MOSCOW DEFENDED! Combat Results and Terrain Effects Tables

MOSCOW DEFENDED!
Combat Results and Terrain Effects Tables, 15Feb13

Copyright 2007 Louis R. Coatney

COMBAT RESULTS TABLE

Die Roll	1:5	1:4	1:3	1:2	1:1	3:2	2:1	3:1	4:1	5:1	7:1	10:1
6	D/AE	D	D	DR	DR	DX	DX	DE	DE	DE	DE	DE
5	AE	AD	-	D	DR	DR	DX	DX	DE	DE	DE	DE
4	AE	D/AE	AD	-	D	DR	DR	DX	DX	DE	DE	DE
3	AE	AE	D/AE	AD	-	D	DR	DR	DX	DX	DE	DE
2	AE	AE	AE	D/AE	AD	-	D	DR	DR	DX	DX	DE
1	AE	AE	AE	AE	AE	AD	-	D	DR	DR	DX	DE

Note: Attacks at less than 1:5 odds are not allowed.

COMBAT RESULTS DEFINITIONS:

DE = Defenders ELIMINATED.
DX = Defenders RETREATED 0-2 hexes as Attacker chooses (although the Defender chooses the route) and are Disrupted. Possible EXchange or Armor Overrun.
(EXchange: Attacker must lose units having attack factors at least equal to the defenders' terrain modified defense factors, according to the ratio: DX=1/2X, DR=X, D=3/2X, - =2X, AD=AE. Attacker (only) may choose this whenever the defender has ordered No Retreat! (and a DX stays a 1/2X and does not become a DE) or when the Germans attack Moscow or Tula.
DR = Defenders RETREATED 0-2 hexes as Attacker chooses (although the Defender chooses the route) and are Disrupted.
D = All Defending Units DISRUPTED. Defenders MAY be voluntarily retreated 0-2 hexes, if Defender chooses.
- = No effect against either side.
AD = Attackers (equal to defense factors) DISRUPTED.
AE = Attackers (equal to defense factors) ELIMINATED. AD for any surviving attackers.

Important: All UnDisrupted German armies ... adjacent to any Russian units attacking in a given phase ... must be attacked.

SPENT units (faced toward opponent) may not move/attack for the rest of the turn.
DISRUPTED units (flipped upside-down) suffer the same and also a stack of defending units is attacked one odds column higher if half of the defending units' basic/unmodified defense factors are Disrupted. Disrupted units can be armor-overrun even in forest and major cities in the appropriate weather. They remain disrupted until their special recovery phase.

Armor Overrun: DX->DE if attacking armor (minus defending armor)is 2 times the (terrain-modified) strength of defending infantry (or equal to that of Disrupted infantry) in Good (or, for the Russians, Snow) weather.

Surrounded/Retreat Impossible: DR & DX become DE.

Retreat routes must be away from attacked hex, and no closer to enemy units which attacked it. Defenders may not retreat into a hex adjacent to a hex from which they were attacked.

Tactical Advances (for attackers only) after combat:
Tac advance after combat is limited to 1 hex for all units. After attacking units with factors equal to the terrain-modified factor(s) of the defending units have (manditorily) advanced into the defended hex, other attackers which participated may advance into that hex or into any empty hex adjacent to the defended one.

"Zone Of Control" (ZOC): Units must stop when they enter the first hex adjacent to an UnDisrupted enemy German army/group or Russian front unit, called "superior" units. A unit may not operationally move directly from one ZOC to another of the same UnDisrupted superior unit, unless it is a German army/group unit or a German unit moving with one of those and even then its movement may be only 1 hex and not eastward across a defense/fortification line. Supply or rail movement may not be traced through hexes adjacent to an UnDisrupted enemy superior unit, unless they're occupied by friendly units or screened by unfrozen lake hexsides.

Operational Movement: Tank/Panzer units may move 2 (and attack), except only 1 in Mud for German Panzers. (See bonus rule below, for them to move 1 additional hex without attacking.) All other units may operationally move (to attack) 1.

Operational Movement Bonus: All units which are moved but are not going to attack receive an operational movement bonus of 1, regardless of unit type or weather and are then Spent. German infantry units during Blitzkrieg may not move to attack at all. They may move their bonus instead of attacking (or tactically advance after combat) and are then Spent.

SEQUENCE OF PLAY:

German Phase:
- German Operational Phase
  - German Operational Movement
  - German Operational Attacks (with Air operations) and Tactical Advances
  - Recovery from Disruption of Russian Units not Disrupted in this phase.
- German Blitzkrieg Phase (with Air operations again) -- Clear and Hard Frost weather only
  - German Blitzkrieg Movement
    - Only Panzer units may operationally move to attack, but only 1 hex (or 2 if along a road), plus their bonus.
    - If Infantry units operationally move (their bonus), they are Spent and cannot attack.
    - All Blitzkrieg-attacking German units may Tactically Advance after Combat.
  - German Blitzkrieg Attacks (with Air operations again) and Tactical Advances
  - Russian Victory Determination
Russian Phase:
- Russian (only) Replacements/Reinforcements and Rail Movement
- Russian Operational Movement
- Russian Operational Attacks (with Air units) and Tactical Advances
- Recovery from Disruption of German Units not Disrupted in this phase.
- German Victory Determination
Recovery of Spent units.

"STACKING" Limits:

There may be an unlimited number of units in a hex.
However, not more than 3 (UnDisrupted) units in a hex may actively defend or attack at a time. (On defense, the other units in the hex suffer the fate of the active defenders. On attack, the other units do not suffer the fate of the active/attacking units.
Of these, not more than 2 may be army level or higher.
Of these, not more than 1 may be a German Panzer Group or, for the Russians, a Front.
Thus, there may be as many as a infantry army, a Panzer group, and a korps active in a hex for the Germans or as many as a Front, an army, and a korps active in a hex for the Russians.

TERRAIN EFFECTS:	On Combat	On Movement
Roads	None.	If moving road-to-road, units move 1 additional hex. Only the Smolensk-Moscow road is serviceable in Mud.
Railroads	None.	UnDisrupted/Unspent (or replacement) Russian units may move an unlimited number of hexes. They are Disrupted at the completion of their rail movement.
Across River, if unfrozen	Unless any attackers are on same side, the cross-river attacks' combat odds are reduced by one column	No effect.
Across Lake, if unfrozen	Only infantry, shock, and paras may attack--at half-strength--across. If frozen, no effect.
Forest	No Armor Overrun against UnDisrupted units. German air support only +1 odds column.	None.
Defense/ Fortification Lines	+1 defense factor if any Russian armies and fronts behind -- unless flanked.	None. West-facing hex-edge terrain, only.
Moscow and Tula	All Russian infantry, shock, and paras doubled on defense. Moscow additionally has an intrinsic, additional defense factor of 2 -- Tula, 1. No Armor Overrun against UnDisrupted units. Always supplied. UnDisrupted defending Russian units are Disrupted by a DX or DR, but not retreated. (Already Disrupted Russian units are.) However, if the target city is surrounded, where a DR elsewhere would result in a DE, then the Germans need only lose half the factors they otherwise would - fraction rounded up - if they choose to EXchange. For defending Germans, same as for Major City.	None.
Major City	Up to 2 defense factors for infantry, shock, front, or para units, if matched. No Armor Overrun against UnDisrupted units.	None.
City	+1 defense factor for any one 1 infantry, shock, front, or para unit. Plus otherterrain benefits.	"Clear terrain," unless other terrain present.
Town	See Snow rule for towns and cities.	None

Note:Terrain effects are cumulative.

UNIT DATA:

Size: n. A = nth Army; n. K = nth Corps.
O(perational )G(roup) Yermakov is considered to be army-sized.
German Panzer groups are considered army size.
Unit Factors:
- Two factors (e.g., 3-2): Attack Combat Factor = 3; Defense Combat Factor = 2
- One factors (e.g., 3): Attack or Defense Combat Factor = 3
Unit Symbols: Armor/tank units have tanks on them. Infantry units have the X in the box. (Parachute) infantry units have the little birdie in the bottom of their box. Shock (infantry) have a cannon ball on the crosshairs of their box.

SUPPLY:

A supply line is any path of hexes (which is not blocked by an enemy unit or an empty hex adjacent to an UnDisrupted enemy German army or group or Russian front) leading off a player's own side of the board -- for Russians east, for Germans west. For the Russians, Moscow is also a supply source hex. Tula is also, but only for Russian units actually on the Tula hex.
Unsupplied units' attacks are reduced by 1 combat odds column. Attacks on unsupplied units are raised one combat odds column. The supply status is determined at the moment of the attack (or defense).
At the end of the owning player's (initial) player turn, 1 unit (of the owning player's choice) from each "group" of isolated units -- units that are at least able to trace a supply line to each other -- is lost during its owning player's isolation determination phase.
Instead of support of ground attacks and interception missions during that gameturn, a German air unit may fly a resupply mission, unless it is intercepted. All units in the "airdrop" hex are supplied for the rest of the gameturn.

VICTORY CONDITIONS:

If, at the conclusion of the Russian player turn, the cities of Smolensk, Orel, and Moscow are in German supply (and were last occupied by German units) the German Player wins.
If, after turn 4, during a Russian Victory Determination Phase, the cities of Kalinin, Rzhev, Moscow, Vyazma, and Orel are in Russian supply (and were last occupied by Russian units) the Russian player wins.
If playing only the Basic German Assault Game, turns 1-4, the Russian Player wins if the German Player hasn't (yet).

SETTING UP THE GAME TO BEGIN: Starting positions are noted on the map, except the Russian 4. Parachute Korps starts on Kaluga and the German Player may place his korps-level units anywhere on his side of the starting line. "R" marked Russian reinforcement units enter the game as scheduled on the calendar or earlier with the Siberian Reserve risk.

(15Jul07, rev. 15Feb13)