Scenario: Black Brigade at Wysoka 9/39

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Turn 17
Polish Decisive Victory 2015 / 155


HERO! Sgt Koszutsky and his 37mm AT gun crew with 8 Panzer kills

"Kapitan Kolasa knew he was in serious trouble when three Polish Tanks and a MC team were hunting his mortars and HQ while most of his Panzers burned and he had failed to even get close to the Railway line"


I agree with Ulf. Very good scenario. I like them that size.

Don

[Brian61]

Did either of you get any pressure at all in the north? I'm thinking perhaps along with minor error fixes (date/ATG transport vehicle type/support battery type) perhaps I should speed up the entry of the panzers a touch while routing the first one along a northern route. It sounds like the difficulty level is about where it should be so I'm hesitant to change much.

I'm going to follow up on Wulfir's lead and run a couple questions past the AH forum, though mostly for the followup scenarios. From Wulfir's 2006 AH thread it doesn't seem I'm too far off on general 'feel' although I did spot two errors in my scenario, the battle date should be September 2nd not 3rd and I probably should've used the 100mm battery instead of the 75mm.

At present I'm planning for this to be the first battle in a 6 to 8 battle long campaign covering the Black Brigade's journey from September 2nd through September 19th. This scenario will be the gateway 'steering' battle leading to (someday) hard/medium/easy versions of the following battles.

Thanks for the reviews,
Brian

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by Brian61

Did either of you get any pressure at all in the north?

Yes, sort of - the AI pushed forward hard against the area defended by the 37mm AT/G platoon., but did not make it across the road (I did not move those 37mm guns more than a hex or two).

Although it made me a little nervous because I had blasted away all the AP from the gun tanks leaving me reliant on those very 37mm's...

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Originally Posted by wulfir

Yes, sort of - the AI pushed forward hard against the area defended by the 37mm AT/G platoon., but did not make it across the road (I did not move those 37mm guns more than a hex or two).

Although it made me a little nervous because I had blasted away all the AP from the gun tanks leaving me reliant on those very 37mm's...

With your last line, i hid my tanks until i sppoted some armor, then i moved them in to draw fire and have my 37mm's to deal them some punishment, the tanks guns are useless at the range they engage enemy anyway... but the MG ones proved helpful in holding the lower flank for a little more, but my own arty misfired and broke my defense still got a marginal, shoulda have retreated into the railway using the tanks as cover

Perfect sized scen, i freak out trying to manage anything more than a battalion

[Brian61]

Thanks for the feedback

It is sounding like I should just fix the errors and leave the rest alone. In my tests, despite knowing what to expect I still got marginals two out of three times. Return fire from an angry Panzer IIc isn't fun at eight hexes when it hits the ATG! I'd also forgotten how fragile those Vickers tanks are. Don's results seem to indicate an aggressive approach works best.

I'm working on the next one in the series now, not sure how it will turn out with me doing a custom map and it being an ambush scenario. Just got an early decisive in my first test of it so more work needed!

Thanks again,
Brian