OAF 43.4"Les Trois Croix"
updated 061015
This
scenario was originally published in ON ALL FRONTS number 43 (June 1986). The
original scenario author is Tim Taylor. Original
credited playtestes are R. Hilbert & Jim Blue.This
scenario is part of a set of four that can be played with the Arracourt Tank
Battle Campaign Game. Further development, clarifications and modification have
been made to the original published scenario by Bill Thomson.
Northeast of Lezey, France, September
22, 1944: Both sides had been preparing an offensive
for some time; the Americans more successfully than the Germans. Remarkably, the
two attacks not only were launched at the same time but had identical objectives
as well: to hold the village of Juvelize.
VICTORY CONDITIONS: The player 'holding' (having an unbroken
MMC as the sole occupant) the greatest number of ground level building hexes
on board 3 between rows L and V (inclusive) at the end of 15 game turn wins
| SCENARIO SEQUENCE: |
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American sets up first |
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German move first |
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AMERICAN FORCES; Task Force Abrams [ELR 3]:
- TURN 1: Elements of A Company, 10th Armored Infantry
Battalion; enter on hex 4GG5:
1x9-2; 1x9-1; 1x8-1; 1x7-0; 3x667; 3x666; 1xMMG; 1xBax44a; 1xRadio; 2xM4A3;
3xM4A3(75)w; 3xM4A3(76)w; 3xM4A3(105)
- TURN 3: Elements of B Company, 10th Armored Infantry
Battalion; enter on hex 3GG5:
1x9-2; 1x9-1; 1x8-1; 1x8-0; 1x7-0; 6x667; 4x666; 1x237c; 1x50cal HMG; 2xMMG;
5xBax44a; 3xDC; 1x60mm MTR (#2-45); 1xRadio; 1xM4A3; 1xM4A3(75)w
- TURN 6: Elements of C Company, 10th Armored Infantry
Battalion; enter on hex 6GG5:
1x9-1; 1x8-1; 1x667; 4x666; 2xBax44a; 1xRadio; 4xM4A1; 3xM4A1; 2xM4A3
GERMANS FORCES:
- Turn 1: Elements of the 111th Panzer Brigade supported
by remnant units (including the 113th); enter on hex 3A5:
1x9-2; 1x9-1; 2x8-1; 1x8-0; 3x468; 5x467; 7x447; 6xLMG; 6xPF44a; 1xPzck; 1xDC;
1xRadio; 3xSTGIIIG; 2xPzKwIVF2(14); 3xPzKwIVH (4/2/4); 1xJagdPzIV; 1xJagdPzIV
G; 2xSpw251/1; 3xSpw251/2;
- Turn 2: Elements of the 111th Panzer Brigade supported
by remnant units (including the 113th); enter on hex 6Y10:
1x9-1; 2x8-1; 1x6+1;3x467; 5x447; 1xMMG; 4xLMG; 2xPF44a; 2xPzck; 1xRadio;
3xPzKwIVF2(13); 1xPzKwIVH (4/2/4); 1xJagdPzIV G; 1xPzKwVG; 2xSpw251/1; 2xSpw251/2;
1xKubelwagon
- Turn 5: Elements of the 111th Panzer Brigade supported
by remnant units (including the 113th); enter on hex 4A5:
1x8-1; 2x467; 2x447; 2xLMG; 2xPzck; 2xJagdPz(38t); 1xPzJagIIIM; 1xPzKwIVF2(13);
1xSpw251/1
SPECIAL SCENARIO RULES:
- OAF 43.2.1: TERRAIN: Treat hill 522 (board 3) as Ground
Level; otherwise terrain is unchanged. Environmental conditions are Moderate
with a mild breeze blowing northeast. Placed overlay A normally on board 3;
place E normally on board 6; Place H normally on board 4; Place B so that
CC1 is on 4FF2 and VV1 is on 4FF1.
- OAF 43.2.2: Both sides' reinforcement enter sequentially.
- OAF 43.2.3: Forces unable to enter do so in teh next
friendly MPh, sequentially.
- OAF 43.2.4: All radios are 100+mm OBA. The Americans
have plentiful Ammunition (107.423).
- OAF 43.2.5: The Americans receive Random Air Support
(139) in the form of Typhoons (171). When rolling of the number of available
aircraft, subtract one from the die roll.
AFTERMATH: With the resolute
stand on the high ground near the crossroads of Les Troise Crois (The Three
Crosses) by A Company and help from the XIX TAC, the northernmost German pincer
was defeated in detail (even to the death of its commanding officer), Colonel
H. v. Bronsart). After extensive artillery preparation and reinforcement, the
Americans swept through Juvelize, gathering momentum as the German forces crumbled.
The German attack had been disastrous.