Operation Sealion AAR: Breakout from Wiltshire

Hello all,

This is my first WWPD Operation Sea Lion AAR, in fact this is my first ever AAR! I hope you enjoy it and any tips would be appreciated. So to the Report:-

The Hungarian 1st Army has broken through the Allied front line and is heading towards Bristol, on the out skirts of the town their way is blocked by a Battalion of Free Soviets.

The Mission:- Free For All

ARMY LISTS

Rohamágyús Üteg 25th Assault Company

Hungarian Late-War

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Rohamágyús Üteg HQ  p.215	1	Zrínyi II	75
Combat Platoons
Rohamágyús Platoon  p.215	3	Zrínyi II	225
Rohamágyús Platoon  p.215	3	Zrínyi II	225
Rohamágyús Platoon  p.215	3	Zrínyi II	225
Divisional Support Platoons
Harckocsizó Platoon  p.207	2	Tiger I E	390
Assault Pioneer Platoon  p.224	1 9	Cmd Pioneer Rifle/MG team Pioneer Rifle/MG team	270
Rocket Launcher Battery  p.225	1 1 6	Cmd Rifle team Observer Rifle team 150mm 43M rocket launcher	150
Company Points:			1560

Source document: Grey Wolf

Strelkovy Batalon (Red Army) Rifle Battalion

Soviet Late-War

Platoon	Qty	Unit	Points
Headquarters
Strelkovy Batalon HQ (Red Army)  p.25	2 1	Cmd Rifle team Komissar team	30
Combat Companies
Strelkovy Company (Red Army)  p.26	1 1 21 1	Cmd Rifle/MG team Komissar team Rifle/MG team Maksim HMG team	390
Strelkovy Company (Red Army)  p.26	1 1 21	Cmd Rifle/MG team Komissar team Rifle/MG team	365
Weapons Companies
Strelkovy Scout Platoon  p.27	1 4	Cmd SMG team SMG team	165
Corps Support Companies
Tankovy Company  p.22	5	T-34 obr 1942	275
Artillery Battalion (Red Army)  p.138	1 1 1 4	Cmd Rifle team Staff team Observer Rifle team 76mm ZIS-3 field gun	140
Air Support  p.141	5	Limited Air Support Il-2 Shturmovik	200
Company Points:			1565

Source document: Red Bear

 DEPLOYMENT

The Soviets cover the whole board!

The soviet infantry spread out across the whole battleline ready to assault.

The Artillery and T-34's protect the Soviet left flank.

The Scouts after the infiltrate move

Hungarian rockets at the back prepare to fire.

Hungarian Pioneeers and Assault Guns.

Hungarian right flank, the Tigers sitting on over watch.

Deployment Summary:-

Hungarian Assault Guns:- 3 Zrínyi's deploy on the left around the forests along with the CO and a pioneer platoon. 3 Zrínyi's deploy in the centre with the Rockets. And on the right, Zrínyi's and the Tigers cover the right flank.

Soviet Infantry:- Infantry spreads out to assault all of the objectives. The Artillery and T-34's look to attack the left flank.The scouts infiltrate and take the Manor House.

TURN 1

The Hungarians start the advance.

The Pioneers push forwards.

The Assault guns aim to clear the area of the Soviet scouts.

First Blood

I don't think the company commander even notice 4 less men.

The Assault guns shoot at the Artillery but don't hit any of them

The Tigers take aim at the Artillery but also miss.

The Assault guns move up to support the Pioneers

The Soviet wave assault begins

Charge!

Charge!

Yes that's right the Hungarian Stuka is bombing his own men!

The Bomb bounces of the Tiger.

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Hungarians None	Free Soviets Strelkovy Company 1: 1 Stand

TURN 1 SUMMARY  Hungarians: Slowly advances.
Free Soviets: The infantry advance with the tanks.

TURN 2

The Zrínyi II's take aim at the advancing soviet hordes...

...blasting a few stands to pieces....

...and machine gunning a few more.

The Tigers and Zrínyi's combined fire but only bail out 2 T-34s.

The Rockets open up on the middle Company.

They keep coming.

The T-34's look to exploit a gave in the Hungarian lines but fail to hit anything. The artillery does hit them but fails to
do any damage.

The infantry gets closer...

... and closer

The Soviets charge the tigers...

...causing them to break fall back.

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Hungarians None	Free Soviets Strelkovy Company 1: 6 Stands Strelkovy Company 2: 2 Stands

TURN 2 SUMMARY  Hungarians: The Pioneers dig in. The Zrínyi's, Tigers and Rockets shoot at the advancing infantry.

Free Soviets: Keep advancing.

TURN 3

The counter attack begins.

The Zrínyi's fallback to block the T-34's

The Pioneers keep their heads down.

The left flank Zrínyi's move back to get a better shot at the Soviet infantry.

Th middle Zrínyi's advance to help the Tigers.

The Tigers get ready to assault.

This time the Zrínyi's take out 2 T-34's

The Tigers open fire.

As do the Zrínyi's killing 7 stands between them

The Soviet right flank also takes a pounding.

The Tigers assault! Which leads to the waste assault ever...

Snake eyes to hit, the soviets counter and fail to hit....

....this time I get two 2's to hit....

...but the soviets fail to counter attack and kill the Batalon kommissar!

After falling back the take a platoon moral check....

...and fail that killing the Company Kommissar as well!

The Soviets throw everything at the Hungarians hoping to try and make a break through.

Ivan is upon the Hungarian line.

The T-34's try to out flank the Zrínyis, and miss again.

The scouts prepare to charge the middle Zrínyis.

The infantry and artillery combined to pin the Pioneers

Again the Hungarian air force attacks their own troops, this time killing the platoon commander and pinning the Artillery.
(If you haven't guessed it's counting as a Shturmovik).

The remaining Strelkovy Company charges the left hand Zrínyi platoon....

... killing the Company commander and one of the platoon members

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Hungarians Company HQ: Destroyed Zrínyi II: 1 Stand                        Rocket Artillery: 1 Stand	Free Soviets Batalion Kommissar: Destroyed Strelkovy Company 1: Destroyed Strelkovy Company 2: 14 Stands T34s:  2 Tanks Scouts: 2 Stands

TURN 3 SUMMARY  Hungarians: The Tigers assault backed up by the Zrínyi's destroys a Strelkovy Company. The rest of the army wears down the rest.
Free Soviets: The Soviets assault bounces.

TURN 4

The Hungarians mop up.

The Tigers turn and kill a T-34s and brake the unit.

The Zrínyi II's brake the Artillery.

The left hand Zrínyi platoon and Pioneers clear out the last of the Soviet infantry killing the 1IC and 2IC braking the Soviets.

COMBAT CASUALTY SUMMARY
Hungarians Company HQ: Destroyed Zrínyi II: 1 Stand           Rocket Artillery: 1 Stand	Free Soviets Batalion HQ: Destroyed Batalion Kommissar: Destroyed Strelkovy Company 1: Destroyed Strelkovy Company 2: Destroyed T34s:  Destroyed Scouts: 2 Stands  ZIS-3 field gun: Destroyed

TURN 4 SUMMARY Hungarians: Mop up the last few Soviets. 

Free Soviets: Rout!
Result: 6-1 Hungarians

SUMMARY

 Wow Zrínyi's with breakthrough gun are amazing against infantry companies. I do think Maz was unlucky with his T-34's and should have killed my right flank Zrínyi Platoon. Also a few other things went against him that could have made the game closer. We also forgot to infiltrate on of his Strelkovy Company's with the scouts, which would have changed the game. Over all a fun game and I'm looking forward to the rematch when I get mu infantry together.

Hope you enjoyed reading about the game, I hope it makes sence! I'd love some feed back as this was my first go at an AAR. 

Thanks for reading Ben