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Commandos vs. Engineers
Creating the Battle of Malmedy Scenario
with Mark Francis & Mike Haught
Mark and I have plans to try and meet up for a pre-Shifting Sands game that focuses on the battle of Malmedy, where our forces met in combat on 21 December 1944.
Like Bastogne and St. Vith, Malmedy is situated on an important crossroads. Peiper was under orders to avoid it in case the Americans held it in strengh, but in actual fact the only unit there was a company of the 291st Engineers. The Germans finally assaulted with Skorzeny's panzer brigade the village on 21 December, however in the time lost the Americans had reinforced the village with the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate), the 526th Armored Rifle Battalion, and elements of the 30th Infantry DIvision. At that point the fight was on, which is where Mark and I will spar with our Flames Of War forces.
I've been pretty busy working with Steve MacLauchlan who is visiting our office this week, so I haven't made any progress on my painting, as you can tell by my painting table below! Fortunately, however, Mark has been hard at work putting together our Malmedy scenario table.
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