Battle of France 1940

I continue pressing the assault on the hill, slowly grinding the French down due to attrition; however British reinforcements and a platoon of Renaults are approaching. One PzIII commander absolutely refused to cross the river, wasting 5 turns as I had to drive him all the way around.





The Southern Group is slowly breaking through, but at a high price - the French had won initiative twice in a row so now had both renault platoons, a recon platoon, and a Somua platoon on the battlefield; we had yet to destroy one enemy tank and had already taken casualties from our PzIIIs.



The French Players were redploying most of their infantry they had previously held back, opening up the objectives a little which my ally sought to exploit; however his small forces was gunned down.



The commander of the centre group has overrun a stiff pocket of resistance (sIGs work wonders vs dug in infantry) and sought to aid our efforts; his PzIIs bravely charged the ATGs ... and though they took heavy casualties actually succeeded in knocking both fortified guns out.



Overview of the north/centre of the map. My PzIIIs are pitiful vs the Renaults though I've at least overrun the hill. Unfortunately several enemy infantry managed to fall back to the objective and crossing that stretch of ground will no doubt prove costly.





The southern group has ground itself down against the French; they've overrun the hill and forest but lost nearly all of their armour; and unfortunately the Chars had entered play by this point. This group was reduced to a mad dash at the city in the hopes of close assaulting the char, or at least driving it away.



Turn 10 arrives; My forces have nearly overrun the objective but it wasn't enough.



The southern commander has damaged the Char - the only one we had managed to do any damage to the entire battle. Amusingly this was after the French players had anounced that our close assaults weren't enough to hurt their tanks (previously they hadn't risked it); and the defencive fire comes up as 6/6 successes.







Battle Survivors:

FRANCE

2x Renault, 1 damaged.

3x Char, 1 damaged.

1x Somua

1x Bold Captain

1x SMLE



GERMANY

1x sIG

1x Sd Kfz 251

1x Der Leiter

2x Panzergrenadier

4x Light Mortar

8x Mauser

1x Kubelwagen

7x MG34