Panzer Scenario 11

 Finally got round to playing Panzer/MBT.  I have some ASL to unlearn and some Panzer to learn!

The game situation.  The Germans have 20 turns to take the town outlined in blue.  Whoever has control of 10 of the buildings get a boatload of points.  My Russians setup all in the town (they could have been anywhere on most of the map with the tanks and in woods or the buildings for the infantry and guns)

First blood goes to the Russian Mortar.  Able to fire without being spotted past three hexes is a big deal.  An excellent roll kills a German HT.  The passengers survive though.

Russian positions end of turn 1.

German positions end of turn 1.

End of turn 2.  The Germans take out a Russian gun.  They are much easier to kill in Panzer then ASL...

End of turn 3.  No kills this turn.  The Russian Mortar annoys the two Open top German vehicles at the bottom right (in the woods).  It would go on to Suppress one then the other the rest of the game.

End of turn 4 and things are starting to look bad.  The Germans take out another Russian gun and a badly placed SU-76.

End of turn 5.  Exchanging fire and no kills.  The Germans plop a bunch of smoke.  Another ASLism to unlearn.  Smoke needs no to-hit and is as easy/hard to place moving or not.  Though can only place using short halt move.

End of turn 6 and this one hurts.  The Russian 57mm gun (the only one really capable of hurting the Tiger) is taken out.  Inevitable with 3 to 5 tanks firing on it.  It had even gotten a HVAP shot at the Tiger but missed the to-hit roll.

End of turn 7 and another Russian tank (A T35-76) dies.  We played on two more turns but it was really all over at this point.  All the Germans need do to win is take 6 town hexes and with the overwhelming tank strength or three Russians to 9 German it was not going to be pretty.

I did learn not to fire too soon and that the guns should be IN the buildings instead of alley ways.  The Germans will have to close with them to take building hexes.  We are going to play this again in two weeks to see if I can put up a better fight the second time around.  After that one to more scenarios and all of the optional rules we agree on.