Sheffield Games Day -3- Mokra, 1939

The second game of the day was a re-run of the Mokra scenario reported a few weeks ago at http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com/2010/11/battle-of-mokra-1939-part-1.html, http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com/2010/11/battle-of-mokra-1939-part-2.html and http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com/2010/12/battle-of-mokra-1939-part-3.html . 

This time round, Martin climbed aboard his Panzerbefhelswagen while I had to make do with a command horse.  Once again 2 PD formed the core of the German force, with some chums from 3 PD helping to form the second Panzer Regiment.  Having used (correctly) the Wolynska Cavalry Brigade for the earlier game, we decided to give my other brigade, Mazowska, an outing. 

The game progressed much as per my previous reports, so I'll let the photos do most of the talking.  Here the Aufkl Abt fans out to look for the Poles - finding cavalry north of the road, infantry in the south and an AT company astride the road.

 

Turn 2 - more cavalry is discovered in Mokra and the woods in the north.

The panzers approach the increasingly worried AT gunners.

Turn 3 - the second Pz Regt concentrates (in a very unsporting manner) on the dug in cavalry regt in the woods.  Meanwhile Armoured Train No.53 has arrived in support....

...but so have the Stukas.  The battle didn't go well for the Poles.

Another view of the flying artillery.

In the south, the Polish recce, in the shape of a Wz.29 armoured car company engages in a bit of fancy footwork with their German opposite numbers.

The Polish reserve cav regt arrives near the front...

...and is promptly set upon by an entire panzer regt.  The AT roadblock meanwhile is getting a battering from more panzers and Stukas.

View from a plunging Stuka.

The cavalry are overrun and the Polish recce scarpers.

The AT roadblock managed to survive...

...despite the panzer menace.

The Polish armoured counterattack trundles round Mokra as the German recce flees.  That's my story anyway.  Speaking of fleeing, that's what the train was about to do.

The game concluded with the Poles bugging out at around 1800hrs as 2 PD consolidated it's position on the east side of the railway.  Playing time for this game was under two hours.