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[Plain Ian]

Turn 77 Chession and Spa



Nothing much happened here. My artillery didn't have much impact against his 88mm guns. 3 Fatigue hits. My tanks made no impact against his Pioneers. I've moved up the 8th Middlesex Bn which is the Divisional MG unit for the 43rd Div. (8 attack factors at 2 range) It will get clobbered by werfers probably. 

I've pulled back the US cavalry...I could do with a John Wayne in this game.....and have moved out the two B Squadrons of the 107th and 9th RTR so they can move down and annoy his VGD. I've left the B/147th RAC digging in with the 3 Firefly sqaudrons. (1 disrupted) 



Spa was relatively quiet as I saved all my artillery for the area just east of Francorchamps. My heavy artillery did get a few armoured vehicles but didn't cause his infantry much of a headache. 

Ground fire went well but I did lose an M4 to return fire. 

I've pulled out the 1-32nd, my largest tank unit  in the area, and moved up the 15th Combat Engineers. 

The 746th has 26 runners and the 743rd which I've not labelled has 28 and a fatigue of 128. Its adjacent to the 1-32nd. So I have roughly 180 M4 tanks in 8 units for this area which is pretty good really. After all he only has 40 King Tigers and probably 40 Panthers..........

Of course I could always bulldozer my way through his flanks. Hmm let me see thats a pretty thick wall of FJD on the left there and some nice elite units on the right. No problems I just need another couple of Divisions. If only this game had Low Fuel effects.....

I'll do Elsenborn tomorrow night. Indragnir has returned the file already. The good news is that my losses were not as bad as this turn. The bad news was that neither were his losses and my prediction for Mersch came out correct.
The Germans lost no tanks again in their turn but he managed to assault and kill about 6 of mines I think just using infantry plus another 5 do direct fire. Indragnir says that during the real Bulge camapign US v German tank losses were 13:1. Thats about the only thing this game gets right. Just as well I get about 5-6 back per turn. The only problem is that most of them go to the wrong units...........