Purple Heart Lane ETO (id:#59921)
Multi-Man Publishing (Operations #50 ID: S19)   [next]   [previous]
Carentan, France 1944-06-12 ()
Designer: Brian Youse
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
AmericanGerman
48.780487804878%

Overview:

Having secured the area behind Utah Beach, and with the 29th Infantry having captured Isigny, it was now up to the 101st Airborne to take Carentan to allow the linkup of the two American beachheads. The 327th Glider Infantry Regiment would clear the area between Isigny and Carentan and attack the city from the east. The 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment would have to attack over a causeway banked six to nine feet above the marshlands of the Douve that crossed four bridges over branches of the river and canals. Tough fighting got the 502nd over the fourth bridge outside of town, where they faced a series of determined German counterattacks until relieved by the 506th PIR. On the morning of June 12th, Colonel Robert Sink ordered the 506th’s 2nd Battalion to attack into Carentan.
Attacker: American (2nd Batt., 506th PIR, 101st Airborne)
Defender: German (6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment)  
6 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:7.0 D:5.0
AFVs: A:0
AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0 D:0

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Treat Grain as Flooded hexes (Merderet marshes) - may not be entered. CC6 woods are OG.
Overlays: NONE
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DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2024-11-26(D) Kermit Mullins vs Dan Best American win1 hrsMy Germans struggled to get good rolls against moving in the open Americans. My first roll in D Fire was a 12 and promptly broke 1 of my 2 LMG's. I held the Americans back until Turn 5, when they took 7 buildings and I had had enough. American win.
2024-11-26(A) Dan Best vs Kermit Mullins American win1 hrs
2024-10-05(D) Nicolas Leste-Lasserre vs American win
2023-12-20(D) Justin DiSabatino vs Self German winAn interesting scenario of the Americans, who had a strong start in pushing into the central village and ousting the German 2-3-8s and LMGs. One managed to make it back to R7, which would prove helpful later in making it challenging for the Americans to cross to the southern village. A reinforcing German 5-4-8/LMG set up in P1, which let the Germans hinder the effectiveness of American smoke by being able to fire from either flank and also keep broken American troops under DM. It did not hurt that the German reinforcements rarely broke.

The American broke and rallied every time after being repulsed, but ultimately ran out of time to force the last two buildings needed for the win.
2023-02-13(A) Alberto Pomar vs Israel German win
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Estimated Play time: 1.6 hours
Recorded Games: 41
Archive recorded plays:
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