Had a great game fighting scenario #2A: Avaux from Blenneville or Bust! last night.
The British came on strong, pushing tanks down the road as quickly as they could, trying to punch through the German lines. And it seemed at first they'd make it. The Germans winged a Sherman with their PaK40 but the Brits answered fire so quickly and deliberately that the PaK40 was dead before I got a chance to take a photo of it!
Fortunately for the Germans, the tanks pushed on into the village only to find themselves sandwiched between StuGs on one side and Panzerfausts on the other. The German anti-tank took a heavy toll on the Shermans.
The British infantry rushed forward to try to catch up with their smoking tanks to give some support but they'd pushed too far too fast into what seemed to be a German ambush.
The British attack was halted and I'm sure the Americans will have an opinion on that when we fight the next battle in the campaign.
Rob Goodfellow
