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Our First Scenario
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This is the final product in PDF.
Yours to comment.
----> SS HITLERJÜGEND DELAYING ACTION AT « LES MAISONS BLANCHES » <----
Location
Falaise vicinity, Normandy, France, 14th of August 1944.
OOB
Canada
Elements of the South Saskatchewan Regiment
Tank support from elements of the Fusiliers Sherbrook Regiment
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Elements of Kampfgruppe Kraus
Elements of Kampfgruppe Prinz
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"My dear general, the war can now only be won by the politicians." Von Rundstedt to Kurt Meyer.
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Sweet. 
I have just finished this scenario tonight and it was a tough fight.
it was all down to the main victory hex (10 points) on the last turn!
pictures soon...
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the pictures of my last play-test (this side of the atlantic)
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elements of KG Kraus await the canadian onslaught!
(the bunkers only represent the victory hexes
This is turn 2: The Sherbrooks in the lead, the canadians' rush to "les maisons blanches" while KG Prinz enters the battle from the South.
Kraus sends his panzerfausts forward, but the canadians are not afraid.
Falaise must fall!
a view from the East where more Sherbrookes will try to outflank the suburbs. Prinz can only field a lone Panzer IV to protect this area...
a climatic turn 4.
showdown time, let the dices roll!
note that the first victory hex has gone up in flames and is now unoccupied.
view from the east
the battle rages on.
the babies division is holding on!
Close quarters, the canadian infiltrates the western suburbs!
Note that KG Prinz is down to one panzer now.
sherman swarm...
turn 6, while the SS reoccupy the first victory hex, the western flank gives in
bad turn for the HJ!
Canadian assault all along the main street.
only one turn to go.
Final melee, all the victory hexes are contested!
Canadian victory!!
15-10.
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I'll give this scenario a spin on the weekend. Judging from the OOB for the Canadians and Germans, I'm predicting a Canadian win but we'll see what happens. The presentation is very impressive and it looks like a fun scenario that won't be too hard to get into.
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Very nice pictures, but please try not to use the attach file for so many similar pictures, because they fill the gallery. It's better to use photobucket in these cases.
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"My dear general, the war can now only be won by the politicians." Von Rundstedt to Kurt Meyer.
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oops sorry!
just signed in at photobucket, had not heard of it before. 
yes, it's a simple scenario.
Defence of the main street is crucial especially the 10 points central hex.
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"My dear general, the war can now only be won by the politicians." Von Rundstedt to Kurt Meyer.
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on the pictures you wil notice a few SMLE disguised as canadian infantry.
on this last game i played (probably my 7innish play test) i also decided to use a 1919 mg team wondering what the canadians used (vickers or 1919)
also usually during play test the german pak gun did achieve something. it did poorly during this game...
for a fact i know the free french mainly used US equipment. 
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But the Canadian were all Brit equip my dear!!!
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| general Hoth wrote: | on the pictures you wil notice a few SMLE disguised as canadian infantry.
on this last game i played (probably my 7innish play test) i also decided to use a 1919 mg team wondering what the canadians used (vickers or 1919)
also usually during play test the german pak gun did achieve something. it did poorly during this game...
for a fact i know the free french mainly used US equipment. |
Vickers. My grandfather was a machine gunner in The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa. Hence the avatar to the left.
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hmmm...
I seem to have trouble downloading it... It tells me something about needing to log in?!?
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| Lettische_Scooterist wrote: | hmmm...
I seem to have trouble downloading it... It tells me something about needing to log in?!? |
I corrected the problem. Thanks for the heads up
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Ah, ok. I gave this scenario a spin this weekend and I found it to be a lot of fun. I always like Canadian match-ups and I hope us Cannucks get more units in the future to recreate action in Normandy (Wasp and Canadian Vickers would be appreciated).
Anyway, here is the run down. Covering all four objectives was going to be tough for the Germans, so I was wondering whether my defense should be a zone to cover all the possible points of attack, or go man to man against the Canadians even if that might leave me exposed. My other concern was fields of fire for snipers. It was not possible to cover all points of attack from the fusiliers so I opted to position my two snipers in places the would give them the best opportunity to headshot enemy tanks. The topmost objective held an MG-42 and sniper while the east wing of the town held it's own sniper. The four fausts, Pak 38 and the WOL were positioned in the middle of town with one in the back t cover the southern objective from a flank attack. The four SSPGs flanked the center objectivesto move and support the defense of threatened areas.
The Canadians dug into the town with a NCO in the back to provide a range advantage. 6 dice wouldn't matter against the SSPGs but they would be able to hurt the other German units. The mortar hung back until it was safe for it to move forward and support the advance, while the vickers was placed off to the side by the hedgerows where it could cover the center of the town. Judging from the array of units that the Germans could bring to bear, the best hope for the Canadians was to make a concerted effort to leverage their numerical advantage and focus on Germany's anti-infantry assets. This meant taking out the MG-42 and the two snipers as soon as possible.
The Germans won initiative and the Canadians went first. The tanks and a flame-jeep came in from the west away from the snipers and pushed down past the trees and hills to flank the town, while the half-tracks moved in from the east. six of the infantry moved forward to be covered by the other soldiers and the guns (who would not fire a shot for the whole game) stayed in the town for support. The Germans shifted their SS-Panzergrenadiers east to meet the infantry threat and anti-tank assets toward the tanks. The PZ-IVs moved up from the south to join them, followed by the HSF. The volksturm rode up in truck up the edge of the east side of the map to block passage of the half tracks. Firing was sporadic and a Pak was disrupted (to be cleared by the HSF) along with an MG-42 in exchange for the loss of the vickers. The tanks jockeyed into position and so did the panzers attempting to block a flanking move. The SS-PGs in the east began to spread out to try to block the half tracks as the skirted around the forest and the volksturm to threaten the flank.
The Germans then went first and moved the panzerfaust and tanks closer to try to force a decision but keep the flamer at arms length. A pfaust moved up to one sherman and spawned the vet. The SS-PGs split up one in each of the two eastern most town hexes with the sniper, while the volksturm moved toward the halftracks from behind. The other two SSPGs moved up closer to the MG-42. The Canadian response was to back off from the faust but keep the tanks in sight, parking the jeep in front of a PZ-IV. After spawning the hero, the mounted halftracks drove around the SSPGs skirting defensive fire except on that drove into the gap between the Pak 38 and SSPGs. Everyone dismounted. The garman seeing that a shootout in the west would not favor them back off, hoping to lure the shermans into the town itself. In the east the SS-PGs and sniper took out an NCO and disrupted a sten. The MG-42 and sniper in the north failed to dent the Canadian line. The Canadian response was ferocious with the entire eastern flank being disrupted, two volksturm, two SSPGs and a sniper, it would collapse the next turn. The MG-42 was silenced, meaning the mortar could now be brought to bear, and a faust was destroyed by a sherman as it fell back.
On turn three the Germans went first and push forward in the west with a faust and tanks to separate the tanks of which two were above the road and two were below with the jeep. The SSPGs moved up to join the north sniper. In return, the Canadians made a bold move to envelop the German position and drove the jeep onto the now panzerfaustless southernmost objective and dropped off the flamer. Two shermans joined the jeep on the bottom but next to a pair of fausts and a WoL. The ensuing battle saw two shermans go down in exchange for only the WoL courtesy of the flamer, the tanks backing off and the topmost sherman getting pinned by the sniper. The east was a wash as the disrupted Germans were rooted out. The Canadians infantry men began approaching the outskirts of the town to get upclose to the sniper and SSPGs.
From there it went down hill. The Germans were stripped of their anti infantry resources and the infantry washed over the German defenses. The rest of the tanks would be taken out by the fausts, vet and the pak being rolled into place. The PZ-IVs lent their guns to beat back the Canadian infantry, but there were two many and they were force to hold the objective virtually alone. The flamer could not be rooted out of h southern objective and by turn eight not a single german unit remained.
I would say that Germany could use an extra machine gun team or mausers instead of volksturm to make things a more even match, but otherwise it was a fun and quick game.
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thanks for the battle-report!
sound idea to replace the stragglers by 2 regular mausers.
i was also toying with the idea of having the southern victory hex (the one that leads into Falaise itself) cost 10 points too.
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The Revolving Battle: my new scenario is almost complete.
The River Aksai is the last obstacle to Stalingrad.
Soviets against Germans but it just needs a few more battle-tests.
A lot of tanks
Posted soon 
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Bump!
This is the scenario i'd love to play against remember OWS (see the "choose your enemy" thread in the AAM general discussion).
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