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
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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Another vASLOK slugfest! Some stalwarts American units and a berzerker took out some key units thus ending the German assault. Thoroughly enjoyable game with a great opponent. ASLOK record now at 2-3.
2020-10-10
(A) Andy Beaton
vs
Scott Fischbein
American win
You'd think the number of bullets I threw at 6 morale troops would have accomplished something in time to get further but no, the Americans stood firm and spent their time breaking up my forces. I started to feel hope when one M36 malfed its gun and the other two fell to the Panther in one fire phase, but it was too late.
2020-06-27
(D) Ulric Schwela
vs
Derek Cox
German win
Good 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 win
Good 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 win
Double 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 win
Another 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 win
Double One VASL
2020-04-21
(A) Andy Bagley
vs
David Murray
German win
Very interesting scenario, went down to the last turn and could have gone either way. Battle of the AFVs made the difference in the end though - German tanks landed their shots and the American TDs didn't.
2020-04-16
(D) Eric Topp
vs
John Fedirow
American win
Came down to the last CC DR
2020-04-06
(D) Chuck Dye
vs
DD
American win
2020-01-26
(A) Rich Weiley
vs
Mark McGilchrist
German win
CANCON 2020 - Round four
2019-11-18
(A) Denis Leclair
vs
Bruce Stevenson
American win
2019-10-29
(A) Will Willow
vs
David Lamb
American win
FTF
2019-10-09
(D) Andy Beaton
vs
Hank Wit
American win
ASLOK 2019
2019-08-02
(D) Jeff Waldon
vs
Ed Fritz Sr.
American win
FtF - Spreading Blaze ‘19
2019-05-19
(D) Michael Rodgers
vs
Jim Rudek
American win
2019-04-17
(A) patrick palma
vs
John Garlic
American win
2019-03-29
(A) Jason Wert
vs
Ken Dunn
German win
2019-03-10
(A) Richard Jenulis
vs
Greg Barsness
American win
Last CCPh. Germans fell one building short.
2019-03-02
(A) Michael Rodgers
vs
Oddgeir Drevdal
German win
In my third ASO round, I played HF6 JACKPOT JONES. I had the German attacker against Oddgeir Drevdal of Norway. He set up his troops pretty far forward. I split my forces in two. Most of the 548, the Panther and 1 Pz4 attacked into the buildings. The rest came in on the orchard side. This helped me early, but I needed to play all the turns to push the American troops out of the locations that I needed.
2019-01-22
(A) Jeff Waldon
vs
Keith Mageau
American win
VASL
2018-12-08
(A) Raoul Duke
vs
Big Noodle
German win
Very typical of Hatten fights. A hard house to house fight for the infantry, encased in a swirling armor battle.
As it so happened, I lost every AFV and took out none of the TDs. Their sacrifice was not in vain though-- they were able to clear a path to victory for the infantry.
2018-12-01
(D) Jonathan Kapleau
vs
Loper, Robert
German win
2018-11-13
(D) Jeff B
vs
Magnus Rimvall
American win
Germans attacked exclusively from the east. Not much for the Americans to do except hug the stone buildings and try to maintain as much concealment as possible. Turn 3 he swung some infantry around from the north, but I was patiently waiting for him with my hidden TDs. The only TD he was aware of was desperately clinging to life with the Panther in its face. If I didn't get APCR I'd be keeping concealment and praying. One APCR round later and dead Panther. That was monstrous. Next turn the scouting infantry from the north got stonewalled by my TDs, while the Germans tried to get a toehold in L19/K20. They would try this two turns and get severely rebuffed both times. After the second time they had no more punch left and threw in the towel. Well I've said defending in Hatten, especially as the Americans, shouldn't ever lead to victory so I was wrong. But I needed some extremely lucky dice to get there. This scenario's a bust.
2018-11-05
(A) Tom Kearney
vs
Lindsey Murillo
German win
The main German attack came from the north with a supporting effort from the east. The northern wing was temporarily stalled but picked up momentum after the eastern thrust made contact. The US found themselves getting pinched from two sides and conceded on turn 5.
