Shifting Sands 15 AAR Part 1
Shifting Sands 15 - Armies
Shifting Sands 15 - Pictures
Rounds 2-3
Round 2 would be Pincer, a Defensive battle where reserves come in on one side of the table.
My opponent was fielding a Schwere Panzerjager Company with a couple of RT JagdTigers and 2 platoons of RV Panzergrenadiers. His Firestorm KampfGroup added some Uparmored Panthers with Barkman, Puma recon and more infantry.
I would have the services of a Firestorm unit as well. A platoon of US Armored Infantry.
The Game plan was simple, I would head straight for the objective, have the Armored Rifles assault the German Infantry and then have the tanks clean up. That was the plan anyway.
The battle started out on a bad note, Barkman's Ambushing Panthers destroyed 3 Sherman Crocs.
My Shermans do make it almost to the objective, with a Sherman actually killing Barkman's Panther F, but a successful Warrior save allowed Barkman to jump to another Panther.
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| German Defenses |
Ultimately it came down to two unsuccessful Tank terror tests (even with the CO re-roll) over 2 turns that prevented my Armored Rifles from assaulting.
Losing those two turns was crucial as it allowed his reserves to come on.
His Pumas Pincered in back in the my lines, nearly taking out my Halftrack mortars and preventing any more smoke bombardment.
His PanzerGrens arrived on top of the pinned armored rifles and took them below half strength.
At this point I was just looking for points I knocked the Pumas down to 2 Destroyed and 1 bailed but he made is Armor roll. His Infantry on the objective also made their Moral to stick.
1-6 loss when my company broke.
Lessons learned: Always have a back up plan. You will always fail that curial moral roll when you need it most, know what you are going to do if it fails..
Round 3:
The last battle of day one would be Counter Attack versus Austin, another German player. I would be attacking and he would be counter attacking.
Austin had mainly an infantry based company supported by a King Tiger. His Kampgroup added Pak 40s, Panzer IV/70s and Whirblewinds.
I had the services of the Firestorm 155mm Artillery battery.
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| Austin covered his objective nicely |
This Scenario is pretty wild as it is typically a race to get to the objective.
My plan was to send everything to the open objective except for my 155 battery and the Super Pershing.
Austin set up a platoon of Infantry to race to the objective lead by Von Luck I believe and kept his Pak 40s in Ambush.
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| Pak40s ambush at top. |
The game started with my Shermans and recon racing to the objective. I smoked the King Tiger.
This Move was my big mistake of the game, thankfully I wasn't badly hurt by it.
I failed turn my tanks to face the likely spot for his Pak 40 ambush and sure enough his Pak 40s ambushed.
Veteran and concealment compensated for my stupidity, costing me only a destroyed Sherman Croc but otherwise I was unscathed.
Next turn my Recon and leading tanks fired on the Advancing German Infantry.
Austin was a very good sport when his dice turned cold and the entire platoon was gunned down, even von Luck.
Next Turn Austin did get reserves and brought in his PZ IV/70s, 3 shots brewed up 2 more Sherman Crocs, who promptly failed moral. D'oh! Smoke prevented the Pak 40s and King Tiger from doing much.
My Shermans make a detour to deal with the PV 4/70s, With the Super Pershing even lending it's firepower. We kill two, bail one and they fail moral. The Sherman Crocs are Avenged!
It's not looking good for Austin, his Tiger starts heading towards the objective but will be hard pressed to contest by turn 6.
With things looking grim for the Germans Austin sends his arriving reserves straight at my artillery park, ignoring my Super Pershing in an effort to know out my arty.
His AA tracks take out a 155mm but are destroyed by a combo of Pershing and direct fire 155mm.
next turn his second platoon of tracked AA does the same thing, killing two more guns before dying.
finally Austin's Tiger gets close but is out of range to contest on turn 6, giving me a 5-2 victory.
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| Close but not close enough. |
Overall it was a good day with 2 wins and a loss. Looking forward to tomorrow and the last two games.
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