#16_14s Wacht am Rhein (Herbstnebel)

[Plain Ian]

German Turn 1 (played back in April) 

I went with the easy option and chose Hoes Venn for my landing site. The rough plan was land and start harassing the enemy artillery and luck prevailing meet up with the 326th VGD. 

So how did it go?



Well I guess it went as well as it did historically? 

7th Gruppe landed the closest to the target drop zone but unfortunately adjacent to US Engineers. It lost 1 man in the fight and I pulled it quickly back north. 

The rest of the Gruppen landed safely but were badly scattered. However I was quite happy to see that most Gruppen had suffered few losses and Fatigue was still relatively low. 

Unfortunately 8th Gruppe hadn't read the script...or maybe they had and decided to head straight towards the 326th VGD! AS the 326th VGD mounted their attack on Monschau they were surprised to hear the sound of a Ju 52 and even more surprised to see a solitary paratrooper drifting down towards them! The US troops were even more surprised as despite a hail of fire the lucky man would survive. (thank you Alt Fire) 

A hero's welcome awaits him back in Berlin!