Normandy 1944

We recycled the Austadt-ish 15mm battlefield as a piece of Normandy for a WWII tank battle.
Germans (Jim & Mark): 2 Tigers, 10 MKIV, 2 Pumas, 4 half tracks each with 4 inf  & off table artillery.
US (Mike): 4M10, 10 Sherman, 2 Honeys, 4 half travcjs each with 4 inf & off table artillery.

The two forces start advancing towards each other from oposite ends of the table.The villages are objectives.  Germans on the right.

Boths sides recon hide behind the central village as each sent a tank squadron to each flank with M10s or Gigers behind in the centre.  The US sent half their infnatry to each flank.  The Germans sent all of their to the rightclose to the central village.

The first exchange was long range sniping between the Tigers & 2 M10's in the woods. The US maksed one Tiger with smoke & blew up the other one.

On the right, the US armour moved up to the ridgeline hull down to enagege the MkIVs.  The MkIVs got 1st shot in being waiting, but mostly missed.  Then the Shermans blew most of he MkIVs away.

On the right, the Sermans finished off the MkIVs with little loss, but fewll back ratehr than attack the German infnatry dug in with panzerfausts with the Tiger coming over in support.  Both side moved infnatry to their side of the centre village, but declined to attack each other.
On the left, US deployed on teh edge of the wood to take omn the waiting panzers.

On the left flank the dice favoured the Germans in the tank fight, but US infnatry advanced up to the village defended by a MkIV with no infantry support & 2 M10s advanced from the centre in support..
On the right flank the lone Tiger advanced to take on the Shermans.

On the left the MKIV withdrew from the village & the US infantry took it. 
On the right the Germans sent an infantry squad to attack the RH village, but the Shermans poped their half track delaying them enough for the US to withdraw infantry from the centre to get to the RH village first.   The Germans with withrew on foot as the Tiger destroyed the Shermans.

After acheiving nothing up untill now, uboth side's artillery finally found targets.  The Us were decimated in the LH village while the Germans were done likewise in the centre.
Both sides evacuated the villages to escape the barrages. The Germans had sent a infantry squad from the centre to their left & it re-took the LH village.  The US had no reserves handy to take the centtre village. 

The Tiger moved to the centre & took out the last M10 leaving the US with no armour & just holding one village.  The Germasn won, but it was a costly victory, as they had lasu all their armour save one Tiger & one MkIV.  

It was a interesting battle with both sides doing plemty of smart tacical moves.  The US got the upper hand early, wiping out half the panzers, but the dice turned on them on the left & the surviving Tiger had a charmed life on the right to turn the tide.