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[Plain Ian]

Turn 70 Dec 23rd 6pm - the south



Its my last map showing situation in the the south. I went and checked and can see that he began blowing bridges over the R.Attert from Turn 67 onwards. No point in defending in order to slow me down when he can let major rivers do that I suppose.


I’ve sent two Tnk Bn’s of 10th Armoured east and they’ve just met a lone MG unit. A Tnk Bn from 4th Armoured has checked Boevange and its empty.



I also made a few rash moves.

1.      24th Eng sent over the river. If he has units on patrol they are toast if he moves adjacent and uses artillery.

2.      37th Tnk Bn moved forward to see if he was still there and yes he is. I used artillery on the FJD recon unit and it was disrupted. (it was digging in and this disappeared) There is a risk that he can cut off the 37th in which case I will struggle to get it out.

 

Apart from that I’ve broken down two Bn’s of the 4th Inf (2-12th/3-12th) to send north by road. Both are at 50+ fatigue. The 2-8th is the only other 4th Inf Div unit with low fatigue but that is down at Brouch at the moment. The rest are resting.

 

4th Armoured will have to struggle out by the medium road bridge at Redange although the river turns to a stream at that point so the bridge is only useful for motorised units. The armoured units will have to struggle one hex per turn over the stream. 

 

10th Armoured will attempt to move east or north east.....and see what is there? From the inset map you can see the reason why Cesar is pulling back. The US 5th Division is scheduled to come on at 6am tomorrow south of Lintgen. This would be behind his lines if he held his position.


6am is a long way off though.