Our invasion of Poland got off to a rough start when the Soviet forces' drunken commander forgot he bought ammo trucks and failed to deploy them before the battle, meaning Soviet artillery would have limited shells to lob at Polish positions. The battle went immediately downhill, as a section of Major LHeureux's meat shield division was strafed by a Polish fighter plane as they advanced cautiously down a dirt road.
Many pants were thoroughly pissed. LHeureux quickly rallied his men (no mean feat for conscripts in real life, let alone a video game) and they quickly secured a forest south of the battle.
Farther north, Kaptain Homer Jay's recce squadron of cavalry scouts, foot scouts and three platoons of T-38 amphibious tanks ran into the main Polish force. The scouts became entangled in a fire fight with Godless Polish riflemen, and stalled the Polish advance long enough to rain down an artillery strike from Starleit Born2Kill's rocket battery.
The conscripts advanced field-by-field behind a company of T-27 tankettes with flame tank support. The Soviets reached a small village first and thoroughly fucked up every Polish attack on the city, the tankettes firing their machine guns at the vaste hordes of Polish infantry, which were accompanied by ancient Renault tanks.
Major Musti's BT company harassed the enemy and destroyed 11 enemy tanks and lost only one of their own to an infantry close assault. Serzhant von Mudra's 45mm anti-tank gun battery rode into battle behind the recce units and dismounted in the woods. One truck carrying three guns was blasted to smithereens by Polish 120mm howitzer fire, but the other truck made it to the objective and those three guns took out two enemy tanks.
Back at the southern village, Jimi Hendrix's T-35 group supported the conscripts. One of the Russian monster tanks was disabled when a Polish plane shot off the tracks, but the other two supported the tankette and conscript defense and took out the Polish Renaults, and mopped up and infantry the OT-27 flame tanks hadn't barbequed.
The paratroopers and ski soldiers played only a small role in defending the artillery batteries from Polish units that snuck through the lines. Fuchs' paratrooper company successfully defended the Soviet HQ and Hjaldrgud's ski soldiers satcheled a Polish TKS tankette.
The best kill of the battle went to Battleaxe's platoon of 37mm AA guns, which shot down a Polish
Karas light bomber, narrowly beating out the antics of a T-27 crew who bailed their immobilised tankette to advance on foot and then destroyed an FT-17 with a hand grenade.
By the end of the battle, the Soviet forces had lost several soft vehicles and trucks, but suffered nowhere near the Polish infantry casualties. The two armies were seperated by only 55pts, 2983 to 2928. The battle was a draw.
After the battle there was an option of assaulting the fleeing Poles, but the Soviet commander declined to attack and instead repaired his forces. He also bought a platoon of vintage BT-2 fast tanks, a SU-3 (recoilless gun on a truck chassis), and four BA-6 armored cars.
The second battle will once again take place against Poland, in a thick forest. The paratroopers will be making their first jump..
