Zeb and I tried out Speed over Caution on Saturday: about Turn 4, we both realized that I’d placed the Bd 6 overlay one hex row too far to the south and so we haven’t recorded the result – sorry! Despite this, I found it a really hard job to get the US infantry in decent enough shape to get into the town: the back most two buildings are bears behind the main crossroads for the US, with the HMG tearing shreds through the US.
Ended up trying to start an offboard run of tanks in T5 to get them in place for the T6 exit, though with the number of choke points available I had zero expectations of success. As expected, three went down to ATMM and fausts and then finally the Panther in Y10 (an obvious place to move it to in T4/5) blew the last M4 to pieces. Zeb didn’t even need to reveal the two backstop PSchrek squads even. Felt a tad hard on the US this one, especially with the MF penalties of going over the light bocage – really struggled to make progress. I definitely should have done more with Smoke assets but I was suffering from a complete game-long sequence of horrendous rolls so that would have all depleted quickly too. One almost ’fun for Zeb but not for Nick moment’ - I hit the first hulldown Panther in the side turret 4 times with an M4 (we’re talking 8s to kill here) and it was only the last shot on a start MP as it came out of UK status that I eventually toasted it. It was that kind of game.
Looking forward to trying more out…
Cheers
Nick