1914 Valour - FWWC Tournament Round 3

[Liebchen]

SvenDuuva (Allied) vs Clausewitz1971 (Central Powers) has finished.

Allied Major Victory with 1360 points.

I have to ask: How the HELL did you do this?!?

I have real doubts that this scenario ever really got play-tested.

[ComradeP]

The initial Austro-Hungarian positions are not that strong. An aggressive opening can allow you to capture at least two high value objectives before reinforcements show up. 

A lot depends on disruption rolls for the infantry battalions on both sides. The small Austro-Hungarian MG units are likely to perish during assaults, leaving just the infantry battalions and a few gun units.

[SvenDuuva]

I think it was mostly luck and fortuitous circumstances. According to my opponent, he had problems of getting his head around the mechanics of Serbia ’14 (compared to France ’14). I am not sure what the main challenge was, but if I were to guess, I think he overestimated the quality of Austro-Hungarian troops and didn’t know how slow it was to move troops in this terrain. In two separate occasions a couple of counterattacking Austrian battalions got stranded and destroyed very quickly due to their fragile morale.

My plan was to concentrate all of my forces to south on 500 and 300 point objectives. On the first day, I was able to take the 500 point objective with a mass assault. On the second day, I had marched the northern division to take part in the assault of 300 point objective (this was the most difficult part), and was able disrupt couple of Austrian HQ’s with assaults. On the third day, I consolidated the positions to defend against Austrian counterattacks and got 100 and 50 point objectives from west/southwest when I saw an opportunity to push on disrupted parts of Austrian lines.

As said, luck probably played a major factor. My tactic worked because my opponent was not fast enought to concentrate their defense to a one point. RNG was probably also favorable, and it is possible that if a couple of disruption or supply checks might have gone the other way in the beginning, the initial assault might have totally failed.