Panzerpioniere! WTO (id:#66362)
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Designer: Lionel Colin
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Balance:
GermanAmerican
33.333333333333%

Overview:

Together with the French 2e Division Blindee, the newly-arrived and inexperienced American 4th Armored Division was converging on Alençon in an attempt to close the Falaise Gap from the south. In their way stood fresh but outnumbered elements of Panzer-Division 9. Upon learning that the Allies had established a bridgehead on the Orne Saônoise river, an immediate counterattack was launched with tanks accompanied by armored pioneers. Attacking from two different directions, the Germans surprised the Americans and soon hit them hard.
Attacker: German (Panzer-Pionier-Kompanie 3 and Panzer-Kompanie 2, Kampfgruppe Streit, Panzer-Division 9)
Defender: American (Company C, 46th Armored Infantry Battalion and Company C, 34th Tank Battalion, Task Force Burton, 4th Armored Division)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:9.5 D:11.0
AFVs: A:8
PzKpfw IVJ x 5
SPW 251/10
SPW 251/1 x 2

AFVs: D:8
M4 x 5
M3A1 ht
M3 ht x 2

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: Bocage. Stream is Deep; Hexes 72A8 and 72GG5 are stream hexes.
Map Board(s): 54 72
Overlays: Hd5
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DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultComments
2023-06-20(A) Paolo Cariolato vs Federico Corso German winGreat Scenario, lot of options for defender and attacker alike.
in our game Federico lost 3 sherman to the same squad (2 for a PSK and 1 to PF) a 4th was killed by a PzIV.
Even with these losses it was a close game.
Both sides needs to understand and play a good bocage game, if it's not your piece of cake leave it on the shelves.
I had great fun. will play it again.
2023-03-25(A) David Garvin vs Rob Loper American winFor Nor Easter
2023-03-01(D) Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås vs Jim B German win
2023-03-01(A) Andy Bagley vs Matt Ellis German winSecond playing of this scenario, just managed to pull off a win as the Germans. I committed everything to a big push on the right (west) flank, avoiding much of the bocage. With a few fortunate shots I managed to eliminated all of his M4's, but the Americans fell back to a defence line along hexrows R/P and it looked for a while as though I wouldn't be able to get the last building I needed for the win. The Americans were perhaps a little too passive in defending building R1 (skulking when they should have prep fired?) and I managed to take it for the narrowest of wins.
2023-03-01(A) Jim Bishop vs Øyvind Jacobsen Bjørkås German winØyvind sets an up-front defense which initially was a little tough to crack. I made good use of the terrain and managed to create local opportunities of overwhelm the defenders capturing a few of the central buildings. I found a long hidden LOS on turn 1 to eliminate one Sherman on the German right. I eliminated the immobilized Sherman with a PF shot on turn 1.

Øyvind abandoned his hts where possible but I eliminated them for a point. I was able to track down all but one of his Shermans. The game was settled when I parked a MkIV on the bridge to gain control of that. I was over the necessary VP and gaining ground so Øyvind conceded.

It was tight for a long while but then started to snowball. I think this might be slighter pro German in the long run.
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cosarara Added a playing2023-06-21 17:55:04
peacmyer Rated the scenario2023-05-08 01:54:59
von Garvin Added a playing2023-03-26 22:37:14
Sparafucil3 Added a playing2023-03-08 13:04:48
Andy_Bagley Added a playing2023-03-08 10:35:13
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Estimated Play time: 6.1 hours
Recorded Games: 9
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