All,
It's 1400, 1 Sept 1939, and since this morning's victory there have been several marches and counter-marches, with the German forces attempting to keep the Poles bottled up in the Kutno pocket. Orders come in from 4th Panzer Division headquarters via the wireless: "Achtung, Panzer," the Poles are attempting a breakout, sending an armored spearhead south across the river and immediately turning west. KG Klink finds itself on the northern flank of this rupture, and is ordered to send all armor he can muster to contain it.
LtCol Klink personally leads a mixed force of armored cars and Panzer II, III, and IVs to meet the enemy tanks head on.
The opposing forces: The Germans, led by Col Klink, a Sdkfz 231 (Officer Cadet Distler), a Sdkfz 221 (Sgt Keck), two Pz Mk IVs (Officer Cadet Kleiber, Sgt Mangold), four Pz Mk IIIs (Company Commander 2nd Lt Loeb, Sgt Fahrmann, Sgt Grossman, and Sgt Friessler), and two Pz Mk IIs (Cpl Mayer, and Cpl Glucke).
The enemy force, with their CO, five medium tanks, two light tanks, one tankette, and two heavy armored cars.
Overview, north is up, Germans on the right (east), and Poles on the left (west). A straight up tank brawl. I hope it doesn't aggravate you too much, but I did something a little different with this game. Usually I place a small puff of cotton to show where a gun or mortar fires, take my picture, then remove it. For this game (for some reason) I decided to leave each puff on the board. I kind of wanted a look at how many anti-tank shots it would take to have a tank fight. So, by the end, there's a whole lot of cotton puffs on the board.
The tank battle in full swing.
KG Klink has held their sector of line, helping to keep two Polish armies trapped in the Kutno pocket. For the whole batrep, please visit the blog:
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More to follow.
V/R,
Jack