330 Encounter at Dubno - Tide of Iron

Details: Written by: Bill Jaffe; Category: Eastern Front; Published: 26 May 2023; Last Updated: 22 September 2023; Hits: 343

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June, 1941. missing scenario description.

	Soviet	German
Division 1	4 Squad Bases - 8 Regular Infantry - 2 Officers - 1 Machine Gun crew - 2 Mortar crews 1x Medic 1x AntiTank The AT token represents the Soviet AT Rifle. All attacks against vehicles (even supporting) gives a range of 5 and +1 firepower. 1 KV-1*	16th Panzer Division 4 Squad Bases - 10 Regular Infantry - 2 Officers - 1 Machine Gun crew - 1 Mortar crew 1x Medic 2 Panzer III’s Ausf E
Division 2	4 Squad Bases - 9 Regular Infantry - 1 Elite Infantry - 2 Officers - 1 Machine Gun crew - 1 Mortar crew 1x Medic 1x AntiTank The AT token represents the Soviet AT Rifle. All attacks against vehicles (even supporting) gives a range of 5 and +1 firepower. 1 T-34's*	4 Squad Bases - 10 Regular Infantry - 2 Officers - 1 Machine Gun crew - 1 Mortar crew 1x Medic 2 Panzer IV
Strategy Decks	Artillery 2 Ground Support 1	Artillery 1 Combined Air Support 1 (remove Scrambled Fighters, Night Witches and Fighter Escort)
Starting Strategy Cards	-	-
Operations Cards	040 Lack of Tank Radios	011 Elite Tank Crew 019 Panzer IV Ausf. E Panzer III Ausf D (gives the Panzer III a range of 5 and Firepower of 5 against vehicles and infantry).
Deployment Zone	Div.1: Light red hexes. Div.2: Dark red hexes.	Div.1: Light grey hexes. Div.2: Dark grey hexes.
Starting Initiative
Objective	Control both victory markers at the end of the 10th round. In case of a tie, the side with the fewest tank losses is the winner.
Rounds	10
Actions per turn	3	3
Reinforcements	*Round 4 (Status)* Div 1 3 Squad Bases - 9 Regular Infantry - 3 Elite Infantry 1 KV-1 Div 2 3 Squad Bases - 9 Regular Infantry - 3 Elite Infantry 1 T-34	Round 4 (Status) Div 1 3 Squad Bases - 9 Regular Infantry - 3 Elite Infantry 1 Panzer III Div 2 3 Squad Bases - 9 Regular Infantry - 3 Elite Infantry 1 Panzer III Ausf D *
Special Rules	-
Terrain Features	The stream is shallow.

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JVHillegas-Elting replied the topic:

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1 year 8 months ago

This scenario includes Panzer III Ausf. D and E units. I'm not sure what stats designer Bill Jaffe (R.I.P.) had in mind, but in my consolidated units spreadsheet I lumped these two Ausführung into a single unit, the Panzer III Ausf. D-E. This is because they were armed with the same main gun (1 × 3.7 cm KwK 36 L/45) and had the same armor thickness (30 mm all around except rear). The main difference between the two seems to be that in the E the suspension was switched from leaf-springs to torsion-bars and it used six larger roadwheels per side.

So, in summary, there doesn't seem to be a compelling in-game reason to differentiate between the two variants.

Interesting aside, Bill also included this Panzer III variant in his 2015 scenario "Counterattack at Radekhov." He gave the unit one point more in Firepower Against Vehicles (5) than I ended up giving it in my spreadsheet (4); my justification for this decision is in the spreadsheet.

Sources
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_III