Played – 6th August 2017
Normandy Invasion
D-Day +1
D-Day +1
Scenario: Destroy Objective
US Army: 175th Infantry Regiment, Charlie Company, 3rd and 4th Platoons (4x 10-man Regular Squads + Reinforcements)
Players: 2nd Lieutenant Russell Medina (C Company)
Wehrmacht: 38th Heer Infantry Division (1x 10-man Regular Wehrmacht, 1x Veteran Fallschirmjäger, 1x MG 42, 1x Medium Mortar)
Players: Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) Hans Kloff (38th)
Background
The small village of Saint-Clare is come to a small battery of German 105s, currently pounding Omaha Beach and prohibiting the Allies from properly deploying their Armor. Further, intelligence shows a small Axis Command Bunker in the area, as well rumours the is village being used a fuel dump for the nearby Panzer divisions.
Lieutenant Medina is tasked with rounding up as many men as he can get and attacking Saint-Clare, . He is told to expect well-entrenched resistance, but Command will keep funneling troops his way as-and-when they report themselves for duty.
The Panzer's are nearby, so the attack will have to be a hit-and-run.
Allied Objectives
Primary Objective: Silence the 105mm Artillery (kill the crew and be in base-to-base contact with the artillery piece).
Secondary Objective: Capture the Command Bunker and retrieve any intelligence / paperwork (kill the occupiers and remain in the bunker for an entire turn).
Tertiary Objective: Destroy the fuel dump (enter base-to-base contact with the dump)
Axis Objectives
Prevent the Allies from 'destroying' as many Objectives as they can for 7 turns.
Special Rules
1) When enough Allied soldiers have been killed to form a new squad, they can immediately enter the battlefield from their side of the table edge. Any new squad will require an NCO model.
2) All reinforcing Allied soldiers are regular troops.
3) The Allies have 7 turns to complete as many objectives as they can, after which, the Panzer's return and automatically force an Allied retreat.
Lieutenant Medina is tasked with rounding up as many men as he can get and attacking Saint-Clare, . He is told to expect well-entrenched resistance, but Command will keep funneling troops his way as-and-when they report themselves for duty.
The Panzer's are nearby, so the attack will have to be a hit-and-run.
Allied Objectives
Primary Objective: Silence the 105mm Artillery (kill the crew and be in base-to-base contact with the artillery piece).
Secondary Objective: Capture the Command Bunker and retrieve any intelligence / paperwork (kill the occupiers and remain in the bunker for an entire turn).
Tertiary Objective: Destroy the fuel dump (enter base-to-base contact with the dump)
Axis Objectives
Prevent the Allies from 'destroying' as many Objectives as they can for 7 turns.
Special Rules
1) When enough Allied soldiers have been killed to form a new squad, they can immediately enter the battlefield from their side of the table edge. Any new squad will require an NCO model.
2) All reinforcing Allied soldiers are regular troops.
3) The Allies have 7 turns to complete as many objectives as they can, after which, the Panzer's return and automatically force an Allied retreat.
Memorable Moments
1) The Fallschirmjäger defending the Trench line, cutting down over 20 US troops before taking a single casualty.
2) The assault on the Fallschirmjäger trench. Lt Medina leading a charge which wiped out the Fallschirmjäger in bitter hand-to-hand combat (the turn before the charge, they ran up to the lip of the trench and emptied their guns into the Paratroopers, softening them up).
3) Lt Kloff driving back a hand-to-hand assault on the Command Bunker.
4) A well-placed mortar strike killing most of the only squad still in a viable position to storm the Bunker with the time left (turn 5)
2) The assault on the Fallschirmjäger trench. Lt Medina leading a charge which wiped out the Fallschirmjäger in bitter hand-to-hand combat (the turn before the charge, they ran up to the lip of the trench and emptied their guns into the Paratroopers, softening them up).
3) Lt Kloff driving back a hand-to-hand assault on the Command Bunker.
4) A well-placed mortar strike killing most of the only squad still in a viable position to storm the Bunker with the time left (turn 5)
Result
Allied Phyrric Victory. Despite heavy losses, Charlie Company is successful in silencing the 105s, though they are driven back before being able to capture the Bunker or destroy the fuel dump.
Casualty List
US
Strength Deployed: 4x 10-man Squads + 2x 10-man Reinforcements (60 men + command)
Casualties: 37 men wounded or killed.
German
Strength Deployed: 2x 10-man Squads, 1x MMG, 1x Mortar (26 men + command)
Casualties: 10 men killed (The entire veteran Fallschirmjäger squad)
Casualty List
US
Strength Deployed: 4x 10-man Squads + 2x 10-man Reinforcements (60 men + command)
Casualties: 37 men wounded or killed.
German
Strength Deployed: 2x 10-man Squads, 1x MMG, 1x Mortar (26 men + command)
Casualties: 10 men killed (The entire veteran Fallschirmjäger squad)
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| Allied Soldiers lining up to take Saint-Clare |
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| The view from Saint-Clare |
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| The Fallschirmjäger preparing to defend the village |
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| The 105mm harassing Omaha Beach |
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| Allied Objective 2: The Command Bunker |
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| The Fuel Dump |
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| Fortified position of the Medium Mortar Team |
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| MG Nest overlooking the defences |
