Polish 7TP vs Soviet Light tank company AAR

[Anatoli]

Having painted up a third and final platoon I had a complete 7TP company and David was more  than happy to try his Fast Tank company against it. Historically the Soviet's never encountered any Polish tank forces, by the time they had invaded most of the Polish armor had already been lost to the Germans during the heavy fighting along the western front.

So as this was a "what if" scenario we did not play anything from my September Campaign. Instead I asked if David wanted to try out "Dust Up", a scenario I usually hate because it makes no sense unless you have two identical - or at the very least two mobile - forces fighting it out. Playing Dust Up with infantry vs tanks is just plain dumb. In our  case however, two tank forces worked quite well.

The game was 1500 points and our armies (lists from the September Campaign v.2 book) looked like this:

Polish 7TP light tank company
1x7TP HQ
3 platoons of 5 7TP tanks each
1 platoon with 5 MG armed TKS tankettes
1 motorized anti tank gun platoon (Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade)
1 75mm light artillery battery without observer
1 Infantry company, with a single infantry platoon

Soviet Fast Tank company

1x BT-5 HQ
3x platoons of 4 BT-5 tanks each
1x platoon of 4 BT-7A tanks
1x armoured car platoon of 5 BA-10
Limited air support, Polikarpov with bombs
Since David had forgotten to bring his anti-tank guns we agreed that he could field a single T-28 tanks instead. Normally it is not part of the Fast Tank company list, but I figured it would not make a huge impact on the game.

Check my blog for the full AAR and more pictures:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/09/polish-7tp-vs-soviet-fast-tank-company.html