Last Train to Leningrad ETO (id:#66773)
Designer: Tom Morin
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Balance:
Russian (NKVD)German
65.217391304348%

Overview:

Army Group North's advance was threatening to isolate Leningrad. Recently transferred from Army Group Center, General der Panzertruppe Rudolf Schmidt's XXXIX Armeekorps was driving hard towards Volkhov. One of Schmidt's divisions, Infanterie-Division (mot.) 20, captured the city of Mga on 29 August. Reinforces by the 1st NKVD Rifle Division, the Soviet 48th Army retook Mga on 30 August, only to be thrown back out the next day. On 2 September, the 48th Army attacked yet again, looking to recapture the Mga Railroad Station. Control of the railroad was critical, as it was the last direct rail line through which supplies flowed to Leningrad. The assault would be carried out by a battalion of the 1st NKVD Rifle Division reinforced by two tank companies and a brigade of mountain troops.
Attacker: Russian (NKVD) (2nd Battalion, 2nd NKVD Regiment, 1st NKVD Rifle Division with 1st Separate Mountain Rifle Brigade)
Defender: German (Infanterie-Regiment (mot.) 90, Infanterie-Division (mot,) 20)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:22.0 D:19.0
AFVs: A:7
KV-1E x 2
T-26S M37 x 3
LANO AT
LANO AA

AFVs: D:7
PzJg I
PSW 222 x 2
SPW 251/10
SPW 251/1 x 3

Guns: A:2
76.2mm PP obr. 27
45mm PTP obr. 32
D:2
5cm PaK 38
3.7cm PaK 35/36

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: A: 6 RC (B32.6), MOL (A22.6), NQ (A20.3)
Overlays: RR17 RR19 RY7 X36
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2024-10-31(D) Camille Garek vs Xavier VITRY Russian (NKVD) win
2024-10-13(A) Kevin Duval vs Dwayne DuvalA German winRussians went strong along north side and rolled down the flank but ran out of time in the end. I pushed a platoon of AFV into the center which cost me when the time came to try and extricate them from the restricting terrain using reverse in bypass ... still, fun!
2024-08-27(A) Douglas Leslie vs Marc Hanna German winFirst scenario played from the TOTR module and it pitted my NKVD units complete with a morale level of 8 and and ELR of 2 (!) against Marc's Germans.
I made my first mistake before the sides even set up by giving insufficient consideration to the best spots to place the railcars that are granted to the Russian player by SSR. What I should have done was put at least some of them to the North side of the map so that there was cover to approach the H2 wooded area behind the level crossing in 18aG2. Marc defended this area in strength by placing a roadblock in I2/H2 and sending most of the reinforcements to positions where they could hide out of sight and dare the Russians to advance into ADJACENT woods hexes to get blasted. Basically, the Russians were able to clear the rail cars and the rowhouses to the south but never manged to muster a force that could threaten the German stronghold behind the woods to the north
and I conceded with two turns remaining when my CE KV tank tried to reach the area but got stunned by a 2+2 attack.
The Russians have a powerful force here but they have a lot to do and my impression after playing the game was that I felt it was slightly pro-German (a view which seems to be borne out by results posted on ROAR (16-8 pro-German at the last count). I underestimated the need to commit a large enough force to clear the northern woods but, having said this, it wasn't as if I didn't need to have all hands to the pumps to clear the rail cars etc to the south. Lessons learned are that rail cars really constrict AFV movement and that rowhouses in the south are brutally difficult to clear when hand to hand combat is in effect. Stacking squads to create a fire base becomes very risky when an enemy unit can enter CC from behind the dividing wall.
2024-08-08(D) Richard Jenulis vs Dennis Hess Russian (NKVD) winTrench warfare.
2024-08-02(A) David Garvin vs Rob Loper German winI accounted well for myself in the attack, but I lost a KV 1E to a DI attack. Really stumped my drive.
Round 1 at the Tussle.
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ActionDate
GOUREAU Added a playing2024-11-03 19:36:55
Hutch Modified the Attacker's AFVs2024-10-19 14:58:24
Hutch Modified the unit counts2024-10-19 14:58:23
Hutch Modified the Attacker's AFVs2024-10-19 14:57:37
Hutch Modified the unit counts2024-10-19 14:57:35
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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 7.33Votes: 12
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To-Play list count: 1
Estimated Play time: 8.7 hours
Recorded Games: 12
Archive recorded plays:
Russian (NKVD)6
German6
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Last Train to Leningrad [Confirmed]
[A] German 24
[D] Russian 10
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