Hell for the Holidays WTO (id:#61438)
Marvie, Belgium 1944-12-20 ()
KGP01: Shadows of Death (HASL 2 - Kampfgruppe Peiper I)
KGP05: Marechal's Mill (HASL 3 - Kampfgruppe Peiper II)
KGP06: Probing the Villas (HASL 3 - Kampfgruppe Peiper II)
KGP09: Carnage in the Night (HASL 3 - Kampfgruppe Peiper II)
KGP CG II: The Bridge at Cheneux (HASL 3 - Kampfgruppe Peiper II)
KGP CG IV: Prayers in the Dark (ASL Journal # 3)
KGP CG 4: Above the Prayers (ASL News # 28)
NEWS62: Down the Road (ASL News # 30)
EP62: Down the Road (Euro-Pack II - The Bulge)
KGP CG 4: Above the Prayers (Scroungin' ASL News)
BdF 1: Meat Choppers (Baraque de Fraiture)
KE 17: Nightmare (March Madness `99 Pack)
TOT 8: Nightmare (Time on Target # 1)
TOT 9: Beat Feet to Foy (Time on Target # 1)
CDN29: Distinguished Service (The Canadians In Italy 3: D-Day Dodgers)
WAR8: Bastogne Roadblocks (Wacht Am Rhein)
WAR9: Big Bonus (Wacht Am Rhein)
WAR10: Line in the Sand (Wacht Am Rhein)
O56.2: Resupply at Samrée (On All Fronts # 56)
TAC28: Il Etait Une Petite Colonne... (Tactiques # 3)
KGP CG 5: Squeezing Peiper's Bulge (View From the Trenches # 24)
KGP CG 5: Squeezing Peiper's Bulge (Rate of Fire #12)
BdF#1: Meat Choppers (Baraque de Fraiture (2nd Edition))
BP1 #2: Down The Road (Battle of the Bulge I)
GJ048: Marvie Melee (Grumble Jones)
GJ096: A Mickey Mouse Effort (Grumble Jones)
5: Back Through the Fog (Fateful Stand)
6: A High Price to Pay (Fateful Stand)
ESG114: Suffering at Samree (Dezign Pak 10)
CA!13: Toll Bridge (Counterattacks 2)
WaR 8: Bastogne Roadblocks (Wacht Am Rhein 2nd Edition, Volume 1)
WaR 9: Big Bonus (Wacht Am Rhein Second Edition Volume 2)
WaR 10: Line In The Sand (Wacht Am Rhein Second Edition Volume 2)
BISt #5: Along The Ipoly (Steel And Blood)
HFP #9: Ipoly River Stand (Freedom's Price - Hungary 2)
ASLN62: Down The Road (Critical Hit #8.1)
ASLN62: Down The Road (Critical Hit #8.2)
ASLN KGP CGIV: Above The Prayers (Critical Hit #8.2)
Designer: Pete Shelling
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Balance:
GermanAmerican
45.833333333333%

Overview:

The roadblocks along the Wiltz road had not been established in vain. Even the disaster at Wardin bought time for the 101st Airborne to move into position around Bastogne. Just as Lt. Colonel Roy Inman's 2nd Battalion of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment was relieving some engineers in the village of Marvie, a platoon of German tanks, led by a single Jagdpanzer, began shelling the town and engaging Team O'Hara's light tanks. At 1100, a company of panzergrenadiers in halftracks, came barreling out of the woods right into the town and almost on top of Inman's glider men.
Attacker: German (Panzergrenadier-Lehr-Regiment 901, Panzer-Lehr-Division)
Defender: American (Company E, 327th Glider Regiment; Team O'Hara, CCB, 10th Armored Division)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:7.0 D:6.5
AFVs: A:10
PzKpfw IVJ x 3
JgdPz IV(L)
SPW 251/9
SPW 251/1 x 5

AFVs: D:4
M5A1 x 4

Guns: A:0 D:1
M3A1 37mm AT Gun

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Ground Snow (E3.72); HtH CC (J2.31)
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-05-13(A) Dave Mareske vs Craig Renier German winThe Germans moved quickly covering a fair amount of ground on turn one and isolating the US MMG and leader. The US armor made a push to try and cut off some routes, but first one and then a second armor were taken out. The German Panzers were a bit unlucky as the one ran into the HIP AT gun and another fell to a lucky BAZ shot. Two Melees could have gone either way, but they went in favor of the Germans. In the end the Germans broke enough infantry that they were about to taken the required building and stay under the CVP cap (33/40).
2025-05-13(D) Craig Renier vs Dave Mareske German win
2024-12-20(A) Jacob Elmqvist vs ingemar gardell German win
2024-12-01(A) Dan Owsen vs Jeff Newell German win8 hrsGermans were able to hold on until the end to win. Made some risky moves to rush to the backfield, but it paid off.
2023-08-27(A) Ron Garcia vs Darryl M. German winI played as the Germans and I didn't feel good about this scenario. SSR 3 and 4 seemed like a recipe for disaster for the Germans. I kind of gamed that rule and loaded the three Pz IV's with three HS and turned their turrets in strategic locations. It worked in that none of the HS's failed their bail out MC's. I unloaded the other squads near the closest buildings I could find since there is no CS.

My friend set up pretty spread out to cover logical areas of advance. I also entered spread out hoping to find the wild card in the scenario, the HIP 37LL AT Gun. It was a bit forward in 65 K6 which luckily one of my HS found before my tanks were set to move past it. I quickly swarmed it and took the crew out in CC.

I was able to take out two of the tanks quickly with the other two about to be dispatched in the next player turn (one had a malfunctioned gun due to a failed IF shot so I parked a Mk. IV next to it, and the other was six hexes away from the JgdPz with a -2 acquisition on it).

The real damage was done with two(ish) lucky shots early in the game. A concealed US 8-1 and a bazooka toting HS made a run for the center of the playing area. I took a free LOS check and nailed them with snakes on a -2 shot. The second was during the next turn when the US 9-1 and a bazooka toting 667 ran up to try and take out the 75* halftrack. Two(!) CH's in a row killed the leader and broke the squad (both survived the first CH). With only one leader left, no tank support to speak of, and one BAZ, my friend's PMC failed and he called it early. Can't say that I blame him. He wasn't diced, I just made great rolls when I really needed them. Still, I think this scenario heavily favors the Americans. A too aggressive German player will pay dearly with all those loaded halftracks.
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Estimated Play time: 5.3 hours
Recorded Games: 24
Archive recorded plays:
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American13
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Hell for the Holidays
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[A] American 45
[D] German 29
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