Jackpot Jones ETO (id:#63440)
Hatten, France 1945-01-11 ()
Designer: Andy Rogers
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Balance:
GermanAmerican
45.714285714286%

Overview:

Lieutenant Colonel Holton had three experienced companies available to him from the 2nd Battalion, 315th Infantry Regiment, for the defense of Hatten. They were supported by a platoon of M18 Hellcats, ably led by Lieutenant Robert Jones. The Germans, their eyes fixed on the neighboring villahe of Rittershoffen, launched a series of spoiling attacks on each of these companies, with the goal of ensuring the Americans in Hatten did not interfere with German plans to attack Rittershoffen. Smaller German attacks fell on E and F Companies positioned in the southern portion of the village. The greater German effort, supported by a number of panzers, fell on G Company in western Hatten in and around “The Fort”. This location was the American defensive position closest to the intended German attack route from Hatten to Rittershoffen.
Attacker: German (Bataillon I, Panzergrenadier-Regiment 125 and Panzer-Abteilung 1, Panzer-Regiment 22, Panzer-Division 21)
Defender: American (G Company, 315th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division and B Company, 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:12.0 D:9.0
AFVs: A:6
PzKpfw VG
PzKpfw IVJ x 2
SPW 250/1 x 3

D:3
M18 GMC x 3

Guns: A:0 D:0
M2 60mm Mortar x 2

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: GS. D: may setup two M18s in woods/orchards HIP and retain Concealment when firing MA
Map Board(s): Hatten
Overlays: NONE
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Players wanting to play this game/Request a match:
etopp: I would like to play this as the Germans. Any takers?Challenge pending..

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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentResultComments
2020-06-27(D) Ulric Schwela vs Derek Cox German winGood solid play by Derek and a bad setup by me gave the Germans a helping start. Luck went up and down for both sides, the usual dramatics and much fun. Two M18s each went on 5-6 shot ROF tears, one bouncing off the Panther, the other beating up infantry. American must make sure to keep the eyes on the prize, and not set up too many delaying units too far from the VC area like I did, or they will be trying to recapture the VC area from the German!
2020-06-27(D) David Ramsey vs Matt Ellis American winGood game. The Americans lost the tank battle but won the war. Mostly I kept concealment and slowed the German advance down. The Germans can't take this one slowly - there's a lot of buildings to take and taking on the US concealed in CC is tough.
2020-06-27(D) Paul Legg vs Chris Doary German winDouble One vasl tournament 2020
Lots of fun in this US mortars on ROF tears, Panther taken out by a frontal intensive fire crit, a successful brokie withdrawal from cc and loads more.
Would improve my setup as there were too many units on the northside, held the two VP locations on the northside of the street through the fort but couldn't destroy enough german afvs.
2020-06-27(D) Andy Bagley vs Bill Durrant American winAnother close one which went down to the last turn. The luck swung to and fro: some early German successes and a mistake by me to lose an M18, but then my other Hellcats got hot: one knocked out a PzkwIV before surviving a blizzard of panzerfausts and going on to eliminate the Panther. The Germans were close to resigning by turn 5, but a desperate charge resulted in a German squad going berserk and eliminating my best leader, squad and MMG in CC. It looked as though he was then going to secure the necessary 8 locations with more AFVs than me, as halftracks are included, but then I hit one of them in my last AFPh when I needed a '3' to do so. Which meant the Germans needed nine locations, which they couldn't do. Phew!
2020-06-27(A) Will Willow vs I. Ainsworth American winDouble One VASL
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Avg Rating: 6.70Votes: 27
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To-Play list count: 1
Estimated Play time: 4.6 hours
Recorded Games: 23
Archive recorded plays:
German9
American14
Drawn:0

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