Hersfeld Station
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 6:39 pm
I posted this scenario a couple years ago, and the Overlord and have been fighting it out over on the DAR page.
showthread.php?s=&threadid=30774
So I thought I would re-post the scen.
7.1 play
Hersfeld Station
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29 March, 1945
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Intro By D. Bevard
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Bad Hersfeld, 50km SSE of Kassel, Germany: [Best played as American or as 2 human player]
Even as Task Force Balm was making its ill-fated attempt to liberate American POWs at
Hammelburg in late March 1945, the rest of the 4th Armored Division began to exploit its small
bridgehead across the Main River from Hanau. The advance east was swift, with the combat
commands splitting into smaller formations to cover more ground and increase the disruption of
the northern wing of the German Seventh Army as it struggled to establish a cohesive defense.
At Bad Hersfeld the commander of the Seventh Army, General von Obstfelder, was trying to put
together an armored force to counterattack into the flank of the American advance using Panzer
Brigade Thueringen. Obstfelder's attack would never take place! On the 29th, the last of some
forty hoarded panzers were completing unloading from railcars and joining with the 300th
Assault Gun Battalion south of the village. Suddenly a column of tanks and tank destroyers from
Task Force Battaglia stumbled into the German infantry outposts along the highway to Frankfurt
and immediately opened fire, beginning a mad free-for-all along the banks of the Fulda and
Haune Rivers!*
showthread.php?s=&threadid=30774
So I thought I would re-post the scen.
7.1 play
Hersfeld Station
*
29 March, 1945
*
Intro By D. Bevard
*
Bad Hersfeld, 50km SSE of Kassel, Germany: [Best played as American or as 2 human player]
Even as Task Force Balm was making its ill-fated attempt to liberate American POWs at
Hammelburg in late March 1945, the rest of the 4th Armored Division began to exploit its small
bridgehead across the Main River from Hanau. The advance east was swift, with the combat
commands splitting into smaller formations to cover more ground and increase the disruption of
the northern wing of the German Seventh Army as it struggled to establish a cohesive defense.
At Bad Hersfeld the commander of the Seventh Army, General von Obstfelder, was trying to put
together an armored force to counterattack into the flank of the American advance using Panzer
Brigade Thueringen. Obstfelder's attack would never take place! On the 29th, the last of some
forty hoarded panzers were completing unloading from railcars and joining with the 300th
Assault Gun Battalion south of the village. Suddenly a column of tanks and tank destroyers from
Task Force Battaglia stumbled into the German infantry outposts along the highway to Frankfurt
and immediately opened fire, beginning a mad free-for-all along the banks of the Fulda and
Haune Rivers!*