EDITOR'S NOTE: Terry Sirk submitted the following article together with a comment that it was written in "cuneiform style". He explained that the ancient Cuneiformians always preceded each line by an index and he, being a born-again Cuneiformist, thought it would be a good idea to alert the readership to such goings- on. I made no comment; I was quite thankful that Terry had not engraven his article on a slab of granite. The rules used were THE GREAT WAR, the joint effort of Terry and Fred Haub. HMGS Battle #2: MARCH 1987 CONVENTION A. The time is 1914. B. The Russians and Germans are fighting A. a straight-on battle. B. The Germans outnumber the Russians in quality. A. The Russians outnumber the Germans in quantity. B. The Russians have some troops in the the village at start. A. There are about 10 total players in the game. Initial Forces German Bttns: 11, Batteries: 2 Russian Bttns: 14, Batteries 2  A. The game. B. The Russians are slowed in their advance by the dense woods. A. The Germans attempt to get to the woods on their right before the B. Russians reach the edge. A. The Germans advance against the village with a company; it gets B. shot up. A. The Russians reach the wood's edge first, but lose most of their B. MG's setting up. A. Each side meets in the "U" shaped woods on the north side of the B. field. A. General Dewitt leads some landwehr, in a dense mass, against the B. flank of the village; Russian artillery chews them up. A. After that, the Germans make no serious effort in the center. B. The Germans slowly advance in the south, shooting better than the A. Russians. The Russians are too dense, i.e., too many of them: heavy B. losses in the infantry behind the firing line in the woods. A. At this point, the Germans finally get about a company at the B. "pointed finger" of the woods. A. The Russians charge it but are beaten off. B. More Germans approach the woods. II A. General Samski counter-attacks the Germans' right. B. Hordes of Russians attack the Germans at the woods' edge. A. Despite a heavy defense, these Germans are overwhelmed. B. Heaps of Russians pour out of the woods, especially by A. the "finger". B. German small arms, MG's, and artillery levels them. A. A few reach the Germans and are surrounded or hit and bayoneted B. as they run back to the woods. A. Counter-attack over. III A. The Germans take the "U" shaped woods and drive on towards the B. Russian right. A. However, the Germans now have a problem with "command and control" B. and their movement is slowed. A. The Russians have no such problem because their control point is in B. the center. A. The Germans attempt to pin this center, but have little strength B. with which to do it. A. The battle dies down and we call it finished. Back to PW Review August 1987 Table of Contents Back to PW Review List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1987 Wally Simon This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com