1201_01a Close Call at Kubinka HTH

[Plain Ian]

Russian Turn 19

Time to put everyone out of their misery. The results went as below -



At Naro the 35th Gds Howitzers performed as usual and scored hits of 20 and 22 on the 3rd Motorised Grenadiers standing out in the open in the snow. I think the points tally dropped to 408 at this stage.
The 1/1 and 3/1 Gds joined in and scored 18 men with one blast.....then the skies fell in. Artillery and sustained return fire disrupted first the 3rd then the 1st Gds in turn????? Mmmh. I was a bit shocked but decided to move on and get my VP's elsewhere. I did have one last chance to fire with the disrupted group but I decided not fire with them. I also ignored the 1/787th-3/787th group as I thought their fire results would be poor.



So we moved on to the main area. I then used all my artillery on an infantry group and the best they could manage was 25 men. Even the mighty 138th RVGK sHvy Howitzers (203mm) shot badly. Now yes I could have picked his Pz 38's and probably hit quite a few but lets not get too greedy. 

The 2/22nd with 24 T-60's should have been a match for his Pz 38's. But instead of 2-3 tanks the best they could manage was 1. 

I was left with the 1/17th and looking at the VP total I realised that I would need to kill something like 20+ men to get below 400......I decided to call a halt and press the end of turn button. 



So well done to Eldar. He has a draw and the game is finished. Hoooray. 

Last thing I need to do now is have a quick peek 'at the other side' to see how his units look.