Capturing Wilno, September 19th 1939 AAR

[Anatoli]

Second scenario in the "Belorussian Front" operation from my  "Poland in Flames" historical campaign book. This scenario is about the Soviet capture of Wilno (Vilnius), having crashed across the north-eastern Polish border the Soviet forces quickly directed their spearheads towards the towns of Wilno and Grodno. Wilno was captured by September 19th, the Polish defenders were made up of Border Protection Corps troops supported by some light artillery and AT guns. The defenders were simply too few and had too little heavy equipment to have any realistic chance against the Soviet tanks rolling into the city, despite some initial successes the city fell after a day long battle. Some defenders made it out and joined the garrison in Grodno.

The scenario has the Polish player fielding 1500 points, 1 platoon in ambush. The Soviet player  fields 1750 points but keeps 25% of his troops in reserve. The Poles are dug in along the outer edge of Wilno and are attempting to prevent the Soviets from breaching the line, symbolized by two objective markers. As soon as the Soviet player begins any of his turns in control of an objective the battle ends a Soviet victory. The only hope for the Poles is to try to break the enemy force morale.

To further press home the hopeless situation of the defenders and to allow the Soviet player to soften up his opponent there is no turn limit for this scenario.

Polish Border Protection Corps (KOP) [Confident/Trained]

KOP Battalion HQ
2x KOP Companies, each with two platoons
1x KOP HMG company with two platoons, both are attached out to KOP platoons.
1x Squadron of KOP cavalry made up of two platoons.
1x KOP Sapper platoon with 2 sapper sections and a supply cart.
1x Piechoty AT-gun platoon [Fearless/Trained] (HELD IN AMBUSH)
1x Piechoty Light artillery platoon [Fearless/Trained]

Soviet Fast tank company [Confident/Trained]
(Note: Since David didn't have enough points we agreed that he would throw in his OT-26 flamethrower tanks and a heavy mortar battery to fill out the points. Since those platoons are available in other units taking part in the attack on Wilno and available for the Soviet player to field it made sense).

Company HQ  1x BT-5
2x BT-5 platoons
1x OT-26 flamethrower tank platoon
1x Platoon of BA-10 armoured cars
1x 82mm mortar company
1x 120mm mortar battery
1x Motorized infantry battalion with 2x infantry platoons with light mortars
(1 Motorized infantry platoon also had 2 attached Maksim 1910 HMG's)
1x 45mm AT gun platoon


Check my blog for the full review and more pictures:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/02/capturing-wilno-september-19th-1939-aar.html

[geoffb]

A very nice table setup there.
cheers
Geoff