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[Plain Ian]

Turn 77 German- north



Ok lets look at Indragnirs turn and what he did in the north. 

The power of the werfer was unleashed again plus he showed me how to time an assault. It reminded me of the ACW series where the aim is to get 1,000 men stacked in a hex and unleash an unstoppable melee. In that game the Rebs can do this as their units are usually smaller and you can stack them up. The Union forces are larger regiments so its more difficult to do this........in this game he is the Rebels with his small nimble VGD Bn's and I'm the boys in blue with my 5-600 man lumbering battalions. 

In the north he focussed on the 1-395th and ignored my stack with the tank. (741st) He also left his disrupted units still adjacent to my tanks even though they are in poor terrain? His werfers hit hard killing 31 in two blasts (-14,-17) plus artillery added another -2.  The 1-395th is in Woods. (-30%) Ground fire from adjacent units ended in a pretty even combat.

The 2-23rd and 3-39th were not so lucky. Werfers took out 74 men in two blast (-37 per fire) then artillery added another -9. Ground fire added another 20 casualties although my srtillery did hit a tank in reply.  He then assaulted with his 4 VG Bn's and scored an unbelievable 90/524 result. Both my units had been disrupted before the assault so retreat was automatic....but there was nowhere to retreat to because of stacking rules. 
The 2-23rd had 636 men but is now down to 239. (-384) The 3-39th went from 480 to 230. (-250) He suffered 90 losses but wasn’t disrupted.....marvellous. 

In the south the 2-18th got hit by 3 blasts and lost 42 men. Again its in woods supposed to be protected by -30%. My only consolation was that the reinforcing Pioneer unit triggered fire killing -12. 
In the south he now has all 3 Pioneer units of the 12th SS plus the small 150th Pz Bde unit. 

Interestingly Indragnir says that US units routing (mass surrendering?) was a common occurence of the Bulge campaign. That possibly is correct. I know what happened to the 106th. When reading accounts of the Bulge its usually the heroic small unit actions where a hadful of men hold off larger units that jump out.