7th Armoured Desert Rats

7A_Bjorn · Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 624 Location: US, West Coast

Made the moves I hope you guys don't mind (this way you can play tomorrow while I'm at work).

Talk to me on msn cause Allies made very agressive moves, and so did I. So we have to disband them some to keep supply to our forward bgs.

Bretteville we have meeting engagement us from west, them from north again. They have inf again maybe we can crush them or at least contain (easier).

Abbaye the move in from Hermanville so they will have same entry vl again. Contain this turn til supply is cut, next turn we can try to disband again (going to be hard we're running low on inf, but plenty of 20mm recon cars Smile

Troarn and Cagny disband them.

I'll write more in strat section

Hermanville vs Loki

Lost one panther at the end due to a map coding LOS bug. Other than that, just took ground and we can defend til we get supply. They are afraid of the panthers, Loki had 3 achilles and 3 17 pounders and didn't try to move up at all so I took most of the map with low losses. Minor inf skirmish in town and lost 1 recon car.

map coding bug on hermanville

watch out - it looks like hedge but its coded as grassy field so there is a bigger gap that is east west even though it looks like a small diagonal opening

see below, red circles are where my cursor shows grassy field and not hedge:

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7A_Bjorn · Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 624 Location: US, West Coast

Buron vs Weefunk

I used 4 tigers, one on defense 3 on attack. I cleared the northwest forest with inf and a 20mm recon car before I moved the tigers up. He launched air on one of the tigers and killed it. I took out a 6 pdr but he took out a pak. I killed a piat with infantry. Also took out a firefly at close range that he had in town with no infantry support (defending tiger shot him at 40m 1 shot 2 shots, killed him).

So mainly I lost 1 tiger, 1 pak; he lost one firefly, one 6 pdr. We gained 2 vls in north he snuck one in south at end. I held his vl to hermanville in north.

Bretteville vs Weefunk

I tried, even though I knew it would be hard, to contain him to the north since we will have to disband him to get supply to our forward bgs. So I had to take some risks and they didnt' work too well. His wolverines (3 of them) made it hell for our panzer ivs. Lost 2 pz iv due to long range LOS over the railway and another when I tried to cross railway. Lost an at halftrak that counts as armor.

Good news is I got most of the southern town with recon cars and inf.

Abbaye vs Weefunk

I held the vl to Buron and attacked with infantry and recon cars. I lost one recon car and some infantry. Worst was that a Pz IV disobeyed my orders, did a bee dance into open ground, and he ran up with a sherman and toasted it. I had 2 other panzers move up to a hedge in lower right corner 400m away, and shot at his sherman 8 times. He killed another pz iv at this range with 1 shot. Bad pz luck and also shermans are better than pz iv in this mod, i think.

But otherwise we contained him.

Caen vs Weefunk

I took one of his vls and most of his ground. He had a firefly I was hitting with shreks which immobed him. I moved up a panther for the kill and he killed me 1 shot 1 kill. Weefunk had great tank luck on all battles last night. They may have to swap bgs again since I took most of his deploy.

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7A_Woulf · Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 63 Location: Sweden

Colombelles vs. Loki

Clear orders, hold exit vl's, preserve forces and don't waste AT units. Started by collecting some Intel:

First game (where I kept the exit vl's) crashed at 00:00, so we replayed. Made a sacrifice and let him take the central vl, while he stopped my attempt to clear the bridge in the north. He captured the exit to Cagny and I lost infantry while I tried to retake it. The brave, last minute attempt to move my Marder there to retake the vl and kill his Churchill didn't work due to some DUI by the crew (but they did some nice spins Wink

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A brave engineer troop killed one of his tanks and I got some of his infantry. (And as you can see, I did another newbi error and got the wrong debriefing screen...)

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