KönigsTiger 213 in La Gleize [B] - Wacht am Rhein - Peipers's Trail

Koen · 05-30-2008, 07:07 AM,

just booked a night at the Radisson hotel at Spa...at 20 km's of most of the locations....:cool:

LINK

Koen · 06-10-2008, 06:47 PM,

Building the WaR map and collecting info on the forces who were involved.

Keeping in mind that the scenario needs to remain playable I still want to use the correct forces in lower %'s.
I'm not going to much in detail on the facts but I do want to use the correct types and names of units and commanders.

The map will have the following towns/villages on it:

Noth: Malmedy-Stoumont-La Gleize-Stavelot-Ligneuville
Central: Baraque Fraiture-Vielsalm-Sankt Vith
Houffalize
South: Bastogne-Wiltz-Vianden

Who was where?

f.e.:

for Stavelot I've got "291st Engineer Battalion" 'Cpt Sheetz'

Stoumont+La Gleize:
German:
1 Bn PzIV+Pz V from 1st SS Pz Reg
2nd SS Pz Gren Reg
Flak Bn
1 Bn Pz VIB
1 Company from 3rd Parachute division
American:
2nd [Lienne Creek]
and 3rd Bn [Stoumont] of 119th Inf with 400th Arm Arty Bn
1st Bn of 117th Inf attacking KG Peipers lifeline
1st Bn of 119th Inf with 740th Tank Bn [from the West]
1 regimental cannon company
197th Field Art Bn

so, any type of info is welcome...making it more realistic and correct will make this one better for all of us...

oh...some good 44-45 pictures/maps of these towns are also very handy ;)

Koen :bow:

Sphinx · 06-11-2008, 02:21 AM,

Howdy,

The best book I have seen is "The Battle of the Bulge, Then and Now." I have it at home, and if interested can give you the author (I think it is Jean Paul Pallud), and publisher - it is one of the "then and now" books which I have found to be very good. Basically, he went over the battlefield trying to identify the locations of many pictures. It is now around 20 years old, so I don't know how accurate it would be. Very nice you live so close. I have to make do with the wild west in the US. Cheers, Sphinx