Alexandra
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Joined: 12/7/2000 From: USA Status: offline
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Here's the next chapter:
Between scen's: Our 75mm Field Guns have been sent back to division, and replaced by a pair of Stug B's. In addition, the infantry platoon's 50mm morars have been sent back to Battalion's Weapon Company, and, in thier place, each infantry platoon will have an attached engineer squad.
Mission: General Rommel has ordered the TF to attack the British, in an attempt to forestall any more enemy attacks on us.
Support Forces: 1 FO, 2 105mm batteries
Aux Forces: 1 MG nest, 1 reinforced SS rifle company, a scout section (PSWs), ad hoc arty section (1 81mm mortar, 150mm sIG, 37mm ATG)
The plan: We need to take a road junction and a hill, that are to the east of our own starts lines and to the west of the French town of Wailiy. The hill is in enemy hands. I plan on using the SS to do most of the bloody work, backing them up as need by with my own company.
Weather: Clear Vis: 1000 yards.
Pregame: We hit the hill itself with 105s, and the woods to it's front with 81mm mortar fire.
Turn One: The scouts take the intersection with an SS platoon moving up to support them. The other two SS platoon move towards the hill. We keep up the arty fire on the hill.
Turn Two: SS elements start to reach the lower slopes of the hill as we keep up the arty fire.
Turn Three: We push up, onto the hill. Arty's halted, and we displace the 81mm mortar's. *** The SS take fire on the hill. Scouts spot enemy halftracks moving in.
Turn Four: The fighting on the hill turns bloody with the enemy losing a squad and the SS losing two. A stug loses a track crossing a rail line, and it's crew starts to try and fix the problem. The enemy advance that the scouts have spotted is now known to be 4 Bren Carriers and 2 'tilda's. *** The lead Bren goes down to fire from the scouts.
Turn Five: Seems we've run right into an enemy attack. There are at least six enemy tanks closing in. The SS take the crest of the hill, while losing a MG team. *** The enemy surges ahead, with large numbers of armored vehicles.
Turn Six: The SS lose another squad on the hill. To the south we kill a Bren Carrier. *** The enemy surges back onto the hill. However they lose a truck, and have a Marm-Herr, and a 'tilda immobilizied.
Turn Seven: We kill a Marm-Herr, and lose an SS sIG.
Turn Eight: We immobilize another 'tilda, but there's at least 2 companies of them. I doubt that we'll be able to hold much longer, and I order my company to freeze, in case we must withdraw. *** The SS loese another squad - half the SS on the hill are down. We kill an ATR team. We also lose a PSW.
Turn Nine: The SS kill a 'tilda on the hill. *** Only 8 SS men are still up on the hill. To the south, we lose a MG team, but kill a 'tilda. The defense is rapidly collpasing under the weight of British armor.
Turn Ten: General Rommel leaves the field. We immob. a 'tilada and lose the other PSW. *** We kill a sapper team, but 3 more SS squads, including the 2 left on the hill, are overrun.
Turn Eleven: We kill the crew of an immob 'tilda, but our mobile stug is destroyed. *** The enemy takes the intersection, though we kill a scout patrol.
Turn Twelve: We lose another SS squad. *** Another SS squad falls. I have 10 SS men, and an SS ATR team left of the company of them.
Turn Fourteen: We immob another 'tilda. *** They overrun our hill.
Turn Fifteen: We again immob a 'tilda. *** The next to last SS squad is overrun, as is the 37mm ATG and a 50mm mortar team. We also have lost my other Stug, and, for the moment, none of my other guns are manned. However, we kill a Marm-Herr, and immob another 'tilda.
Turn Sixteen: We immob another 'tilda, and I think that the British have accidently killed the crew of one of the earlier immobilized ones.
Turn Seventeen: My Infantry company command squad, and all of first platoon, except for one squad, clears the battlefield. In addition, one squad of 2nd Platoon also withdraws.
Turn Eighteen: Two more of 2nd Platoon's squads withdraw.
Turn Nineteen: All remaining elements of the company withdraw.
Results: 4118 to 837 UK/German Marginal Defeat.
Losses: 186 men, 4 Arty, 5 AFV (Germany). The 5 AFV is curious, as I only had 4 on the field Unless the Bunker counts as an AFV??
72 men, 3 APC, 4 AFV (UK).
Overall I got whomped Though, I did take out 4 tilda's, when by biggest gun with any real AT capaibility was the short 75 on the Stug's.
With this defeat, this short campaign ends for me
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