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[Plain Ian]

Turn 75 German  - Martelange - Flamierge



There were no further tank losses from long range Panther fire this turn at Martelange. He did reorganise things and now has all of the armoured units of the Fuhrer Grenadier Bde in one hex at Warnach.

At Hollange he made two assaults by the 15th Pz gr Div and started up an advance with the 2nd SS. 

The first assault by the StuG and Jagd PzIV Bn's hit the 159th Engineers and pushed them back (0/-14) on top of the 1-318th and 299th Engineers (both already disrupted). He then hit this group with the PzIV BN and a Motorised Bn and pushed them back again. (-17men,-1 veh/-22) As you can see it cost him 17 men and a tank. 

However it opened up a gap and he has advanced the 2nd SS panther Bn with two SS Motorised Inf Bn echeloned behind it. This has put the 2-501st in a tricky spot as he aslo pushed out an SS half track Bn from the north. The 707th Tank Bn (26 x M4's Morale C) who are in clear terrain staring at 40+ Panthers and will now have to cover the retreat of the unit. The 2nd Tank Bn has 21 M4's and is Morale D. 

My losses to units assaulted were not too heavy but its given him the ground he wants. MY only option is to fall back to Winfield and try not to lose any complete units. 

Further north he has shuffled more armoured units. He is obviously expecting my push from Flamierge. Men against German tanks is a bit pointless. 24th Decemenber 1944 and he is moving his units about with no worries.