Breakout from Bastogne, maybe my plans are a bit too ambitious - Allied

[miya]

D4 18:00
More german troops. Attacks from many different directions. A german battlegroup consisting of tanks and motrized infantry found a gap between Michamps and Arloncourt. The 86 Cavalry is near. I have to see what they can do about it.

[miya]

D4 23:00
Constant german attacks, now success is on their side. My troops are forced out of the villages of Recogne and Noville.

[miya]

D5 7:00
The night was rather chaotic. It looks like my left flank is crumbling. No gains achieved with my counterattacks, only losses.

[miya]

D5 13:00
After fighting all the night and half of the day, at least Recogne changed ownership again. The third Para battalion of the 506 Para Regt achieved success.
Still no gain in Noville.

[miya]

D5 21:30
A minor change of plan. It seems Noville is impossible at the moment. I simply lack arty ammuntion.
The germans getting active in the south. I see a serious thread for the objectives Wardin and Benonchamps.
First, the Noville area. My new line of defence will south of the village.
Second, battalions and companies of CCR in that area will move to rest in Bastogne. An exception is TF Britton, which will hold the high ground east of Noville.
Third, the troops which will spend the night in Bastogne will attack the enemy on the last day, thus supporting the 501 Para Regt and TF O'Hara south of the highway.

[miya]

D6 11:30
On the corps western flank the opponent is still attacking but with much less force. However there is a drawback, artillery fire increases and gets its share. I'm lucky that this is the last day if this scenario would last longer CCB and the para battalions would be on the casualty list.
South of the highway we are making progress. I see a chance to capture Longvilly, which will add nearly another four points to my side.

[miya]

D6 23:00
I receive a message from Commander 12 Army Group Omar N. Bradley. He sends his congratulations to my decisive victory. The staff officers have been busy counting the toll.

[miya]

The final picture.
Some companies which fight for Recogne are down to 30 men.
CCB is out of supplies, due to a stupid mistake of mine. I moved the depot together with the headquarters unit. They lost all trucks, payload = 0, only 78 men are left.
CCA is still in good shape.
CCR is spread all over the area and took significant losses. Some units formed together with airborne units a taskforce, or fire brigade would be the better term, to fight for Benonchamps.
The 101 Airborne should be withdrawn from combat.
German forces in the woods are out of supply, the marker for the basics shows a very dark brown.

Why is this scenario called "breakout" ? All I did, was to move the front further to the north and east. The new line is quite stable. The americans would need new troops to make a push further north to Houffalize.

[BletchleyGeek]

Congratulations on a hard-fought victory [:)] And thank you for the AAR, it's been quite a intense reading.

Those Waffen SS PzGrenadiers are a tough bunch of bastards, indeed.

Regarding your question "why it is called a Breakout". I guess the point is that by securing all the objectives then you "break through", and the posterior exploitation is not covered (but in order to happen you need to achieve the breakthrough).

[RockinHarry]

ORIGINAL: miya


D6 23:00
I receive a message from Commander 12 Army Group Omar N. Bradley. He sends his congratulations to my decisive victory. The staff officers have been busy counting the toll.

What do actually mean "accident" and "other" in the casualties tabs? [&:] Me guesses "reliability" is involved in these?

[Lieste]

Other is vehicles abandoned/destroyed because of casualty/crew loss and equipment culling - I've thought that they should (or at least some of them) be Surrender.

[wodin]

Huge difference in losses. I do love the new AAR screen. Oh if only we could click on each unit and see something like that.

Normally it's arty fire when playing as the germans that cause mass losses. I see during the battle Arty shells where hard to find. So why the big descrepency in losses?

[BletchleyGeek]

ORIGINAL: RockinHarry
What do actually mean "accident" and "other" in the casualties tabs? [&:] Me guesses "reliability" is involved in these?

I'd also like to know precisely, these detailed AAR's were introduced with the last patch and while some of the fields are obvious other's aren't.

EDIT: I see that we have similar tastes when it comes to picking up forum avatars [:D]

[miya]

RockinHarry, Lieste:

I don't think you will ever see a vehicle surrender. The crew can surrender, the AFV not.
So the "Other" number represent vehicles captured or abandoned, I agree with that in Lieste's thoughts.
Until now I never saw a loss through accident. I think this number will increase, once your troops will arrive by air landing or parachute.


Wodin:

What do you mean with descrepancy in losses, compared to what ?

[Lieste]

While equipment lacks the volition to 'surrender' it can be 'surrendered' or captured easily enough...

[wodin]

ORIGINAL: miya

RockinHarry, Lieste:

I don't think you will ever see a vehicle surrender. The crew can surrender, the AFV not.
So the "Other" number represent vehicles captured or abandoned, I agree with that in Lieste's thoughts.
Until now I never saw a loss through accident. I think this number will increase, once your troops will arrive by air landing or parachute.


Wodin:

What do you mean with descrepancy in losses, compared to what ?

Just seems to be an awful lot of dead germans compared to the US. Usually it's the case because of Arty but that isn't the case here.

[RockinHarry]

So vehicle "reliability" is not implemented yet?

"Other" losses then mean "damaged" vehicles and then abandoned? "Damage" by fire or damage by breakdown (reliability)? Both?

@ Bletchley_Geek: If you don´t mind sharing! [:D] ...think I have this avatar since 2003-2004 or so.

[BletchleyGeek]

ORIGINAL: RockinHarry
@ Bletchley_Geek: If you don´t mind sharing! [:D] ...think I have this avatar since 2003-2004 or so.

Well, actually you're the one "sharing" it with me [:D] I took it because it was the picture on the Axis victory screen on Atomic Games' D-Day: America Invades. I played that game to death.

[wodin]

It is a good avatar. Never played those atomic games, missed out I think.

I thought breakdowns where covered in the AAR? I'm sure it's been verified at some point. Anyway i want individula AAR's for each unit at the end of the game (or even better during).

[Major SNAFU_M]

Great AAR!  Great Read!

What program do you use to annotate your screenshots?