Polish Exiles, scenario #1: No Man’s Land

I played scenario one first but most of the time I just start with one of the scenarios from the middle of the scenario book but this one looked interesting and some other gamers had played this one as well.

Both the Germans & the Polish/French sides get reinforcements. The Germans received theirs one turn one, while the Polish/French received theirs on turn two and the scheduled one on turn eight as well. There are three victory objects for the Polish/French side to try and achieve or not for different victory levels. The Germans are going to be halfway or more across the three maps before they engage the Allied forces, so I am not sure why scenario Special Rule #3 is there, because the Polish engineers lay mines on their side but the Germans really don’t need to go there and can defend on the east-west road they already control.

The Germans advance their starting force and the early arrival reinforcements push forward into the R35 tanks which I kind of forgot are much stronger than all the early war German tanks in this scenario except the one Pz IIIF Unit and the Germans lose a couple steps early and many more to come.

When the French units arrive from any map northern edge, they can pretty much pick the weakest area to begin their journey south off the map, as the Polish units tied up most of the German units. When it was all said and done after 18 turns, the French/Polish side were able to exit 8 or more units off the south edge of the map and Eliminate more German steps than they had lost but no way could they control the whole east-west road, so achieving 2 out of 3 victory objectives for a minor Polish/French Victory.