April 44
Decided I needed a change so decided to play with T-34's & hopefully a few Soviet heavies as they hit harder in this time period.
As it turns out Sherman would have been dangerous any armour engagement will be close quarters
Outskirts of Odessa visibility 38 & we are assaulting finally.
Marked level 1 hills on the overview, West top area is mainly fields
bottom city continues for around 20 hexes.
HQ & FOO can set up in buildings with LOS shown.
Parking up StuG(I) for the battle & bought 628 points of shortest range off map artillery. Wont use & should not CB but should let the Russians buy another infantry company.
AUX
Spotter Plane
3 Pioneers & a Bulldozer (have 2 Pioneers in core so 5 total)
2 Scouts with SMG
2 Flamethrower Halftracks for fun.
Forgot an ammo dump & extra AA - will add AA to core.
We should be able to get to within about 8 hexes of Russian deploy line undetected by cutting through the blocks.
Only plan after that is find the mines & see how it develops from there, we have 48 turns so could dawdle but would like to do it in about half that.