Active armor Selarno

 

Heading for the beach under cover of bombardment 

The FritzX strikes the fleet! 

the First infantry storms ashore with airpower opening the way. 

Armor has landed. 

Resistance is fierce and deadly 

Kill the Panzers Kill the Panzers! 

My troops fight valiantly but struggle to make progress or even hold on. 

Air Power is our holey hope

Time to Dig In and hope we can hold until night fall or British relief. 

Reinforcements coming 

Men storm out of their landing craft and into desperate counter attacks

The Germans drive us into the sea

Active Armor Thrown to the Wolves Hurtgen Forest

 

We have a difficulted situation driving in on a fortified German position in the Hurtgen Forest 

the 7th engenders clear the wire the fall back with heavy losses to regroup off board while the 1st and 6ht battalions move in to assault the town. The 4th and 5th prepare to assault the fortified line

Fighting is close, fierce and indecisive

Armored forces move to secure the bridges 

2nd Battalion takes Bergstein Castes

The 6th gets into the town of Vossenack but the StuGs are still out of the.

The second assaulted the stuGs and drive them off I got my objectives but the counter attack would probably crush my depleted force 

Hittites Vs Assyrians ALDG

Last Friday  Frank and I had command of the Hittites while Arofan and Kelly had the Assyrians 

The center chariot forces the Assyrians have bow and scored some early hits. 

Hittite archers take the high ground 

Frank used his Chariots aggressively driving the Assyrian light chariots back on their heavy chariots. 

The battle initially goes well 

on the right my men take up position and Arofan approaches up deliberately

Chariots on the left advance and the battel swings back and fort as I bring up the kings heavy chariots. 

My elite chariots on the right drive off a number of their Assyrian conter part... 

The king move forward but falls in the midst of battle 

My infantry does surprisingly well and my chariots advance on the right... . 

The final few turns are a swirling battle as formations break on both sides the Hittites will the battle by the thinnest of margins.  The Cavalry battle was about even and favored the Assyrians a bit but my infantry punching above their weight (and Arofan having some really bad dice just as I had some really good dice) gave us the win.  Franks aggressive  tactic kept the Assyrians on the back foot.

Huertigen Forest November 1944

 I have command of a brigade of the 28th infantry the Bloody Bucket

Initial position 

3d Battalion goes into the woods and run into some Panzers Grenadiers ... 

and are disordered but hold their ground... 

Panzer Engines are engaged by infantry and AT guns using HE 

I think we have spotted the main German armor thrust, Panzer IVs, StuGs and Panther OH MY! 

1st and 3d Panzer Grenadiers advance on the 1st Battalions position and the 7th moves in to support them. 

US artillery and AT guns hits the Germans as they come in... hurting them... 

The 7th hits the 3rd Panzer Grenadiers and the artillery disorders the 4th Panzer grenadiers 

The 3rd Panzer Grenadiers are driven off and the two First are locked in close combat. 

The 3rd Battalion finally breaks and runs 4th Panzer Grenadier move in on the 1st Battalion. 

StuGs move into contact... 

1st Battalion is broken but US Artillery is preregistered on the location and smashes the 1st  Panzer Grenadiers. 

The Germans assault the lower left corner of our position. 

The 4th & 7th Battalions counter attack into the town.

The Engineers and 8th hammer the StuGs... Shermans engage the 5th Panzer Grenadier

the battle for the town is intenseness with Six Battalions in various state of readiness on both sides. My second Battalion break but then so does the 3rd Panzer Grenadiers. 

This Cruel War: Stones River The Union Right Wing

 

The games starts with a spine shivering rebel yell!

Yankees caught only half prepared are sent backward pell-mell.

 Its a good start but the Yankees quickly start to get organized. 

Turn 2 Celbume's Division continues to drive back Sheridan's division destroying another brigade and driving the final one back. 

My advance is steady though not as dramatic as turn 1.

Turn 3 the Yankees get Frisky and launch a counter attack but are driven back. 

The attack on the left begin well Driving one unit back. 

Then the second brigade of the echelon attack goes in! but we cannot break Through

Turn 5 my cavalry with Hardee in the lead charges and break one infantry unit 

Then Woods Brigade overwhelms another Rebel unit and captures the Yankee corps commander.