The lists were:
Stug Batterie
Compulsory StuG Batterie HQ - CinC StuG G, Begleit Assault rifle (110 pts)
- General Von Saucken - General Von Saucken, Sd Kfz 250 half-track (65 pts)
Compulsory StuG Platoon - Command StuG G, 2x StuG G, 3x Begleit Assault rifle (330 pts)
- Options - Replace StuG G with StuH42 (0 pts)
Compulsory StuG Platoon - Command StuG G, 2x StuG G, 3x Begleit Assault rifle (330 pts)
- Options - Replace StuG G with StuH42 (0 pts)
Pionier Platoon - Command Pioneer Rifle, 9x Pioneer Rifle (235 pts)
- Command Upgrade - Replace Command Pioneer Rifle with Command Pioneer Panzerfaust SMG (10 pts)
- Pioneer Supply Truck - Pioneer Supply Horse-drawn wagon (20 pts)
Tank-Hunter Platoon - Command Hornisse, 2x Hornisse (350 pts)
Sturm Scout Platoon - Command Motorcycle MG, 2x Motorcycle MG (110 pts)
- Command Upgrade - Replace Command Motorcycle MG with Command Panzerfaust SMG (10 pts)
Sturm Anti-Aircraft Gun Platoon - Command SMG, 3x 2cm FlaK38 gun (75 pts)
- Transport - Kfz 15 field car, 3x RSO (5 pts)
1650 Points, 6 Platoons
Udarny
Compulsory Udarny Strelkovy Batalon HQ - CinC Rifle, 2iC Rifle, Battalion Komissar (40 pts)
- Anti-tank rifle Platoon - 4x PTRD anti-tank rifle (45 pts)
- Anti-tank gun Platoon - 2x 45mm obr 1942 gun, 2x Horse-drawn limber (50 pts)
- Sapper Platoon - 5x Pioneer Rifle, Supply Horse-drawn wagon (135 pts)
Compulsory Udarny Strelkovy Company - Command Rifle/MG, 12x Rifle/MG (275 pts)
- Kommisar - Komissar (15 pts)
- SMG - 4x Replace Rifle/MG with SMG (0 pts)
Compulsory Udarny Strelkovy Company - Command Rifle/MG, 8x Rifle/MG (190 pts)
- Maksims HMG - Maksim HMG (25 pts)
- Kommisar - Komissar (15 pts)
- SMG - 4x Replace Rifle/MG with SMG (0 pts)
Shock Scout Platoon - Command SMG, 2x SMG (100 pts)
Gvardeyskiy Tyazhelyy Tankovy Company - Command IS-2 obr 1943, 3x IS-2 obr 1943, 4x SMG Tank Escort (580 pts)
Flame-thrower Platoon - 4x Flame-thrower (180 pts)
1650 Points, 4 Platoons
Shane's Gift
The Udarny company is designed to attack and take an objective, using scouts to infiltrate, and flamethrowers to pin before the assault. This works fine in most missions, where a single objective is all that is required. But we played a domination mission. No infiltration. Further to walk (so more damage from tanks etc.) And what's worse, the Stug List was a perfect foil for the Udarny, with Hornisse's able to destroy the Russian heavy tanks when they appeared. The IS-2's were forced to hide behind a hill. The Udarny were forced to entrench in a forest. The plan was to make the Germans attack the Udarny if they wanted a win. That worked -- Shane moved his forces forward aggressively.
Just a little too aggressively. Shane left his Stug's (with CinC) just a little bit too close to an Udarny with attached sappers and flamethrowers. The Soviets charged, and seconds later the Stug's were a burning mass - the flamethrowers stopped the defensive fire from the tanks, and the tank escorts didn't have enough shots to stop the charge. Shane also charge Stugs on the other flank, and the IS-2's popped out from behind a hill to take those Stug's down. The IS-2's had to withstand return fire from Hornisses, but a combination of Soviet 6's and German 1's left the IS-2's with two bailed tanks, one dead, and one alive. The bailed tanks remounted and skedaddled.
At this point Shane was down to a pioneer platoon, hornisses, and damaged motorcycle recon and AA units. Shane decided to try to assault the Udarny with the pioneers. This didn't work well, and resulted in the motorcycle recon being dragged in and destroyed as well. Shanes force then failed morale, and I extracted a victory
This was Shanes battle to lose, and a moments inattention lost it for him. he had out picked and out deployed me. But it was a fun game, on a knife edge for most of the night.
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