Brave But Futile

[Hugmenot]

Turn 01 - Battle 3 (Vierville)

The Germans launched an attack in the exploitation phase. The Allied have more bataillons than the Germans and, as the victory points are spread out to only three boards, I decided to defend them all but the woods.

View of All 4 Maps
   

The Americans which fought in Carentan are on the Southwest board, far away from the German entry point (east) and in good defensive position.

Southwest Board
   

One of the British motorized bataillion is defensing the town on the southwest map. There is a Crocodile in the middle of the town (he was blown away without activating) and the AT gun support company is dug in the the west, The AT guns did well, eliminating 7 steps of AFVs, including 5 steps of Panthers.

Note that Matt and I do not inspect stacks until they fire or a unit become adjacent. The trucks of the motorized infantry were used to mask the units beneath; nothing is loaded.

Northwest Map
   

The other British motorized bataillion is defending the town on the northeast board. I set up a unit dug in east of the town to wake the bataillion sooner than later if possible. I did not expect it to survive long and it did not make a liar out of me.

Note the American leader. He's a spotter for the activated mechanized artillery support company. He's to run into town on the first turn (He could not start stacked with a British unit). A bit of a dumb move as the town is out of range of the M17 initial position.

Northeast Map
   

The battle was over the two towns to the north. I did not contest the northeast wood but did try to contest the northwest wood.

Later - Northwest
   

Later - Northeast
   

One thing that kept the battle tense until the end was the need for Matt to score more than 50% of my total so I would not be awarded 6 campaign points. This forced him to be aggressive until the end and that resulted in many, more decision points.

I would have rated this one a solid "4" if it was a scenario. It's not a "5" for the Allied player because he has nothing to do but wait until the Germans go on the attack.