Stalingrad 42 Breakout Group Zhuravlev

[Plain Ian]

The Pocket



Well the pocket is down to two groups. One group still clinging to the town and the other group which contains most of remnants of the pocket.

Mike played pretty carefully. The 2/84th at Svechinkovskiy was undisrupted so he directed a lot of fire at this. (Nebelwerfers must have been off line?) A lot of fire. He eliminated the unit even though i think it disupted afte the second or third salvo! I think that was the reason that he could only muste 3 small assaults.

Assault 4 worked well and shifted my forces first time.

There then followed several assaults (5-6) which racked up substantial losses because of a lack of a retreat path. He eventually took the hex with one unit I think?

Mike then attempted to reduce the last pocket and the losses and disruption suggest that he had marginal odds? He lost a StuG here which evened up things as I lost a T-34 in an earlier assault.

So lets look at the situation. New thread.