BKC IV: First Winter Battle

Russian Breakthrough & German Counterattack

No posts for for almost two months, which was mainly due to my family and I getting Covid-19 as well as the gathering restrictions in our area. Everything finally came together, however, for a game on the Friday after Thanksgiving where I got a chance to have everyone try a BKC IV game set in winter. I had worked on this project all summer and fall, so it was good to see everything come to fruition. We only had four players this time, so we went with a major Russian attack in the winter of 1942, with the Germans stretched thin and German mechanized forces rallying for a counterattack. The one thing we learned was that the KV-1Cs are monsters! They took everything the Germans could throw at them and held their attention long enough for the Russian infantry to take the first village. This game had everything, from infantry firefights, devastating artillery barrages, armor slugfests, and close assaults, leading to a lot of burning vehicles and in the end a Russian minor victory. The early Eastern Front period is hard to balance, with the Germans having pretty good command ratings, but so-so armor while the Russians have less than average command ratings, but their armor can slug it out for quite some time. It's going to take a few battles to get things sorted out, but we're off to a good start!

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