Forgotten Battles Tournament - ENDED

[Crossroads]

As for the On Familiar Ground play balance. How did you guys battle it out?

HERE's the scenario background and HERE's a little AAR I did while creating it.

Col Pajari on his original report was quite clear in making the conclusion his bold crossing of Vuoksi partially without a permission to do so prevented the front to stagnate there possibly for months, as once the Red Army would have been able to dig in at the southern shores even their small force could make any crossing event either impossible or at least very costly. 

So that is what I recreated here: flanking Finnish moves against non-aware RKKA units deploying for static defence North of river. Then, the Scenario Description gives strong hints to RKKA player to deploy south of the river asap. Or face destruction:

In the morning of August 18th Colonel Koptevski begun to realise the grim situation of his rag tag battle group, put together from various bits of surviving Red Army units in the area. Having finally received the permission to form a new defensive line south of the river, albeit with orders to still maintain a bridgehead on the northern shores, he had planned for a determined rearguard action against a Finnish attack from the North. Instead, he faced an imminent danger of encirclement before the reinforcements he knew were already on their way would reach the area. 



So, if both RKKA battle groups can deploy south of river relatively in tact, then the weaker left force could perhaps hold on just enough for the reinforcements can come, while the stronger right force should be able to hold the river at the crossing. 

That was my plan anyway 

Curious to hear as how you guys played it out, before making any changes.