German Side
With 15 minutes to prepare our defense and attack everyone moved out of base quickly.
2nd Platoon was set on the East side of the bridge opening fire on the enemy as soon as posible.
1st Platoon was defending the West side with one squad with other squad pushing the bridge and helping defend the attack by boats on the East side.
Artillery set up and opened fire on the enemy mortars silencing them for the rest of the match.
Tanks hid in the town waiting for orders to pop out and shoot at the enemy tanks which were being marked on the map.
After the first contact and establishment of frontline further actions could be taken.
Mortars opened fire on the houses surounding the enemy side of the bridge, killing many, which enabled friendly forces to cross the bridge.
Enemy tanks which were changing their positions all the time represented a real danger. Once they moved and left the Eastern side undefended Gamma and half of the Beta squad made it across the river using the boats.
They infiltrated enemy positons from East causing havoc and forcing them to turn their backs on the main force.
With the continuos attacks from mortars infantry squads were able to cross the bridge and occupy the houses on the enemy side.
From there under heavy fire, slowly, infantry moved towards Allies HQ, surrounding it and in the end ocupying it.
Friendly forces advancing by boats on the Western side of the bridge were killed by the enemy tanks, but their sacrifice which moved tanks to the West enabled infantry to push and capture Allies HQ.
Over the course of the operation we have lost numerous lifes, two Panzer IV, and one Panther. Mortars used up all of their ammunition.
Result: German win.
Allies Side
US Commander Seedorf
A
The plan:
The Plan had 3 major concepts:
1- 2nd
platoon with Alpha would cross the river via Boat and attack mortar
position and then storm enemy HQ
2- Bravo with Tank support
should cross and capture bridge OBJ
3- Tank2 should hold Flank
on the west for possible enemy crossing
[12:39 AM]
B Events
on the Commanders point of view
1- 2 minutes after
operation start, tank 2 flipped on a natural trench.
2-
2nd platoon reported that german, and i quote "are crossing the
river with the boats" on east side. I sent back on the Radio "If
they are crossing, wait until they get mid river and fire at them".
No messages were sent for couple minutes. After that i received on
the radio "charlie squad disobeid orders and crossed the river".
In that moment, with the informations i had, i thought that germans
were crossing and charlie crossed as well. Charlie was wiped and i
told 2nd to cross the river. they reported "we are under mortar
fire" "they are crossing the river". Worried about
east flank i told them to keep defending east river, thinking that
germans were actually crossing.
3- Bravo started crossing
the bridge and got resistance. Germans attacked bridge and smoked the
objective. I sent orders for tank1 on the Radio "shoot HE on the
smoke, keep shooting HE on the smoke". Bravo managed to get
close to objective, but germans numbers and firepower wiped them.
After some time mortars began to hit us on our side of the bridge,
killing Bravo reinforcements. After charlie was wiped out on the east
side river, i told them in person to attack bridge, as bravo was
alone in that task. Germans has the Bridge objective.
4-
Constant reports of 2nd platoon telling me that "Germans are
crossing the rive" "many germans crossing the river".
I told them "Take positions and shoot them in the boats".
2nd platoon reported "We cant, we retreated cause one of my
squads were wiped out by a tank". I said "Roger that, keep
defending east flank".
5- I asked tank2 to move east
and support 2nd platoon. They reported "we cannot, we are
engaging enemy tank".
6- Our tank1 was destroyed in
our base by german tank in the nothern mountain, across the
river.
[12:39 AM]
7- I told Bravo to supress bridge as i
saw germans pushing. I climbed on the Church tower and began scouting
for mortar missions. Mortar was very slow to calculate, but managed
to kill 1 entire squad on bridge. After that germans kept pushing the
bridge, but mortar could not hit any shells on them.
8-
Alpha appeared near the bridge. At this time mortars were hitting our
positions in the bridge. Bravo was wiped out. I ran in person to
Alpha and ordered them to go to our hq and defend it, Cause enemies
were reported in our territory. I began to defend Bridge by myself,
with some random players, probably from bravo. I managed to kill
about 5 germans in that phase, i end up dying without ammo and
without bandages.
9- 2nd platoon reported that they were
overrun on the east. Germans crossed the bridge, east flank was
overtaken. Was left for me to defend HQ. I sent on radio "Everyone,
go to our HQ, take positions around it and defend it". Alpha was
already there.
[12:39 AM]
10- I went alone with my medic to
bridge and tried to defend it, knowing the probable outcome. I died
the second time.
11- I went behind our HQ, scouting and
passing info on the radio. I reporte germans on the east and the
west. They started smoking and pushing. I managed to kill some of
them but they got into our HQ. I ordered on the radio "Everyone
push to HQ, germans on HQ". At that time i felt like no one was
defending HQ, cause i saw few guys and a friendly tank around that
area only. As no response on radio was given to me i rushed into HQ
building, my gun was unloaded and i died.
12- On the
spectator, i saw that many guys were all around the map, and not
defending HQ. On the last minutes Dupon, szopix and more 3 or 4 guys
rushed into HQ, killed germans, was too late.
C Final
considerations
1- Our mortar was not as effective as
enemie's.
2- Communication Between 2nd platoon and HQ was very
bad, as informations were not given accurately.
obs: As
commander and leader of the US side, its my full responsability any
outcome. This report is a point of view.