The Soviet defenders had a rifle platoon of four squads, a Maxim Team, one 45mm Anti-Tank gun, one anti-tank rifle and a Commissar as well as two minefields. Additionally, they took with them an SdKfz 232 armoured car and a StuG IIID for some fire support.
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The Germans had decided to reduce two of their squads to nine men so as to form a demolition team and a mine clearing team whilst their third squad was still at full strength with 12 men. Our game last night saw a German pioneer platoon launch an attack on a Soviet held farm as they drove East. How often have we seen games where one soldier is singled out in our mind as being a hero or, possibly more rarely, being a ‘Big Man’ a leader who stands head and shoulders above others on the battlefield?Īs part of our drive on Stalingrad, our German forces are still to the West of the Don, looking to advance rapidly and seize an intact bridge across the mighty river. A good story can often be heroic, sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant, but a display of good tactics when combined with a good leadership narrative provides us mere mortals with a chance to appreciate how in warfare men can step up and go beyond the normal to produce results which really impress.
As readers of Lard Island News will know, there is nothing I like more than a game with narrative apart, that is, from a game with really good tactics AND narrative.
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