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[Plain Ian]

Turn 55 German - north



One quick map I'm afraid. Dawn brings the Vols Grenadiers. NO sign of 12th SS infantry or tanks? Enemy received some opportunity fire when they advanced.

Heavy artillery brought down and the 2-38th received the worst of it. Sustained Werfer attacks. Its now Max fatigue. The 186th FA was also caught and obliterated. Being in T mode meant it had no chance. 

I have a few 'fresh' units to put into the line in the south. None really for the north west. Group B are the best units I have up here. I've just noticed that 613th TD must be outside command range of V Corps? Willl have to move HQ back. (I was trying to keep V Corps within range of 1st Army)

A lot of units recovered fatigue this turn, some in hexes where other units were badly hit. For example the 1-16th recoverd 10 men and fatigue went down -12. If he had spread out his artillery just a little he could have prvented this?

In the south near Brouch he brought up 2 new 12th VGD units which triggered good defensive fire from my tanks. (the 745th Tank Bn, I forgot to label them) In fact I think he actually fired with these units? Anyway he made sure that when the A/T unit rolled up I had fired 3 times. He pulled back the other 12th VGD unit to allow the PAK forward. There was an artillery attempt on the 745th (4 barrages at least) but it failed with only one fatigue hit landed. It doesn't matter as I'll pull the 745th back after I use a little artillery on the PAK. (it won't hurt them much)

And that was that......