Tolstoy Woods ETO (id:#61352)
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Tolstoy Woods, Russia 1943-07-12 ()
A 51: Clash Along the Psel (AH:ASL Annual `93a)
J51: Canicatti (ASL Journal # 3)
J54: Showtime (ASL Journal # 3)
OA08: A Parting Blow (Out of the Attic)
HoW 2: Canicatti (Hell on Wheels Battle Pack)
CH160: Knifing the Bodyguard (Critical Hit # 6.4)
HB 8: The Woodsmen (Critical Hit # 6.4)
CH 58: Death Ride (Critical Hit # 3.1)
HB 6: Clash of the Titans (Hell's Bridgehead)
IC 9: A Parting Blow (In Contact)
LSSAH27: Thrust to the North (Leibstandarte Pack 4 - Turning of the Tide!)
O69.2: Bees' Nest (On All Fronts # 69)
O70.1: Armor Leader: Kursk (On All Fronts # 70)
PJ2.3: Shoot-Out on Hill 41 (OAF Playtester's Journal # 2)
1002: The Big One (Monster Pack # 1.1)
1002.1: The Big One: The Men Who Would Be Kings of the Hill (Monster Pack # 1.1)
1002.2: The Big One: The Aunt of All Tank Battles (Monster Pack # 1.1)
1002.3: The Big One: A Peaceful Little Village (Monster Pack # 1.1)
1002.4: The Big One: Into the Woods (Monster Pack # 1.1)
FrF29: Sting of the Italian Hornet (Friendly Fire Pack 4)
AP47: Insult to Injury (ASL Action Pack # 5 East Front)
B32-2: Prokhorovka Melee (Breakout! # 32)
BFP-101: Panzer Spirit (BFP 4: Crucible of Steel)
BFP-103: Knife in the Flank (BFP 4: Crucible of Steel)
BFP-104: Flying Turrets (BFP 4: Crucible of Steel)
HB3 #6: Clash of Titans (Hell's Bridgehead 3)
OG 1.1: Knifing the Bodyguard (Coastal Fortress)
BoF08: Sting of the Italian Hornet (Best of Friends)
RR #36: Michael's Miracle (Russian Rarities 4)
BR9: Drillo HG Reconquest (Biazza Ridge)
BR10: Road Junction "Y" (Biazza Ridge)
Mission 7: Breaking Citadel (White Mammoths)
PRK5: Will We Avoid the Big Battle? (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK6: Taking Oktyabrsky (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK7: Yamki to Sovkhoz Stalinsk (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK8: Attack from the Psel (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK9: Thrust Beyond Storozhevoje (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK10: Breakthrough in Komsomolets (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK11: Andreevka-Vasilyevka Sector (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK12: A Soviet Reckless Charge (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRKSK1: Attacking 241.6 Hill (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRKSK2: Totenkopf Boundary Defense (PROKHOROVKA!)
PRK CG: Tank Fields of Prokhorovka (PROKHOROVKA!)
CH 58: Death Ride (Critical Hit #3.1 2022 Reprint)
GD26: The Clash of Steel (Großdeutschland Pack 3: High Tide at Kursk)
RPT200: Red Hot Hannibal (Rally Point #20)
S108: Panzerkeil at Prokhorovka (Basic Training: Issue One)
Designer: Chas Smith
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Balance:
RussianGerman
42.857142857143%

Overview:

The Russian 10th Tank Corps, reinforced with infantry of the 219th Rifle Division, were in assault positions waiting to attack into the exposed lank of the 48th Panzer Corps. The 18rd Tank Brigade, led by a platoon commanded by Lt. Kadiev, attacked toward Verkhopene and quickly overran the forward German outposts. Kadiev’s tanks aggressively moved through the Tolstoy Woods and encountered a counterattacking German Panzer and infantry force, which turned into a sharp engagement.
Attacker: Russian (183rd Tank Brigade, 10th Tank Corps)
Defender: German (Panzer Division 3)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:15.0 D:11.5
AFVs: A:3
T-34 M41 x 3

AFVs: D:3
PzKpfw IIIL x 3

Guns: A:0
PTRD-41 ATR x 3
D:0

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Place Orchard counter in K7. D: 2 sqds HIP set up
Overlays: O1
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-04-06(D) Louis Langdeau vs Dan L German win4.5 hrsNot a bad little scenario! Germans have a lot of good gear, and Russians have to move, but when the Russian tanks come on there's almost nothing that the Germans can do to them. Even when the Germans get their tanks it's still really hard to duel.

Dan did a good job pushing through, but he got held up a little bit too long against my squads and I managed to bog him down even more once he got into the village. My reinforcements came on and I managed to start shoving him back, and we ended with him unable to claim the necessary buildings.

I can see why this gets a lot of tourney play, since it's relatively "clean", but it still has a lot of fun choices for each side.
2024-11-23(D) Tuomo Lukkari vs Christoffer Peyre Russian winSupporting fire 2024 3rd round
2024-11-16(A) Andy Bagley vs Neil Brunger German winVery good scenario, and something of a classic. As the Russians, I concentrated my attack through the woods in the north, and wasn't surprised to take casualties from his HIP units. However, I still made good progress and was able to penetrate with my tanks so that they formed a "reception committee" by the time his arrived on Turn 4. So I won the armour battle and by my last turn had almost secured the five victory buildings I needed (one still in melee) and, with my tanks in support, was fairly confident of holding them against the last German turn.
However, the dice had other ideas! He rolled snakeyes in a CC two hexes away from one of my buildings, not only winning the melee but allowing him to infiltrate next to it. With PBF, he then broke my defenders in his final PFPh; I'm then forced to rout and he advances into this building to deny a Russian victory. Aaarrgghhh!!
2024-04-28(A) Asad Rustum vs Tony GibsonD German win
2024-02-07(A) Pascal Boileau vs Guido Guerra German winA very good scenario. The Russians have the upper hand in the first turns with an easy progression towards the village; However, as soon as the German reinforcements entered, the game (and the dice rolls were inverted) changed . With 2 AFV wrecked and 1 immobilized, I conceded just before the last turn since it was not possible for the Russians to take the last buildings. Well played Guido !
2024-01-05(A) Rob MacGinley vs Ian Willey German winThe Russian pushed forward with Tank support and failed - the infantry were stripped off teh vehicles and had no firepower to take objectives - called early
2023-08-09(D) Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås vs Lars German win
2023-01-12(A) John Garlic vs Adam Lunney Russian win[Imported from ROAR]
2022-10-08(D) Mark Thompson vs Martin Vicca (Germans) Russian winThe Germans laid down impactful fire lanes in the first turn and whittled down the Russian forces with the help of strong rolls. A Human Wave along the North edge allowed the Russians to take the flanks, and the Germans had a tough time retreating without loss. When the German MMG squad covering the depression broke and the HMG malt'd, the Russian T-34s/riders smashed into and took the village, with along a German HS remaining. The Germans pushed hard to retake three buildings, and managed to take two, but it was too late and the Russians effectively rebuffed the counterattack. Well played Martin.
2021-03-19(D) Andy Bagley vs Tony Gibson German winI felt I was a bit lucky here, despite the stats showing my average DR >7. But this hides a lot of 3's on key shots (including killing his 9-1 leader) and a lot of 11's on shots that mattered a lot less. So whilst the Russian tanks could roam around almost unimpeded (no AT capability other than CC until my tanks arrived, and even then they out-armour the Germans), the Russian infantry failed to make it to the village in sufficient numbers to take the necessary buildings. Good scenario though, could easily have gone the other way.
2020-12-13(A) Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås vs Tuomo Lukkari German winThe Russian pressed very hard in the first two rounds, and almost destroyed the at-start German forces. However this decimated the Russian forces, so that only approximately 4 squads and 3 tanks was in the outskirts of the village when the German counterattack came. The Germans came on the south flank, and the armor battle left one Russian wreck and two malfed/disabled MAs, leaving the Russians with only a desperate charge in the endgame.
2020-12-13(A) Tuomo Lukkari vs Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås Russian win
2020-06-28(A) Martí Cabré vs Felipe Zavala German winI launched two Russian human waves to get to the first German line of defense and it worked but with too much losses, then I used the low ground and the woods to get to the village and one tank gave support fire to take one building. Then I advanced all the tanks for the counterattack and managed to kill the 3 German PzIII at a loss of one T-34 but time ran short, the German MG had been too hot and I had failed many ELR so lots of conscript Russian squads around that could not be rallied and I lacked the final punch to get the 5 buildings, I just moved everyone forward and the German residual fire caused by spraying fire mowed them down. The game saw 3 berserk units and lots of ROF, KIA and K/2 results.
2020-04-01(A) Stephen dedier vs Reenstra, Dave Russian winI got my ass kicked :)
2020-03-16(D) Chuck Dye vs DD German win
2019-12-14(D) Kermit Mullins vs Dan Best German winDan Best and I went at in this great scenario. My HMG fire lanes did good work in slowing the Russian advance in Turns 1-2. Dan suffered a bunch of ELR's, so had too many Conscript squads running around. My Germans managed to lock down Dan's boys in Melees that took over two turns to finish. So my reserves came on, secured four buildings and that was the game. Hard fought and fun.
2019-12-14(A) Dan Best vs Kermit Mullins German win
2018-09-15(D) Lawrence Spangler vs Brian Yee Russian win
2018-08-10(D) David Garvin vs David Kuchta Russian win
2018-06-21(D) Ian Morris vs Gerard Burton Draw
2018-05-25(D) Richard Jenulis vs Bruce Billet German winEnfilade 2018
2018-05-19(D) Dave Mareske vs Keven Adams German win
2018-05-02(A) Dave Mareske vs Dan Best Russian winEarly high DRs by the Germans allowed the Russians to attack and occupy the village by Turn 4, but very good DRs made the game close on the German counterattack. Highlight was a T-34 overrunning a German squad in a building.
2018-05-02(D) Dan Best vs Dave Mareske Russian win
2017-11-11(D) Tom Kearney vs Al Saltzman German winCrucible of Steel linked.
2017-09-30(D) Andy Goldin vs Sebastiano Caltabiano Russian winMy forward defense and plan to get long range MG shots didn’t work as Sebastiano avoided my lines of fire. He used terrain effectively to bypass and eliminate my forward defenders by failure to route. He cleared and occupied the town just prior to my counter attack. Although I managed to destroy a T34, immobilize a second and sleaze freeze the defending infantry in two buildings, the CC in both ended badly (getting eliminated by ambush in one and losing 2:1 in the second) resulting in a Russian win. Although the balance shows as even I think this one is tough on the Germans.
2017-09-24(D) Stephen dedier vs Crawford, Brent Russian winMy forces were overwhelmed. I made several strategic mistakes keeping my MMG hidden trying to gain an advantage. I should have had more units on the village side of the valley. As it was I could not effectively rout and hold the Russians once they broke through and it was a massacre
2016-06-26(A) Paul Works vs Alan King German winI had Alan's Germans on the ropes up until his reinforcements entered. I crushed his up-front defenders. I rushed my tanks forward. things started to go bad when one of my in-motion T-34s, in bypass for a freeze, got popped by a German HS (ouch). The second of my three tanks threw a track on a start-up DR in the valley, taking that one out of the game... Alan played a nice, solid counterattack and won it. Good job by him! this one is a fun scenario with a number of options on both sides.
2016-03-29(D) X von Marwitz vs Martin Mayers German winInteresting scenario which is designed so that first the Germans are supposed to get a beating and then fight back as reinforcements enter in the nip of time. I played the Germans in this one and spend considerable time to come up with a (supposedly) good setup. This has paid off as I managed to spring some surprises and made the initial approach of the Russians troublesome. Some good DRs helped to deal out considerable damage to the initial Russian Human Wave. It could have gotten worse for the Russians but the Germans malfed both their HMG and MMG. Still, during the 2nd Russian MPh, the Germans managed to break some additional Russian squads and to spring another surprise. The Russians conceded as it would most likely have taken too long to get their infantry back up and running and further forward before the German reinforcement would have taken up positions in the victory area. Nice scenario which I would play again to see how it turns out with more average dice. Defenitively, it seems important for the German to give some careful consideration to his setup.
2015-09-09(D) Bill Brodie vs Steven Bond German winA very close game, a street fighting attack against a T-34 on the last turn by a 9-1 and squad killed the tank and allowed the unit to remain in the street to final fire at two Russian squads in a building, breaking them both. The Russian player could not stop a German squad from entering one building in the last advance phase and conceded, lots of interesting stuff for both players.
2015-02-18(A) Kirby Vincent vs Antti German win
2013-10-05(A) Chris Brackney vs Blind Sniper German winFairly fun. Russian building Control went from 5 to 3, and they couldn't take back the two on their last 1/2 turn. Very close finish, though!
2013-10-05(D) Alessandro Demichelis vs Christopher Brackney German winRussians have to take the required buildings within four turns, then the German reinforcements will became the attackers. Both side attack and defence, lot of options. Very good.
2013-09-01(A) nathan wegener vs Paul L Russian winGerman setup beautiful xcross firelanes. Russians ran thru nearly unscathed. Race to village routed Germans. German counter attack pushed back the Russians. Rus 426 held off a 12+1 adv fire and 2 1:1 CC attacks to win on last DR.
2013-05-18(A) Michael Rodgers vs Bruno L"Archeveque Russian win
2013-05-18(D) Andy Beaton vs Daniel Kalman German winFtf CASLO 2013
2013-04-04(A) Richard Carter vs Voss Graham Russian winI was able to advance w/ human wave and was able to eliminate his first line of defense and thus take the village before his reinforcements could arrive.
Played at Bitter Ender
2013-03-19(A) Kevin Killeen vs Ken Young German winJust couldn't grab that last needed Building.
2013-02-08(D) Simon Staniforth vs Draw
2012-07-28(A) Paul Works vs Rich Spilky Russian win2012 St. Louis ASL Tournament; round three.
2012-06-18(A) Will Willow vs Jim Ferrell German winTT
2012-03-16(A) Steve Bowen vs AK Russian winRussian opponent set up too far forward. Once his initial outposts were overrun and his losses mounted he resigned early. Scenario seems like a quick, exciting and well balanced fight. Would play it again.
2012-03-09(D) David Ramsey vs Martin Mayers Russian winHeroes 2012 tournament game
2012-01-23(A) fabrizio da pra vs Gaetano Girelli Draw
2012-01-16(D) David Ramsey vs Martin Barker German winBy turn the end of Russian turn 4 there were just two broken, DM German HS left on the board and the Russians edging into the town. The PzIIILs saved the day taking out all t34s and heroically defending the back row of buildings to win by 1 building.
2012-01-14(A) Jeff Waldon vs Ray Woloyszn German winWinter Offensive
2012-01-11(A) Paolo Cariolato vs ecz Russian winmy initial HW completely crashed ecz defensive set up. I was able to completely conquer the village during 3rd turn. Favorable dice rolls made the rest. The game was over during the russina prep fire of the 5th turn when there was a single GO german half squad.
2011-12-17(A) Bob Callen vs Stan Jackson German winGood game, had a bad run at end of a competitive game, gave Stan the upper hand in tank battle, which he properly exploited to get the win.
2011-11-13(D) Eric Partizan Eric vs Michel Bongiovanni German win
2011-06-16(D) Rich Weiley vs Dave Longworth Russian winPlaytest of final version of scenario prior to release of Crucible of Steel.
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From late in June 1942, at the start of the summer offensive in Russia, there were approximately 600 Panzer III mounting the 5cm KwK L/60 with units in Russia.
 
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Avg Rating: 7.11Votes: 64
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Estimated Play time: 5.1 hours
Recorded Games: 47
Archive recorded plays:
Russian18
German26
Drawn:3

ROAR Data: (as of today)
Tolstoy Woods [Confirmed]
[A] Russian 57
[D] German 74
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