Guderian's View - Merry Christmas! - Guderian v Feldgeneral Hoth (No peeking Chema!)

[Guderian]

Title: Merry Christmas!
Date: December 25, 1944
Turns: 18
Weather: Very Thick Fog
Ground: Snow
Visibility: 2
Designer: Keith Schur

Bastogne Perimeter: With Patton's Third Army rapidly approaching from the south, time was running out for the German besiegers of Bastogne. Field Marshal Model ordered Fifth Panzer Army to seize Bastogne at once to "lance the boil." At 0330 hours on Christmas Day the Germans played Santa Claus by delivering an all-out attack against Bastogne. The 77th Grenadier Regiment of the 26th Volksgrenadier Division hit the left half of the 502nd Parachute Infantry's line while Kampfgruppe Maucke of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division hit the right part of the 327th Glider Infantry. This would prove to be a bitter Christmas for the veteran paratroopers of the Screaming Eagles division.

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Objectives:
Clear a corridor from Rouette to Bastogne via Champs and Hemrolle.
Ignore minor objectives along flanks.
Use fog to protect flanks and infiltrate enemy lines.
Hold corridor against enemy counterattack.
Exit friendly units at Bastogne exit hex.

Orders:
The 77th Grenadier Regiment will attack Champs via Rouette.
Kampfgruppe Maucke will attack Hemrolle via Mande St. Etienne.

Turn 1:
I. Battalion, 77th Grenadier Regiment masses for attack in front of Champs.

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Kampfgruppe Maucke prepares to thread the needle between suspected enemy positions enroute to Hemrolle.

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