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[Plain Ian]

Turn 56 Werbomont



OK the optimism of my moves in turn 55 quickly drained away. You can see he quickly reinforced his Panther group E and the odds have shortened. Plus in the south the 18th VGD has joined the 560th and is sitting in woods/TRENCH.

From north to south -

18th VGD Hetzers came out even with the 31st Tank Bn at 1 each.
The 3rd RTR lost an M4 to his 18th VGD.
The 38th Arm Inf was hit by werfers and disrupted.
The 638th was also hit by artillery and lost 6 M18's (defense factor 4) then lost a further 6 to his Panthers. My return fire was pretty weak and the best I got was probably one fatigue hit.
The 40th Tank Bn lost 2 tanks to his 75mm but did get one in return.
The 17th Tank Bn was attacked by another 18th VGD unit but was unscathed.
The 771st was not so lucky and lost 2. 



Well my hopes of an epic tank battle were looking slim. 

The 740th did take out a couple of Sturm panzers but lost a tank to his mobile AA guns?
3rd Tank Bn struggled against his Hetzers and I thougth I'd use the M5's against his disrupted 75mm but ended up getting hit by artillery and disrupting.
The 3rd RTR had a fiasco against his VGD's and lost 3 tanksalthough 2 were from artillery.

Every attack I had launched to date had been hit by MULTIPLE werfer attacks? Never seen this as bad before. I was so fed up I targeted the spotted unit and took 3 guns off it. Hopefully werfers!

His main armour group I couldn't really touch. By this time I thought the AI would fire every time I fired. However I decided to fire then fall back with both the 638th and the 814th. The 814th lost 2 M36's and took afew fatigue hits (werfer fire) but did manage a Panther! Hooray. The 638th had a charmed life and hit a JGD PzIV and retired unscathed.
I had 14 Fireflies of C squadron 3rd RTR and I tried using them against his PzIV's but missed. I then skedaddled with C/3rd RTR. 

In the south I uncovered another group at Bra and there was minor actions down here.

I would say Round 1 to Cesar. I've brought in the 334th and used some light units at Bra. The 638th TD has a fatigue of 102 and 22 M18's left. If its not dug in and in woods its pretty useless.