Three weeks past, Reynor Padilla, Bruce Ross and I played *Storming the Citadel* PSC table 5, CoC leveled up to IABSM (just times-ing everything by 3 kinda).
So far Grossdeutschland has swept all games including this one, which was a fall-back for Russians from the lost village of Butovo to the next one up the road, evacuating wounded in trucks and horse carts with the remnants of the original rifle company. 3 PG mounted platoons plus 3 tank platoons went tally-ho on the defenders, leaving a mess of screaming horses and a burning caravan.
The remains hightailed it out to fight another day, but not before calling in two Sturmoviks with bombs and rockets (first time we used air) plus a regimental battery to keep the wolves at bay.
Learnings: choose the slow (for Russians) predictability of arty vs. the 1/3 chance for the plane to circle back for another run if your precious activations (if using CoC dice like we are).
Also, giving all the PG platoons their Hanomags with MGs, too, is firepower overkill…so we’re still working on game balance (only 1 PG platoon should be mounted) as we prepare the last village battle of this bend in the Kursk narrative here.
Will Depusoy
