G'day all. Welcome to my very first attempt making an AAR of Achtung Panzer O.S.
In fact, it's my first AAR ever from a game. English is not my native language, so if you find any weird spelling & typos, I apologize.
The campaign I chose is Rakitnoe, playing as the Germans.
The situation from HQ (see below picture)
I have two divisions, 2.SS Division "Das Reich" and 11.Panzer-Division.
My orders are:
Cross the river "Mzha" near Rakitnoe, breach the enemy defence and push your forces to the outskirts of Kharkov.
Now this might sound simple for a tactical genious. I had to make some kind of plan how to move my forces.
Can I surprise the enemy? Wich units first? Checking fuel, fatique and morale. Will the enemy counterattack?
So I start moving some units from the 11.Pz Div north (see below picture) and moving the 2.SS Div DR over the river and east.
After doing that I can deploy my units more tactical on the map with a plan of attack.
I'm placing my infantry from the 11.Pz Div, the 4.Pz.Grenadier-regiment. in the woods.
I moved two platoons of light tanks, PzKpfw II ausf. F, close to the roads.
Plan is to make enemy contact with the infantry in the middel. The Panzers moving over the road quickly north.
When the Panzers leave the wooden area up north they move left and flank the enemy and support the infantry.
On the left side I had to do some planning too.
Here I moved units from the 4.Pz.Grenadier-Reg. and 209.Pz.Pionier-Bn. to the north close to the rivercrossing.
They need to take the rivercrossing and seek out the enemy defences in the flank.
Leaving units behind for reserve. When and where needed I could push them north.
Right. After deploying all my units the battle starts at 4am in the morning.
First battle takes place on a small part of the map. I have to fight two battles in total.
On my left flank I start moving the first units of the 4.Pz.Grenadiers-Reg and 209.Pz.Pioneer-Bn following the road to the river.
Those units are equipped with light armored halftracks, the Sd.Kfz. 251, most with MG's, some with 3.7cm PaK and a single 81mm mortar.
(Its dark, so yea the screenshots are kinda dark too. Sorry about that)
The bridge was damaged but they could cross the frozen river without problems. They got little resistance and more or less surprised the enemy.
On my right flank I started to move my Panzer II's over the roads up north in wooden area. Meanwhile the infantry in the middle moves up north too.
From here the battle got crazy. My infantry moved kinda fast through the woods and went in the open before my Panzers arrived.
The infantry were engaging it seems a large force of enemy infantry, supported by inf.Guns and light armor.
Before my Panzers arrived both sides lost a lot of men. The battle was intense.
Russian light armor fighting my men.
One Russian light tank was flipped over thanks to the artillery. Had no clue if it was friendly or ours.
The Russians stopped our attempt breaching the defences and I had to withdraw.
I lost too many infantry, lost some halftracks and a few Panzer II's were damaged.
After the cease fire from both ends, the result of my first battle was a draw! Both sides had many losses.
I did take some territory but all in all, the battle went very wrong.