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String -> RE: A Test "Winter War" Battle (11/7/2007 5:05:05 PM)
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Just tried out a finnish campaign of my own as well.
I bought three companies of ski infantry, a platoon of engineers and jaegers. 6x81mm mortars and 4x76mm howitzers for artillery and platoon of infantry AT's, two 37mm AT guns make up the AT force. Two tanks and an armored car was also bought for future upgrading.
Not sure how historical that is, but sounds more or less okay for me, except the tanks, but those I bought, as I said, for future upgrading to use in the continuation war.
First mission was an advance. For the prep points I got 3 150mm batteries and 2 122mm batteries.
The whole thing was a wild success, I was opposed only by soviet infantry and the AI left map edges uncovered so it was very easy to encircle the soviets and advance on from the flanks. The armored car proved most useful, at one time forcing the surrender of 5-6 soviet squads that had retreated into its hex.
The heavy artillery units kept most of the soviet infantry supressed and most of my casualties came when most of the soviet infantry from the centre started retreating on a few ski squads which were in a blocking position and when a 203mm soviet battery caught my engineer platoon in the open. In the end the soviets managed to rout 3 ski infantry squads.
Total losses were 87 finns vs 930+ soviets. Could have been more for the soviets but when their force morale broke i decided to just keep the remains of the soviet centre encircled and under constant artillery attack while my ski squads rushed through the AT guns in the rear to occupy the last victory hexes.
The Ski infantry is VERY good on advance, combining great mobility with good firepower. I felt that this was a good example of finnish tactics during the winter war, but I'm sure more knowledgeable members of this forum will correct me if i'm wrong. [:)]
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