Author	goosebrown
Method	Solo
Victor	United States
Play Date	2022-04-08
Language	English
Scenario	AAAD002

The Americans came back in the afternoon with some friends and attacked St Cloud from the South where they almost had success in the morning. The French had freshened up and placed some infantry guns in position on the southern heights just waiting for the Americans to come back.

The Americans used their mortars well to pin down the outlying French posts and over an hour of artillery dueling, drove them back to St Cloud with moderate losses while on the left flank of the southern ridge moved the entire battalion to contact with the French in the town while all the HMGs worked to pin down the infantry guns and mortars. The attack went in like a bus on Fifth Avenue, slow with some stops to take care of business, but in the end unstoppable.

After the first hour, the French progressively collapsed in a combination of direct fire, bombardment and assaults. The last units crumbling and routing off the battlefield two hours after the battle began and Terry de la Mesa Allen was left in control of the battlefield with only one step lost and a mess of stragglers that needed encouragement to get back into ranks as the battalion set up a defensive perimeter.

Major victory for the Americans, but hard fought. If the French had the firepower of the Germans, the result would have been different and Allen knew it.