Abandon Ship! ETO (id:#56619)
Avalon Hill (AH:The General # 32.2 ID: G44)
Prior Publication: WCW: ASL Open `96 Scenario Pack WCW5
See Also: Abandon Ship! by Windy City Wargamers Abandon Ship! by Multi-Man Publishing
Wardin, Belgium 1944-12-19 ()
KGP CG 1: Clash at Stoumont (HASL 2 - Kampfgruppe Peiper I)
KGP CG 3: Decision at La Gleize (HASL 3 - Kampfgruppe Peiper II)
NEWS52: Time for Lunch (ASL News # 28)
NEWS53: Fuel Depot #2 (ASL News # 28)
NEWS54: Devils in the Graveyard (ASL News # 28)
NEWS55: Road Block at Stoumont (ASL News # 28)
NEWS59: Misty Morning (ASL News # 29)
ASLUG 2: Chateau Cherry (ASLUG # 1)
atp3: Peiper's Progress (At the Point # 11-12)
EP52: Time For Lunch (Euro-Pack # 2 - The Bulge)
EP53: Fuel Depot #2 (Euro-Pack # 2 - The Bulge)
EP54: Devils in the Graveyard (Euro-Pack # 2 - The Bulge)
O1: Peiper's Progress (Rout Report # 1)
KE 16: Tiger 222 (March Madness `99 Pack)
TOT 4: Stoumont: The Break-In (Time on Target # 1)
TOT 5: Retrograde out of Stoumont (Time on Target # 1)
TOT 6: Bastard Tanks & Shootin' Fools (Time on Target # 1)
TOT 7: Tiger 222 (Time on Target # 1)
WAR7: Audacity on Omaha (Wacht Am Rhein)
O115.2: The Golden Lion's Final Swipe (On All Fronts #115)
WCW 5: Abandon Ship! (ASL Open `96 Scenario Pack)
SC9: Château Cherry (ASL Digest # 3.05)
AP61: Desobry Defiant (ASL Action Pack # 6 A Decade of War)
ESG #77: The Trouble with Tito (Dezign Pak 6)
HB3 Bonus 2: Ligneuville Surprise (Hell's Bridgehead 3)
BB 3.1: Cherry Pickin (Coastal Fortress)
J156: Mageret Mixer (ASL Journal #10)
BP1 #5: Beyond Baugnez (Battle of the Bulge I)
BP1 #6: Devils in the Graveyard (Battle of the Bulge I)
BP1 #7: Fuel Depot #2 (Battle of the Bulge I)
1: Bourcy Probe (Fateful Stand)
2: Houffalize Road Probe (Fateful Stand)
3: Fateful Stand (Fateful Stand)
4: Fanwise Forward (Fateful Stand)
8: Into the Gap (Fateful Stand)
: Parthian Shots (Yaah! Issue 5)
: Spirited Defence (Yaah! Issue 5)
193: Abandon Ship! (ASL 3a - Yanks (2nd Edition))
JAVA15: Battle for Wiltz (ASL For Fun)
MM 50: The Wrong Choice (March Madness 2018 Players Pack)
WaR 7: Audacity On Omaha (Wacht Am Rhein 2nd Edition, Volume 1)
T-TERROR #27: Wo Ist Engelsdorf? (Teutonic Terror 4)
T-TERROR #28: "Damn Engineers!" (Teutonic Terror 4)
T-TERROR #29: Peiper's Petrol (Teutonic Terror 4)
NY#1: Cemetery Stand (Purple Heart)
NY#2: A Town By Any Other Name (Purple Heart)
KR#7: No Bug Out (Krinkelt-Rocherath)
NEV 3: Battle In The Ardennes (Play Pack 1)
Designer: Jeff Cebula
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
GermanAmerican
48.648648648649%

Overview:

In an effort to determine the strength and location of the Germans before Bastogne, Company I of the 501st Parachute Infantry was ordered into the town of Wardin. Upon reaching the village a roadblock was found, astride the Wardin-Bastogne road. A short firefight ensued, routing the outnumbered German defenders. The paratroopers took possession of the dreary Belgian house and organized a defense. Not long afterwards, the sounds of approaching tank engines grew louder and louder—signaling the arrival of the Panzer Lehr Division. The 130 or so men of Company I were no match for such a force. They fought bravely -- one man knelt with a bazooka in the middle of the street and knocked out the lead tank before return fire cut him down, other men with bazookas accounted for three more – but there were more panzers and too many panzergrenadiers. Captain Wallace gave the order to “Abandon Ship!” He later died leading a small rearguard around the roadblock, keeping an escape route open for his men.
Attacker: German (Panzergrenadier Lehr Regiment 902)
Defender: American (Company I, 3rd Battalion, 501st PIR)  
7 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:14.0 D:11.5
AFVs: A:4
PzKpfw VG
PzKpfw IVJ x 2
JgdPz IV

D:0
Guns: A:0 D:0
M2 60mm Mortar

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Boresighting is NA; Bldg U4 is a Two-Story House (B23.22)
Map Board(s): 24
Overlays: NONE
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DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2017-04-27(D) Richard Carter vs Scott Hasson German winThis is a brain burner. As has been said, takes a lot of thought with every move. I should have gone just a tad bit earlier. He got his panther into the victory area. I held the road block. He broke my squad with a long range shot for the win. VP US 4, German 3. (you have to win by 2).
2017-04-07(D) Jeremy Busby vs Mike Rickman American win
2015-04-17(D) Doug McMullen vs German American winExcellent scenario with a deserved reputation for requiring a lot of thought in each move.
2014-11-27(A) X von Marwitz vs Daniel Takai German winPlayed this as the German this time. My opponent decided not to stand and fight the German entry but rather to retreat in good order early, leaving behind a token force to delay the German advance during German turn 2. Unfornunately, this token force did a (too) good job and continued to bog be down while passing the W6 woods area. I could not seem to get a grip on the US except for causing only small losses even during the chase through the center of the town.being time and again held up by one or two squads left behind lurking for PB fire opportunities. Eventually, though, I did manage to rush forward considerable troops on along the southern flank and tried to trailbreak the woods bogging my Panther. I was in dire straits for time and thus partially began to find positions for some German units to interdict the US retreat towards the board edge rather than advancing further. My Panther immobilizing instead of recuperating from Bog and a US 747 recovering the 60mm MTR enabling it to fire at some woods I was planning to rush my troops forward through made me think this one a lost case. However, I could entice the Americans into final firing a BAZ toting HS, opening an opportunity for a change of flanks with one of the tanks. The Jagdpanzer then managed to create the essential Trailbreak and stopped next to the building close to the roadblock. Because the area south of the J9 builing was blocked by residual fire, I managed to bring some troops into the path/trailbreak hex and break the US 747 holding that building which subsequently surrendered. Another stack guarding the roadblock which I thought was a BAZ with at least a HS turned out to be a dummy (game was quite drawn over several sessions, so I could not remember). A valiant HS guarding 2.5 enemy squad equivalents charged along the open road and took the roadblock during advance. J9 was occupied by a German squad with an LMG, which could now lay a FL covering the bridge across the gully. I was now in a position to cover much of the open ground by long range MG fire and a tank and to cover the approaches to the bridge with a FL and two squads. The US was now in a pinch: If he fired at me, he would deal some significant damage but then he would be lacking troops to exit. In any case regaining the roadblock and keeping it seemed improbable for the US. The German on the other hand now had a good chance to drive two tanks into the victory area and be a pain there for the last US movement phase. Some more German infantry would have chances to make a run. Their chances would be rather slim if the Americans would not move but consequently not being able to exit. However, if the Americans would decide to move, these German infantry units would have good fire opportunities against them. At the start of US turn 6, the Americans conceded.
2014-11-14(A) X von Marwitz vs Francois Boudrenghien DrawI played this as the defending German during a tournament against a very kind and sophisticated opponent. Basically, the US has to fight a fall-back defense holding up the Germans as long as possible, try to hold a roadblock and exit as many VP as possible while preventing the German from gaining more VP by taking the roadblock or advancing troops and or AFV with functioning MA beyond a certain line. The German should put some thought in a sound setup because this will have an impact on the amount of delay he can impose on the Germans entering from offboard. In this, my defense seemed to work quite well, as I managed to detour the entry of the US forces by means of fire-lanes, residual FP, bore sighted hexes and a bit of "mind-tricks" with concealed units that were something else they seemed to be. At the same time, it is important to know not to forget to fall back and to correctly judge how many Americans to leave behind to delay the Germans. My plans were overthrown, when one unit of a stack that was devastated by my MTR battle hardened and went Berserk. By this way, the German would have been able to "freeze" an important Bazooka with squad which would have inevitably then overwhelmed for cheap. To avoid some serious fire, I advanced out of LOS with a second concealed 747+BAZ of all his troops except one single CX HS that remained ADJ and that I planned to take out by Advancing Fire or simply ignore for the time being. Unfortunately, it did not ignore them and used its cumulative chance of around 5% to fire AND break them. This left the area around Z9 open for exploitation. Things went from bad to worse, when an attempt to lay a firelane from T9 to AA10 cowered. Luckily, I still was able to dish out some punishment to the Germans in X9 and T10. The defence of the central woods was going well with relativley few US forces. The German Panther was a true menace in this game. About everything that it attacked suffered. My 8-1, 747+MMG in T9 was broken, and so my plans to withdraw these in GO to O10 were dashed and with it another cornerstone of my defence of that flank. These events proved to be the roots of my undoing as I could not any longer to prevent the Germans from breaching the line there which forced be to pull back from the woods except for a rearguard of 2 squad equivalents which continued to perform well. Within the village proper I tried my best to slow the US as best as possible, but a lack of 2 BAZ there was telling. I could not harm the German AFV. I managed to pull back strong forces behind hexrow L but could not prevent a trailbreak in L9 (for the lack of a BAZ in the wooded area around it while I held the J5 area strongly. Some units were on their way to the board edge safely out of LOS within the gully. Due to time constraints, we could not finish the scenario. I would not have given up yet, but the chances to win were now surely way below 50%. I would have given the win to my opponent, but he graciously insisted on a tie. A very good the scenario that is very well balanced on ROAR and lives up to its reputation (WCW5 and G44 are identical).
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Estimated Play time: 5.2 hours
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ROAR Data: (as of Nov 2019)
Abandon Ship [Confirmed]
[A] German 14
[D] American 14
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