A Midnight Clear WTO (id:#60923)
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Trois Ponts, Belgium 1944-12-24 ()
Designer: Pete Shelling
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Balance:
German (SS)American
71.428571428571%

Overview:

Leaving their heavy equipment and vehicles behind, members of Kampfgruppe Peiper knew it was time to get back to their own lines in the waning hours of Christmas Eve. Peiper's 800 men timed their movement with the expected withdrawal of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and this went off without much activity, as the 505th PIR was trying to avoid the delay a firefight would cause. Unfortunately for the men of the 1st SS, Lt. Col. Shanley's 508th PIR was much more willing to stay and fight, and around midnight some hammering by Germans attempting to repair the bridge across the Salm alerted them to the attack.
Attacker: German (SS) (Kampfgruppe Peiper, SS Panzer-Division 1)
Defender: American (508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division)  
6.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: Yes
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:9.0 D:9.5
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: Pine Woods. All marsh is Brush. Night rules. A: Ammo Shortage
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2026-06-10(D) Douglas Leslie vs Jamie WestlakeD German (SS) win

(VASL Log)		This was part of a mini-tournament featuring night scenarios. Both of us bid for the Germans but Jamie's bid of 2 against my bid of 0 was enough for me to play the Americans. I chose substitution of a 9-2 leader for the 9-1 as the US balance.
The Germans started by sending two squads and a leader up the right flank with the rest going through the middle along the road. The reinforcing group also went up the middle. The initial moves went well. Greg rolled a lot boxcars in this game and one the right flanking force was soon down a half squad and leader with the remaining squad disrupted. Where I went wrong was in having the 9-2 and two MG manning squads remain in the centre initially rather than head north east for the exits. I failed to appreciate that broken units could remain in situ when ADJACENT enemy units. The Germans managed to exit one crew and this put the onus on the Americans to get someone off. Basically, my guys failed every morale check that they took and this ensured that they came up short. There was a lot craziness though. At one point, Jamie failed 10 consecutive stars shell attempts and his morale checks weren't anything to write home about either. Fun game though.
2025-03-25(A) Will Fleming vs Gabriele Mauri German (SS) win[Imported from ROAR]
2021-12-20(D) Simon Staniforth vs German (SS) winUS exited 3VP it would have been more but the German sniper took out the US 9-1 leader and an accompanying key squad with MMG failed it’s LLMC and never came back. Repositioned to have the Germans bottled up in the NE corner of the in the endgame but they managed a last turn run around the pond surviving 9 Def Fire shots to exit the 9-2, a squad and 2 crews for a winning 9VP. Close game, some of the terrain is hard to move through with Straying and advancing to become CX featuring
2021-03-07(D) Kevin Duval vs Dwayne Duval American winUsed German balance. Americans created a Hero & then Battle Hardened the 9-1 Leader who then also became Heroic, the end result was an impressive 'kill stack' with both MGs in it that the Germans could not get past.
2021-03-06(A) Dwayne Duval vs Kevin Duval American winThe Americans dominated immediately, moving into a great defense opposite the bridge.
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Dougban Added a playing2026-06-10 14:42:07
Bongiovanni Added a playing2023-02-08 11:23:28
Simonstan Added a playing2021-12-23 15:23:05
hoxson1 Modified the Theatre2021-03-17 21:48:42
7-0 duval Added a playing2021-03-07 22:05:30
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Avg Rating: 5.33Votes: 9
Views: 6461
To-Play list count: 4
Estimated Play time: 4.2 hours
Recorded Games: 9
Archive recorded plays:
German (SS)5
American2
Drawn:2

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A Midnight Clear
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[A] American 11
[D] German 9
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