Panzer Grenadier Battles on November 23rd:
An Army at Dawn #3 - Fire Support Leyte '44 #29 - Thanksgiving Day
Carpathian Brigade #3 - Breakout and Pursuit Panzer Lehr 2 #24 - Plug the Hole
Desert Rats #23 - Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu ("War Party") Panzer Lehr #24 - Plug the Hole
Desert Rats #24 - Hill 175 South Africa's War #7 - Rear Echelon
Dragon’s Teeth #33 - Chickenshit Regulations South Africa's War #8 - Ons Is Helsems
Invasion of Germany #38 - Making Hay South Africa's War #9 - Sunday of the Dead
Jungle Fighting #9 - Another Try West Wall #8 - Making Hay
Normandy cows
Author leonard (Germany)
Method Face to Face
Victor Germany
Participants unknown
Play Date 2013-07-24
Language English
Scenario PaLe018

I was commanding the Panzer Lehr in this nice little scenario. All my units started hidden : a real joy when playing face to face ! The US player chose to drop all the infantry and M3 halftracks : he kept them off the game because too vulnerable to defensive fire and any left over US unit on the board, at the end of the game, is considered eliminated. It was quite a close affair : in such a small scenario some dice rolling are really critical ! Hidden units were holding panzerfausts and one US vehicle paid the price. But when one of his stuart platoons came in range of my Puma and got the initiative on the next turn, I was happy to see him missing me with both shots. My back firing went right through the Stuart thin armor plates ! However his armored cars were too fast to be caught and he was at the edge of exiting them both forcing a draw if he did. It began to be a real race : all my halftracks pursued the US armored cars... And then these armored cars tried to get a few more points by shooting at the German vehicles, before exiting. Again : two misses ! I only had to finish the job : one more US armored car went down and another was disrupted due to infantry fire (X on direct fire and Morale check failed). Major German victory. Real fun. Only point down is the maps : this is not Normandy at all !!! They use Eastern front maps in a bocage country south of St-Lo ! Map 13 from Airborne would have been perfect (without the swamps).

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