BERLIN: RED VENGEANCE
Game-by-Game Map Control
28th PM
“”The Russians are coming… the Russians are coming!” and indeed they have. The SS pull back from their initial defensive positions North of the Spree and East of the Hohenzollern Canal; this gives the Russians a strong position from which to launch their attack towards the Reichstag across either the Kronprinzen or the damaged Marschall Bridges. The defence of the Moltke Bridge is far stronger with a number of dug-in Panzer’s supporting the German forces on the North bank; they are rallying around a fortified location containing an 88L AA gun! The Russians have paid blood for territory, but this is nothing new to them. Both commanders seem to be satisfied with their end of game positions.
VP
SS: CVP gained: 34
Russian: CVP gained: 9
LVP
LVP are gained for control of Stone Buildings with certain buildings (Kroll Opera House – H19, Himmler’s House – K13 and the Reichstag) being worth more points. A reading of rule CG29 suggests that extra LVP are added for Stone Buildings taken from the enemy, this number has been noted with a preceding ‘+’ sign. This value is calculated every CGS end and added to the CVP gained to determine the CGS winner.
SS: 468
Russian: 236 + 34 = 270
(34 is the number of LVP taken from the SS this CGS and is added to the LVP for the CGS winner score)
28th PM won by the SS
28th Night – Idle
29th AM
It is a blood-bath. The Russians break the mornings silence with a massive rocket barrage that leave many of the Kronprinzen Bridge defenders battered and dazed, other units are severely damaged in the opening attacks. As time goes on though the SS, safe in buildings on their side of the river, start to dish it back up to the Russians who get massacred when they attempt to poke holes in the defences around the 3 bridges… Each bridge defence comes close to falling and each time they are saved by masses of fire-power from well-prepared flanking positions – and a lot of luck! Finally, with a bit of help from Air Support, the Russians start to turn the tables, and despite being unable to take a bridge location clearly, they are able to have some swimming squads take buildings around the perimeters; even more importantly the end of the battles sees the SS defenders take some ferocious loses.
VP
SS: CVP gained: 62 (96 total)
Russian: CVP gained: 57 (66 total)
LVP
SS: 427
Russian: 278 + 44 = 322
29th AM won by SS
29th PM
Despite receiving advice from his superiors to wait, the Russian commander decides to throw his men across Moltke and Kronprinzen Bridges again. They are supported by some ferocious MG and artillery fire. However it starts going astray again when the attackers are caught up by wire on the Moltke bridge before being cut to pieces by a devastating MG position in the Reichstag. Things do not start out much better on Kronprinzen, but the SS’s own artillery clears the Roadblock that had been holding the attackers back and finally they are able to surge across and secure a tenable foothold on the opposite bank as well as starting to deny the hated SS any chance to set up in front of the Reichstag!
VP
SS: CVP gained: 45 (141 total)
Russian: CVP gained: 40 (106 total)
LVP
SS: 418 + 18 = 436
Russian: 260
29th PM won by SS
29th Night
The Russians mount a Night attack just as the SS are getting into position to launch a counter-attack of their own, the front-line SS are slaughtered with no loss to the Russians as the Red Army quickly captures enough territory to ensure that the Kronprinzen Bridge stays firmly in their hands. The SS are reduced to ducking in and out of their buildings to escape the lethal and accurate Russian MG fire. This skulking allows them to defend the parts of the city that they still control. Some brave Soviet soldiers manage to infiltrate the Reichstag and eliminate the effective MG nest there, but at the cost of their own lives
VP
SS: CVP gained: 21 (162 total)
Russian: CVP gained: 25 (131 total)
LVP
SS: 383 + 2 = 385
Russian: 290+ 32 = 322
29th N won by SS
30th AM
The confidence of the Russians takes a battering as what scant luck they had deserts them. By all rights they should have railroaded the SS but some dogged defensive work managed to stave off a powerful attack. The Russian Artillery commander has been taken out and shot – and rightfully so, he completely failed to deliver. On the other hand the Katyusha commander has been commended for his ability to deliver his rockets right on the money and for turning the Reichstag into Swiss cheese.
VP
SS: CVP gained: 18 (180 total)
Russian: CVP gained: 41 (172 total)
LVP
SS: 348 + 14 = 362
Russian: 308 + 50 = 358
30th AM won by SS
30th PM
The Russians finally gain an ascendancy as they stream on with masses of fresh troops from the newly gained territories to the East of the Reichstag. The SS never completely understood the threat posed by this new axis of attack and while they effectively defended Himmler’s House with Fanatical zeal their forces in the suburbs around the Marschall Bridge just crumbled under the hammer blows of Katyusha Rockets, OT-34 Flame-tanks and waves of Russian forces.
Within no time at all the Russians had made it past the defenders and were within striking distance of the Reichstag; the few stalwart defenders left in the suburbs were cut off and soon to be surrounded. For the SS the last straw came when their commanders King Tiger crashed into a building in desperation – and promptly fell to its doom in a cellar! With the Reichstag in immediate danger of being surrounded, and there not being a single non-cellar location in the building that was immune to Russian fire, the Germans raised the white flag of unconditional surrender
30th PM won by Russians
CG won by the Russians