One Month On...

[Dog Soldier]

FWIW,

I do not think I ever have seen an artillery strike in PzB Kursk, even by Katusha rocket batteries inflict 100 casualties on any any deployed unit. Perhaps if a a stack of units in travel mode in non-armored vehicles were caught by a salvo in the opponent's turn, such a result is possible. An interesting thought.

As to my recent game with ComradeP, the result was a minor German victory. After battering away at the Soviet stack on the second 100 VP location with every indirect and direct fire possible by the German force, a final direct fire attack on the Soviet SMG unit occupying the second VP location on hill 214.8 disrupted the Soviet infantry unit allowing a last ditch assault by a decimated and previously isolated PzIVg unit to capture the 100 objective. A PzIIIm unit managed to reinforce the their comrades at the objective as the 12th German turn ended.
This occurred in the final German turn. The score was until then an minor German loss.

The Soviets rallied only one unit of Guards riflemen in their final turn. Artillery strikes were ineffective on the panzers. The Guardsmen charged and destroyed one PzIIIm. They did not disrupt and displace the PzIvg unit which held the objective. Thus ended our game of #0706_07 Nepkhaevo - The Meeting Engagement. It was a very close thing between minor German defeat and victory.
I would say the game demonstrated a very balanced scenario.

Dog Soldier

The final results are below.


Final troop positions of the two battered forces.