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[Plain Ian]

Turn 72 2am 24th December German - Stoumont road



In case anyone is wondering what is happening here the answer is nothing much. 120 tanks and 100 armoured cars sitting going nowhere. 

34th Tank Bde hit pretty badly by commado disruptions plus of course night disruptions. The 9th RTR out front are B rated so pretty good. They need to be as there be dragons out there.........well Peiper Panthers. The other two British tank regiments (Bn's) are D's. 

The 4th Cavalry Group are a decent unit as they are also B rated. Unfortunately with a defensive strength of 3 they are not much use offensively? As the turkey shoot at Warnach has illustrated all they appear good at is giving Indragnir easy VP's. I thought it might be a good idea to put them in the woods here to act as a tripwire and to defend a non essential area. I guess that is what the 14th Cav Gp was doing at the start of the scenario.... The only other thing I could use them for is digging in I guess.

In the bottom corner you can see my crack unit 392nd General Eng Bn sneaking up on the river. Under is the recce unit 11th Hussars which are Corps troops for VII Corps. (actually Br XXX Corps but u/c VII Corps at the moment) Its another 50+ armoured car unit with a defensive strength of 3. Sigh. If anyone wants to play this scenario make sure you get the Recon Spotting setting ticked or else these units are just wasted hiding at the back.