for the stands of trees.

[Dundradal]

Combat Results

[Dundradal]

Another day's hard work on defense...Damp has had a group of Panther and Tigers during this operation as he's attached to several panzer divisions. I've had to take care with my SU152 to try and at least slow down the damn Tigers. We've been trading tank for tank unfortunately although I'll trade a T-34 or KV-1 for killing a Tiger any day.

[Dundradal]

Combat Results

[DampSquib]

Ok..we left the map above as we had both had heavy loses ,fleeing would take us to the map below.
I would start with 2 VL's & take a third VL.
I decided to split my forces take half south & the other half north.
The team that went south was quickly engaged by Dundradals forces as he had placed armour + a squad on the hill (red x)..his squad ripped my first team apart.
My second team of men made there way to the building too secure the VL as my tank engaged his tank. Ok so that was not great but i had the VL...On to try too take the North VL..I took 2 tanks & 2 squads + 1 Gruppenfurher around the back of the hill towards the small village. At this point i had no idea how much armour Dundradal had.
But i was met by squads & armour waiting for my arrival..man i was right on time for the party.My tank to the south had killed his tank ,i brought it through the tree line in a desperate bid to try too take out his armour towards the north..but i had no LOS.
1 tank destroyed 1 disabled my squads numbers slowly dwindling. Luckly my tank + mortar teams had killed enough of his forces for a truce to be agreed upon.
That gave us a draw..see pic below.
Dundradal decided to flee this map...this would take us onto scenario map 4.

[DampSquib]

The Battle Debrief

[DampSquib]

The Battle Debrief screen for scenario map 4.
I held 2 VL's for this map at the start..i took only 1 VL the church.
The map turned into a slugging match around the centre VL...the clock ran out as you can see from the pic.

[Dundradal]

Our games last night were awesome! It's too bad neither one of us remembered to grab pics of the urban map. We had some legendary battles on it. By the end of it, the map looked like a junkyard with all the tank wrecks and blown out buildings.

[DampSquib]

In the smoke is 1 panther 1 Nashorn & as you can see a Flame Halftrack just to the left. All of these are my own tanks & the Nashorn & the Flame Halftrack would be destroyed. The Panther would survive for 1 more try on this map.
I was trying to keep the Flame Halftrack out of the way of Dun's Tank..there in the road.
The panther has had it at this point & i'm trying to nail him with the Nashorn.
The Hotel in the North would change hands a few times..but in the end Dundradal would keep that VL.
Yep it turned into one giant scrap yard. This is the only pic i got of this map.

I did not get any pics of the next map we would play...Now that was a blood bath for my self..Dundradal stuck it to me....I was back on defence a small BG & Dun was about to show me his new Tanks.
It was a bloody nightmare...2 tigers gone most of my squads wiped out...& what did i do back? Well i scratched his tanks paint work....[:(]

[Southernland]

Awesome AAR guys

[DampSquib]

Thank you very much Southern_Land.[8D].
Dundradal is better at this than me.
Did see the drive carefully notice on the map.

Thanks Andrew Williams. [8D]