(05-09-2026, 05:34 AM)Steel God Wrote: Not so sure I would fight so doggedly for this area if I were Poles. In our on going P39 CG (we're on Day 7 of the invasion) GruppeSud encircled and annihilated almost the entirety of the Krakow Army (some 70,000 troops) while it fought doggedly for the Katowice area. A breakthrough along the Chorzow-Katowice axis coupled with XVIIIth Korps seizing all the crossings along the Sola and Przemsza Rivers isolated the lot and by the end of Day 4 they were rounded up.
In a stand alone contest in the Slask Scenario I was well on the way to repeating the feat but when my opponent conceded the position at the end of Day 3 seeing the hopelessness of the situation.
One of my mantras is that the greatest defensive territory in the world is worthless if I can't compel my enemy to attack me there.
With all due respect to my tempered metallic deity; I don’t understand what you are talking about here. Are you saying the Germans shouldn’t attack into the Katowice complex? What? They are positioned to attack directly into it. They have a huge salient that runs deep into the heart of it. They have infiltrators neatly positioned in -50% industrial hexes right smack-dab in the Polish centre. It is true that Poland will eventually be overrun here but it takes a full scale attack taking tremendous losses if the Poles play it right. I suggest your opponent misread the situation by giving up after 30 turns especially if, as you say, you didn’t attack there. It’s all well and good to (blithely) state “the greatest defensive territory in the world is worthless if I can't compel my enemy to attack me there? If you didn’t attack Katowice what did you do? Your humble supplicant and servant jonny
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Defense of Beuthen, Chorzow & Katowice. P-39
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