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BKC2: East Front Counterattack (cont.)
On the German far left the Tigers and
the King Tiger were both finally knocked
out. Russian armor had arrived just in
time to defeat that part of the attack and
despite losses, the hill was still holding.
All attention now turned to the bend I in
the road near the village where a T-34/85
battalion had hunkered down and could
not be moved. The panzergrenadiers
could not venture out in the open and no
one wanted to actually move around the
bend and get shot at!
Finally, the Panthers moved closer
and despite one Panther being knocked
out the rest returned fire and the T-34/85
battalion was soon in trouble. Several
panzergrenadier stands then dismounted
and began moving towards the road in an
effort to put pressure on the Russian armor.
German artillery began to pound
the area as well and the PZIV-Hs maneuvered
to pour more fire into the Russian
position. After a few turns the Russian T
-34/85 battalion was pretty much
knocked out for all intensive purposes
and the Germans had created an opening.
The problem was that now the Germans
only had the panzergrenadier battalion,
one Panther, and five PZ-IVHs to
continue the attack. After looking at the
remaining defenses, the infantry battalion
on the hill, remnants of the mech infantry
battalion in the village, a few SU-85s,
and about a dozen T-34s still left, it was
decided that the Germans would have to
call off the attack. The game ended as a
Russian victory, but there had been several
moments where the Germans almost
broke through and could have won. A
few bad command rolls, a few blunders,
and concentrated Russian fire had defeated
the German attack.
The Germans never could never
really get rolling or string together a series
of commands in one turn to gain the
momentum. The game did bring up one
concern about the BKC system and that
was the ability of “groups” of units, such
a battalion of six T-34s to gang up and all
fire at one German unit. This happened
too often and seemed a bit unrealistic to
many of us. We’re thinking of having
some kind of “coordination roll” if you
want to fire more than three units at one
target, especially for armies like the Russians
and Italians who had issues with
battlefield coordination. Just a thought...
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