Kenny's Attack WTO (id:#67019)
Designer: Andy Goldin
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Balance:
AmericanGerman
30%

Overview:

After a short pe­riod of reorganization and absorbing replacements. 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division (the "Blue and Gray") passed through 3rd Battalion to continue the Division attack toward St. Lô, now only two miles away. Hav­ing fought to exhaustion over the past three days, 2nd and 3rd Battalions were no longer fit to carry on the attack. Lieutenant Bill Kenny's Company C. attacking on the Battalion right flank. faced a series of hedgerows, open ground, and woods to fight through to reach St. Lô. Concerns by Kenny's Battalion commander, Major Glover S. Johns, Jr. about attacking across open ground in broad daylight were breezily rejected by the Regimental Operations Officer, who planned the attack to begin at 0600.
Attacker: American (Company C, 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. 747th Tank Battalion)
Defender: German (Infanterie-Division 352)  
5.5 turns
    Players: 2     OBA: None     Night: No
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:11.5 D:7.0
AFVs: A:1
M4A1

AFVs: D:0
Guns: A:0
M2 60mm Mortar x 2
D:1
2cm FlaK 38

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP: Building Control VC: Area Control VC:
Unit Based VC: LOS Style VC: CVP Cap:
Misc Rules: Hedges: Bocage (B9.5), D: BS (C6.4), HIP: 1 MMC.
Overlays: NONE
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Last Played:
DateReporterOpponentBal.ResultTimeComments
2025-05-10(D) Richard Jenulis vs Steve Buckley American win5 hrs
2025-05-03(D) Indy Lagu vs Jody Sallans German winJody and I ended up playing this one twice at our club's
monthly meeting. I'll put comments on both in this
report.

I defended in the first game. Jody found Americans on
the attack a bit frustrating (ML 6), and he didn't really
use a lot of smoke, and spread his forces a bit too much,
imho.

In the rematch, I was the US and was a bit luck with my
infantry smoke. The Germans have a hard time standing
up to the US firepower if (and that's a big if), the US can
get into position.

I would recommend this scenario. Be aware that there
are a couple of obvious places for the German HIP units.
As such, the replay value may suffer a bit.
2025-05-03(A) Indy Lagu vs Jody Sallans American winSee my comments in the other report.
2025-04-26(A) Andy Goldin vs Jim Mehl German winThe American wins this by blasting his way through German lines with firepower and smoke from the tank or 1st line infantry to obscure his movement. The German wins by using hedgerows, foxholes, and the woods to avoid a stand-up fight, and trading ground for time by making the American setup his forces only to have to re-deploy at the next line of hedgerows. This is what Jim did.

On the left (west) side of the map, Jim traded hedgerows for time while on the right (east) side he delayed briefly before withdrawing to the woods. Although I was able to clear the woods, I couldn't clear him out of the last block of hedgerows to clear the road for the win. The deliberate immobilization of my Sherman (and getting it on his second try) by the Flak gun was well done. Even so, the turning point was the US player turn where I fired my entire line at his defenders with negligible effect, costing me a whole turn and allowing him to pull back in good order. While my propensity to roll 'boxcars' was useful for the Germans, I ascribe my defeat primarily to Jim's good judgement on knowing when to 'hold' and when to 'fold'.
2025-03-07(D) Chris Larkin vs Belnor American win3 hrsGermans had a good start thanks to some missed WP rolls, a bad move caused the German HMG to be lost and they were quickly outflanked and made quick work of.
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Agoldin Rated the scenario2025-04-26 19:52:39
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Avg Rating: 6.83Votes: 6
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Estimated Play time: 2.7 hours
Recorded Games: 5
Archive recorded plays:
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German2
Drawn:0

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Kenny's Attack
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[A] German 0
[D] American 5
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