Decisive Victory!!!!
Turn 47
I put everything I could into the only two squads I could see because I was getting tired of them running behind the trees, rallying and charging again.
Casualties
Friendly: Zero casualties.
Enemy: Estimated 10 casualties.
Total Casualties
USSR
Men: 36
Artillery: 0
Soft Vehicles: 0
APCs: 0
AFVs: 2
Air Transports/Helos: 0
Aircraft: 0
Poland
Men: 456
Artillery: 4
Soft Vehicles: 0
APCs: 0
AFVs: 14
Air Transports/Helos: 0
Aircraft: 0
Score
USSR: 3679
Poland: 68
Final Comments
This battle went pretty much according to plan. There were a few areas that things didn't work out. The main one was the fire fight in the North Woods. If I had done what I said I would and had Force 1 patrol the woods, I might have been able to head of the fight that occurred. I even identified the possibility that the enemy would move infantry into those woods, but I was late getting my recon out there.
The ambush didn't work out, but it didn't really need to. Force 4's main objective was to cover the southern flank and my three medium tanks and two recon elements did that just fine. That left five machine guns and an engineer squad with very little to do, but better too little than more than they can handle.
If anything surprised me at all, it was how soft the more experienced Polish force seemed to be. Their 19-man squads ran after only taking two or three casualties. And then they would rally and come back again and again and again! I didn't bother pursuing them too much because I was trying to keep my infantry force intact. Somewhere in my future is the Winter War against Finland and I don't need to be diluting my experience with level 50 replacements.
One other thing that did surprise me was the lack of cavalry. Not one horse on the battlefield. That is very unlike the Polish military. Maybe they are more expensive and the limited points made them prohibitive.
My next battle is against Finland. Ughh!!! I was hoping to get one more against Poland before taking on the Finns
I've attached the save just before I ended my last turn. Enjoy!