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[Plain Ian]

Turn 74 German 24th Dec 8 am - the north



My small moves seems to have stirred things up. Its a bit hard to tell as Indragnir's email says that he has a plan and I am doing what he expected. He wants me on clear terrain. Hmmmm. Well yes I will get there but not quickly as it takes a long time to drive through woods. Anyway here is what i saw and the results of his moves.

The 1-23rd received most of the artillery fire although he did pick out the 2nd Combat Engineers (he hates engineers....) and the 2-18th. (not dug in) The 2nd Combat also came under Tiger fire.....growl!

Movement: Well a small [X] Army level StuG appeared to allow the Corps HQ to fall back, I think this came from the stack next to his King Tigers. 4 VG Bn's appeared just south of the 1-23rd.

In the south 3 VG Bn's definitely moved away (not the same ones) and I saw at least another one move which might be pulling back. He also shuffled a few other units in the south, probably to free up the 12th SS Recon unit and also to form a proper line.

The movement and placement of the 3 VG Bn's was interesting. They weren't dug in so had moved there probably in anticipation of an attack by me? The 5th FJD is dug in but it has been there all night.  

No point in analysing this to death. I'll just get on with making my moves. I'll probably use artillery to hammer the VG unit and StuG in clear terrain and also the VG Pioneer unit (the green one which I forgot to label and is the 277th)