The German fort at Point de Corsen, a rocky promontory five miles north of the Graf Spee Battery that is one of the westernmost points on the French mainland, was garrisoned by a force defined by an American intelligence report as ’50 in number, thirty to fifty years old, mostly coast guardsmen… supplied by fishing boats from Brest.’ On the evening of August 28 a task force comprised of Companies A and C of Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Battalion moved up and prepared to assault that position. It looked like a tough mission, but the task force commander, Capt. Edgar Arnold, was a veteran of the early-morning Omaha Beach assault on D-Day, and compared to that cataclysm, this job would in all likelihood be easy because the enemy garrison apparently did not have its heart in such a hopeless cause. In fact, part of the garrison attempted to escape during the night, and French partisans killed ten of them. . . . This is the only scenario here that does not use either tanks or guns, but it makes up for this with an unusual set of combatants and an Allied force composition that changes each time you play it. Set in France in 1944, a German unit comprised mainly of 2nd line troops is attacked by two separate forces: one force is made up of elite American Rangers cooperating with poorly-trained and poorly-equipped Free French irregulars; the second force is a group of escaped Russian POWs who have rearmed themselves in order to fight the Germans!
Attacker: Allies (Company A, 2nd Rangers / Free French of the Interior (FFI) / Russian rearmed POWs)
Defender: German (XXV Corps)
7 turns
Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:19.5 D:12.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0 D:0
Misc Rules:
Treat Brush as Orchard hexes. Allies roll die to determine unit count and VP required to gain VC.
Map Board(s):
u
v
Overlays:
NONE
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First time playing this one. Interesting set up with Americans and Free French (the FFI use the American counters, so you quickly forget they are French) coming in from the north and freed Russian POWs coming in from the south. The Germans get squeezed in the middle.
Steve rolled a 6 on the SSR roll, so the Allies got the max entry force, but that meant his VP number went to 22. In hindsight, I think that helped the Germans.
He massed the Americans along the northwestern edge, while he played cat and mouse with the Russians in the south. Not getting his Russians chewed up early on meant they were in position to block the German escape route to the south.
Game came down to several last turn CCs. I survived enough of them to avoid the CVP number. Well-played game on Steve's part. A few DRs either way could have flipped the result.
2022-08-20
(A) Dan Best
vs
Matt V
Allies win
KCHistori Fest 2022.
2022-05-10
(A) Eric Partizan Eric
vs
Allies win
2022-01-04
(D) Artem Kalinovskii
vs
Dmitry Klyuykov
Allies win
2022-01-04
(A) Dmitry Klyuykov
vs
Artem Kalinovskii
Allies win
I've got SSR 1 #1 with 15 VP, 3 x 6-6-7 and 9 x 5-3-6 squads. After seeing initial German setup, I've decided to rush for the hill control from the both sides, but was able even to disarm most German units around the hill.
