OAF 11.1 "Hugh is Coming"

updated 060929

This scenario was originally published in ON ALL FRONTS number 11 (November 1983).The original scenario author is Jeff Cebula. Further development, clarifications and modification have been made to the original published scenario by Bill Thomson.


Chaumont, Belgium, December 25, 1944: 'Hugh is Coming', that was the radio message sent to the surrounded 101st Airborne at Bastonge. It meant that Major General Hugh Gaffery and his 4th Armored Division were on their way to break the siege. It was one brutal battle after another against fanatical resistance, numerous roadblocks, swirling snow, fog, and a generous complement of 88mm AT guns. One such clash occurred south of Chaumont, just 5 miles south of Bastogne.

VICTORY CONDITIONS: To win, the Americans must kill, capture, or have broken and unrallied at game's end all German squads plus destroy or have abandoned all German AFVs. Germans win by preventing an American victory.

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Overlay D, overlay N with V2 on 5AA6 and V3 on 5AA7
SCENARIO SEQUENCE:
German sets up first
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American move first
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SPECIAL SCENARIO RULES:

AFTERMATH: After promising a Christmas present for the defenders of Bastogne, CCB with its infantry reinforcement of 2nd Battalion, 318th Infantry Regiment, were stopped by accurate German fire. The stubborn 5th Parachute soldiers dug themselves in inside woods and pulled logs atop their trenches to protect themselves from tree bursts fire by the Shermans. Even after losing their armor support, the Fallschirmjaegers fought grimly, in many cases yielding only to grenades, bayonets and point blank fire. American losses were heavy. As the day ended the combat command with the promised Christmas present for Bastogne were sill six miles apart.