Evening battles 12th of June - 7 in total
Lebisey Woods
Good battle, lots of firing, no larger movements. Ronson ambushed my brave infantry in the most beautiful way. See, my heavy weapons couldent get to him, but as soon as I entered the building his ambush triggered. I therefore lost a experienced and very good team.
Ronsons infantry ambushed my brave men as they were moving forward trying to capture the Hotel flag
Bretteville
Nothing happens, I offer true after 15 minutes; Ronson accepts. We both seem to percieve the situation here as locked. Nobody wants to move forward.
Abbaye D'Ardenne
This was a fun battle. Think we both liked it. Lots of infantry fightings from start to end. The battle was focused on Jocks Farm and the hedges and fields around it.
In the fields surrounding Jocks Farm, Ronson has tried to encircle the farm. In this battle yet another Sherman gets knocked out.
At Jocks Farm it self, the slaughter continues.
Near battle end I decide to send up my last Mark IVC to the Farm, as it is under heavy pressure.
BOOM! the antitank gun lurking in the crops take out my brave Mark
Allied cumulative losses:
21 Tanks and TDs
Unknown amount of damaged tanks
7 vehicles
5 guns
309 men
German cumulative losses:
10 Mark IV Panzers
11 vehicles (of which 3 are halftracked Pak40)
2 Pak40
218 men
Lingevres
I capture an entire hedge without losses, however, then I decide to capture the Orchard flag, which I do, but when Ronson counter attack I loose my brave squad and loose the flag again. Otherwise a good battle.
Troarn
I was way too slow. Ronsons BG is cut off, thus getting low on ammo. I should have assaulted instantly. Instead I waited several minutes for him to make a move. Thus important time was lost. However, the reason for being as slow on the attack as I was, was the threat of barrage or air strike, especially the latter, that are very deadly. The highest amount of loss the 346th has taken is around 20 men in one single air strike.
Eventually I do get organised some suppressive fire and then manage to neutralise the flag in the Church.
Bois du Bavent
With the previous disastrous battle in mind, I was expecting to be totally overrun. However, although I am overrun, I manage against all odds, to inflict heavy losses on Ronsons formation. The Faust and the MG 34 became the primary weapons in this battle, where I lost 14 out of 15 teams, but still managed to capture several flags that Ronson then recaptured, except one.
Before the battle I removed all but one of my infantry squads, replacing them with antitank teams, consisting of two or three men.
The formation that will try to fight against all odds
Ronsons BG
My deployment
The first two hedges has been lost, but in the third awaits my Faust - BOOM!
Antitank teams with grenade-bundles are highly effective against allied infantry
A Sherman attempts to capture the last flag - BOOM!
After a failed attempt to move in another Tank, Ronson use his barrage on my brave gun
Simultaneously I infiltrate and recapture flags
Battle ends with Ronson just managing to recapture the exit to Merville
Truppe Landwehr is the only surviving team after the battle
This was a great battle. Lots of unexpected things took place. I never thought I would last to the end, or inflict so big casualties on Ronsons powerful formation, nor capturing flags.
I have a feeling that the battle on this map is far from over.
Ranville
I once again manage to capture the exit to Bois du Bavent, but Ronson also once again manage to recapture it Otherwise lots of fire fights between two of my infantry teams and what sounded like an allied HMG. Ronson makes a push for the church but is stopped at the walls.
Total losses and situation debrief June 12th PM