12 - Wounded Tiger

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1/4Fan Created Scenario.

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Wounded Tiger

by Andrs Kopcsik

St. Aignan, Normandy, 8th August

1944

At 0130 hours on August 8th,

General Simonds's IInd Canadian

Corps initiated Operation Totalize

that threatened to trap the German

army in Normandy by linking up with

Patton's 3rd Army.

After regrouping, at 1150 hours

Kampfgruppe Prinz of the 12nd SS-

Panzer -Division "Hitlerjugend" was

ordered to make a counterattack

through St. Aignan and Garcelles to

take Tilly. Though the 33rd British

Armoured Brigade and the 1st

Polish Armoured Division suffered

horrendous losses, with the support

of the154th Brigade of 51st Highland

Infantry Division the Allied forces

could halt the German attack at St.

Aignan.

At 2000 hours in the northeastern

fringe of the village the 25/I SS-

Panzergrenadier Battalion

desperatley holds its ground. The

grenadiers need to buy time for amaintenance company to arrive and

patch up two Tigers currently

immobile because of damaged tracks

.Then should the inevitable retreat to

Soignolles be executed.

OBJECTIVE:

The nation with the most VPs at the

end of round 9 wins.

The Germans earn VPs under the

following conditions:

-Each Tiger that exits the board from

one of the blue-bordered hexes (exit

points) on maps 4A and 6A scores 3

VPs.

-The Panzer IV leaving the board

from one of the exit points scores 1

VP.

-Each squad and transpor vehicle

that leaves the board from one of the

exit-points scores 1/2 VP.

-Each destroyed Sherman M4A1

scores 1/2 VP.

See "Scenario Special Rules" for

more details on exit points.

The Allies earn VPs under the

following conditions:

-Each Tiger destroyed scores 3 VPs.

-Destroying the Panzer IV scores1VP.

-Each destroyed German squad and

transport vehicle scores 1/2 VP.

-If the Allies have at least three units

other than trucks on any hexes on

map 4A and/or control the bridge at

the end of the game they score 1VP

for any german units (including

vehicles) to the west of the stream.

"This was not a game of Allied

hounds coursing the German hare,

as the press was reporting it, but

rather the hunt after a wounded tiger

into the bush; the tiger turning now

and again to slash at its tormentors,

each slash drawing blood"

- Major Charles

Cawthorn, a US infantry battalion

CO, about

fighting with the retreating

German forces during the Battle of

Normandy

Rounds: 9

Starting Initative

Germans

Actions

3

Reinforcements

If the Allies control the command

objective on map 12B at the end of

round 3,

they recieve 6 Sherman M4A1s in

the Status Phase of round 4.

Otherwise the Shermans only arrive

in the Status Phase of round 6.

Special Rules

Night Fighting - After the Status

Phase of turn 5 LOS cannot be

estabilished for more than eight

hexes away. All attacks made from

more than six hexes away are

counted as beeing long ranged. In

addition all units receive +1 cover

even in the open.

During the final turn LOS cannot be

estabilshed for more than six hexes

away. Attacks made from more thanfour hexes away are counted as

beeing long ranged. The +1 cover

bonus is still applied.

Cover bonus for darkness is never

applied against area attacks like

mortar and artillery fire. (Thanks for

Jose Luis Meseguer, alias cogollo for

his wise suggestion.)

Exit Points - The blue-bordered

hexes (also marked with X) represent

exit points for the retreating German

forces. A unit on a blue-bordered hex

must spend 1 movement point to exit

the board.

Historically three Jagdpanzer IVs of

the 1st company, 12nd SS-

Panzerjger-Abteilung were holding

St. Aignan's northeastern outskirts.

(I plan to upload a few experimentalrules onto the TOI site for such and

other armoured vehicles in the near

future.)

Terrain

-3 Entrenchments

-3 Razor Wire

-1 Tank Traps

-The Stream is Shallow




Side 1Division One

- 8 Squad Bases

- 18 Regular Infantry

- 6 Elite Infantry

- 2 Officer

- 1 Mortar Crew- 2 Machine Gun Crew

- 2 Sherman Tank

x 1 x 1

x 1

Division Two

- 6 Squad Bases


- 4 Elite Infantry

- 1 Officer

- 1 Mortar Crew- 1 Machine Gun Crew

- 2 Sherman Tank

- 2 M3A1 Half Track

x 1 x 2

Starting Strategy Cards: 4

Stategy Decks

- American Reinforcements I

- Command I

Operations Cards- Seize The Initative

Deployment Zone

Division 1 deploys on any dark green-

bordered hexes

Division 2 deploys on any light green-

bordered hexes

Side 2Division One

- 6 Squad Bases


- 7 Elite Infantry

- 2 Officer

- 1 Mortar Crew

- 2 Machine Gun Crew

- 2 Tiger I

- 1 SdKfz 251 Half Track

x 1 x 2

Division Two

- 4 Squad Bases


- 5 Elite Infantry

- 1 Officer

- 1 Panzer IV Tank

- 2 SdKfz 251 Half Track

- 2 Opel Blitz Truck

x 1 x 2

Starting Strategy Cards: 3

Stategy Decks

- Ground Support I

- Morale I

Operations Cards

- Desperate Defenders- Inspiring Leadership

Deployment Zone

Division 1 deploys on any of the hexes on

map 1A and 8B, exept that the Tigers

must be placed on map 1A.

Division 2 deploys on the three grey-

bordered hexes on map 4A.

The squads with the engineer

specialization deploy in the Opel Blitzs,

one in each!




Special Rules

Division 1 starts with 7 squad bases

instead of 6 stated in the setup-list. (The

scenario-editor does not support the use of

weakened squads yet.) The player

commanding Division 1 must create atleast three weakened squads in the

building process. This indicates casualties

suffered by the unit previously in combat

during the day.

The Tigers start the game lightly

damaged, but immobile (-1 armor, 0

movement).

When an Opel Blitz enters map 1A place

the 'Vehicle Parts' strategy card from the

Supply Deck I in the German play area

and place two Activation Tokens on it and

an additional two when the other Opel

Blitz enters the very same map. A fresh

squad with the engineer specialization in

the same hex with a Tiger can be fatigued

as an action to repair one level of damageon the tank (lightly damaged, immobile>

lightly damaged, -1 movement>

undamaged). To symbolise the limited

possibillities of a field repair the player

after a repair action must immediately

remove a token from the card and discard

it after it's empty. The spare parts are

specifically for the Tigers so the engineers

are unable to repair other vehicles with

the method above.


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