Death Road at Oltarzew

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CS brethren,

I'm a big believer that JTCS' survival depends on more user input and especially more custom scenarios, designed with PBEM in mind. Ergo, my first scenario, Death Road at Oltarzew, has been added to the H2H queue. Here's the description:

[Oltarzew, 15 km W of Warsaw]: [H2H] [HISB] [TS/GD]: By September 8th, 1939, the lead elements of the 4th Panzer Division, to which the motorized infantry of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hilter (LSSAH) were subordinated, had reached the southwestern outskirts of Warsaw. The advance unit of 4th Panzer Division, Aufklärungsabteilung 7 (AA7), proceeded toward Oltarzew and Domaniew but quickly found itself in a defensive struggle against increasingly strong counterattacks from Polish units attempting to break through to Warsaw from the west. After repulsing a number of attacks and destroying several armored trains, the recon battalion ran low on ammunition and was forced to withdraw southward into Pruskow, leaving open the left flank and rear of its parent division, now facing Warsaw. As the troopers of the Leibstandarte arrived at nightfall, they and AA7 were ordered to capture Domaniew, Oltarzew and Kaputy, thus securing the open rear flank of Reinhardt's 4th Panzer Division. In the middle of the night, the troops of the LSSAH and AA7 collided near Oltarzew with Polish troops of Army Lodz moving east and desperate to effect a link-up with the defenders of Warsaw. The action quickly became a confused, bitterly-contested melee, as the Polish soldiers bravely threw themselves headlong at the Germans. By morning, Polish resistance had collapsed, leaving the road through Oltarzew choked with dead and dying soldiers, civilians and horses. The grisly result of the night's action would leave a lasting impression on even the most hardened: after the war, In his memoirs, Kurt Meyer of the LSSAH described the scene as a, "death road". [Night scenario; not for play with Variable Visibility or Extreme Assault on, Armor Facing optional] [This scenario borrows the excellent map from Charlie Kibler's original "A Bump in the Night"; OOBs for LSSAH and AA 7 are correct, Polish OOB is speculative, but based on units of Army Lodz which might have been retreating through the Oltarzew area at that time; this is version 2.1]

Would love to get folks playing and testing the scenario. I'm available for questions and comments. Please don't sugarcoat things. It doesn't mean I'll necessarily agree, but I'd prefer to hear unvarnished truth, whether you like the scenario, or hate it. As it mentions in the description, the scenario borrows the map from the stock scenario "Bump in the Night", but the OOBs are significantly different (more historically accurate on the German side), as is the scenario, i.e. victory conditions, objective hexes, etc.

Enjoy!