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IN the Beginniing, somewhere towards the middle of the second half of said beginning, Mars the god of War said "Let the Wrathful power of the King of Battle rain death from Heaven and Hell's own Artiillery.......or whatever

Ok I must brief you quickly... the General will be here any minute

Large screen shots (1920x1080 cause it looks so nice ), if any of you *old* people are still on dial up, please fu*k off , sorry 50 of them

I chose Regular Orders Delay because I am not a Masocist
I chose Favor ( err.. sorry favour Axis, cause I like to win.

The General Likes the 'Recent Intel Filter' forget at you peril.
The General like to minimize his exposure to, um... the Details.. the word 'micro' or 'manage' in 1 sentence.
The General likes to work with Brigades/Field Regiment (Regt)? but will sometimes work with Battlions
The General belives in concentration of force.
Remember the words "wait" or "waiting" and "don't panic"


0900 Day 1
The very sky is falling
Everyone to HQ: J/C what do we do? Over
HQ to Everyone: ahh...ahh..wait one..ahh..out

OK, for me the hardest part of these scenerios for me is what is the SOP, the 'Sh*t has impacted the rotary
impeller type device' plan. You know Plan R , R for romeo...

You figure it has been fought in a sandbox at a Corp level Command and Staff meeting at least.

So to simulate that for me I let the game play out till noon on the second day. To get a feel for
my re-enfocements and when I get them and refres...ah.. the General with the terrain.... Not that the General, in any way needs a refresher...ahem....Sir.Heil Hitler! I was just leaving.Sir.

Then I restart the Scenario and play thru to the end.

**Stand By for the 0900 Briefing**

Primary Objective, as I see it is different than how the Objectives are ranked by what I think the designer intended.
(See appendx for full explaination) The General requires that the town of Nijmegen, the south banks of both the rail and road bridges over the Waal River at the town of Nijmegen secured and solid defense on the North side of the river ( at least 2 of the three Northern objectives )

Nijmegen Garrison if you panic and run the A/B will cut you down, if you stay in your bunkers and sit down, hold on and shut up you may live.
Probably not. Make Ava proud boys.

That is the first FRAGO more to follow.....

1100 Day 1

**waiting**

1400 Day 1

FRAGO
KG Schwappacher BN
**wait**

My re-enforcements, to sum up ( because it would take to long to explain) are:

SS Armor/Mech Inf to the North with the the bulk arriving prior to 0600 Day 2.

406th Inf Div, a Training Division/inexperenced and mostly on foot to the south.
The Bulk arriving Prior to 0600 Day 2. MUst remember they are on foot, and to give proper rest.

Afternnoon/Evening Day 3, two decent Inf Regt (mixed foot/mech) arrive in the south

End Summary

1623 Day 1
FRAGO
KG Euling BN
**wait**

1655 Day 1
FRAGO
KG Fuerstenberg Regt
**Move to staging point for possiable dawn/morning Attack**

Staff Alert
Garrison failed to blow Honinghutje Road or Rail bridges

The General starts screaming and staff cower in corners

1833 Day 1
FRAGO
KG Goebel Regt
**Stage for possiable dawn/morning attack**

Staff Alert
Still hold the Grave Bridge, wish I could order it blown, cause sure as
sh*t the British Armor is on the way. Will most likely arrive early morning/afternoon Day 3 the S2 Officer
reports

Now breathe, don't panic time to wait. This is a indicator of a good Miltary Sim, that waiting is big part of it

2017 Day 1
FRAGO
KG Stargaard Regt
**Stage for possiable mid-morning attack**

Staff Alert
Still hold the Grave Bridge, but for how long?

Voice in my head
"please fuc*ing, blow that bridge--amen"

2110 Day 1
FRAGO
KG Greshick Regt
**Stage for possiable mid morning attack**

Staff Alert
406th Inf Div is nearly all here, HQ and Arty in play soon.

2305 Day 1
FRAGO
406th HQ and Arty
**Build firebase**

Staff Alert
Still hold Grave Bridge
Dawn attack by elements of the 406th unlikely

0221 Day 2
KG Harme Regt arrives....

The General is happy the Northern attack will now commence.
This is firepower and fear wrapped in armor and it excites voices in my voice's head.

0221 Day 2 Cont.

Maxium force in the smallest space is my mantra

0221 Day 2 Cont.

Staff Alert
406th unlikely to attack by mid-morning

Partial Radio Intercept from the voice in my head:
"...I dont care if you just walked12km, up hill, at night or that you only have only
old men and young boys, if you are not ready to attack by noon today...break...I will
personally cut off your testiciles and feed them to my dogs...Do you understand?..."

ok enough for tonight.

Time to remind the staff to implement a sleep plan. Been awake approx 19hrs game time.

AAR brought to by

0300 Day 2

Staff Alert
KG Goebel Regt
KG Stargaard Regt
KG Greshick Regt
All report not ready to proceed. Doubtful to be ready by mid-morning

FRAGO
KG Fuerstenberg Regt
I want you to probe stiftly...hey you in the corner, do you find something funny?...into eastern Nijmegen we need to find the A/B

...the silence of the pre-dawn morning was decieving....do you hear tracks?

0624 Day 2

Staff Alert
Sir, the Grave Garrison failed to blow the Bridge

The General: I want the Garrison Commander found, if he is alive I want him shot, if he he dead I want him shot again

Sir, the SS still have not commenced the attack, and are recieveing heavy arty bombardment. Our Arty is answering

0813 Day 2

Staff Alert
the SS attack in the North is causing the A/B to abandon thier foxholes and are getting
gundowned without mercy

KG Fuerstenberg Regt is not meeting any resistance with thier probe.

0813 Day 2 Cont

FRAGO
KG Fuerstenberg Regt
Abondon probe and set up a defensive line on the west side of the highway

0813 Day 2 cont

FRAGO
KG Goebel Regt
Move to right flank of KG Fuerstenberg, defend southern end of the heavy road bridge