[CC:TLD] Arclight vs. Dowly Grand Campaign
 

Arclight: Allies
Dowly: Germany

Rules:
-AI on veteran
-30 time limit
-2min warning after all VL's taken
-Morale win on

DAY 1 TURN 1
St. Germaine de Varreville
The first battle was at St. Germaine de Varreville. It was a cluster**** with Arc's game freezing during the deployment phase and my PC running out of memory due FRAPS and crashing the game, so we decided to start over and truce the battle.

St. Marie du Mont
Second battle was 795th Ost/709th INF DIV against 506th RGT/101st AB DIV at St. Marie du Mont. I was horribly outgunned here, the ost troops tend to panic very easily. The main battle of the game was for the control of the church situated in the center of the map. Arclight had deployment zone inside, but still I decided to go with 3 squad assault against it and eventually got the victory location for a brief moment before Arclight killed or captured my troops inside. I had PaK giving support from the south road, which initially kept Arc's soldiers' heads down at the church flag, but lost visual after the first clash. After I lost the church, Arc started to advance from north, I had very little to throw at him at this point so decided to go with an final attempt to assault and gain some ground. That didn't work at all, Arc massacred my boys like there's no tomorrow and soon my morale broke and Arc got major victory on this one.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...Dowlygame2.jpg


Aftermath
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...lygame2End.jpg

Ost troops are horrible. Still, when you get the proper guys in, then Arc won't find it so easy ;)

Aye, got 2 panzer divisions in the rear ready to rumble. Just need to hold Arc back long enough so I can get them to the front. :hmmm:

Let me guess...the Fuhrer has taken a sleeping pill and asked not to be disturbed? ;)

Good luck, both of you. :yeah:

Aye, not answering my calls. :nope:

DAY 1 TURN 1

La Fierre Causeway
I had an advantage on this map as I had 3 tanks and 2 guns. On top of that, Arc had pretty crappy deployment zones. (fire directions of my tanks and guns marked)
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...Deployment.jpg


The first sight of the battle was in the southern sector where we immediately clashed, Arc had his AT gun there so I peppered it with mortar and destroyed it after a few rounds.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...wlygame3_2.jpg

In the NW sector, Arclight assaulted southwards and tried to take hold off the church, which he did briefly, until I drove the tank forwards. With the support of the tank (which BTW was immobilised next to the church by something) my infantry got hold of the church, but not without casualties.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...wlygame3_3.jpg

Arc still had lots of resistance up there.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...wlygame3_5.jpg

On the southern sector, my two tanks had done their job and I started to capture the buildings and the bridge back. Again, not without casualties.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...wlygame3_4.jpg

Last remaining pocket of Arc's resistance.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...wlygame3_6.jpg


End result
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...ygame3_END.jpg


On a side note I must say that Arc is putting up a good fight considering this is his first time playing CC. :salute:

That battle was a slaughter-house. :doh:

I'd pretty much given up on the SE in the first minutes. AT gun gone, so wasnt gonna keep the armor of the bridge, and assaulted from the S with half my guys dead before they could reach cover.

In the NW, I flanked E along the N hedgerow, setting up the mortar team that had spent their ammo close to the elongated building, and a platoon HQ just E of them. Morale finally broke when I decided to move them a bit more E and promtly got slaughtered as they took MG and rifle fire from multiple directions.

Next battle there will be interesting; only got that open field to deploy. But I has a plan... it will involve many casualties i'm afraid. Sorry boys. :-?

Use the traditional tactics: Attack! Attack! Attack!

Never fails.

Well, sometimes...

:hmmm: Wrong front. :O:

http://www.philaprintshop.com/images/wwiiattack.jpg

I remember playing one of the CC games (can't remember which one) when I was little, I may to look for it again...

Nonsense, Attaque à outrance works on every front and in every war...sometimes...

It looks cool, but I think 40 euros is a bit steep for this old title. Nevertheless, I bought it. Never tried it though, so I billed Dowlys credit card just in case.

DAY 1 TURN 1

729th RGT / 709th INF DIV vs 507th RGT / 82nd AB DIV

Amfreville

My main task here was to keep the N to S road from being crossed by Arc. I had two Marder I's to give support to the infantry aswell as two 75mm PaK's. Other than that, my lines were pretty thin and counter-attacking wasn't an option.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/1-Amfre.jpg


I started the game by trying to move my MG42 squad down in the S sector to a better position to the next house, so I could see the intersection better. Unfortunately, Arc had his troops inside the houses in the intersection, so I had to pull back with tremendous casualties (after the battle only one soldier from the squad was in condition to fight).
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/2-Amfre.jpg


He also got my PaK which was pounding the buildings, damned mortar! :stare:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/3-Amfre.jpg


With my S sector Marder pinned down, I moved my other Marder from N to try and flush Arc's boys out of the buildings, not succeeding in it.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/4-Amfre.jpg


Things calmed down in S, just to heat up up N. Arc moved his troops towards W thru the buildings N of the church. I tried to counter with my Marder which fell victim to Arc's bazooka team. :nope: The Marder was supposed to support the Grenadier's assault to take the church, but with it gone, my Grenadiers suffered quite heavily during the assault. I did get the church and held it until the end.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/5-Amfre.jpg


My flanking team in NE was spotted by Arc and after a brief firefight, we called it a draw and pulled our boys back.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/6-Amfre.jpg


With few minutes remaining, Arc crossed the intersection and attacked the N buildings, just to be repelled by the Grenadier squad and the Marder.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/7-Amfre.jpg


At the same time, I moved my center troops towards S to gain some more ground for the next turn.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/8-Amfre.jpg


End Result
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...et/9-Amfre.jpg


And comment from the other side :haha:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e..._Ferret/BS.jpg

That last move on my right flank; thought I got you pretty good, even got some guys as they moved back S, but judging from that debrief it didn't do much. Also, at the start I started tossing mortar fire as you moved between the buildings, again thinking I did some damage. :doh:

Can be hard to judge what one accomplishes. :hmmm:

You got few guys from the MG42 team when we started to shoot at each other. :yep: