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[Plain Ian]

Its probably not clear on the maps but Boevange could be a 2 hex village/town? Or it could be that one of the villages does not have a label? The hex containing the German armoured force is a village as well as the RUBBLED village to its NE on the map.



The attempt to RUBBLE failed. I guess I need a lot more artillery than I had available.

Any artillery I had which could not target the armour was used against the Spotted unit north of Boevange. 5 guns were knocked out, hopefully Werfers.

The cut off units were rescued by 8th Tank Bn (CCB 4AD) which rolled up in T mode and ‘dismounted’ to allow the retreat. German Pioneers opposite just watched.

(A)


35th Tank Bn and 51st Armed Inf Bn (CCA 4AD) moved up to join 704th TD Bn.

(B)


B/811 TD dug in. ©

53rd Armed Inf Bn moved up. (CCR 4AD) (D)

(E) and (F) I fell back and grouped in these two hexes. (E) is Woods hex abd should give some protection. It will also limit his advance from Boevange a bit. (F) is Clear but has TRENCH so gives some protection.

(E)


(F)


Any unit which didn’t fall back Fired. All told he lost about 95 men but I lost about 25. One interesting result was against his Disrupted Pz Lehr Stug unit in (Blue A) which BROKE and retreated when fired at by 11th Tank Bn. This was the group that assaulted last turn and had 2 Pz Lehr Disrupted infantry units. That assualt must have been more costly to him than I realised.

(G)


(H)


Next turn we will see how many tanks I lose.