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AAR Zerachnaya bridgehead defence afternoon 16th July

  We've played more than half a dozen games in our campaign of 6 Panzer Divisions  of divisions defence of theLuga river bridgehead in July of 1941 but these have been small affairs the 500 or less points. At the end of the first afternoon the forces on our campaign map marshalled into something that looked like it might make a good big game so my opponent Russ Mason and myself decided we would set aside a Saturday and play 1000 point battle ,a  large company size game.   I selected my forces from the Panzer division lists in the Battlegroup Barbarossa book and my opponent selected from the infantry division list in the Soviet section of the same book we decided the appropriate scenario for the battle would be the Bridgehead Breakout scenario although we re titled it bridgehead defence. That would mean that the Soviet forces were deploying from a strip 15 inches deep on one side whilst I was in an area on the other side at 20 inches in radius around the road. We rolled for our