With Operation Barbarossa, many Estonians saw the opportunity to break free from the Soviet Union. Arms and equipment were retrieved from hidden caches and the struggle for independence began. A strong force commanded by Major Friedrich Kurg made an ambitious attempt to liberate Tarta, Estonia's second largest city. Unexpectedly it was fellow countrymen, Estonian communists, who stood in their way. . .
Attacker: Estonian (Friedrich Kurg's Forest Brothers)
Double One 2024. I didn’t interdict the bridge on the first turn which allowed all the Estonians to form a ring of steel around the victory building. Andy defended perfectly and I couldn’t make any headway at all.
2024-06-22
(A) Andy Bagley
vs
Dave Ramsey
Estonian win
Unusual scenario in that the defender moves first, and the obvious strategy is to run away as fast as possible to the victory building. The Russian setup might have been better; as it was I managed to retreat my units largely unhindered and - with a couple of fortunate DRs - got all of them back to building Y7 without taking any losses. It was then just a question of covering all the approaches and rotating my squads to maximise concealment, and the Russians just couldn't get in. A brave last rush across open ground with a commissar and 628 squad was hit with a DR or 3 on IFT2 -3 for a 2KIA, and it was all over. Never even managed the overrun with a TKS that I had been hoping for!
2024-06-22
(D) Indy Lagu
vs
Simon Taylor
Estonian win
Double One 2024 (Simon and didn't play in the tournament,
and chose to play one another in friendlies).
Another dubious tournament choice. The consensus seems to
be that the Russians have very little chance barring good luck.
Our game was very close. I think this was nothing to do with my
play, but that Simon made a bit of an error, imho, and allowed me
to close a bit too quickly.
I would happily play again as the Russians to see if there's something
that can be done. The consensus _has_ been wrong in the past, after
all.
2023-11-19
(A) Peter Palmer
vs
Stefano Cucurullo
Russian win
[Imported from ROAR]
2021-11-29
(D) Tuomo Lukkari
vs
Mikko Lukkari
Russian win
[Imported from ROAR]
2020-11-06
(D) Rich Weiley
vs
Dave Longworth
Estonian win
Ob the smallish side but interesting match up of forces and capabilities. Game turned on a Close Combat Phase around turn 6 when a Soviet 426, not only survived CC but was able to withdraw. Soviets ended up winning with 4 squads to 3 in the victory building.
2020-09-13
(A) Andy Beaton
vs
Richard Hooks
Estonian win
Scenarios this size always come down to a few lucky rolls - Russians won on the strength of a couple of CC's and a commissar who kept passing MCs on his DC run.
2018-12-11
(A) Jeff B
vs
Magnus Rimvall
Russian win
1.75 hrs
To say I got completely diced is irrelevant as I feel any competent Estonian plan should lead to victory for them. There is nothing but a flimsy LMG with at least one hindrance to stop the Estonians from making for the opposite end of the canal en masse. All they need to do once there is leave a bunch of speedbumps in the Russian path to make pushing east the equivalent of yet another bridge crossing with how narrow the terrain is. The Russian reinforcements will then need to decide whether to enter up the middle to try and assist, or push on alone and try to cross a bridge with tanks pushing up their asses. This scenario was a complete waste of time.
2015-10-08
(D) keith Spurlock
vs
Jeremy Shields
Russian win
[Imported from ROAR]
2015-05-17
(A) Will Willow
vs
K. Berger
Russian win
CASLO
2015-03-26
(A) Paolo Cariolato
vs
Mauro Crestini
Estonian win
2015-03-06
(A) Ian Morris
vs
Pete Phillips
Russian win
Dog.
2015-02-07
(D) Richard Jenulis
vs
Joseph Ladd
Russian win
NWASL Championship 2015
2015-02-06
(A) Richard Carter
vs
Bob Eury
Russian win
I could not get anywhere near the victory building. I couldn't interdict his retreat and I just got shot up as I tried to approach.
2015-02-01
(D) James Rimmer
vs
Rob MacDonald
Russian win
[Imported from ROAR]
2014-10-30
(A) Kevin Killeen
vs
Ken Young
Estonian win
Fun Scenario. Good ebb and flow.
2014-10-10
(D) mark watson
vs
Chris Farrell
Estonian win
ASLOK 2014: Half my squads were wiped out in a bad bypass and that meant I couldn't deploy correctly to gun up Chris' approach. This ended very quickly. I should try it again as people were raving about it.
