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

Guderian · (This post was last modified: 12-23-2007, 02:47 PM by Guderian.)

Turn 9:

The 77th Grenadier Regiment and KG Maucke are close to meeting at Hemrolle. Chema's casualties are starting to add up, but he is still strong enough to be a nuisance to me. Still, the time is right to push harder and find out what he has left.

If I remember correctly, I have destroyed close to eight parachute platoons. That leaves ten left, if he has two battalions. I know the thereabouts of seven of them, which leaves three, or another company, unaccounted for. That makes sense since I've only seen five 60mm mortar platoons.

Chema has artillery at Hemrolle. I would love to overrun them. My bet is that the unaccounted for company is at Hemrolle, probably with an AT gun since I overran one in Champs and I'm betting each battalion has at least one ATG platoon.

Maybe I really didn't see three 81mm mortars. I don't sense that Chema has nine more parachute platoons running about. If he did, the map would be a lot more cluttered than it already is. I also don't hear that much movement during the replays. The unaccounted for platoons could be holding their positions, but I think Chema is more aggressive than that. He would march them to the fight.

Another TD platoon popped up next to the one that was destroyed last turn. It advanced and killed another one of my medium panzer platoons. I was able to kill the TD platoon with my remaining panzers.

I hope the TD platoons are operating in pairs. Otherwise that means Chema has two more TD platoons out there since I've only destroyed four of them (this assumes three TD platoons per company).

I hope I am close to breaking Chema's back. Hemrolle is probably his last line of defense. Once Hemrolle is taken, I will race for the exit hexes depending on what the losses are at that point. I also need to start thinking of garrisoning what I've captured. The weakest companies will be delegated to guard duty.

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