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Desobry Defiant WTO (id:#60823)

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Noville, Belgium 1944-12-19 (57 others)

Designer: Gary Fortenberry

Starter kit scenario?: Deluxe scenario?:

Balance:

GermanAmerican

Overview:

As part of the 5th Panzer Army during Operation Wacht on Rhein, the 2nd Panzer Division was to bypass Bastogne and push west across the Meuse River to protect the left flank of the drive on Antwerp. By the night pf a8 December, it was strung out along the muddy back roads northeast of Bastogne. Early the next morning near Norville, in a dense fog, its advance units stumbled into elements of Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division, which had been divided into teams and hastily pushed forward along the main roads to stall the German advance while the 101st Airborne Division assembled in Bastogne. After several probes, the Germans deployed to attack. As the moved out at around 10:15 AM, the fog abruptly lifted, revealing the mass of tanks and panzergrenadiers to the hodgepodge of GIs around the village. Artillery on both sides immediately opened fire.

Attacker: German (Panzer-Regiment 3 and Bataillon 1, Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2)

Defender: American (Team Desobry, 10th Armored Division, plus ad hoc elements of 158th Combat Engineer Battalion and of CCR, 9th Armored Division)

7 turns

Players: 2 OBA: Both Night: No

Unit Counts:

Squads: A:18.0 D:11.0

AFVs: A:18

PzKpfw IVJ x 4
PzKpfw VG x 3
StuG IIIG (L) x 3
sIG 38(t)M
SPW 251/9
SPW 251/1 x 6

AFVs: D:7

M4A3(76)W x 2
M4A3(75)W
M7 HMC
M8
M18 GMC x 2

Guns: A:0 D:1

M1 57mm AT Gun
M2 60mm Mortar

Misc Rules:

Mist (E3.32), Mud (E3.6). All roads paved. A: Schuerzen (D11.2)

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Publication	Board
ASL 6 - The Last Hurrah (2nd Edition)	33
ASL 10a - Croix de Guerre	43
ASL 11 - Doomed Battalions (3rd Edition)	33
ASL Action Pack # 3 Few Returned	43
ASL Action Pack # 6 A Decade of War	1a
ASL 11a - Doomed Battalions (4th Edition)	33
ASL Action Pack # 1	43

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Date	Reporter		Opponent	Result	Comments
2020-12-06	(D) John Garlic	vs	Matt Evans	American win	[Imported from ROAR]
2019-12-27	(D) patrick palma	vs	Kevin Killeen	American win
2018-12-12	(D) Richard Carter	vs	Alex Koestler	American win	Exciting game with a lot of back and forth. It is important that the US does not give up. The Germans have a hard set of victory conditions -- my opponent lost on an ESB roll in which he immobilized his HT. But the US did not have the best luck through the game either. Uses Mud, OBA, multiple vehicles, daisy chain -- so it tests the rules knowledge. Really fun scenario. Though our ending was a little anticlimactic.
2017-11-05	(D) jon smith	vs	german	American win	germans attack mainly down the right yank flank... but yank pre reg arty in the woods in front of the hedged field slowed his infantry attack forcing germans to go wider, where the scout car and 50 cal wrecked infantry in the open... some heroic bazooka work took out the 3 panthers and it was over in turn 4 when the hellcats arrived and promptly took out 2 pzr IV and then 2 moving half tracks with 2 snake eye rolls on the belt.. ouch.
2016-09-03	(D) Paolo Cariolato	vs	Andrea Pagni	American win

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GeneralFG Rated the scenario	2025-06-15 01:36:58
Hutch Modified the overview	2024-09-28 11:06:00
Hutch Modified the misc. rules	2024-09-28 10:57:48
Hutch Uploaded an Image	2024-09-28 10:54:14
Hutch Modified the Unit Elements	2024-09-28 10:52:15

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Avg Rating: 6.78	Votes: 18
Views:	6192
To-Play list count:	5
Estimated Play time:	12.8 hours
Recorded Games:	15

Archive recorded plays:
German	2
American	13
Drawn:	0

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Desobry Defiant [Confirmed]

[A] German	32
[D] American	37

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