| Stuarts to the Slaughter | ||||||||||||
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Mike Perryman asked me to play an Army at Dawn scenario with Tigers a mob of Stuarts and use Extended Assault to see If the Stuarts can swarm and overcome the Tiger with an assault. The Allied forces set up with the infantry on Board 77 on the high ground near the center to block the rad. The plan was to delay the German advance as long as possible then fall back to Board 78 and deny the hill victory condition. The allied tank force would come and wait for an opportunity to pounce on the German tanks and defeat them in close assault, the only way they would have effect on the Tiger platoon. The Germans sent the Fallschirmjaeger company to attack the northern-most UK infantry to fix them while the main force came up from the southeast to assault the UH force on the middle dorsal. The Tiger, and later the 88mm gun moved to the 40-meter level to overwatch and death quickly with two Lee platoons. The Germans methodically cleared the southern UK position, but the Luftwaffe guys had trouble with the northern, succumbing to enemy indirect fire. One the Tiger and the support PzIIN moved forward the Stuarts, hiding behind the large northern hill mass, pounced. Although they killed a step of PzIIINs, the Tiger simply dispatched all the Stuarts with its overwhelming gun. The northern UK infantry did pull back and accomplish the mission of holding onto Board 78 hills. The Germans then moved he Tiger, Pz IIINs and, infantry and some guns off the west edge to secure that VC and managed to suffer only five step losses for the minor victory. Although the allied force took a pounding and losing all its AFVs except for the indirect fire one, they did have a chance to deny a second VC but could cause enough casualties. |
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Hmm, almost the same results when goosebrown and I played this scenario. The Germans won that one too, but a couple of M3 Stuart platoons survived the ordeal. Stuarts are fast, but contrary to what Jackie Fisher once said about his beloved WWI battlecruisers: speed certainly does NOT equal armor.