Panzer Grenadier Battles on October 24th:
Afrika 1944 #22 - PAKfront Leyte '44 #12 - Flying Wedge
Fronte Russo #9 - Potemkin Village Leyte '44 #13 - Failure at Buri Airfield
Red & White #28 - Bastion
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Miserable Failure
Snowstorm of Steel #13
(Attacker) Germany vs United States (Attacker)
Formations Involved
Germany 2nd SS "Das Reich" Division
United States 3rd "Spearhead" Armored Division
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Scenario Rank: --- of 1093
Parent Game Snowstorm of Steel
Historicity Historical
Date 1944-12-24
Start Time 13:00
Turn Count 9
Visibility Day
Counters 57
Net Morale 0
Net Initiative 1
Maps 1: 25
Layout Dimensions 43 x 28 cm
17 x 11 in
Play Bounty 214
AAR Bounty 224
Total Plays 0
Total AARs 0
Duplicates WiSo016
Battle Types
Hill Control
Inflict Enemy Casualties
Road Control
Conditions
Off-board Artillery
Randomly-drawn Aircraft
Reinforcements
Scenario Requirements & Playability
Elsenborn Revised Maps + Counters
Snowstorm of Steel Base Game
Introduction

Major Olin F. Brewster had been sent to hold an otherwise unremarkable spot called Belle Haie on Belgian maps, with a platoon each of tanks and armored infantry, plus a company of paratroopers from the 509th Battalion. More paratroopers, and tank destroyers from 9th Armored Division, had wandered into the position. Higher headquarters (Task Force Richardson, Combat Command A, and 3rd Armored Division) wanted Brewster to drive off the SS militia threatening his position, and sent him a company from the green 75th Infantry Division’s 289th Infantry Regiment. Brewster send them forward to clear away the SS advancing down the road. “The Company commander brought his company up,” Brewster recalled in a 1990 oral history interview, “and after I briefed him and gave him orders, he assured me that he took no prisoners. He took off across the open field that was white as snow.”

Conclusion

The American attack failed miserably. “They never made it to the line of departure,” Brewster said of the raw infantrymen he sent to attack the SS. “I found out later, that was their first day in combat and had never heard a gun fired in anger. If I had known at the time, that the company had not seen combat, I would have given them more instruction and leadership.”

Additional Notes

SS transport counters are available as a free download from Avalanche Press. If not using these or other SS transport from other games, players should use regular German army transport as substitutes.


Display Relevant AFV Rules

AFV Rules Pertaining to this Scenario's Order of Battle
  • Vulnerable to results on the Assault Combat Chart (7.25, 7.63, ACC), and may be attacked by Anti-Tank fire (11.2, DFT). Anti-Tank fire only affects the individual unit fired upon (7.62, 11.0).
  • AFV's are activated by tank leaders (3.2, 3.3, 5.42, 6.8). They may also be activated as part of an initial activating stack, but if activated in this way would need a tank leader in order to carry out combat movement.
  • AFV's do not block Direct Fire (10.1).
  • Full-strength AFV's with "armor efficiency" may make two anti-tank (AT) fire attacks per turn (either in their action segment or during opportunity fire) if they have AT fire values of 0 or more (11.2).
  • Each unit with an AT fire value of 2 or more may fire at targets at a distance of between 100% and 150% of its printed AT range. It does so at half its AT fire value. (11.3)
  • Efficient and non-efficient AFV's may conduct two opportunity fires per turn if using direct fire (7.44, 7.64). Units with both Direct and AT Fire values may use either type of fire in the same turn as their opportunity fire, but not both (7.22, 13.0). Units which can take opportunity fire twice per turn do not have to target the same unit both times (13.0).
  • Demoralized AFV's are not required to flee from units that do not have AT fire values (14.3).
  • Place a Wreck marker when an AFV is eliminated in a bridge or town hex (16.3).
  • AFV's do not benefit from Entrenchments (16.42).
  • AFV's may Dig In (16.2).
  • Open-top AFV's: Immune to M, M1 and M2 results on Direct and Bombardment Fire Tables, but DO take step losses from X and #X results (7.25, 7.41, 7.61, BT, DFT). If a "2X" or "3X" result is rolled, at least one of the step losses must be taken by an open-top AFV if present.
  • Closed-top AFV's: Immune to M, M1 and M2 results on Direct and Bombardment Fire Tables. Do not take step losses from Direct or Bombardment Fire. If X or #X result on Fire Table, make M morale check instead (7.25, 7.41, 7.61, BT, DFT).
  • Closed-top AFV's: Provide the +1 modifier on the Assault Table when combined with infantry. (Modifier only applies to Germans in all scenarios; Soviet Guards in scenarios taking place after 1942; Polish, US and Commonwealth in scenarios taking place after 1943.) (ACC)
  • Tank: all are closed-top and provide the +1 Assault bonus, when applicable
  • Tank Destroyer: do not provide the +1 Assault bonus, even if closed-top (SB)
  • APC – Armored Personnel Carrier: These are Combat Units, but stack like Transports. They can transport personnel units or towed units. They are not counted as combat units for the +1 stacking modifier on the Direct Fire and Bombardment Tables (4.4). They may be activated by regular leaders and tank leaders (1.2, 3.34, 4.3, 5.43). They do not provide the +1 Assault bonus (ACC).

Display Order of Battle

Germany Order of Battle
Schutzstaffel
  • Mechanized
  • Motorized
  • Towed
United States Order of Battle
Airborne
Army

Display Errata (4)

4 Errata Items
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The reduced direct fire value of the SS HMG is 5-5 in Beyond Normandy and Road to Berlin.

(plloyd1010 on 2015 Jul 31)
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The Units in Beyond Normandy were misprinted with a movement factor of 5. The movement factor should be 8.

(rerathbun on 2012 Mar 21)
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Liberation 1944's counters are mislabeled 'PzIVF2.' The counter's ratings are correct (Armor 5, Move 8, DF 11-6, AT 6-8).

(rerathbun on 2014 Feb 14)
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The M18 has a special rule in Battle of the Bulge but it applies globally: "A two-step M18 unit can fire one anti-tank shot and move half its movement allowance (retain fractions) in a single impulse. The order in which it does these two actions is the player's choice."

(Shad on 2010 Dec 15)
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