Elf Hill (II)

The author's solution to a tactical decision game

This post provides the author’s solution to the tactical decision game published in very first issue of Deutsche Infanterie. If you haven’t done so already, please read (or, better yet, work through) the problem before looking at the solutions.

Elf Hill

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Evaluation of the Situation

The commanding officer of the Third Battalion decides that he cannot wait for the restoration of communications with the regimental commander. He also concludes that, before he was interrupted, the latter was about to order the Third Battalion to attack. (In doing this, he rejected the possibility that the regimental commander wanted the Third Battalion to remain in place, thereby serving as a backstop for the survivors of the Second Battalion.)

The commanding officer of the Third Battalion also believed that, having broken through the Second Battalion, the enemy would, without doubt, try to roll up the ridge occupied by the First Battalion. In doing this, moreover, the enemy would use all of his available combat power to capture this position before dark.