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The Russian Horde!

The Russian Horde!

Postby OWCriminal » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:15 pm

I had my first experience of the Russians last night and have to say they're scary! The infantry Battalions are 16 stands plus (inc Commissars), which makes them hard to pin and their armour can be mixed, with T34 76's and 85's. The Katyushas are also evil!

I took a Panzer Company, stug G and Pz IV's, support of 4 Pak 40's and a 3 squad Gepanzerte Panzergrenadier platoon. I also took Limited Air Support, Stuka's with Cannons.

I poured everything into the armour first managed to get three planes on as well, they had no air cover or anti air, so had a field day with one of the tank platoons. Brewed 1 and bailed another 2, the stugs attcked this same platoon and bailed another and killed 1 more.

The PZ IV's however had worse luck, missed everything and the return fire managed to destroy the HQ vehicle...ouch! Not a problem for the Germans, just chose another :D

The next turn the Katyushas hit one of the objectives and succeeded in killing a PZ gren stand and a Pak 40! Most of the rest of the game was a full assault by the infantry and me trying to mow them down and stop the inevitable....a very realistic feel to the whole thing with me getting the sense of "Bring it down" a lot!! I managed to stop them once or twice but they just rallied and kept coming again and again...very scary!

Great game though! We won due to them getting pretty much annihilated! :twisted:
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Re: The Russian Horde!

Postby Jimster » Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:33 pm

Sounds like a good game.

looking forward more to my game monday.

Thanks for the report.
any pic`s?

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Re: The Russian Horde!

Postby KInG » Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:31 pm

Yeh mark, where's the piccies ;)

So what's the thing about Soviets. Do they get nothing better than conscript and reluctant? Hence the large amounts of everything?
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