Truly great game @yavasa and @oriskany! Games like this are the ones most talked about in days to come.  Right down to the wire are really exciting games with neither side feeling like they were cheated of victory.

@oriskany risky move on using the armoured cars and some Pz-IIs to take that objective on the upper right flank (Hex 1016???), but it paid off for you.

I love armoured cars, ACs. I tend to use them to recon the enemy line at the beginning of the game. After that they are used to cover likely ambush areas and finally as a part of a combined arms attack with infantry. The one specialised use I have for them is dealing with those nasty Russian MG companies.

@yavasa what can I say mate, it was like that close and it could have been yours. Good solid defence.  From memory this was your first time with Panzer Leader.  If so it was a truly outstanding performance.  You get a victory award for pushing an old hand like @oriskany to the wires.  Brilliant.

I would like to see you guys do a series on the Russian invasion of Poland.  As far as Russia is concerned it never happened.  Under occupation the Poles were not allowed to think it happened and so today we only have the German voice that it did happen.  So I would be very interest in what you guys could put together on this subject.

As for the amount of German smoking wrecks @oriskany your not that far off the historical mark.  Most of your lost tanks will not be wrecks with less than 28% being total right offs after the battle.  The Germans were getting quite worried about the number of their tanks being disabled during battle.  Back during the Spanish Civil War even the Pz-1s could hold their own.  They could penetrate the front armour of a T-26 at 100m using armour piercing bullets.  The T-26 with a 37mm gun could do the same to the PZ-1 at around 500m. But this was the last Harrah for them.  Armour became thicker and the 37mm was becoming a standard.  As a support to the infantry during the attack they still hard a role that they can fulfill very well.  Most light tanks will fire upon another tank with a 20 or 37mm gun before they will fire upon a thing that only has two Mgs that will not harm them.

Again great game guys.