Day2 - Chronicles Of V Panzer Army DAR - Allied Side of Things...

[Tiger 88]

Well fellas - the battle of the bulge is now over! The americans stopped the Germans in this great scenario time and time again. Scott played a hell of a good game and he is one tough tactician especially in the woods! My hat is off to him for playiing a great game! The german high command decided that a cease fire was in order and called things off with about 4 turns to go. Low resources of men and machine were cause of grave concern and the fact that the Allies were loading up on forces and german forward penetration was not occuring. My goal was to make Scott fight me at Schoenburg which this is where a hell of a tough fight occured and then blow key bridges to make his forces have to cross heavily guarded fords - this did two things: 1st - terribly slowed down the german war machine, especially all tire and tracked vehicles and 2nd - this allowed me to get my reserves into the fronts cuase let me tell you - Earl has these boys traveling great distances to get their.

Here is the final victory score card:



Here are a few shots at our armor losses - My heavy losses came at the expense of the battle at Schoenburg - I misplayed for a few turns with my opp fire and Scott made me pay. This is where Scott also lost a good protion of his armor as well.



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here our our troop losses:



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Here is the most southern ford that Scott had to deal with - you can see that eventually his forces did cross but at a very heavy expense, and then his forces went north towards Steinebruck and were stopped cold:



and here is the ford at Steinebruck - another very heavy fought out area:



Here is a shot at the scene just north of St Vith - this is where Scott tried to connect a couple of his forces together and make the push inward. I suspected this all along once the fighting tappered off east of Vith:



And here is the prized city now resting peacefully:



Scott and I had alot of fun with this great VonEarl Scenario! Hope you all had fun reading our rants and raves!