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German Commander - Fionn
Kelly Turn
1: Orders Phase: My orders conform to the defensive outline I briefed
you on previously. Basically the skirmish line is taking up positions
as are the MLR units which weren’t able to set up in their preferred
positions due to the limitations of the setup zones to which I agreed
earlier. Action Phase: The only points of note are as follows: 1.
Direct tank fire from 4 tanks has destroyed the two buildings my 150mm FO's
were hiding in. I had banked on their destruction by direct fire HE
taking at least 90 seconds or so thus giving me time to withdraw them
before the building collapsed but within 45 seconds both buildings were
shattered and my FO's lay dead within the rubble. There goes one major
plank of my defence. Still, any defence which relies on only one factor
for its strength is doomed to defeat anyway so their loss isn’t
terminal. It is just a tad uncomfortable. 2.
My two Elite Squads make it into their forward positions and immediately
spy American forces advancing towards them over Open Terrain. The
American forces are advancing at a walking pace. Why don’t they RUN
over the open terrain wherein they are most vulnerable? This sort of
slow, linear American-doctrinal advance always confuses me. I have seen
excellent players using this tactic time and again and suffering
horrendous losses for doing so and have often tried to understand why
they don’t see such an elementary failing and correct it. Ah well,
I’ll ambush Murray here within a turn or two. 3.
There is a generalised advance. I have identified 5 obvious routes of
advance. I can assume a company is allocated to each advance so that
accounts for 5 companies. Assuming there’s an advance in some wooded
terrain that I can’t see I can assume that Murray is disposing two
Battalions in his front-line and will probably be backing up each of
the three sectors ( right flank, centre, left flank) with another
Company. All in all that accounts for three Battalions. Add to that the
tanks I’ve seen so far and it seems safe to say that at least two
platoons of tanks are supporting the thrusts. So, from the few glimpses I’ve seen so far I’ve
postulated a believable American plan of advance and, until such time
as I see evidence causing me to change my mind
I will use this TO&E and assessment of enemy intentions and
planning to base my decisions.
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