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[Plain Ian]

Turn 53 German 10pm Night - south



Cesar (Indragnir) has halted the Pz Lehr sotie and is probably resting them now. In the replay it looks like 5th FJD Bn was disrupted by my artillery last turn?

The bad news is he has started a new sortie. (Group D) I think it was the 352nd (C morale unit?) which advanced first against my 51st Arm Inf. (sorry wrong label on unit) The 352nd must have disrupted from the night move. (4th AD) He then brought down quite a bit of artillery on the 51st and advanced the 212th. (B morale?)  The 212th lost 16 men to opportunity fire and artillery and also disrupted. I think this must have then caused Cesar to use all of 7th Army's artillery against the hapless unit. The 51st went from 559 men/13 fatigue to 371 men/164 fatigue.......yep 188 men. Nebelwerfers took out 44 men with one salvo but possibly this was more than one unit combined firing. 

I think the morale is that you cannot sit in Clear and not dig in in the south, he has too much artillery to call on.

I also lost an M7 Priest when he targted it. This is a novelty for me as Michael never counter batteried anything. 

Miraculously the 51st recovered from disruption, which is the advantage of a good B class unit in good command. Not much use however to me. 

51st patrols show Cesar probably rearranging things in Boevange (E) and suspect this is night disruption effects?

My turn? Well I have enough artillery to probably get 100-150 against the two VGD units sitting in Clear. I'll probably stop at 40+ each however, and rest some of my artillery which is 70+ fatigue. I see no point in using more than 40 as 40 will do the job.
I will also have to take better care of my artillery and dig in in woods if possible.