Battle for the Communications Bunker
German infantry escorted by Kriegsmarine support outflanked the defenders and attacked from the north!
The game we rolled for was secure the point, so my friend Nick setup the board with the bunker in the centre. The US had to setup one infantry unit and one other unit at the start of the game, everything else started off the board. The US also outflanked an M3 halftrack with an engineer squad inside.
This game I broke with tradition and brought a mechanised Sturm Pioneer platoon all mounted in SDKFZ 251/1 as well as an SDKFZ 251/16 Flammenwerfer. I got a free artillery observer because of the ship adjacent to the battlefield.
The first move was to send the Sturmpioneers forward to burn out the defenders, killing 3 and putting 3 pins on them, they passed their morale test.
Turn 2 the SDKFZ251/16 rolled up and finished off the GI's on the bunker roof as US reinforcements tried to rush foward.
Another SDKFZ251/1 rolled up and deposited 2 5 man LMG squads and an officer onto the bunker, one of the squads destroyed the Mortar as it rallied from the Luftwaffe air raid that came in turn 3.
The Sherman had move to counter a push by a Heer squad in the fields, successfully pinning them down, but the Goliath team was having none of it and sent their little bomb forward.
Detonating but failing to pen, it caused 6 pins! Which the Sherman then rallied turn 4.
Whilst the Sherman and the Heer squad rallied turn 4, turn 5 the Grenadiers got the first dice draw moved forward and slammed 3 Panzerfaust into the Sherman blowing the turret it sky high.
The GI's copped a blast of flame from the SDKFZ251/16 then charged the halftrack destroying it in combat.
The M3 half track arrived turn 3, by turn 5 it had fubar'd and ran away from the battle before the engineers inside and then it itself succumbing to morale as they both racked up 9 pins and quit the field.
The Aggressive Grenadiers then charged the Heavy AT Gun after it killed the Goliath operators, handily winning combat.
Turn 5 and 6 they ran towards the centre and wiped out the FAO team on close combat securing the objective for the end of the game.
The US was able to retreat unharmed from the battle, in the subsequent campaign turn the aircraft bombed the Heer infantry destroying it and recaptured the comms bunker. We then drew victory cards, scoring 1 for Allies and 5 for Germany, this also allowed the allies to bring in 4 new units and the Germans 1.
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