Ardennes'44 via Vassal Day Nine, Ten and Eleven

The last three days in the standard campaign game.

Morning December 24th

 2nd SS Pz Corps and 5th Pz Army attacks.

 6th Pz Army attacks.

 7th Army attacks

 Pz Lehr attacks.

 US attacks from the north.

US attacks from the south.

The big picture at midday.

Afternoon December 24th

 6th Panzer Army attacks

 North of Bastogne.

Panzer Lehr low on fuel.

Midnight

Morning December 25th

 Desperate attacks by the 6th Pz Army.

 Southern side of the bulge paralysed by fuel shortages.

 US attacks on the northern flank.

US attacks on the southern flank.

The situation at midday.

Afternoon December 25th

6th Panzer Army keeps attacking.

 But on the south things have bogged down,
not helped by extensive fuel shortages.

 7th Army making an attack in the south east.
The attack was not successful, but the US later withdrew these forces to use in an attack further west.

 US attacks from the south.

US attacks from the north.

Midnight.

Morning December 26th

Final attacks by 6th Pz Army.

5th Pz Army on the southern flank has started to pull back.

The US keep attacking from the north.

And from the south.

By midday the US attacks had made progress.

Afternoon December 26th

The last attack from 6th Pz Army against Stavelot comes close to capturing it, but again fails.

The US keep attacking towards Manhay

While on the south flank the US make a determined push.

The whole map at the end of the game.

 Detail of the northern sector.

German progress here was held up as the US had used strategic movement to push reinforcements into blocking positions that then tied down German troops to liquidate them.  Stavelot is still, just, holding out. This was something I had failed to do in my game with Richard.

Detail of the southern sector

The Germans had benefited from deploying the 2nd SS Pz Corps to this flank, but fuel shortages and blocking points by US paratroops in woods stopped them from exploiting their success.

Excellent game, the complexity is in the counters and map.  It worked really well on Vassal, but took about an hour a turn.