Battke Report - Bagration Turn 1

 Hello All,

Duncan and I played our turn 1 campaign game this weekend. Since heavy tanks were so popular in my last report, I decided ti take some tigers again, with panzer 4s and some rockets. Facing off against quite allot of t34s.

Mission roll gave us free for all, not my fav mission, but probably for the best to not have reserves. I took the tiger ace card as ots fun, roll the ace so I get to choose and went for rapid fire.

Here we have the russian plains.

German turn 1 annoyingly, every thing counts as moving so not to effective shooting wise.

The soviet horde advances.

I take some shots, and scoot back into cover. Get a few kills so can't complain to much.

SU 100s try ti flank the tigers but miss. On the right the t34s are really chipping away at the panzer 4s, and the air support is helping them. Going to be tough to hold.

Tigers try ti blitz but fail and advance to try and cover the objective. The infantry kills 1 su100 with a panzerfauat and pushes the rest back.

T34s mostly stay still and bring the pa8n on the panzer 4s. While the is2 hide, and the su100 move back out of the town.

Time for the tigers to shine! They get 6 hits on the t34s, but only pass 1 firepower! Luckily the infantry is there to cover and take all but 2 in assault. Still on the right things are looking dire.

Russian turn, you may see an issue. They clear out all the tanks and Artillery on the right, leaving the objective open. Also shoot up the infantry pretty good.

In the end the tigers are ti far and to unlucky to break that platoon.

So despite allot of murder, it's an 8-1 fir the russkies. The armored panzer grenadier is destroyed.

Thanks;

Mike