Attack Assault battles

[PanzerBob]

......also do not forget your 6:1 odds were in the numbers, if I read this correctly, the odds are also modified by many other factors icluding your abilties to Command!

Bob out

[RERomine]

Originally Posted by PanzerBob

......also do not forget your 6:1 odds were in the numbers, if I read this correctly, the odds are also modified by many other factors icluding your abilties to Command!

Bob out

The odds were based on points alone. My German force was slightly more experienced so that probably shift force odds even farther off, plus I spent a lot of points on defense obstacles (wire, mines and fire trenches). I didn't have any of those nice toys the Germans had in 1944. My only ATGs were 50mm and I had no armor to support my three dismounted mech infantry companies. Panzerfausts were handy against the American tanks, however.

I looked at what I was going up against and there was a lot. It looks like five dismounted rifle companies, one engineer company, two armored infantry companies, ten tank companies, one tank destroyer company and lots of artillery and recon units. Company count runs better than 6 to 1, but 170+ tanks weren't the best in the world for an assault. I destroyed 103 of those and could have done more, but ran out of ATGs and panzerfausts. About two platoons of American infantry were destroyed and many others shot up. It's very difficult to tell what damage I did there.

[PanzerBob]

That is most certainly what I was alluding to. The 1:6 odds in numbers alone start being modified as soon as you start building your defenses, and deciding on where best to place your troops and what tactics are to be used. Of course the enemy may level this with his own tactics and specialized equipment etc. If this battle was studied from every aspect, a truer picture of the odds could possibly emerge, however there is always the X factors, the Fog of War, the Unforeseen.

Bob out

[Charles22]

RERomine: Excuse me for not reading the whole thread first, but this wasn't from a long campaign was it? Oh nevermind, I scanned around a bit and found it was not.