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[Plain Ian]

Turn 81 Allied – Night 2am 25th Dec Snow – Overview of the centre



A map showing the central area and my reserves moving up. 

2nd US Armoured has transferred to VII Corps and is halted and waiting on the ponderous Allied High Command....me...making up its mind where to commit it. 

Just past Namur and racing towards Ciney the British Guards are moving up to the front under the command of XXX Corps. They accidentally halted at 10 pm last night when someone forgot to move them. However this has kept them relatively fresh and they enjoyed the brew up.

We looked at the OOB or TOE of the 2nd Armoured a few turns ago so I've displayed the British Guards this turn. As you can see they are a formidable unit. Most of its fighting elements are B quality except for its artillery and Divisional Engineers which are C quality. Strangely enough the Divisional HQ is C quality although its Bde HQ's are B's.

The Division is well equiped with tanks. 48 Fireflies, 87 Sherman V's and 53 Cromwell IV's in 4 Battalion sized units . (Regiments in British terminology)
The 21st AT Rgt has 24 towed 17 pdrs and 24 M10's armed with 17 pdrs. 
The Artillery is in two Regiments. 24 towed 25 pdrs and 24 self propelled 25 pdrs. (Sextons)
lastly the unit has 3 excellent Guards infantry units all up to full establishment with 600 men each. 

Now all I have to do is to decide what to do with all of this......ummmm.