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Bloody fight, bloody draw!
Author Blackcloud6
Method Solo
Victor Draw
Play Date 2012-04-15
Language English
Scenario BeNo019

These are the Twitter posts as I posted them while playing.

Pictures can be seen at my CSW blog starting at: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@@.1dd17da2/11927

(as there were days gone by between some turns, keep scrolling until they start again)

Panzer Grenadier Beyond Normandy Scenario 19: 10th HLI at Mouen. 28 June 1944.

1830 hrs: British attack jumps off with AT fires against the German tanks and an airstrike. No effect. Inf moves out.

1845 hrs: The Shropshires make progress and start to flank the SS in the SE. The Highlanders stall unable to advance.

1900 hrs As the SS fall back to cover their left flank, the Shropshires move forward. No combat in this sector.

1900 hrs Typhoons hit the Panthers with no effect. Highlanders remain stalled, the SS rallies and fires mortars.

Note that because of lack of time for the Brits to coordinate, 2 is added to the Fog of War roll and the turns are ending early.

1915 hrs Exchanges of small arms, mortar and artillery fires have no effect throughout the sector. Typhoons hit with no effect. No picture.

1930 hrs The Highlanders and London Yeomanry move out and close with the Panthers whose position is now in peril.

1945 hrs Shermans fire on Panthers forcing them to abandon their position. Arty duel in HLI sector to little effect.

2000 hrs: artillery duel continues. Brit aircraft ineffective again. PZ I'VE plt in 2015 kills the Firefly plt in 1714.

2015: most action with the 4th KSLI as they close with the SS. The 10th HLI takes a beating from the SS infantry fire.

2030: the Brits make a big push across the whole line taking and causing casualties. SS line holds but not yet decisive.

2045 the 4th KSLI slowly pushes the SS back, killing a PZ IV platoon. The SS try to constrict their perimeter.

2045 in the 10th HLI sector a furious tank battle results in Panthers killing most Sherman's of the 3d CoLY.

2100 hrs, the turn lasts longer than any other as both sides pass the Fog of War rolls until almost everyone has moved or fired.

2100 the 4th KSLI continues to push, the SS stops the penetration killing two steps and falls back once again.

2100 in the 10th HLI sector it has turned into a stalemated battalion sized firefight.

2115 SS counter attacks the 4KSLI while the Shropshires feed more infantry into sector. Firefights continue elsewhere.

2130 firefights and city fighting across the sector. SS moves Panthers and infantry to the south to counterattack.

2145 night falls, the SS push into the 4KSLI but the Brits hold. 10HLI make push into the German sector.

Going to call it a draw two turns early. The SS cannot push all the 4th KSLI units out of the victory area in two more turns.

The Brits cannot take Mouen. Thus there are forces of the other sides in each victory condition area and it is a draw. Bloody fight.

The British suffer 37 casualty points, the Germans just 10. The 3d County of London Yeomanry lost all but three Shermans!

The low Fog of War level (14 insread of 16) caused the British to not be able to concentrate power when needed.

The high morale rating of the SS allowed them to shrug off much of the British artillery and air attacks or recover quickly.

And the British thus could not capitalize on any success.

The Shropshires, however, were aggressive and assualted without softening up the SS positions; it paid off as they pushed the Germans back.

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