Battle of the Bulge replay starts today

[Norm]

As mentioned above, today I am starting the Bulge campaign, using the Bitter Woods game and playing two turns a day to match the timeline of the real battle.

I have started a post over on my blog that will follow the game and it will be updated daily from today through to 26th December.

Not figures I know, but hopefully it will provide some interest and a coffee break for anyone passing by.

The link to that post for anyone interested is;

http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2018/12/battle-of-bulge-1944.html

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Have a lot of fun! 

[sunjester]

Go for it!

[Steve J]

Looking forward to following this in the run up to Xmas

[paulr]

Wot they said

[Techno]

Hear, hear !!

Cheers - Phil

[Poggle]

Likewise! 

[Norm]

Thanks all:-)

By the end of the 17th (today), Bastogne has fallen to the Germans and Peiper by-passes St. Vith. The Allies are very nervous.

[Steve J]

On to Antwerp!

[paulr]

I can see why they're nervous

[d_Guy]

Interesting to watch this develop, Norm. Germans seem to be achieving close to their most optimistic schedule. Will the war be extended another year? Or will  the Russians  take Berlin by July? Or will the US nuke Germany in mid-August? Questions pile up.

[Raider4]

Interesting to watch this develop, Norm. Germans seem to be achieving close to their most optimistic schedule. Will the war be extended another year? Or will  the Russians  take Berlin by July? Or will the US nuke Germany in mid-August? Questions pile up.

Don't worry, I've seen this movie. The German M47s will run out of fuel any time now . . .

[Norm]

Thanks all. Separate to what is actually happening on the table, I am finding that the situation has the Allied player really nervous about breakthrough and in panic because they have nothing to stop the advance, while the Germans don't quite have enough oomph to smash that centre or take Liege quickly and are worried that the Allies will recover, so there is a real emotional connection to play.

News for 19th Dec .. the Allies have taken heavy losses and now really find themselves stretched. Bastogne fell early, leaving the route to Marche exposed and Eupen is under threat and close to being cut-off. German fuel supplies are about to become problematic.

[d_Guy]

Don't worry, I've seen this movie. The German M47s will run out of fuel any time now . . .

Good point Raider, they are probably having trouble getting parts for them as well. 

[paulr]

Will the Germans find stumble upon the Allied fuel dumps

Didn't some junior officer destroy one of the fuel dumps on his own initiative and against orders just before the Germans arrived, or am I remembering wrongly