WAR AGAINST RUSSIA Combat Results and Terrain Effects Tables in HTM

WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
Combat Results and Terrain Effects Tables

Copyright 2005 Louis R. Coatney

GROUND COMBAT RESULTS TABLE (CRT):

Die Roll	. 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	DR	DR	DR	DR	DE	BR	BR	BR	BR
5	AE	-	D	dw	DW	DR	DR	DE	BR	BR	BR
4	AE	D/AE	-	D	dw	DW	DR	DR	DE	BR	BR
3	AE	AE	-	-	D	dw	DW	DR	DE	DE	BR
2	AE	AE	AE	X	-	D	dw	DW	DR	DE	DE
1	AE	AE	AE	AE	X	X	D	dw	DR	DR	DE

NOTE: Attacks below 1:4 odds are not allowed.

COMBAT RESULTS DEFINITIONS:

BR = BReakthrough. Participating attackers may (immediately) advance after combat and attack one more time -- either alone or supporting another (but non-breakthrough) attack (and tactically advance again, if able to do so).
DE = Defenders ELIMINATED.
DR = Defenders Routed 0-3 hexes by Attacker and are Dispersed.
DW = Defenders Withdrawn 0-1 hexes by Attacker and are Dispersed.
dw = Defenders withdrawn 0-1 hexes by Attacker and are not Dispersed.
D = Defenders Dispersed.
- = No Effect.
X = Involuntary eXchange -- See below for Germans' voluntary option.
AE = Attackers (equal to defense factors) ELIMINATED.

All Undispersed German units (and units stacked with those) adjacent to any attacking Russian units must be attacked. The same does not apply to Russian or Axis ally units.

Dispersed units (flipped upside-down) may not move/attack. Attacks against Dispersed units are raised by 1 combat odds column. Dispersed units do get defensive combat terrain advantages.

EXchange notes:
X = some or all defending units eliminated, if Attacker can lose factors equal to their factor-modified defense factors. (If not, the result becomes just an AE.)
Surviving attacking units may advance as for a DR result.
Germans may choose to exchange (after die roll) when attacking in Good or Hard Frost weather, at the following rates: DR = 0.5 times the defending Russian factors, DW = 1.0 times, dw = 2.0 times, - = 3.0 times

NOTE: In Axis attacks, the Axis Player may never use Hungarian, Italian or Romanian units for eXchange.
In defense eXchange loss decisions, he may.

SURROUNDED and ARMOR OVERRUN -- Retreat Impossible: DR->DE, DE->BR
(Armor Overrun is possible when armored units' strength are more than twice the strength of defending infantry/rifle units (unsupported by armor units) in terrain where they have no defensive advantages, in Good (or, for Soviets, Snow) weather.)

NO RETREAT! ORDERS -- (BR->BR,) DE->BR, DR->DE, DW->D, dw->-
Russians may give such orders, but only to all units for an entire turn. Germans can give such orders to individual German units at any time, but may not give such orders to Axis ally units.

RETREAT ROUTES must be away from attacked hex, not into an EZOC (unless it is occupied by a friendly unit no longer under attack), and no closer to the enemy units which attacked it. Attacker determines retreat route.

TACTICAL ADVANCES (for attackers only) AFTER COMBAT, according to weather:

In Good weather (and for Russians, in Snow), armor and cavalry units may tactically advance up to 2 hexes -- 3 for German "vM" and "G" units. All other units may tactically advance only 1 hex.
Tactical advances in non-Good weather or into (or potentially into) mountain or swamp hexes and by all non-armor and non-cavalry units anyway, are limited to 1 hex.
Tactically advancing units may move from one EZOC to another--even of the same enemy unit(s)--on a (final) result of DE or BR, without penalty. Armor units may also do so on a DR result.
If non-armor units do so on a DR result, they are Dispersed.
Otherwise, nonarmor units must stop in the first EZOC encountered and not move directly from one EZOC to another of the same enemy unit, even if the latter is occupied by a friendly unit.
Units tactically advancing only 1 hex may move into the attacked hex or any empty hex adjacent to it, as long as the above limits are observed. Units advancing more than 1 hex must move through the defender's hex first.

GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF MOVEMENTS:
A unit may be operationally moved and/or used in an attack only once per gameturn by the owning player.
A friendly unit may additionally be tactically advanced (or an opposing defending unit tactically retreated) -- tactically moved -- as many times as required by the combat result(s).

"Stacking" Limits:

Not more than 2 units in a hex.
Of these, not more than 1 may be an army or Panzergruppe.
Only 1 armor unit may be stacked in a swamp or mountain hex -- or may attack into one from each attacking hex.
Hungarian and Romanian units may not be stacked together.

Operational Movement and Zones Of Control (ZOCs):

A unit must stop in the first Enemy ZOC (EZOC) it enters, moving operationally. A unit may not make a 1-hex move from one EZOC to another EZOC of the same enemy unit, unless the hex it is moving into is already occupied by a friendly unit. A unit may make a 1-hex (only) move out of one EZOC and into another EZOC of a different enemy unit, unless it would be crossing a fortified line or unfrozen river (or lake) hex-side to do it -- although it could do so, if it were moving into a hex already occupied by a friendly unit, again. (That friendly unit could then immediately move too.)
Operational Movement Bonus:
Axis units' movement factors are increased by 2 (regardless of weather) if they do not move into an enemy zone of control. For the Russians, the bonus is 3.
Units may still receive this bonus and move into an enemy zone of control, as long as they are Dispersed upon the completion of their movement and don't attack ( of course).

TERRAIN EFFECTS:	On Combat	On Movement
Across River, if unfrozen	Each defending unit receives a 1 column shift down) in the combat odds, unless any attacking units are on the same side of the river. For any stacks containing German units, this is a 2 column shift..	No effect.
Across Lake, if unfrozen	Only infantry may attack--at half-strength--across.	Movement limited to 1 hex.
Swamp, if unfrozen	See stacking limitations against armor. Defending Russian infantry units have 1 factor added to their defense factors.	None.
Hills	+1 defense factor for each infantry unit.	None.
Mountains	Fortress City defense factor bonuses for all infantry-type units. See eXchange rule.	Stacking penalties as for unfrozen swamp.
Across Kerch Straits	As for Across-Lake, if attacking without control of Black Sea. Attacker only suffers 1-column odds shift penalty with control of Black Sea.	Movement across same as for across unfrozen Lake.
Stalin Line and other fortification lines	Starting Aug41, +1 defense factor for each Russian infantry unit -- unless flanked.	None. This is hex-edge terrain, only.
Fortress	Each Russian infantry unit receives +1 defense factor.	None.
Road	No effect.	Bonus of 1 movement hex to infantry. Armor and motorized units may move 2 road hexes for every movement factor expended.
[Underlined] Victory City	Defense factors of all units doubled, including fortification bonuses. Plus, Leningrad and Moscow have 2 additional, intrinsic defense factors (until taken) -- other victory cities 1.	None.
[Block] Major City	+1 defense factor for each infantry unit, in addition to any fortification bonuses.	None.
[Dot] City	+1 defense factor for each infantry army or infantry corps.	None
[Small circle] Town	None. Rail movement effect only.	None.

Note: Defensive terrain advantages are cumulative.

UNIT DATA:

Unit Factors (e.g., 6-5):
Attack and Defense Combat Factor = 6;
Basic Operational Movement Factor = 5.

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