6-September 1944-Fort Villey-Le Sec

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Fredrocker

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CMBN - v4.0 (all modules)

As Close as Historical as I can Find...

Approximately - 90-120 minutes....
Allied Preliminary Attack - on September 6th (aka Probe, but not set in Rock)
Map about - 1Km x 1Km
Force Size - Allied Battalion (-) vs Axis 2+ Companys

Axis - 3rd Fallschimjager Battalion (Replacement) - 92nd Luftwaffe Field Regiment.
Americans - 80th Infantry Division - 319th Infantry Regiment.

Will be looking for two playtesters in about 2 weeks ??? depending on what @Dutch Grenadier says about how points work... :)

This will be the most effort I put into a CM Project since the Sie Kommen II and Shimi's March Campaigns... so hopefully y'all will enjoy...
 
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OK ... According to @Dutch Grenadier if I bribe my play testers with some DVD's sent straight to Their house (No they are not Porno with me bangin Lynne Austin)... opps a long time ago) I can ask for a good review... :).... just kiddin ... Though, y'all get in on the best fight in CMBN History... it is comin real fast to a theater near you.... :)
 
OK, Just about ready for some playtesters for this....

OVERVIEW - In the Moselle salient, the 3rd Parachute Replacement Regiment held an outpost line barring the western approaches to Nancy. This German position lay about ten miles west of that strategic city, running north and south across the narrow tip of the Moselle tongue and anchored at the flanks by two old French forts which had once formed a part of the Toul fortress system. The northernmost work, at Gondreville, fell to the 3rd Battalion of the 319th on 5 September, the day on which the battalion began to wedge its way into the river salient. But Fort Villey-le Sec, occupying the high ground on the southern flank, was stubbornly defended by a full battalion of the 3rd Parachute and proved tough to crack. The fort was surrounded by a deep, dry moat faced with stone. The inner works had reinforced concrete walls and ceilings, five feet thick, and steel cupolas housing automatic weapons and at least one 75-mm. gun. In the woods surrounding the fort the Germans had dug in machine guns, strung wire, and emplaced a few artillery pieces. A preliminary attack on 6 September reached the fort but was broken up by cross fire from the German machine gun emplacements in the woods to the south. Company K led off a co-ordinated assault on the next day, accompanied by tanks and supported by fire from two towed tank destroyers. Lt. Col. Elliott B. Cheston, commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, led his men up to the moat, firing tracers from his submachine gun to designate targets for the tanks. At the edge of the moat the infantry tried to force an entry, while the tanks beside them fired at the enemy embrasures. But the American assault failed to cross the moat: the tanks were forced to withdraw in the face of heavy antitank fire, and the infantry were beaten back by automatic fire and hand grenades pitched out of the port holes. Fort Villey-le Sec finally was occupied on 10 September when the German garrison withdrew toward Nancy.

REAL PIC 1944
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CMBN LAYOUT
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CMBN OVERHEAD

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BATTLE - 90 minutes, dawn, approximately a Battlaion (-) for Axis, and Battalion (+) for Allies... Combined Arms both... As per rules, all units are locked in place at start, so no setup just Click Enter and GO... Let me know who is interested here... I will post some down low screenies in a bit...
 
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