I've put this AAR in the wrong message board.
The game took place on the 2nd of January.
The game was played in Arnhem in the Rijnhotel due to the invitation of Chris and Patty (Arnhem historians of love the city).
besides this game, there was also a FOW Kursk game (no pictures sorry).
Overview
Starting positions:
2 Para at the bridge (not played),
1 and 3 para eastern outskirts Oosterbeek/ Oosterbeek station Laag,
All 1 Air landing inf around LZ/ DZ regrouping after defending the LZ/ DZ, or busy with rearguard/ delaying actions,
10 and 156 para near Dreyenseweg
11 para near railway
Div troops positions in and near Oosterbeek
von Tettau 1st units edge of LZ/ DZ and Amsterdamseweg
Spindler/ others near Dreyenseweg
Other 9SS first response Around Arnhem station and Oude Haven
Starting positions
Main objects
British enable Polish gliders to land, break trough German positions around Amsterdamse weg to gain access to
Arnhem north of railway and via routes south of railway iot reach bridge and defensive positions.
Prevent German troops to cut of block British units/ routes.
Germans block routes into Arnhem, prevent re-enforcements to land or successfully RV, destroy Airborne units
Players:
British: Dough (east), Adie (Oosterbeek) and Chris (the push to Arnhem)
German: Patty (Spindler), Dennis (Arnhem troops) and me (von Tettau)
game support:
War photgraphers: Damian and Saïma
Dice thrower: Azzaar
Coffee: Coffee machine
West side
Area around Oosterbeel Laag station
Most western unit, Moellers Engineers, of the German "Arnhem" units
Germans around De oude Haven
German units at and near Dreyenseweg
Germans move forward behind the museum….
….and occupy some houses near the museum
Moeller at St. Elisabethsgasthuis, soon under attack of the front coy of the approaching Airborne units
The Arnhem station area still free of fighting….
….behind the houses at the Utrechtseweg/ straat….
…the St Elisabethsgasthuis….
….and in the distance Lombok and the bridge of the Oranjestraat.
The Airborne units approaching the crossroad at Lombok, ready to meet any resistance…..and they will…
Meanwhile at the DZ/ LZ….von tettau's front battalions arrive and are heavenly engaged at long and medium distance…
A few kilometres to the east 10 and 156 para try to break through the Spindler blocking line, supported by the artillery…
…fire….
RASC and the divisional troops/ HQ are moving into Oosterbeek
Filmed…
At onder en bovenlangs the fighting starts….many casualties on both sides, but slowly the Germans are pushed back
Moellers troops are hit hard, vehicle destroyed, even when supported by the 9th SS recce from the south bank of the Rijn
even the attack via the Oranjestraat is checked by the British
Time to show the personnel of the Rijnhotel their building as it was in 1944….
Germans occupy the houses across the museum and in the museum to hold the advance….
At the DZ all remnants of the British are assembled at Wolfheze railway crossing and send to Arnhem..the rest stop the Germans and prepare the LZ for the Polish…or are moving towards Oosterbeek to prepare new defensive positions to hold the advance of von tettau…
The road is still blocked by Spindler
Oosterbeek
9th SS send anybody and everything they have towards the British advance….
…to be hit by artillery. the 9th SS recce is destroyed….
but the british advance is not stopped
The prison is not under attack…
von tettau renews the attacks, supported bij Char tanks and push the british troops slowly backwards. The tanks are shortly successfull, even burning the crew of a 6pounder gun, but finally stopped by some well placed PIAT rounds. German infantry is ambushed and attacked from different sides
The streams of the Hemelseberg run quietly…
The war photographer
opens the box on the Armoured Panzergrenadier Company HQ (Late-War) for Flames of War.
