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[Plain Ian]

Turn 53 German 10pm Night - Spa



So does the new commander fall back from Spa. Nein? Nichts rückwärts? There is a lot of reorganisation going on. Plus he is digging in from Franchorchamps to Spa? Well I understand this slightly because when playing Normandy the US player is advised to land and dig in at Omaha. It reduces his losses in the long run. Possibly Indragnir is going to see if he can hold open the corridor to Spa? In which case it makes sense to do this.

There was some artillery this turn and a few firefights. At Spa he targeted the plucky B/643 TD unit. They lost 7 guns and only have 1 left. (Fat 200+) However artillery and opportunity fire made this an expensive thing fo rthe Germans as they lost 21 men and 1 vehicle. Since the only vehicles in Spa are King Tigers then it must have been a King Tiger? Amazing as it was a 105mm M7 unit that did the damage! 

The 150th/62nd group (H) targeted the 1-517th. The hard units there must have protected his infantry as there was an amazing 4 fatigue hits with opportunity fire. So maybe I should break down my armour into companies and stack them with infantry? That way some of the return fire hits the armour? The only problem is that German units have pretty good hard attack values.

Intersting patrol information shows a mass of disrupted units behind his line. (D) The other intersting thing is he has left the disrupted Pioneer unit (F) in the front line? Assault with armour?

His PAK group NE of Spa must still be there as well.