LN59
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Hi, Rico!
So, we're right now like a whole friendly squad working (and playing) on improving the scenario!
Having a tendency in getting far too attached to the historical events' progress as it can be reconstructed from testimonies, archives or consecrated literature, I admit that I may have seemed too ambitious with a mini-CG of almost four days. As You well noticed ... and calculated it. I'm still learning it every day, Thanks to You!
You're absolutely right: it's better shortening the total duration to only 36 turns (three days) while keeping the uncertainty about the game's end during its last six turns, from Turn #31 on. That will still maintain the pressure on the Human Player who will have to be able in deploying all his tactical & strategist know-hows to get out of this mess! I particularly want to preserve that essential aspect of the game.
Regarding the Attacker's heavy losses, I want to justify them by the following facts:
1 ° They were very high in reality. Both in terms of men killed, and of wounded men put totally out of action from the earliest moments of the battle. Thus, in the assault's first fifteen minutes, the battalion commander of II/6MTR was put out of action with a broken leg and his lower jaw torn off by a German 150mm shell which stroke right over his Command Post. However, he was quickly replaced because the regiment didn't lack any competent senior officers.
Shortly after, on the same day it's a lieutenant, one of the two Assault companies' CO, who is killed forward-leading his men during the capture of La Charme hamlet. The losses in soldiers, NCOs and officers were to increase further even after the tactical withdrawal of the Germans towards the Brabant pass and that of La Vierge. Because they soon have in view the inevitable counter-attack they were used to launch when having lost a position of them (a German tactics known since 1915-1916). While the small arms fire subsided for a few hours, the Colonial Infantry had "to grin and bear it" once more time due to the Germans' powerful and accurate artillery ... Something the 3rd Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment had realized too at its own (very heavy) expense almost in the same place the previous week. A little later in the morning of October 16, the Sherman 105's tank commander who came in to fire-support the II/6MTR was hit by a sniper, hatch open and almost without having fired a shell ... The sole really potent French AFV was out!
Here, I want to finally cite a recent regimental history: "Thus, in the period from October 16 to 28 alone, during the fighting in Haut-du-Faing, the regiment [in fact, only the 2nd and 3rd battalions, the 1st being kept in reserve; a workforce of around 1,800 men] lost 127 killed including 8 officers, 764 wounded including 13 officers [KIA and WIA losses mainly due to artillery (including shell-shocked but tough fighters) and to severe frostbites and permanently incapacitating trench feet] thus that 24 missing [MIA, or prisoners?] ". Extract from: Second World War - Campaign for the liberation of France 1944-1945 - WAR ROUTE OF THE 6TH MTR. Author: Eric de FLEURIAN, 04/10/2015 © Copyright 2015 les-tirailleurs.fr
Something that Peter Fisla's choices for the AI-Managed OBA are rendering very well (IMHO, too) much to UP844's "desperation" ... 
UP844 who still overcame it perfectly as the detailed and victorious AAR he sent to me proves it! 
Why do I want to recreate that particular battle as well as possible in a Campaign Game? 
Because it's not in the Hürtgen Forest only that one knew ...
"Confusion and Slaughter among the Firs"
(Michael D. Doubler in Closing with the Enemy. How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945. UPK, Lawrence, KS, 1994, pp 172-197).
In summary :
Strongly supported AAR: ___________ UP844 ____ +3
"CG reduced to three days" ukase: _____ Rico21 ____ +1
OBA NOT maintained as it was in bêta: ______ LN59 _____ -1
2 ° To be continued ...
< Message edited by LN59 -- 8/14/2020 11:24:11 PM >
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Neither Fear nor Mercy - CG / AAR - 
In anticipation of the effective opening of this AAR-oriented thread after August 31 ... 
RE: Neither Fear nor Mercy - CG / AAR - 
"Rico, le P(r)ince-sans-rire !" 
You are absolutely right, King Rico of the Five Stars' Realm! 
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