Rendezvous with Destiny
Scenario 4 On the Outskirts of Town.
Background.
As the worst of the counterattacks end, the US forces continue the push down the road towards Carentan. The Germans establish a hasty defence on the outskirts of town to stem the tide.
Patrol Phase Deployment
A Delaying Action, in the main rule book and all deployment is as stated there. The US and German initial Patrol Marker deployment options are shown above.
The US player has ten support points available.
The German player has four support points available. The German player begins with one full Chain of Command Dice.
101st.
"With the Krauts on the run we advanced on Carentan. Once again we were lead platoon, and once again I put Bobby Hope on point. The Germans had come up with a hasty defence and my plan was to put maximum firepower into them. They have given me Sergeant "Danny" Kaye and his squad from second platoon, and I put him with Costello. That old man will look after the boy... Abbott and his squad will stick with me..."
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| That really is Bing in a Lieutenant's uniform by the way. A scene from the movie White Christmas. Danny is just out of shot to the left, having a huge panic attack. Serves them right for singing at the Germans! |
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Sergeant Bob Hope in 1944... Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, although he is on stage telling jokes here rather than fighting the "Krauts". The Germans take a medic and an extra MMG team. The Yanks take a Sherman, the by now obligatory .50 Cal and an extra squad. |
The basic shells are recycled Eureka cardboard packaging, easy enough to do although I made sure that they would pack inside each other for storage. These won't get any roofs. Window shutters and doors will be coffee stirrer sticks and the render a filler/plaster mixed with sand. I put an attic sections into one of the buildings.
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| Doors, windows and plaster |
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| Authentic green shutters |
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| Almost finished, but they need to dry out and have the edges lined and the highlighting before my Germans can get their MG42s inside. |
On with the game.
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| Patrol phase |
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| The deployment points |
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| The 101st get initiative. Sergeant Bob Hope leads first squad on along the hedgerows. |
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| A 50 Cal goes down, with a jeep to drive it around it gets into position behind a hedgerow. |
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| Sergeant Telly Savalas motors along in a supporting M4 |
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| The Germans infiltrate Lmg teams into the buildings |
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| With the 50Cal pounding the first farmhouse Bob leads his boys in a run across open ground |
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| Bob leads the assault. Its bloody to the point f lunacy. The Germans are wiped out, but Bob falls, shot through the joke book |
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| Little Willi surrenders for the third time during this campaign. |
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| Lt Bing moves the 50Cal to hammer a second farmhouse |
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| A panzerfaust shot at the tank. |
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| Master Sergeant Danny Kaye sprints his squad into range of farmhouse two now being hammered by the 50Cal. Singing his happy song (the Ugly Duckling?) Danny prepares to lead the squad in an assault |
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| The Germans get a team over the hedgerow and cause two casualties and a shock to the .50Cal. |
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| But the MMG manages to turn on them and its basically a wipe out. |
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| Danny goes all out. The assault kills four of the German Lmg team. Danny loses three men |
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| But Danny survives! The Germans on the right are casualties being removed! |
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| Telly Savalas uses an HE round on the last farmhouse. |
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| But a panzerfaust round puts an end to Telly's career |
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| Chalk up a hit for Bruno Streik of the Dusseldorf Streiks. This is the last German team and Bruno leads his men on a run back to the Jump off Point after this. |
The Americans have won but at a terrible price. Costello has been wounded and Hope has gone down. The platoon is down to a single squad. Even the replacements under Sergeant Danny Kaye lost men.
For the final scenario, "Last stand of the Green Devils," 2nd platoon and Sergeants W.C Fields and Jack Benny must step up.
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