Hell for the Holidays ETO (id:#61438)
Marvie, Belgium 1944-12-20 ()
Designer: Pete Shelling
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Balance:
GermanAmerican
58.666666666667%

Overview:

The roadblocks along the Wiltz road ahd 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

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)
Map Board(s): 64 65
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2020-06-10(A) patrick palma vs John Garlic German win
2020-04-06(D) Stephen dedier vs Johnston, Mike American winMike and I had played this before but we switched sides.
The tone was set early when the Americans took out a PzIV with a Baz shot to the front turret. The Germans tried to move the main force around the right flank with a token PzIV and 2 1/2 squads on the left while the Stump threw smoke from the overwatch position.
I had to move my Stuarts into a cover for the right flank while the infantry concentrated on the middle and holding concealment as much as possible.
One Stuart got a lucky LR shot on a loaded HT for the kill. The Jagd flamed a Stuart with the Armor leader. PzIv got in position on another Stuart but only managed to immobilize. My AT revealed in the German move phase with a side shot on a PzIV from close range and managed to destroy it and spin to take a shot on another with rate. Didn't get that but finished him in the next turn getting rate multiple time.
Mike tried to push the HT into the middle to unload and get the infantry moving. I managed to take out a FS with an MMG and 2 more 1/2 Squads. The AT gun got crazy and took out 2 HT trying to move into position to sleeze infantry.
With 42VP and no buildings yet, the Germans conceded. Para's just took out too much armor and were in a strong position to keep the Germans out of the 7 total building hexes they needed and even if they got them it was unlikely Germans could kill enough units to get to the 1/2 CVP total. Good game luck was on my side this time.
2020-01-12(D) Jeff B vs Tom Mueller American winI really didn't like this scenario. The Americans have a large area to protect with a small force, while the Germans have very little of their own to protect the gains they need to take. This will most likely result in one of those games where forces are racing back and force between buildings to gain/re-gain control. It's also naturally going to be very dicey, and much will depend on the placement and performance of the American AT gun. In our game I lost mine to a CH from a PSK before I could even take a shot. I thought that would be game, but I pressed on. I had setup all my vehicles in buildings, both to try and cling to life as long as possible, and to limit easy access by the German infantry. When enemy tanks came in sight I kicked into motion. This type of cat-and-mouse situation is just no fun for me. To cut to the chase, the Germans MALF'd two MAs, which increased my survivability, and I was able to come up with some lucky shots when needed. Blah blah blah.
2019-06-19(A) Tom Abromaitis vs American win
2019-01-19(A) Stephen dedier vs Johnston, Mike American winA fun contest with my Germans making good progress up the American flanks and eliminating the AT gun without loss. Unfortunately for me, the Americans held out in a stone building on the right and proved difficult to dislodge and stubbornly held at the depression on the left. The Stuarts bravely swarmed in and lost all of their number but not without significant damage to the Germans including the Jag. Germans helped the cause by malfing the Stump and one Pz. It still came down to it with the thin Germans against the thin Americans but I was only able to get 6 building hexes in the end.
Fun scenario with the dice rewarding and taking away.
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wwillow Added a playing2020-07-05 21:32:28
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Avg Rating: 5.57Votes: 14
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To-Play list count: 6
Estimated Play time: 5.3 hours
Recorded Games: 12
Archive recorded plays:
German4
American8
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of Nov 2019)
Hell for the Holidays [Confirmed]
[A] American 40
[D] German 23
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