H2H approved scenario: Battle of Szack

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Battle of Szack



Complexity: 4
Turns: 13
Modified complexity: 4 * 13 = 52
Size modifier: 1

First side Allied

Visibility 12

Allied Air 0; Ammo 50; Smoke 0
Axis Air 0; Ammo 70; Smoke 0
AI Allied 100; Axis 10

Major Loss 75; Minor Loss 150; Minor Win 250; Major Win 300

[Eastern Poland, village of Szack] [H2H/ALLIED][HISB][BB]

Deputy commander of KOP, general Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann decided to unite as many troops under his command as possible and join with the rest of Polish forces in the west. He ordered all the KOP forces in Polesie area to withdraw. In several days he managed to gather approximately 9 000 men under his command, coming from various units spread on 300 kilometres long strip of the Polish-Soviet border.

On September 19 he ordered all his units to march towards Kowel, where his forces were to be joined by the Independent Operational Group Polesie under general Franciszek Kleeberg. However, the difficult situation and the outcome of the battles of Brzesc and Kobryn forced Rueckemann's group to change the plans. The Polish units changed the direction and started to march through the forests towards Wlodawa and Kamien Koszyrski. The group found itself in a no-man's-land between the Soviet forces and the Wehrmacht and could operate freely.

However, the morale of the troops was low and on September 27 general Orlik-Rueckemann decided to engage the Soviet forces in order to achieve a victory and raise the morale. The Polish forces were marching in two columns. In the early morning of September 28 the northern column reached the forests near the village of Mielniki while the southern column reached the forests east of Szack.

Polish reconnaissance reported that the town of Szack was occupied by Soviet infantry and tanks. Orlik-Rueckemann ordered both columns to form a defensive line along the border of the forest and provoked the Red Army to attack. A civilian went to the Commander of the 411th Tank Battalion, and told him of a Polish squadron wishing to surrender, in the forest South of Szack Kapitan Nieseniuk, without checking on the intel, or recon of that area, or notifying the Divisional HQ, took his unit down the isthmus between Lakes Lucimier and Krugloje.

The Polish cavalry, with 37mm ATG's in position waited until the tanks were inside of 500 meters and opened fire. The tankers responded poorly and were thrown into confusion, lossing some tanks and withdrawing. Shortly thereafter, the Poles launched their attack on Szack, first Battalion Balcerzak, then Battalion Berezne. After a short struggle, the town was in Polish hands, heralding a much needed, if not short-lived Polish victory!

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