Breakout against Owen

In anticipation of Corrivalry, Owen and I tried out the Breakout mission, as this was a potential mission for the tournament. The details of it can be found here. We played the original version from WI, which had delayed reserves instead of reserves. I played with the more defensive of my two lists:

 

Fearless    Trained	Special Service Force Alex Billing Corrivalry B	USA Late-War
Infantry Company

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Special Service Force Company HQ  p.25	2 2	Cmd Carbine team Bazooka team	60
Combat Platoons
Special Service Force Platoon  p.25	1 6 1	Cmd Pioneer SMG team Pioneer Rifle/MG team M2 60mm mortar	245
Special Service Force Platoon  p.25	1 6 1	Cmd Pioneer SMG team Pioneer Rifle/MG team M2 60mm mortar	245
Weapons Platoon
SSF Cannon Platoon  p.26	1 1 4	Cmd Carbine team Jeep M3 75mm/81mm mortar GMC	210
Divisional Support
Light Tank Platoon  Confident  Veteran   p.31	4	M5A1 Stuart	250
Field Artillery Battery(with M2A1 105mm howitzers)  Confident  Veteran   p.28	1 1 1 1 4	Cmd Carbine team Staff team Observer Carbine team Jeep M2A1 105mm howitzer	190
Field Artillery Battery  Confident  Veteran   p.28	1 1 1 1 4	Cmd Carbine team Staff team Observer Carbine team Jeep M1 155mm howitzer	280
Heavy Anti-aircraft Artillery Platoon  Confident  Veteran   p.34	1 2	Cmd Carbine team M1 90mm gun (with 8 crew)	170
Company Points:			1650

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Source document: Dogs & Devils Book

 

The game:

 

Owen's Engineer Sapper force deploys in the middle of the table



That's a lot of Russians

155mm artillery, 90mm AA guns and two platoons of FSSF infantry defend the objectives



The Engineers and their warrior team infiltrate up into the woods



And in turn one come out guns blazing, but are stopped by defensive fire



The T34/76s move up to my left flank, and take some pot shots at the observer



This objective was left uncontested for the majority of the game

Another attempt to assault the guns fails. Just.

90mm guns take out a couple of T34s

SU100s move up to engage the American guns

Whilst T34s look to set up their own assault

So many MG shots

The 155 battery is taken down to 2 guns

The T34s go in for the assault

Another 155 is taken out, and the infantry on my left flank are weakened

With the 90mm guns and the 155mm guns both weakened, it is safe for the Engineers to come out of the woods

The Americans stubbornly hold on to this objective

And take out another T34 in assault

The first reserves arrive, and some Stuarts try to harass the Soviet backfield

Drawing the attention of the SU100s

The T34s and infantry go for some mutually assured destruction, with the US 1iC holding this objective on his own from now on

Engineers come out to take out another 155mm gun

The SSF Cannon platoon looks for some opportunistic shots on the side of the SU100s 

Killing one and bailing another

The Stuarts assault the Heavy Mortars, and the one SU100 who can fire misses

The other infantry are forced to go delay the Engineer Sappers, abandoning the right hand objective

Having killed a couple of Russian gun teams and infantry, the Stuarts hide from the SU100s

The infantry miraculously repels the Engineers in the centre of the table

But my company fails a morale check, and Owen wins 5-2

This was one of two practice games I played for the tournament, and both games I used the wrong list. The auto attack list would have been better against Owen's Engineer Sappers, and the defensive list better when I played Ander's Panzer Kampgruppe. But better I learn these lessons before the tournament starts.