Location : Neffe (3 miles west of Bastogne), Belgian Ardennes.
Weather : Day, Fog
Ground : Damp, Cold
Action : This is a scenario designed to be played as US forces defending against German attackers (AI). Can be played as germans against AI or as PBEM / TCP/IP, but suggest to alter balance in favour of the US.
There is an exit zone for the Germans but no elements are eligible for exit-points.
Length : 50 turns
Map : 1680 m x 1120 m
The one standing order that General Middleton gave General McAuliffe before leaving Bastogne on the morning of 19 December was: "Hold Bastogne." Both generals felt that the enemy needed Bastogne and the entrance it afforded to a wider complex of roads leading west.
Colonel Cherry - commander of the TF Cherry, one of the three small task forces of CCR 9th armrd Div. that was ordered to overwatch the Allerborn-Bastogne road, but was cut to pieces - had gone back to Bastogne to see the CCB commander late on the 18th, returning thereafter to his own headquarters outside Neffe (a mile and a quarter southwest of Mageret) with the word that the 101st would reinforce his command the next day. On the road back, however, he learned that the Germans were in Mageret and his troops were cut off. About the time Ewell's paratroopers (501 Airborne) debouched on the Bastogne road, Neffe was hit by tanks and infantry from Panzer Lehr.
Sources
Battle of the Bulge
Map design by Eric "McAuliffe" Antonsen
based on the topographical map 1/25.000 60 7/8 IGN Belgium and personal visits of the battlefield.
