Coal in Their Stockings WTO (id:#62333)
(ASL Action Pack #10 ID: AP100)
Foy-Notre-Dame, Belgium 1944-12-25 ()
Designer: Pete Shelling
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
AmericanGerman
49.473684210526%

Overview:

By Christmas Eve, PanzerArmee 5’s attack had lost steam. Christmas morning dawned clear and bright, and ensuing Allied air activity restricted German ability to reinforce units that had made the deepest penetrations toward the Meuse River. Panzer-Division 2 in particular had been engaged for several days with its American counterpart, the 2nd Armored Division, under command of General Ernst Harmon. British XXX Corps was also reinforcing the Americans with a flanking maneuver near Dinant in an effort to cut the narrow corridor made by the Panzers. Four miles from the Meuse, at the peaceful farming village of Foy-Notre-Dame, the reconnaissance battalion of Panzer-Division 2 attempted to escape and ran into advancing elements of 2nd Armored Division attempting to clear the area.
Attacker: American (Elements of the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Armored Division)
Defender: German (Elements of Aufklarungs-Abteilung, Panzer-Division 2 and Kampfgruppe Bohm)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:9.0 D:8.5
AFVs: A:9
M5A1 x 2
M8 HMC x 2
M8 x 2
M3(MMG)
M3 ht
Jeep 2

D:4
JgdPz IV
SPW 250/8
PSW 234/2 x 2

Guns: A:1
M2 60mm Mortar
D:1
8cm GrW 34

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules:
Map Board(s): 54 67 69 70
Overlays: Hd9 Hd10
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2021-05-23(D) Andy Beaton vs Will Willow American winCASLO 2021
2021-05-23(A) Will Willow vs A. Beaton American winCASLO 2021
2020-05-06(A) Will Willow vs T. Brieaddy German winVASL
2020-04-29(A) Eben Johnson vs German win
2019-12-16(D) X von Marwitz vs Michael Koch German winI had played this scenario a couple of years ago (brief report can be read here...) as the attacking Americans, in which game it came down to the last CC roll for an American win. This time, I played the defending Germans. While I enjoyed this scenario, my opponent did not so much. He felt that his Americans would not be getting anyway - a feeling which I recall when I played them back then, too. However, once the US can figure out the disposition of the German forces and manages to crack and dint their defense, things might get hard to control for the Germans. For the US it is certainly a challenge, to keep its troops GO and going. The armored battle is quite hairraising, as most vehicles are quite thin-skinned and thus very vulnerable to the enemy MA. My opponent conceded in US turn 4 after what von Marwitz's sworn enemy and menace from the Kriegsschule in Dresden, the malicious Major von Schoff, would call 'luck' blowing up a ht with passengers and crew, while Oberst von Marwitz himself would call it 'marksmanship'. In both of my playings, the attacking US did hardly use the flank approach. It would be interesting to observe, how the scenario plays if it is used.
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aiabx Added a playing2021-06-07 19:16:27
wwillow Added a playing2021-05-23 20:31:43
Hutch Modified the Attacker's AFVs2020-11-18 11:47:12
Hutch Modified the unit counts2020-11-18 11:47:12
wwillow Added a playing2020-07-14 18:20:34
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Situation at end of GT5
75 mm M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage
 
Statistics:
Avg Rating: 7.26Votes: 23
Views: 20218
To-Play list count: 2
Estimated Play time: 5.8 hours
Recorded Games: 17
Archive recorded plays:
American7
German10
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of April 2021)
Coal in Their Stockings
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[A] German 40
[D] American 38
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