Hell On Earth - Day 3
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:17 am
I give attack orders at midnight, hoping that they divisions will manage to start their attacks at dawn.
First contact with the enemy.
Amount of enemy units in this sector has increased to two infantry battalions.
Further battalions are trying to get through but are being held up by the single company
that was sent to probe yesterday.
It's making a good use of on-call divisional artillery.
At 5:02 one of army artillery regiments is ordered to fire a 5 hour slow barrage at the usual place
near Sevenig. It seems that the enemy main effort is going at Ouren and Lieler. Therefore I have
decided to not fire at the road from Leidenoom to Lutzkampen in order to avoid repeating the
situation from yesterday where the artillery has ran out of ammo.
The army artillery units will continue to fire at that location, one regiment at time.
Corps artillery regiments are ordered to break up the enemy forces trying to cross bridges near
with a half-an-hour high rate of fire barrage.
Situation in the morning. Oh look!
Oh, hello, sweetie. Do you know my corps artillery regiment?
After about 30 minutes the artillery battalion has started retreating with 3 guns lost.
It was subjected to further fires while retreating and ended up losing 66% of its guns.
About two hours later, an enemy divisional base battalion was subjected to a similar treatment.
I get annoyed at the concentration of enemies in vicinity of Sevenig and borrow divisional
artillery from 3 defending divisions. Together with one corpse artillery, I fire a hour long high
rate of fire barrage.
During that fire hundreds of shells are fired by each participating battalion,
using up most of their ammunition.
The enemy units end up decimated, several of them retreating towards Roscheid.
I order a defending division to attack in the gap between two attacking divisions
in order to prevent the enemy units from concentrating against the attacking division
north of it.
A division bunkering down due to lack of time again. *sigh*
I order it to attack again, this time giving it two days to complete the task.
About an hour later, an artillery battalion with only two guns left was spotted north of Sevenig.
It seems that I missed that unit bunkering down. It was supposed to attack towards Ouren.
I give it proper orders.
Another division bunkering down. Ordered it to attack again.
Note how the single company is still holding back two or more enemy battalions after over 16 hours.
I order a massed shelling of the triangle near Sevenig once again.
Such a delightful slaughter! Such joyous depravity! A massacre most glorious!
The location of blocking barrage is shifted to the track from Sevenig to Ouren.
A "heavy flak battalion" with 4 guns is spotted. I think it's a misidentified
artillery battalion. After a 20 minute bombardment it's left without guns.
Several minutes later a 30 minute rapid fire barrage by divisional artillery regiment
is unleashed against several units concentrating near Sevenig.
Delightful carnage. 4 enemy units destroyed by the hail of shells.
Situation after the darkness falls. The divisions made very little progress.
The southernmost division has spent the whole day crossing the river and still haven't crossed whole.
Attacking infantry units clash on the track from Lieler to Ouren.
Final situation.
Destroyed enemy units. Meanwhile not a single of my units was destroyed so far.
Kill
Score
11,2/50,6
It suggests that enemy losses are around 14100 and that todays losses
were around 9700. That would be a whole division lost today.
My losses so far:
Day 1.
Personnel 181
AFVs 0
Non-AFVs 81
Guns 0
Day 2.
Personnel 978
AFVs 0
Non-AFVs 103
Guns 9
Day 3.
Personnel 1342
AFVs 0
Non-AFVs 162
Guns 11
The sum of my personnel losses is 2501 men, which is about 1/5 of the estimated enemy losses.
The enemy artillery seems to be severely underused - fired only sporadically and in inadequate
concentration. The enemy has 10 artillery regiments - 168 heavy guns and 312 medium guns.
It's a massive firepower that is mostly unused.
Comments plz?
