Crossing the Berezina

For this week's game I adapted the scenario in issue 121 of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy for using Battlegroup rules no real changes except the trucks would be allowed off road, however if rolling a 1 for their movement deduction they would have to roll again and if scoring 1,2 or 3 it would be bogged down and abandoned.

Whichever rules one chooses to use, the Germans have an uphill task to achieve a victory in my opinion.

The lorries and stragglers prepare to leave the village ahead of the advancing Soviets.

The engineers and supporting troops wait ready to defend and blow the bridge at the opposite end.

They get off to a bad start, I only rolled three orders, eek! This allowed the Soviet scout units to enter the treeline and await their arrival, with hindsight after the dreadful start perhaps I should have risked going cross country? As it was they soon became pinned down by small arms fire.

Photos from the unfolding debacle follow.

By turn seven/eight it was all up for the Germans, all three trucks were smoking wrecks and the Soviets were bearing down on the bridge with only one escaping unit on it having any hope of escape.

Until next time........

TTFN & KBO