CoC - Winter Storm campaign (scenario 14, updated 24 Sept)

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Again, a very interesting battle report. And again I'll have to point out how much I enjoy your concise way of telling the story. Mostly because I know I couldn't do it in that fashion.

After this fairly one-sided game surely the luck of battle must swing back next time!

[Sgt_T]

Scenario 5 of the Winter Storm campaign! This time a Soviet convoy is attacked by the Germans.



An unexpected victory for the Soviets as they ran the German gauntlet, taking fire from two Panzer III's.



Two out of three vehicles made it. The hero of the day was the Soviet Leytenant who faced two squads of German panzergrenadiere during a heroic (but short) last stand after trying to rescue his Maxim crew.



More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2021/09/encirclement-of-pokhlebin.html

T.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

A great report Sgt_T. I’m not sure what you could have done better, I’m amazed the trucks made it (poor little RSO).

BALM

[Sgt_T]

The last scenario of the first chapter of Winter storm. This time the Soviets defended Pokhlebin against a German attack. It started out bad for the Germans. They lost a squad and their only support vehicle early in the game.



But then the German pioneer squad with a flamethrower was able to burn a hole in the Soviet defences.



This allowed the Germans to enter the village and the Soviet morale collapsed.



It was an exiting game because of the early German losses and the required bit of luck to pull the engineer attack off.

More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2021/10/pokhlebin-house-by-house.html

T.

[brunei35]

Looks like an enjoyable close game, thanks for sharing. What make are you village houses please?

[Sgt_T]

The houses are all papercraft. Mostly from Dave Graffam (http://www.davesgames.net/). Some are free downloads from ebob miniatures, but these are no longer available on their website.

The multiple skins option included with a number of houses  from Dave Graffam allows you to vary the look of your buildings, which I really like

It's not top notch like these: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=133839.0, but I have limited storage space available and in this way I can use the same houses for ACW, Old West, WW2 and even some modern games.

T.

[brunei35]

Thanks T for the link and infirmation
Cheers

[Sgt_T]

After a break of almost a year we went back to our Winter Storm campaign and kicked off Chapter Two with the German attack towards Gremjachi.

My Soviet AT gun failed to even damage the two German panzers and the Soviet junior leaders seemed to be bullet magnets.









The Germans punched straight through the Soviet defences, losing two men in the attack while destroying 2 Soviet squads and a Soviet AT gun crew.

More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2022/09/breakthrough-at-gremjachi.html

T.

[Sgt_T]

The Germans press forward to the village of Verkhne‐Yablochny in a game with special victory conditions.

They didn't manage to eject the Soviets from the village but did largely achieve their objective.

Highlight of the game was the T34 crew who kept dominating the battlefield while being continuously hit by a German infantry gun.









More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2022/10/verkhneyablochny.html

T.

[Redmist1122]

A crazy and fun campaign to play!

[CapnJim]

Great reports.  And it does seem that the fortunes of war(games) take turns favoring each side.

But the crew of a tank that takes repeated hits from a gun, even while surviving them, will have hearing issues the rest of their lives....

[has.been]

will have hearing issues the rest of their lives....

Pardon?

[Sgt_T]

Scenario 9 features only tanks which is rather special for an infantry game like CoC. Four german tanks engaged five Soviet tanks.







Only three tanks managed to survive the carnage: two panzer III's and a T70 that was driven off the table.
We weren't sure whether CoC would work for an all tank game (What a Tanker would have been another option for this scenario), but it played nice and fast.

More on my blog: https://toomuchterrain.blogspot.com/2023/01/first-blood-verkhniykumskiy.html

T

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Thank you for posting Sarge, really interesting. I’ve played a lot of CoC but never even considered playing without infantry, I will have to give it a go.

Keep it up,
BALM

[CapnJim]

Hmm.  As a former tanker, it saddens me to see all those burning tanks...I'm sure People for the Ethical Treatment of Tanks (PETT) will be by shortly to properly investigate the matter...