They Fired on Odessa... ETO (id:#63521)
Prior Publication: Annual
Grigorievka, Russia
1941-09-22 (5 others)
A 81: They Fired on Odessa... (AH:ASL Annual `95 Winter)
RBF-25: Odessa Squeeze (Recon by Fire! #3)
TAC22: Ils Tiraient Sur Odessa... (Tactiques # 3)
ATL 93.2: They Fired on Odessa... (ASL Digest # 3.09)
KVxx: Red Sisters (Klementi Voroshilov Blog Scenarios)
RBF-25: Odessa Squeeze (Recon by Fire! #3)
TAC22: Ils Tiraient Sur Odessa... (Tactiques # 3)
ATL 93.2: They Fired on Odessa... (ASL Digest # 3.09)
KVxx: Red Sisters (Klementi Voroshilov Blog Scenarios)
Designer: Laurent Forest
Starter kit scenario?: Deluxe scenario?:
Balance:
RussianRomanian
Overview:
Since the end of July, the Germans had reached the Crimea and the outskirts of Odessa. The Russians fought tooth and nail but, day after day, the perimeter defense narrowed. Using their fleet on the Black Sea, the Soviet command decided to launch a counter-attack supported by a landing to the rear of the 9th Romanian cavalry brigade. The 22nd of September, while the 426th Infantry Division attacked towards the east of Odessa, the 3rd Regiment of sailors of the Black Sea Fleet was beached close to Grigorievka at 0200. Arriving without mishap in the outskirts of the village, the company of Lieutenant Tcharoup launched the assault at 0800.Attacker: Russian (3rd Regiment, Black Sea Fleet Marines)
Defender: Romanian (23rd Regiment, 15th Infantry Division and the 23rd Regimental Artillery Company)
7 turns
Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No| Unit Counts: |
| Squads: A:13.5 D:11.0 |
| AFVs: A:0 |
| AFVs: D:0 |
| Guns: A:1 50mm RM obr. 40 D:3 100mm M14/19 x 3 5cm leGrW 36(g) x 2 |
| Misc Rules: | Treat hills as flat ground. |
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| Overlays: | NONE |
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| Date | Reporter | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Time | Comments | |
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| 2025-05-30 | (A) Jim Liang | vs | Paul Ling | Russian win (VASL Log) | Poor initial setup along with poor rolling lead to a quick Romanian concession. | ||
| 2025-05-17 | (A) Fred Jordan | vs | Walter Fox | Romanian win | My Russian marines managed to take over all their objectives in the village but failed to destroy the guns. This is really a race against time and the Russian must take many risks to get to the guns in time. Even if their morale is high initially, the relatively low ELR decreases the effectiveness of the Russians as the game progresses. | ||
| 2022-07-12 | (D) Jeff B | vs | Joe Arthur | Russian win | 4.25 hrs | Started and finished in one session, the Russians surprised me a bit with just how heavy they came on in the northcentral. My mortar went on a bit of rate tear during the opening moves, but with only a CR and break on a squad, no really damaging results. Joe took a chance on corecting and converting his sole OBA battery on Turn and it paid off, turning one of my squads berserk, breaking a HS, a crew, and one of my only two leaders. Turn 3 saw the berserker easily mowed down, another squad eliminated, and my other two crews broken. I was 0/3 in my crews passing their initial MCs. He was well-situated in building L4/M5, cutting off any hopes of me getting units upstairs in, or reinforcing, the big building. I still thought I had a chance, but Turn 4 was a devestating one for me, losing four squads and two MGs (including my HMG),. The big building was all but taken, while he wrapped up some melees in the westernmost of the other two buildings. Some really poor rallying prevented me from putting up much resistance as he surged forward to take on my guns, which had been remanned by two crews, while the rest of his force just overpowered me in the last building. In the end, 8ML Russians vs a bunch of 2 ELR 7ML Romanians (many of them HS) would turn out to be too difficult of a matchup, and the Romanians conceded on the last turn with the Russians on the brink of a victory. | |
| 2021-08-17 | (D) Macari Samuel | vs | hardrada | Russian win | PBEM. Russian can thank their OBA, destroying the last Gun on a CH in the last turn. | ||
| 2021-07-22 | (A) Kevin Duval | vs | Dwayne Duval | Romanian win | Romanians did an excellent job of wasting Russian movement. Was looking good for Russians near the last two Turns since they had many units charging the Guns. In the end however Russians were forced to commit everything to get into CC with last two Guns but even with 4to1 odds failed with a 10 DR in CC. |
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| Action | Date |
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| BravoCo Added a playing | 2025-05-31 13:21:04 |
| Djord Added a playing | 2025-05-17 08:12:58 |
| aokigaryou Linked the scenario to ROAR | 2024-07-14 08:26:14 |
| atomic Linked the scenario to ROAR | 2023-12-29 21:21:38 |
| hoxson1 Modified the gps location | 2022-08-24 23:24:25 |
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| VASL Log file (TheyFiredOnOdessa_all.vlog) | VASL Game Log | BravoCo | 1 |
| (A81_They_Fired_on_Odessa....png) | Map Image | hoxson1 | 1093 |
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| Avg Rating: 7.27 | Votes: 11 | Views: | 5911 |
| To-Play list count: | 5 | |
| Estimated Play time: | 4.5 hours | |
| Recorded Games: | 7 | |
| Archive recorded plays: | ||
| Russian | 4 | |
| Romanian | 3 | |
| Drawn: | 0 | |
| ROAR Data: (as of today) They Fired on Odessa [Confirmed] |
| [A] Romanian | 4 |
| [D] Russian | 3 |