By Dawn's Early Light WTO (id:#61224)
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Hemroulle, Belgium 1944-12-25 ()
Designer: Philippe Naud
Starter kit scenario?:    Deluxe scenario?:
 
Balance:
GermanAmerican
49.333333333333%

Overview:

On December 20th, 1944, the Germans encircled the Bastogne garrison and began the siege of the small town in the Ardennes region. The garrison had little chance to defend itself against such a resolute enemy who, eventhough they lacked adequate supply, did receive a massive airdrop on the 23rd and knew that Patton’s 3rd Army vanguard was closing from the south. After the refusal of surrender offered by the Germans, the Germans prepared an attack supported by a kampfgruppe from the 15th Panzer Division. On December 25th the attack began at dawn, in the vicinity of the town of Champs, and was carried out by units of the 26th Volksgrenadier-Division.
Attacker: German (PanzerAbteilung 15 and PanzerGrenadierRegiment 15)
Defender: American (463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion)  
4 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:7.0 D:5.0
AFVs: A:5
PzKpfw IVJ x 3
StuG IIIG (L) x 2

AFVs: D:2
M4A3
M18 GMC

Guns: A:0 D:2
M1A1 75mm Pack Howitzer x 2

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Ground Snow, Mist. All units have Winter Camo, Prisoner Interrogation
Map Board(s): 16 22
Overlays: NONE
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Scenario info

Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultComments
2023-01-21(A) Rich Weiley vs Eric Topp German winCanCon 2023 - Round 1.
2023-01-21(A) Shane Pask vs Dave Wilson American winCancon 2023. I was maybe a bit cautious with my armour. I gave up on capturing the large instant win building early. I captured 4 buildings then remembered his last hidden HS was still unaccounted for. I fully searched one - but the wrong one. The Hidden HS was upstairs in a building I left.
2021-10-03(D) Paolo Cariolato vs Luca Martini American winVery interesting scenario, the simultaneous setup and the random first player give an unique feeling.
You have to outguess your opponent, I partially made it while Luca squarely got my plan.
The game was hanging in Luca's favor when a 75 ART got a CH on a PzIVJ, shocked it and collateral killed the riding squad, then turned and canistered for a DR of 2 +5 two and half squad and a leader, the MMCs break while a sniker killed the leader, my opponent give me victory.
2021-07-13(D) Chuck Dye vs kevinkilleen American win
2021-04-08(D) X von Marwitz vs David Wallace German winA quick short 4 Turn scenario in which a dr decides whether the Germans or Americans move first. This might make it a bit dicey. Overall, though, the outcomes seem to be quite even with close to 30 wins for each side (as of April 2021).

I played the defending Americans in this one and our playing came down to the last CC roll. A full AAR can be reviewed at GameSquad forum under the follwing link:

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/ft168-by-dawns-early-light-aar.161198/
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ActionDate
Pte Parts Added a playing2023-01-30 02:03:52
Pte Parts Rated the scenario2023-01-30 01:59:05
Rich Weiley Added a playing2023-01-24 03:23:36
cosarara Added a playing2021-10-06 06:28:13
ChuckD Added a playing2021-07-15 23:36:08
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CASLO (Canadian ASL Open) XXI - May 2017Michael Dorosh
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PzKpfw IVJs in cold dawn
 
Statistics:
Avg Rating: 6.69Votes: 16
Views: 3082
To-Play list count: 3
Estimated Play time: 3 hours
Recorded Games: 14
Archive recorded plays:
German6
American8
Drawn:0

ROAR Data: (as of November 2021)
By Dawn's Early Light [Confirmed]
[A] German 31
[D] American 30
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