Liberation of Bruyeres

AARs

• Bruyeres, prima parte
• Bruyeres, seconda parte
• Bruyeres, terza parte

Vosges Mountains, France, 16th October 1944

Prior to their winter offensive, the German High Command
determined to hold the line in the valley of the Vosges
Mountains until the attack from the Ardennes could be
launched. Since its landing in southern France, the US 36th
Infantry Division was overextended, understrengtb and
exhausted, having already battled its way through tbe
Germans’ 198tb and 338tb Infantry as well as l0th Panzer.
Nevertheless, it was ordered forward to Bruyeres to link up
with tbe US 45th Division as part of the Broad Front advance.

The Vosges

Those battles is also the climax of the Nisei’s battle against suspicion, intolerance, and a hatred that was conceived in some dark corner of the American mind and born in the flames that swept Pearl Harbor.

The valley west of BruyeresOne of the wooded hills
The town of Bruyeres

Map scale is one square = 30 ” on table = 3km real.

Map with 3″ square grid.

Note per i comandanti. Un quadrato della mappa può essere occupato da un massimo di quattro plotoni.
Un fuoco di sbarramento di un battaglione occupa un area di un quadrato della mappa.
Tutte le colline sono di terreno rotto.

Quick Sheets and Unit type Sheets

US Army

American

Charles Wilbur Pence

36th lnfantry Division

• 442nd Regiment composed as follows:
  • 2nd bttn – HQ Stand, 5-Rifle Stands in Trucks, 2-HMG
    Stands in Trucks, 1-81mm Mortar Stand in Truck.
  • 3rd bttn – HQ Stand, 6-Rifle Stands in Trucks, 2-HMG
    Stands in Trucks, l-57mm AT Gun Truck.
  • l00th bttn – HQ Stand, 7-Rifle Stands in Trucks, 1-
    HMG Stand in Truck, l-8lmm Mortar Stand in Truck.
  • 442nd Regimental HQ Company and assets – see TO&E, ’43-’45 InfDiv.
    • Regimental Headquarters Company:
      • HQ: 1-HQ Stand in Staff CarITruck
      • Recon: 1-Rifle Stand in Truck
    • 1-Cannon Company:
      1-105I25ITruck
    • 1-Anti-Tank Company:
      • 2-57/ 52 ATGs/Trucks,
    • 1-Engineer Stand (Rifles) in Truck

• 2 Companies, each 3-Engineer Stands (Rifles) in Trucks; must Attacb.

45th lnfantry Division

179th lnfantry Regiment – see TO&E, ’43-’45 InfDiv,

• use
  1 bttn; Regular.
  • HQ:
    • 1-HQ Stand in Staff CarITruck
    • 1-57/52 A TG/Truck
  • 3-Infantry Companies.
    • each with: 3-Rifle Stands in Trucks
  • 1-Weapons Company:
    • 2-HMG Stands in Trucks
    • 1-81mm Mortar Stand in Truck
• 45th Recon Troop – see TO&E, ’43-’45 InfDiv, plus 1-
  M16 MGMC.
  • HQ: 1-Jeep
  • 2-M3 Scout Cars
  • 2-Jeeps (.50cal)

442nd Regiment is Veteran and enters from the western edge ofBoard 1. 179th enters from the nortbern edge of Board 3, on or west of tbe road. 753rd Tank Bttn enters anywhere on the western table edge. Each Artillery battalion may pre-plan up to 2 Fire Missions, which rnay fall on or before Turn 1. No Flank March or Reserve allowed.

German Army

German

Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter.

338th Volksgrenadier Division

• 736tb Grenadier Regiment – see TO&E, ’44 VolksGren Div, 1 bttn Regular, 1 Green.
  • complete plus 1-Pak 40ffruck;

• 49tb MG Battalion – 2-HMG, independent, Veteran.
• 338tb Artillery Regiment- see TO&E, ’44 VolksGren Div, complete, off-table.

198th lnfantry Division

• 198tb Fusilier Battalion – see TO&E, ’44 Inf Div
  • plus 1-Stug IIIG (75/48), 1-Hetzer; Regular.

Volksgrenadiers set up south and east of the dotted line on the
map. One battalion and the HMGs may entrench. Fuisiliers
enter from the eastern table edge south of the dotted line. All Artillery is off-table, must fire pre-planned and cease fire after
Tum 3. The Volksgrenadiers may deploy 3 minefields of any
type, each l-1/4″x1-1/4″ within their set-on area.

Special Rules

The hedges are light, the ground inside is rough.

The railroad
south of Bruyeres is on an embankment equal in beight to a hedge, therefore, provides cover only for dismounted platoons.

All hills are steep, Visibility +6″ per contour.

Ordini Minicampagna Spearhead, parte 1

Campaign Victory

The Americans win if they occupy ali 5 Sectors of Bruyeres by the end of Tum 16.

The Germans win if they avoid the US victory condition.

For the Campaign:

• If the US player succeeds, be will add to his OB in the next scenario.
• If the German wins, the US receives no reinforcements.
• The German may withdraw from the table anytime after Turn 8, in which case the scenario ends immediately (do not actually move the Germans forces oft).

Points achieved:

• 5 points for achieving the scenario.
• 2 points for each enemy battalion killed/routed.
• German earns 1/2 point for each turn after Tum 6 that no US
  platoons are on Board 7, up to the turn of Gerrnan withdrawal,
  if any.
• US earns 1/2 point for each turn left in the game when and if
  the Germans withdraw.

The real thing

Una mappa dell’800 che mostra la vegetazione. Nel ‘900 sara’ cresciuta un po’.
La mappa dello scontro storico.