Ardennes Firefight Tourney Archive- for tactical study

While my panzers at '1' are distracted engaging Proniakin's Greyhound down the road, his Sherman 105 at '2' takes the opportunity to saturate my advancing infantry with HE at '3', allowing his infantry at '4' to close in on the flag unopposed..
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ANNOUNCEMENT

I've decided to extend the tourney deadline by 2 weeks, so it will now finish at midnight on July 14th (nearly 4 weeks away), or earlier if all games have finished before then.
I'm doing this because players might be following the world cup on TV or taking holiday breaks etc, so a two-week extension will considerably relieve the file-return pressure on them. When I organised the tourney I completely forgot it'd clash with the world cup and the holiday season, duh, so this extension will put it right..:)

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GAME 6 of 25 FINISHED
POS v Earl of Grey
Winner Earl of Grey, tactical vic 71%-29%

Armour at start:-
Earl of Grey: 1x Panther, 1x PzIV-long, 3x Stug75-long, 2x Lt armour
POS: 6x Sher75, 1x Stuart, 1x halftrack

We both held a big flag at end, but Earl of Grey racked up big points for armour kills, I lost 5x AFV's but he only lost 1x halftrack.
His Panther at upper left kept 3 of my Sher75's trapped in the top righthand corner for the entire game, sheltering behind a slight ridge.
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LEADER BOARD
(Only the contestants whose score beat mine are shown on it. Colour of name depicts the side they commanded, blue=Ger, green=US)

1st- Earl of Grey: score 42 (71%-29% tactical vic)
2nd- Breaklight: score 18 (59%-41% minor vic)


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(19 games still to finish before the midnight July 14th tourney deadline)

FINISHED SO FAR:-
Ryohei
Johnsy
Bootie
Rico
Breaklight
Earl of Grey
 
GAME 7 of 25 FINISHED

POS v Airborne Bob
Draw: Airborne Bob 54%, POS 46%

Armour at start:-
Airborne Bob- 3x Sher75, 4x Chaffee, 3x Greyhound
POS- 6x PzxIVlong, 1x Hetzer, 1x halftrack

Airborne Bob seized 400 flag points but I managed to scrape a Draw by racking up points for armour kills-
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LEADER BOARD
(Only the contestants whose score beat mine are shown on it. Colour of name depicts the side they commanded, blue=Ger, green=US)

1st- Earl of Grey: score 42 (71%-29% tactical vic)
2nd- Breaklight: score 18 (59%-41% minor vic)
3rd- Airborne Bob: score 8 (54%-46% Draw)

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(18 games still to finish before the midnight July 14th tourney deadline)

FINISHED SO FAR:-
Ryohei
Johnsy
Bootie
Rico
Breaklight
Earl of Grey
Airborne Bob
 
Whoa... 18 games. I hope my score gave me a big enough head start! :rockon:
 
My Sher75's and Bert Blitzkrieg's PzIVlongs go head to head.
(PS- I'm trying out this 'Normandy Winter Sky' mod; it gets rid of the Italian mountains and replaces them with low hills. It's not bad, but the sky's a bit too blue considering it's snowing. Light grey would have been better)

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Open lines of sight are a rarity in the densely-forested Ardennes terrain, forcing both sides to carefully stalk each others armour looking for clear shots.
Here, my Sher75's are exposed on high ground as LRC's German armour hunts them down..
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The German view..
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GAME 8 of 25 FINISHED

POS v Nathangun
Winner POS, tot vic

Armour at start:-
Nathangun: 1x Stug105, 4x Hummel, 1x Grille, 4x halftracks
POS- 5x Sher75, 1x Chaffee, 1x Greyhound, 3x Lt armour

The computer dealt Nathangun a bad hand of mostly Hummels which are useless in a tank battle, but he fought on with them like a man til they were ko'd.
I don't think i'll let the computer pick the forces in future tourneys.
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LEADER BOARD
(Only the contestants whose score beat mine are shown on it. Colour of name depicts the side they commanded, blue=Ger, green=US)

1st- Earl of Grey: score 42 (71%-29% tactical vic)
2nd- Breaklight: score 18 (59%-41% minor vic)
3rd- Airborne Bob: score 8 (54%-46% Draw)

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(17 games still to finish before the midnight July 14th tourney deadline)

FINISHED SO FAR:-
Ryohei
Johnsy
Bootie
Rico
Breaklight
Earl of Grey
Airborne Bob
Nathangun
 
GAME 9 of 25 FINISHED

POS v Cargol
Winner Cargol, minor vic

Armour at start:-
Cargol: 5x PzIVlong, 3x Stug-long, 2x halftracks
POS: 5x Sher75, 2x halftracks

We both lost a lot of tanks early on, then spent most of the rest of the game carefully trying to hang on to what territory we'd got..
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LEADER BOARD
(Only the contestants whose score beat mine are shown on it. Colour of name depicts the side they commanded, blue=Ger, green=US)

1st- Earl of Grey: score 42 (71%-29% tactical vic)
2nd- Cargol: score 24 (62%-38% minor vic)
3rd- Breaklight: score 18 (59%-41% minor vic)
4th- Airborne Bob: score 8 (54%-46% Draw)

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(16 games still to finish before the midnight July 14th tourney deadline)

9 FINISHED SO FAR:-
Ryohei
Johnsy
Bootie
Rico
Breaklight
Earl of Grey
Airborne Bob
Nathangun
Cargol
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For the record: POS Won 5, Lost 3, Drawn 1
 
GAME 10 of 25 FINISHED

POS v Silent Otto
Winner Silent Otto, tactical vic

Armour at start:-
Silent Otto: 7x PzIVlong, 3x halftracks
POS: 5x Sher75, 1x Sher105, 1x Chaffee, 2x halftracks

I took a hard knock with the loss of 3x Sher75's early on, and couldn't scrape together enough remaining armour to effectively get back into the game..
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LEADER BOARD
(Only the contestants whose score beat mine are shown on it. Colour of name depicts the side they commanded, blue=Ger, green=US)

1st- Earl of Grey: score 42 (71%-29% tactical vic)
2nd- Silent Otto: score 38 (69%-31% tactical vic)
3rd- Cargol: score 24 (62%-38% minor vic)
4th- Breaklight: score 18 (59%-41% minor vic)
5th- Airborne Bob: score 8 (54%-46% Draw)

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10 FINISHED SO FAR:-
Ryohei
Johnsy
Bootie
Rico
Breaklight
Earl of Grey
Airborne Bob
Nathangun
Cargol
Silent Otto
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For the record: POS Won 5, Lost 4, Drawn 1

(15 games still to finish before the midnight July 14th tourney deadline)
 
Tank battles erupt on the left flank. Firstly, Mikey's Chaffee pair engage my Stug-long pair at '1'.
So I send a pair of PzIVlongs (2) streaking along the road to help the Stugs.
But they run headlong into an ambush by a mix of Shermans, tank destroyers and Stuarts at '3', resulting in the loss of both the panzers (X'd)
As consolation, my remaining panzer at '4' knocks out a deep-thrusting halftrack..
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The hulldown TD at '3' ambushing my panzers..
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In a lategame push, I edge my 6x PzIVlongs and a Stug nearer to the flag to consolidate their hold on it, but they run into Breakthrough's Chaffee/Sherman wall and I lose 5 Panzers (x'd) for the loss of only about 2 Chaff/Shers..
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Chaffee power, this is the one on the far right in the pic above trading shots with a PzIV..

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Hm... I think I might lose my current first place soon the way these games go.
 
hihi well, I've gone from 2nd to fourth.. and I'm expecting I'll drop a few more as well! ;)
 
Von Reich's 3x Sher75's attack my 3x PzIV's through the trees, my shots mostly ricochet or only partially penetrate, but his shots strike decisively home, turning two panzers into scrap metal, an example of how 50-50 battles can swing either way. (The 4th panzer was brewed earlier)
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Where'd my luck go Kid?

"Don't waste your time trying to find luck, luck finds us"
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GAME 11 of 25 FINISHED

POS v Breakthrough
Winner Breakthrough, minor vic

Armour at start:-
Breakthrough:5x Sher75, 4x Chaffee, 1x halftrack
POS:6x PzIVlong, 1x Stug-long, 3x halftrack

Breakthrough broke the tense stalemate by wiping out most of my armour in the final turns to rack up big kill points that outweighed my points for the flag..
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LEADER BOARD
(Only the contestants whose score beat mine are shown on it. Colour of name depicts the side they commanded, blue=Ger, green=US)

1st- Earl of Grey: score 42 (71%-29% tactical vic)
2nd- Silent Otto: score 38 (69%-31% tactical vic)
3rd- Cargol: score 24 (62%-38% minor vic)
4th- Breakthrough: score 22 (61%-39% minor vic)
5th- Breaklight: score 18 (59%-41% minor vic)
6th- Airborne Bob: score 8 (54%-46% Draw)

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11 FINISHED SO FAR:-
Ryohei
Johnsy
Bootie
Rico
Breaklight
Earl of Grey
Airborne Bob
Nathangun
Cargol
Silent Otto
Breakthrough
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For the record: POS Won 5, Lost 5, Drawn 1

(14 games still to finish before the midnight July 14th tourney deadline)

More stats:- of the 25 competitors, 13 chose to be German, and 12 chose to be American.
 
Nort's Shermans unceremoniously bundle my Stugs out of town, forcing me to reverse and abandon my infantry up front (circled).
My Stugs were no match for the Shermans in the earlier tank battle, so I'm pulling the survivors back to regroup and hopefully make a counterattack ..
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Der Fuhrer receives the news of my retreat and says
"Ich bin krank wie ein ficken papagei!" (Transl. "I'm sick as a parrot")
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GAME 12 of 25 FINISHED

POS v Hedgehog
Winner Hedgehog, minor vic

Armour at start:-
Hedgehog: 5x Sher76, 1x Hellcat, 1x Stuart
POS: 5x PzIVlong, 3x Stug-long, 1x halftrack

Both flags stayed neutral but Hedgehog scored big points for killing half my armour early on, then kept the survivors caged behind the buildings, unable to move..
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LEADER BOARD
(Only the contestants whose score beat mine are shown on it. Colour of name depicts the side they commanded, blue=Ger, green=US)

1st- Earl of Grey: score 42 (71%-29% tactical vic)
2nd- Silent Otto: score 38 (69%-31% tactical vic)
3rd- Cargol and Hedgehog: score 24 (both players 62%-38% minor vic)
5th- Breakthrough: score 22 (61%-39% minor vic)
6th- Breaklight: score 18 (59%-41% minor vic)
7th- Airborne Bob: score 8 (54%-46% Draw)

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(13 games still to finish before the midnight July 14th tourney deadline)

12 FINISHED SO FAR, click 'Awards' to claim your tourney ribbon:-
Ryohei
Johnsy
Bootie
Rico
Breaklight
Earl of Grey
Airborne Bob
Nathangun
Cargol
Silent Otto
Breakthrough
Hedgehog
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For the record: POS Won 5, Lost 6, Drawn 1

More stats:- of the 25 competitors, 13 chose to be German, and 12 chose to be American.
 
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