1st Chronicles Of V Panzer Army DAR

[Cole]

First screen shot is from the battle going on at the fords. I think I'm finally making progress, but at a high cost. The American mortar unit just to the west of my highlighted infantry unit has been a real pain. They have been constantly scoring 2sp losses against my infantry but are hard to hurt. The screen shot was at the beginning of my turn. At the end I managed to make the unit retreat up the hill, disrupted, but with only a 2 SP loss.



Here's a hard knock. Last turn I was aggressive with my panzers and launched them up the hill. Unfortunately the American infantry platoon that seems almost to be surrounded recovered from disruption and destroyed at least two panzers. American infantry and their bazookas destroyed many more. The American tank unit really had nothing left to fire at but made another two units retreat. The amazing thing is Col. Otto Remar's from the Fuhrer Begleit Brigade survival. After destroying or making retreat at least 9 panzer platoons (some with only one tank left) I guess the Americans had nothing left to shoot at the good Colonel desperately trying to maintain the German foothold.
The first question mark to the west of the Colonel contains two full strength infantry platoons and the other question marks contain at least one battery of field artillery.
Most of the American armor is positioned against Kampfgruppe Telkamp. The good news in this latest engagement is that Steve did not hit me with American armor, just infantry. It will be an infantry battle for St. Vith it seems.