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[Plain Ian]

Turn 73 Allied 6am Dawn -Warnach



Fortune smiled and good weather plus undisruptions meant that i could pull all my unist out of the Warnach bulge this turn. The only losses were to the 101st Combat Engineers who had to go into T mode adjacent to his units and lost almost 100 men. Most of my units fell back one hex but still had enough MP's to T mode to safety...all be it temporary safety. 

Once clear I tried a few Carpet bombings but they were intercepted!!!! Getting really annoyed with this mod. The 3 hex protection hexes in the south was bad enough but giving the allied player bombers which get intercepted is just stupid! I'd rather get less bombers and zero German interception chances! I realise that the inteceptions can be construed as SNAFU's but I must average 30-50% interceptions per turn? I think he had two mission this turn (why?) and only 1 of his got intercepted!

At Hollange I decided to take a chance against his 15th Pz Gr recon unit and use my engineers for an assault since they had miraculously undisrupted. My bombers were intercepted ....barrage balloons....and my artillery didn't do any damage but I pressed the button and it worked. 1 man lost versus 2 armoured cars and I threw him out. I then advanced the 2-328th into the woods for support (it took heavy losses) and the 1-318th as well. (although this is in clear terrain) 

I suspect that the 2nd SS and 15th Pz Gr Div are about to reverse direction and swing north west. You poke a bear and it just gets mad. I would guess the Fuhrer grenadiers Bde will halt and form a defensive line at Warnach along the woods line. Of course he may want to block the main road south so may keep coming and of course he still has Panzer Lehr pushing west just south of me.

Hopefully he won't pursue me over the river?