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[Plain Ian]

Turn 81 Allied – Night 2am 25th Dec Snow – Odeigne - Flamierge



At Odeigne my heavy artillery score a rare success against his Jagdpanzers digging in and kill one. It doesn't disrupt it or stop it digging in though.

An assault is launched by 1-505th and 3-325th against his disrupted 9th SS Bn. It succeeds as expected but the 1-325th is badly hit by the assault. Total US losses were 55 men (7 from opp fire before the assault) but we inflicted 106 losses on his unit. I expected the hex he fell back on to have another SS infantry Bn but it contained only Flak units digging in? My artillery killed one of these. 



The 1-325th will have to rest now and the 1-505th is out of command range and will have to pull back south. The two supporting Bn's of the 75th (1-289th/2-290th) are both shot and will have to pull back or rest in place. I'll have to find some fresh good troops to reiforce this axis from soemwhere.

The only other action was at Bertogne. When I hit Turn end I checked and the 15th PGD unit was disrupted but he will reinforce this hex with a 26th VGD unit if he need to. 

Edit: I've outlined the strength and health of the 82nd Airborne in the area. The 504th and 508th which are operating south of the river at Bertogne are in good shape although well below full strength apart from the 2-508th. However you don't want units at 700+ plus becuase it causes stacking problems.