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Save the bridges at a high cost
Author Blackcloud6
Method Solo
Victor Germany
Play Date 2013-10-07
Language English
Scenario FaoF024

This is an interesting scenario as the Germans have to try to grab two bridges from a weak French force before the French can reinforce.

The Germans tried to race their motorcycle platoons to attack the bridges quickly bit the French were able to blunt that attempt. So the Germans had to bring up their infantry and conduct a deliberate attack. They took the northern bridge by Turn five while driving on to the southern one. But the French counterattacked into the German west flank with their H39 platoons and almost split the German force in two. This weakened the attack on the southern bridge which the Germans never got close to taking. But the price was high as both H39 succumbed to German infantry assault. These cost double in victory points, as usual and contributed to the French loss.

By Turn 9 the steam ran out of the German attack. The French infantry battalion arrived and attacked towards the northern bridge, securing it by Turn 14. But by Turn 17, French losses accumulated past the German Major Victory level and now it was a struggle for the French to catch up. The French infantry counterattacked out of both crossing points and at first looked like they might catch up in Victory points to cause a draw. But the Germans consolidated and massed firepower to blunt the French attacks. Although the French forces inflicted some more step losses and were moderately successful out of the southern bridgehead, they could never get close in points to threaten the German victory. In the end it was German causing 24 casualty points on the French and the French causing 15.

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