Really Rumbling on the Mius

[The SNAFU]

Hi DS,

Did I understand it correctly that you were able to mount successful assaults againt isolated but not disrupted Germans in bunkers? If so and the engineers made that much of a different this AAR will definetly represent a learning tool for me.

I'm currently playing someone in the 2nd Battle of Kharkov (K42) and dropped a nice surprise on him early in the game. I lured 23rd Panzer into a trap cutting off about 3/4 of the division along with several units from 44th ID. I destroyed a lot of tanks but unfortuately several of the cut off Germans panzers troops were able to join others in the pocket who were occupying bunkers. Though totally surrounded for more than 2 days without an HQ, several of these units withstood massive artillery and direct fire and would not disrupt. I then tried to assault them hoping to at least disrupt them that way but to no avail. After almost 3 full days I had to voluntarily allow them out of the bag as the pressure from their comrades outside the pocket became too much to bear any longer.

Maybe if I had engineers involved in a few of my assaults I could have cracked the units and finished them off?