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We set up and launched our second (10/18) CG date with surprising ease. I had completed the Russian set-up the previous night, so it was only a matter of setting out the pieces and briefing my fellow Russian team members Henry DeVries and Jim Cotugno. After a short strategy session and a couple of small changes, we turned the board over Stephan Tourville, our sole German play for the day. Fellow German team members Mike Cirrincione (family concerns) and Dan Plachta (work demands) were not able to make it.
While Stephan was busy hatching a plan and setting up the Germans, the Russian team made a road trip over to Brookhurst Hobbies. We returned just as Stephan was finishing his set-up. After a quick lunch, we were off and running by about 1:00 PM.
Stephan surprised us right away with a pre-registered 100 OBA on L14, right on the seam of the L13 and L14 factories, and directly in the rear of our L13 factory defenders. Damn, I forgot the Germans can sight their off-board observer from the west edge.. With the OBA as the anvil, the German infantry hammer hit the L13 factory and buildings K11, H15 and F14. Elsewhere on the line, the Germans pushed through the O6 factory, which was lightly defended, and entered the Main Mechanical Hall (the P16 factory), where they were met with a hail of Russian fire.
The Russians fell back in good order out of the O6 factory as planned (and even inflicted some casualties along the way), retreating into the P16 factory behind their 80 OBA centered on P9. There they made their planned link-up with the reserves ensconced in factory P16. The German OBA in L14 created problems for the Russians trying to fight their way out of the L13 factory, and several squads were lost in the retrograde movement into factory L14. But the survivors quickly coalesced with the reserves there to form a solid defensive line behind the second Russian OBA centered on M14.
We decided to wrap up after completing turn 3 around 6:30 PM. Casualties have been fairly light so far (roughly 2 German squads vs 4 Russian squads.) But the Germans have reached the Russian MLR now, and we’re going to see a lot more fighting before this CG date is over.
The Red Barricades Project will resume April 9th with the start of German turn 4. Stay tuned…
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