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[Plain Ian]

Turn 80 German Night 10pm - Magerotte - Hotte



Well this is a genuine surprise. 2nd SS attacks? His SS Panther Bn roars in plus his assault guns join the party. For good measure he adds his half track Bn and a small Recon unit. 
What this tells me is that Cesar is happy to burn fatigue as he knows he will have time and peace to recover?  Not that B morale units gain much fatigue in fighting compared to D units. He must have a back up force to protect Bastogne and allow his 2nd SS to recover fatigue, in the unlikely event they come under pressure.

He is also pretty confident and continuing his 'bossing' of the battlefield. In his emails he says he like to dictate my moves by his moves. 

The Panthers move up and 3-501st loses 14 men. His infantry adjacent also fire and take out 31 men. Howver my defensive fire does take out 25 men from his stack. 

His half track Bn appears and losses 12 men from defensive fire (1-501st and 3-104th) but does take 7 men from the 1-104th. His assault guns then appear in T-mode? (which is why I think they came in from the north along the road) and take out 7 more men from the 1-104th. My artillery and adjacent units do not fire until his armour comes out of T-mode and of course score no hits. 

So its a pretty interesting situation....well no its a pretty crappy situation really. I think I should back peddle here and pull back. I'm tempted to rush my attack at Flamierge in order to distract him.......