Colonel_Coo
05-31-2007, 07:10 AM
Commarade Stalin orders large scale counter offensive in Winter of '41.
Initial attack meets German Recon element.
The Soviets main drive is launched close to central ammo depot. With two machine gun teams, two of the hard to come by Foriegn Built Bofors and two Polish front veterans in support of their conscripted force of submachine gunners and grenadier, the attack is spear headed by a T-34/76.
(T-34/Ammo Depot for Wild card: 2 x Ch MG team, 2 x Polish Determined Infantry, 1 Soviet Sniper, 1 Soviet Grenadier, 4 PPsh gunners)
the Soviet attack launches directly into a drive of a supported German recon element: 4 SD KFZ-222, 1 Pnzr II ausf F, 1 sIG-33, 1 WOberLt, 2 SS PG, 1 WVI, 1 Grizzled Vet.
The Soviets initial move was nearly fatal. Passing by a wooded plot, the T-34-76 narrowly escapes being hit by a Panzerfaust fired by the WOLt. (4 out of 10 successes). Following the smoke trail back into the woods, a chill ran up the the Soviet tank commanders spine when he saw the glint of the SS collar insignia. He had seen most of his tank platoon decimated in the first weeks of the war by these SS elites. It seemed worse for a tank that was is trouble or confused. Those soldiers were ruthless. As the t-34 shrugged off the attack he was happy he had lent a ride to those yound men and their submachine guns. They would give those SS something to rememeber them by if it came down to it. His tank continued to move to where he had last seen the German Recon vehicles. Easy pickens he hoped.
As he passed the death trap the German had laid for him he was disappointed to see dust clouds. The German Recon element was gone. Just then a signle shot rang out. It sounded like revenge. The woman and her rifle just made someone have a bad day.
Then all hell broke lose. He could here exposions in the distance. He had heard the same in Poland 2 years ago. Those were his veterans likely surprising the German Recon vehicles. At least he hoped so. His tank had just left the central fronts ammo dump not 10 minutes ago. A town just west of here held that depot. Surely those recon elements were less than a 1/2K from spotting it.
Oh no! His conscripts and their short range Submachine guns were entering the open steppes. While Stalin had been smart to buy those Bofors while he could, he knew those SS troopers were going to be killing a lot of his men. Just them a huge white cloud appeared on the far side of the woods. That could only come from one source: a German tank burning oil. Things were getting bad in a hurry. Sporadic machine guns rang out and peppered the woods. More explosions in the distance.
What is that! Oh my lord in heaven, a sIG-33 assualt gun just burst from the woods to the North. He had to act before his men were decimated and his attack was stopped before it even started. He ordered his tank into the woods.
He caught SS troopers and their Officer completely by surprise. Wait, no they were not suprised: they were dazed. Their hidden hollow completely ravaged by MG fire. One SS trooper was down with a severe wound. Disorganized they really offered no resistance.
His Submanchine gunners jumps off the tank and kills the Commander. Another two shots ring out in quick order. Both remaining SS troopers lose most of their two heads. A rumbling sound comes from where he just left. Who ever was driving that German sIG-33 was brave or foolish. Well maybe both. With rounds lobbing in his Mahcine gunner never had a chance. He buttons down the hatch. His tank counter fires at the sIG at point blank range. One shot-one kill. An explsoion reaches his ear. The other German tank is dead. Even through the ringing in his ear he hears the tell-tale sound of his Bofors shot. A long range shot. No, not one, two long range shots from his Bofors had finsihed off the German Smoking tank.
Only faint sounds were now heard from his Poland front veterans. Just when he thought the battle was over, more SS PG storm his position. Oh no! His tank is no position move, the turret is facing the wrong way and he is stuck in loose dirt. Zer-rattttttt. His PPhs gunner: barely 18 years of age laying in the much and dieing had the presence of mind to shoot at advacning SS. That saved his life but ended the young gunners.
More shots ring out from a bolt action rifle. As the last SS PG fell, he almost felt a pang of regret for them. NO, they had started this war. They had slaughtered and burned their way into his homeland. His motherland.
A veteran Infantry team surrenders right in front of him. One of them he recognizes from Politic Brief this morning. A German "hero" who had earned the Iron Cross by doing the impossible.
reports get called in. All 4 sd KFZ 222 were destroyed. the ammo dump is still in tact.
1 squad of the Polish Front veterans had died as well as his PPhs gunner.
The Germans had lost 4 Sd KFZ 222, 1 Panzer III, 1 sIG-33, 2 SS PG squads, a Weirmacht Lt. captured 1 WVI and an hero.
In 1978 shortly before his death of old age, Igor Vladinski looked back at his day in the sun during the Patrotic war. He had earned Hero of the Soviet Union for this leadership, luck and recklessness that day. He had earned it because he did what others could not do that day. He had beaten back the German war machine. He remembered the reports coming in the North. There no comrades had survived: the Germans had taken the best of what Mother Russia could muster and slaughtered them. Always, the same memory. The pride, the smile and the warm sun on his face on a cold winter day: then the news from his flank. The Germans had broken through in a counter assualt. His war lasted 4 more years.
Initial attack meets German Recon element.
The Soviets main drive is launched close to central ammo depot. With two machine gun teams, two of the hard to come by Foriegn Built Bofors and two Polish front veterans in support of their conscripted force of submachine gunners and grenadier, the attack is spear headed by a T-34/76.
(T-34/Ammo Depot for Wild card: 2 x Ch MG team, 2 x Polish Determined Infantry, 1 Soviet Sniper, 1 Soviet Grenadier, 4 PPsh gunners)
the Soviet attack launches directly into a drive of a supported German recon element: 4 SD KFZ-222, 1 Pnzr II ausf F, 1 sIG-33, 1 WOberLt, 2 SS PG, 1 WVI, 1 Grizzled Vet.
The Soviets initial move was nearly fatal. Passing by a wooded plot, the T-34-76 narrowly escapes being hit by a Panzerfaust fired by the WOLt. (4 out of 10 successes). Following the smoke trail back into the woods, a chill ran up the the Soviet tank commanders spine when he saw the glint of the SS collar insignia. He had seen most of his tank platoon decimated in the first weeks of the war by these SS elites. It seemed worse for a tank that was is trouble or confused. Those soldiers were ruthless. As the t-34 shrugged off the attack he was happy he had lent a ride to those yound men and their submachine guns. They would give those SS something to rememeber them by if it came down to it. His tank continued to move to where he had last seen the German Recon vehicles. Easy pickens he hoped.
As he passed the death trap the German had laid for him he was disappointed to see dust clouds. The German Recon element was gone. Just then a signle shot rang out. It sounded like revenge. The woman and her rifle just made someone have a bad day.
Then all hell broke lose. He could here exposions in the distance. He had heard the same in Poland 2 years ago. Those were his veterans likely surprising the German Recon vehicles. At least he hoped so. His tank had just left the central fronts ammo dump not 10 minutes ago. A town just west of here held that depot. Surely those recon elements were less than a 1/2K from spotting it.
Oh no! His conscripts and their short range Submachine guns were entering the open steppes. While Stalin had been smart to buy those Bofors while he could, he knew those SS troopers were going to be killing a lot of his men. Just them a huge white cloud appeared on the far side of the woods. That could only come from one source: a German tank burning oil. Things were getting bad in a hurry. Sporadic machine guns rang out and peppered the woods. More explosions in the distance.
What is that! Oh my lord in heaven, a sIG-33 assualt gun just burst from the woods to the North. He had to act before his men were decimated and his attack was stopped before it even started. He ordered his tank into the woods.
He caught SS troopers and their Officer completely by surprise. Wait, no they were not suprised: they were dazed. Their hidden hollow completely ravaged by MG fire. One SS trooper was down with a severe wound. Disorganized they really offered no resistance.
His Submanchine gunners jumps off the tank and kills the Commander. Another two shots ring out in quick order. Both remaining SS troopers lose most of their two heads. A rumbling sound comes from where he just left. Who ever was driving that German sIG-33 was brave or foolish. Well maybe both. With rounds lobbing in his Mahcine gunner never had a chance. He buttons down the hatch. His tank counter fires at the sIG at point blank range. One shot-one kill. An explsoion reaches his ear. The other German tank is dead. Even through the ringing in his ear he hears the tell-tale sound of his Bofors shot. A long range shot. No, not one, two long range shots from his Bofors had finsihed off the German Smoking tank.
Only faint sounds were now heard from his Poland front veterans. Just when he thought the battle was over, more SS PG storm his position. Oh no! His tank is no position move, the turret is facing the wrong way and he is stuck in loose dirt. Zer-rattttttt. His PPhs gunner: barely 18 years of age laying in the much and dieing had the presence of mind to shoot at advacning SS. That saved his life but ended the young gunners.
More shots ring out from a bolt action rifle. As the last SS PG fell, he almost felt a pang of regret for them. NO, they had started this war. They had slaughtered and burned their way into his homeland. His motherland.
A veteran Infantry team surrenders right in front of him. One of them he recognizes from Politic Brief this morning. A German "hero" who had earned the Iron Cross by doing the impossible.
reports get called in. All 4 sd KFZ 222 were destroyed. the ammo dump is still in tact.
1 squad of the Polish Front veterans had died as well as his PPhs gunner.
The Germans had lost 4 Sd KFZ 222, 1 Panzer III, 1 sIG-33, 2 SS PG squads, a Weirmacht Lt. captured 1 WVI and an hero.
In 1978 shortly before his death of old age, Igor Vladinski looked back at his day in the sun during the Patrotic war. He had earned Hero of the Soviet Union for this leadership, luck and recklessness that day. He had earned it because he did what others could not do that day. He had beaten back the German war machine. He remembered the reports coming in the North. There no comrades had survived: the Germans had taken the best of what Mother Russia could muster and slaughtered them. Always, the same memory. The pride, the smile and the warm sun on his face on a cold winter day: then the news from his flank. The Germans had broken through in a counter assualt. His war lasted 4 more years.