I Played this one as the Russians first and got a Minor victory first time through. Ukrainian snipers and those pesky AGS grenade launchers set up on roof tops in ambush regularly picked off my engineers and M-R infantry as well as a couple of my BTR's. M-R squad would approach with BTR in overwatch so snipers would get off there one kill before being annihilated by the BTR's cannon fire often bringing down walls on one side of the building. One of my BTR's took out the Ukranian BMP positioned just over the bridge but The Ukrainian tank took out this same BTR as I was approaching the bridge so I brought some engineers up to blast some holes in the side of buildings and managed to take out with one of my RPG-7 teams. The one bridge crossing over the road was a severe choke point and lost a lot of my Russian forces attempting to cross the bridge to the other side despite having numerous M-R infantry and machine gun teams set up in over-watch in buildings on the Russian side of the bridge. I made the mistake of trying to complete the mission without first bringing up the 2nd platoon which arrives as a reinforcement where I should of put first platoon which had suffered about 20% casualties on approach to the bridge into over-watch into buildings overlooking the bridge and use my 2nd platoon at full strength to make the assault over the bridge and into the town square. Used one of my BTR's to area fire from across the bridge on the top of the church steeple as this was the highest location on the battlefield and would have been an ideal location for an sniper or artillery observer. Final assault into the square was deadly and all of my remaining BTR's were picked off by RPG's or grenade launchers from various ambush positions iin/on buildings. I had one BTR left which was immobilized on the Russian side of the bridge which I left in overwatch across from the church/steeple which thankfully took out a lot of the Ukrainian forces snipping my infantry. I used my artillery 82mm mortar mission rather in-effectively in linear against the strong hold position of buildings located opposite side of the map from the town square victory objective. Last of my anti tank platoons was destroyed by the Ukrainian BMP which was located at the back of the town opposite side of map from the town square in a deadly ambush position. As I had captured the main objective being the town square and was nearly down to half strength I decided not to waste any more Russian lives on trying to destroy the last Ukrainian BMP and fast forward the remaining turns to the end scoring a Russian minor victory. This was a really enjoyable mission and highlighted just how deadly urban close quarters combat is and just how fragile vehicles are in such urban combat environments. Russian M-R squads also seem quite fragile when compared to there US counterparts as there was a number of times when only a few of the squad members were casualties then they would often throw there hands up in the air awaiting to be taken prisoner they seemed to be lacking in fire power but this could be just the way I had led them into ambush after ambush effectively diminishing there morale on several occasions. Great scenario looking forward to more like these:).
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