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Invasion of Germany #38 - Making Hay South Africa's War #9 - Sunday of the Dead
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SS Burn out
Author scrane
Method Solo
Victor Britain
Play Date 2021-03-23
Language English
Scenario LIBE008

This battle pits a reinforced battalion of tough, high morale SS scum against a few companies of British defending the northern end of a long North-South board. The SS had enough mechanized transport to send a company of grenadiers ahead of the rest of the force to try to quickly seize the first town on their road to the northern board edge, while their platoon of motorcycles raced on even farther to enter the last town before the edge. Meanwhile, the Brits were marching on as well, and got into an early clash with the motorcycles in town. At first it looked like the SS cycles would be a big problem for the British but superior weight of numbers overcame them. At the same time, the British Shermans had raced ahead and managed to ambush the mechanized company of SS as they arrived outside their town objective, wiping out most of them in their transports.

At this point the battle really developed around this first town. The SS HMGs, formed into a company, took up positions on the west flank of town and provided cover fire for the two companies of SS grenadiers that advanced into the fields on the east side. A few British reinforcements filtered forward to support the tank and infantry defenders of the town. SS losses were steady and high as they pushed aggressively to get into assault positions, their rock solid morale and excellent leaders keeping them in action even as the step losses added up.

After three hours of combat the SS had not succeeded in doing much damage to the British, and a local counterattack wiped out the HMGs west of town, leaving the SS in a very precarious position. They were ultimately unable to achieve any of their objectives. Major British victory.

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