Brave But Futile

[Hugmenot]

Turn 01 - Battle 2 (Carpiquet)

The Allies are on this offensive this time with 2 bataillions and 3 support companies fully activated. The problem is the Germans moved more units in the region during the movement and I am now facing 3 bataillions plus an unknown number of support companies.

As none of the German units are activated, it's still worth to isolate a bataillion without activating the others.

I enter from the right side and must get to the leftmost map if I am to have a chance of winning. The leftmost two maps hold the most victory points.

Left Maps
   

Right Maps
   

I moved my units near the bottom and woke up too many German bataillions. The battle area was quite small as I went on the defensive rather early. I lost many good men, a number from bad decisions and some AFVs to bad dice rolling (4 crossfire shots at an adjacent Panther or Tiger, all misses. The German shot back and destroyed both AFVs).

The two most interesting parts of this battle for me were (1) set up a defensive perimeter while on the move, and (2) disengaging from the enemy. I did not do either especially well but I did learn something.