Soldiers of Destruction ETO (id:#56566)
Avalon Hill (AH:The General # 25.6 ID: N)   [next]   [previous]
Prior Publication: AH: The General #19-5 SL T4
Designer: Unknown
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Balance:
RussianGerman (SS)
20.300751879699%

Overview:

The men of the SS Totenkopf Division had stalled the advance of the Fifth Guards Tank Army in late September. Then, silence. No fighting had occurred for the past three weeks. It seemed like a dream. Time to sleep; time to write; time to mend clothing; time to listen to the birds sing. Replacements arrived; weapons were stripped and cleaned. It was too good, too unreal. A feeling of unease pervaded the encampment. There was almost a sigh of relief as the dull thunder of the Russian advance began again.
Attacker: Russian (Fifth Guards Tank Army)
Defender: German (SS) (SS Panzer Division 3 "Totenkopf")  
7 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:8.0 D:5.0
AFVs: A:4
T-34/85 x 4

AFVs: D:2
JgdPz V
PzJg III/IV

Guns: A:0 D:0

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Prisoners do NOT count for VP purposes
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2024-05-18(D) Dan Best vs Kermit Mullins German (SS) win
2024-05-18(A) Kermit Mullins vs Dan Best German (SS) winI've played this one often over the years and even its first iteration as a Cross of Iron scenario from one of the Generals. Word to the wise...dont play this one expecting a competitive game. It's not. It's all about the German dice. If they roll poorly, you might...I stress might manage to exit enough stuff to win...but with a 9-2 interdicting the ground and the 2 x 88LL's covering every approach...you ain't going to make it. It's an unbalanced dog of a scenario. The ROAR Stats make that abundantly clear, But it's a great scenario to let a new player learn the game as the Germans and shoot the hell out of the Russians. So there's that. Otherwise...this scenario is generally a hard pass.
2022-01-12(D) Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås vs Oddgeir German (SS) winSmall, fun scenario. The German 88LLs dominated the game.
2021-09-07(D) Tom Rodwell vs Lee Hyde-Sellars German (SS) winA small but manageable scenario which makes it good for learning the armour rules. For the Russian attackers, however, it is quite a big ask even with the balance. The German self-propelled tank hunters set up with interlocking fields of fire and were fortunate (a turret hit on a hull down JS2) to take an early toll of the Russian attackers. This was then compounded by Lee's tankers malfing multiple guns. When a second JS2 was brewed up by the Nashorn, with a third JS2 suffering from a permanently malfunctioned MA it was game over for the Russians.
2020-11-18(D) Nate Gregg vs Chris Gregg German (SS) win
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Statistics:
Avg Rating: 5.67Votes: 21
Views: 9203
To-Play list count: 3
Estimated Play time: 3.8 hours
Recorded Games: 14
Archive recorded plays:
Russian3
German (SS)11
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Soldiers of Destruction [Confirmed]
[A] Russian 24
[D] German 95
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