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[Plain Ian]

Turn 46 German – Elsenborn



A. The 3rd FJD group duelled with the 2-18th again and things came out about even. However the 2-18th received some artillery plus a nasty attack from the Assault Gun group to the southwest which tripled its losses. (B)

B. The bad news was that his disrupted assault guns recovered and launched ground fire against my adjacent stacks. The 3-9th lost 44 men from one salvo alone. The 745th Tank Bn sat around and watched whilst whistling Dixie...........

C. Well we have a winner folks. The 3-9th takes the dubious DOUBLE honour of Most Men lost in 1 turn -298!, and Most Men Lost in 1 Turn From Artillery -178! NO ASSAULTS used.
The 106th Division are not happy as they held this award for only 3 days!!!!

I still can’t work out what happened. Werfer fire was taking out 22 men at a time? Artillery was killing 8 men easily? The unit is sitting in Swamp which is supposed to give -40% protection? 15 salvos (8/13/8/7/13/8/22/23/8/22/12/9/17/5/3) I’ve never seen losses like this before in the game? Something broke folks?????

Ground fire also poured into 3-9th from the Assault Gun group C as unit after unit rolled up and fired to rack up another 120 lost to ground fire. It was if the losses were doubling up, or the unit was sitting in Clear terrain with + modifiers??

D. 1st Combat Engineers also lost heavily from ground fire from German group D.

E. He moved up fresh forces and used some artillery.

F. 535th hit with assault but results not that bad. I can’t remember what it was but the unit only lost 4 guns all turn and that included a few artillery losses! The 2-393rd also took some artillery hits.

G. During the replay I saw his King Tigers moving north to Monschau but since they were deployed and not in T mode they probably didn’t get far. I would think a VGD Bn from the 326th has taken Monschau.

Funnily enough in his last email Michael was saying that he think I have artillery parity in the game now........hmmmm. Think not.

Things are not looking great here. The only plus side is that he is committing a lot of resources here. The terrain also is not great as the swamp will restrict him a bit but then again he does have plenty VGD units which are happy to plod through the stuff......not quickly admittedly.

I’ll target his group B which is also in Swamp to see what kind of artillery losses I get........