DAY 1 TURN 2
WN 66th/719th INF DIV vs 115th RGT/29th INF DIV
Dog Red
Another beach map with tanks. But this time, lady luck was on my side. I decided to take a more aggressive stance with having both my 50mm and the 75mm AT gun on the high ground where they had pretty good view down to the beach. Also, I planned on holding Arc so that he couldn't advance past the depression running the whole lenght of the map.
The battle started with Arc rushing his men towards the group of buildings just behind the atlantic wall, I held fire as both of his Shermans would've made minced meat out of my positions.
Only my 75mm had a good shot at his tanks, with 50mm needing an rear or side shot to be able to hurt them. At 29:34 mark, Arc lost his first Sherman to my AT gun, the other one was still out of reach for the 50mm and buildings blocked the 75mm's view.
At 26:24 mark, I still couldn't get a shot at that second Sherman and Arc's troops had just moved over the wall, so I gave the order for my troops to fire at will. The closes MG34 opened first backed up with few mortar rounds, soon the rest of the squads opened up towards the buildings and the circular bunker south of them inflicting heavy casualties on Arc.
This however didn't bog down his assault, he used 2-3 squads to get to the circular bunker, I counted atleast 17 WIA/KIA laying around the bunker, after my 75mm and MGs opened up on them. Don't know how many got inside the bunker, but some got. At this time he had moved his second Sherman to my field of fire and after few shots from the 50mm, it was reduced to a smoking wreck.
On the center sector, Arc assaulted one of the buildings with an engineer squad, I gunned many of them down before they got inside. They were (AFAIK) later killed.
After the first clashes we just held our positions and exhanged some shots, he kept my MGs suppressed and I tried to flush him out of the bunker by shooting it with the 50mm.
With just over minute left, Arc managed to capture the Southern most flag ninja style, never saw his guys there.
Try to make something out of it.
(Arc's movement approx.)
Arc moving his men out of the beach, first Sherman seen burning top-right of the screen.
Arc assaulting the hotspots of the map: the WN68 flag and the bunker south of it.
Arc got to both destinations but with quite some losses. Second Sherman seen burning bottom of the screen.
Arc lobbing naval barrage on my MG34, the squad was credited with 10+ kills.
And the bitter result.
