AAR QB 1500 points

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Herr Hauptsturmbahnfuehrer, take your company over to this village (stab at map), see if there is any enemy activity, and report back. Two Pz-IVs will provide support. Oh, and there is a platoon of Volkstuermer who want to join in the fun, maybe you'll find something to do with them. That is all.

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Schaefer to HQ. Have reached the village. Have surprised and destroyed a US recon. element (tank platoon, AC platoon, infy platoon). Enemy infantry captured. Volksturm plt. performed very creditably (on flank sweep found and destroyed enemy anti-tank screen and engaged enemy main infantry body).

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We sneaked in close, through some woods that stretched south of the village, all the way to the road. Through the trees we could here the engines and the tracks of the American armour. Suddenly we saw them, through the treeline: a few armoured cars, a big fat Sherman sitting in the middle of the road, its back turned to us. The Hauptsturmbahnfuehrer took over the tank hunting team himself. They crept up to 150 m, each second wondering whether they would be spotted, then they fired. Old Schmidt took the shot first-- Ostfront veteran, 5 T-34s to his name-- and missed. The Volkstuermer Schreck team then fired- two seventeen year olds-- and brewed up the Sherman.

All hell breaks loose; the armoured cars turn their heavy machine guns on us, the Volksturmer break and run, or fall. Another Sherman surges forward. But then it's all over: a tank hunter team takes out the Sherman when it pushes too far; our own armour drives forward, shooting up the armoured cars and yet another Sherman. The enemy infantry is in houses, in the village, exchanging fire with two squads of Volksturmer sent on the right flank. The Pz-IVs need only lob a few shells into the village for the enemy infantry to surrender. We fall back with nearly a full plt. of prisoners.