Gaming: Scenario - Skirmish at Vimont 18 July 1944 - GERMAN ORDERS

So the Germans have to dislodge the British from Vimont!

"...Lieutenant Baumann wipe the sweat off his brow. This was very different from the desert he had become accustomed to. Things were becoming desperate - he looked down again at the orders he had received: "To the last bullet!" When had it come to this he thought. The British were coming! and they would be here soon. The days of fortune and glory were long behind them he thought as he cast a surveying glance of the hodge-podge force he'd managed to assemble: old men, boys, pen pushing fanatics, Russian conscripts - the pride of the great Reich sent to hold back the British torrent - he looked at the signal again 'to the last bullet!' unlikely he thought, many probably wouldn't make it to the first. He surveyed the scene again. Still he was a proud Prussian and he'd show them how the Prussians could fight.  He jumped back into his staff car, before looked behind and giving the signal. Engines roared! The small column trundled up the road towards the small French village and towards their fate...."

Picture: German forces on the move!

Orders

The Commander of the Germans was issued with the following orders:

Force

The German force will be 750 points and in theory should be from the 1944 - Normandy army selector. As we are just trying to see/understand how are armies work then it must be a single platoon chosen from any army selector (although same selector must be used throughout) 

Author note: I will be keeping with the DAK theme and using the 1941 DAK Light Divison from the Western Desert book

Intelligence

The Germans have no air recon and the locals are not sympathetic to their cause. They troops coming from Caen are unknown. Experience has dictated that the British forces are well trained and well armed, although heavy fighting around Caen means they are potentially fatigued. Amour, artillery and air support are all anticipated to assist in any British attack. 

Picture: British forces seen in the general location of Vimont