And now an exciting report from our Signal reporter on the Eastern Front.
Yesterday witnessed a hard-fought battle on the outskirts of Kharkov as the heroes of 2nd SS Panzer took on the massed Russian armour. T34s, one of the new SU tank destroyers and a mighty KV1 roared onto the table as the German armour of aged Stugs, a lightly armoured Marder and a lone Tiger closed to meet them. The lead T34 miraculously survived two shots from the Tiger’s deadly ’88, but lost dice. Not a good start. Then one of the T34’s lurking in a wood was picked off by the Marder. A to hit roll of double six added two more “hit dice” and the result was a catastrophic explosion. The unbuttoned commander bailed out leaving his crew too their fate. The NKVD would see him later...
The Tiger and the KV1 played cat-and-mouse until the Russian decided to try to outflank him. Poor movement dice meant he ended the turn staring down the barrel of the ’88. Next turn the KV1 came out first and he fired his 76mm at the front of the Tiger. A miraculous 5 hits and then the Tiger made zero...yes zero saves. Boom!!!
Things were looking grim for the Germans. Outnumbered in points and tanks, and the mighty Tiger hors de combat. However another T34 emerged from the woods on the south edge of the board and failed to acquire the low-slung Stug, also aided by the use of the "Impressive Bush" WAT card. This T34 was expertly despatched by Greg’s Stug. The pair of German Stugs then went a-hunting.
The KV1 ended a turn trying to manoeuvre and fell to a flank shot by Greg, and Phil’s SU85 tried to cross open ground but ran out of luck with its drive dice and was caught in the open. Another flank shot from Greg and one dead SU.
That left Chris’ crippled T34 facing two Stugs. Chris decided to abandon ship preferring Siberia to death or a German prisoner of war camp.
The table was left to the Germans. Greg was declared the hero of the day and awarded the Iron Cross 1st class.
Simon
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