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West Front - August 2, 1944 - Bluecoat (game 4)
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  • West Front - August 2, 1944 - Bluecoat (game 4)

    16/03/2009
     

    After the mopping-up of the hamlet, the 1st Armoured Recce Battalion, Welsh Guards continues south towards Estry. The infantry without antiweapons decides to etablish position outside the hamlet, waiting for an armoured support.

    This time, a company with 2 platoons of the 5th Battalion, Coldstream Guards supported by the Troop 2, A Squadron, 1st Armoured Battalion, Coldstream Guards has to control the hamlet. But a Kampfgruppe of the 9. SS-PzDivision with a reduced company of panzergrenadiers and the Zug 2 of the Kompanie 6 from the Panzer Regiment 9 counter attacks.

    The PzIV-H move on the dirtroads towards the hamlet with the infantry in the fields.

    On the other side of the hamlet the british units advance too.

    The british tanks are in position first and lock the crossroads.

    Another sherman is in position near the dirtroad which is blocked by wrecks from the earlier fights.

    The PzIV-H stay in position while the infantry deploys

    A PIAT team is moving around the corner to target one the PzIV.

    Supported by a Sherman, the infantry platoon is flanking the hamlet.

    One of the PzIV-H decides to move but the Firefly manages to react promptly and destroy it.

    After destroying two buildings with HE shells, the 2 PzIV-H are threatening the british right flank.

    The Sherman is destroyed.

    In the center of the hamlet, the 2nd PzIV-H is destroyed.

    The two remaining Panzers try to bypassed the wrecks crossing the hedgerows.

    The british units are controlling the hamlet.

    The pzgrenadiers attack in the backyard.

    But without cover, the pzgrenadiers are slaughtered.

    The PIAT team destroys another PzIV-H

    With the Pzgrenadier company reduces to a platoon and only one PzIV-H left, the german commander withdraws.