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Savelborn, Luxembourg 1944-12-19 (55 others)

Designer: Pete Shelling

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Balance:

GermanAmerican

Overview:

The southern shoulder of Operation HERBSTNABEL saw weak German Volksgrenadier divisions gain early success against resting American divisions on the Luxembourg side of the Our River, including the 60th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 9th Armored Division. By 18 December, with his companies separated and surrounded, Lt. Col. Kenneth Collins did his best to make an organized retreat towards Ermsdorf and Fels. As the main attack of Volksgrendier-Regiment 986 hit Savelborn in the afternoon, it was repulsed by the quad .50-caliber halftracks of the 482nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion.

Attacker: German (Volksgrenadier-Regiment 986, Volksgrenadier-Division 276)

Defender: American (60th Armored Infantry Battalion, Combat Command A, 9th Armored Division and 482nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion)

6.5 turns

Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No

Unit Counts:

Squads: A:16.0 D:11.0

AFVs: A:3

StuG IIIG x 3

AFVs: D:4

M8 x 3
M16 MGMC

Guns: A:0 D:0

M2 60mm Mortar

Misc Rules:

Treat all woods as Pine Woods

Map Board(s):

10b

Overlays:

NONE

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Date	Reporter		Opponent	Result	Comments
2023-09-21	(A) Paolo Cariolato	vs	Federico Corso	German win
2023-09-19	(D) X von Marwitz	vs	Michael Koch	American win	I expected the German attack would come from the left American flank and through the center. Instead, it came mostly from the right American flank. In the beginning, there was not much to stop the German onslaught. Forward units of the Americans were rather quickly overwhelmed and beaten back. The German StuGs massed on one hill to break the US forward positions and to place SMOKE, then supported the Germans on the right American flank. I played the Meatchopper conservatively, as there was no chance when getting near the StuGs where most of the German Infantry was. Instead, I wore down 1.5 German squads on the US left planning to bring this mean machine into action later, when it would literally be a PITA for German units. Somehow, I "figured" that the M8s and the Infantry would come in on Turn 1, why the US right flank was rather weak initially. The Germans pushed hard and for a while I thought that my units in the Church area would not be able to stem the tide. But then, a US 666+MMG broke a German stack consisting of his 8-1, two 467s, and a MMG. This brought the critical respite for the US, so that the reinforcements could arrive just in time to strengthen the Church area before the Germans could capture the Multi-Hex buildings there. As a result, with the remaining US forces I had bottled up the Germans pretty well, so that my opponent conceded. The dice helped me in some important occasions, otherwise the game might have been closer.
2023-09-04	(D) Will Willow	vs	Larry Rohlfing	German win
2023-08-13	(A) Ron Garcia	vs	Darryl M.	American win	Got a little aggressive and lost two tanks early. Uphill battle from there, and my Germans took it on the chin.
2023-07-15	(D) Jonathan Plott	vs	Paul Sidhu	German win	Played this very enjoyable scenario with Paul Sidhu. As the defending Americans, my first reinforcement, the deadly M16 quad .50 HT, malf's on the first shot...and I fail my first (of many) personal morale checks. My faulty defensive scheme prevented any useful attrition of the advancing bosche. Highlight of the game (for me) was a bounding fire shot from of my M8 ACs (37LL) that took out one of Paul's Stugs, but it was too little too late, as too many of Paul's landsers were well positioned to overwhelm the defenders. Congratulations, Paul!

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Action	Date
Rohlfinglaw Linked the scenario to ROAR	2023-09-24 11:49:54
cosarara Added a playing	2023-09-22 20:34:53
von Marwitz Added a playing	2023-09-19 21:35:05
von Marwitz Uploaded a VASL file	2023-09-13 11:09:52
von Marwitz Uploaded the Board image	2023-09-13 11:08:54

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(shoulder2shoulder map.png)	Map Image	hoxson1	107
(J212 Shoulder To Shoulder no VC no SSR no Pics v666.jpg)	Map Image	von Marwitz	23

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Avg Rating: 7.05	Votes: 20
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To-Play list count:	4
Estimated Play time:	5.9 hours
Recorded Games:	17

Archive recorded plays:
German	9
American	8
Drawn:	0

ROAR Data: (as of November 2021)
?119 [Confirmed]

[A] Japanese	1
[D] American	1

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