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[Plain Ian]

Turn 72 2am 24th December German - north



I think he may have swapped out one of the 326th VGD unit in the north as I did disrupt one last turn. He has set one of them to Digging In. I think he realises that this is a key bit of terrain.

The 326th VGD Bn adjacent to 1-26th (1 Div) is also Digging In.

I'm not sure why he has done this as by digging he knows that I will be able to tell when they are disrupted by artillery and ready for assault? The 326th are D morale units so easily disrupted? 

His artillery tried some counterbattery against mine but only hit HQ units which I had stacked on top. So I think putting artillery under other units does help deflect counterbattery fire? Unfortunately you will have to watch what you put on top as the 394th HQ disrupted. It did recover though. 

The 1-26th was hit twice by werfers and lost 9 men. Still pretty impressive casualties for Forest (-30%) and Improved (10%). My 105mm would probably get 2 and the 155mm 3-4. 

The one good news was that the 124th Combat Engineers dug in the hex to TRENCH. It can be pulled out now. 

I'll see how the artillery goes before deciding on assaults. The 1-26th is out of command and I don't want to push iot further out but an assault is a good way of getting higher casualties and racking up fatigue.