BKC IV: Train Station Battle

Desperate Fighting at the Train Station

We decided to return to the Eastern Front, but this time it would be a battle during the winter of 1944. The Russians were advancing to take a train station complex and cut off the Germans from their supply source in this area. The Germans assembled a battlegroup and are launching a counterattack to maintain control over the complex. The Germans advanced quickly, but soon got themselves entangled with the T-34 groups who were also going right for the train station. What followed was a brutal, turn by turn knife fight with long range gunnery, infantry assaults, artillery barrages, and finally some close range tank battles. In the end the Russians prevailed as the Germans had basically run out of infantry and were barely holding the outskirts of the complex. The Russians had taken some serious losses, but had pushed through and were in control when the game was called. We tried something a bit different with how many Russian commanders were assigned to a group and it seemed to work out well. More on this in Warning Order #70.

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