Bastogne Corridor East — Memoir ’44 Scenario
Historical background
Memoir 44 Details
6 VP’s
Card Balance:
5 – 5
Complexity:
3
Conditions:
Winter
Location:
Belgium
Year:
1944
Theater:
Western Front
Campaign:
Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge)
Context:
Historical
Strategy Summary
Objectives:
6 VP’s, including Exit Medals for the Axis forces
Terrain:
In this scenario, the Allies control two-thirds of the battlefield at the start. Because there are scattered forests across the field of play, it makes it difficult for the Axis to push them out. But they begin the round with superior forces, while the Allies are crammed into the back of one flank.
Troops:
Allies – 7 Infantry, 4 Armor, 2 Artillery
Axis – 8 Infantry, 5 Armor, 1 Infantry
🔥 Winning as Allies
1. Big Picture Strategy:
Focus on defending villages and chokepoints, leveraging defensive terrain and slowing down Axis tanks. Keep units close to key areas like the exit markers to prevent breakthroughs.
2. You have four armored units jammed together in the lower left flank. Send at least one of those to the right in order to engage the enemy in the center section, to prevent Axis forces from escaping across the exit row.
3. Best attack vector: right up the left flank with your armor to trap the enemy against the back border and smash them to bits.
🔥 Winning as Axis
1. Big Picture Strategy:
Use tanks’ mobility to avoid prolonged battles in forests and villages. Concentrate forces for a decisive breakthrough toward the exit markers or to capture critical objectives like villages.
2. Given the preponderence of the Allied armor on your right flank, this would be your weak flank. So be careful of launching an attack on that side unless you have a tremendous set of cards for it.
3. Also note that the Allied infantry at c6 is within a two dice attack of your armor unit. So you will want to move that to a distance of three hexes for your attacks.
4. You have a lot of forces on your left flank. Spend a card to get them into the action in the center section when you can.
5. You have Exit Medals available to you at <L1> and <F1>. Keep that in mind as your push your troops forward, in order to keep the pressure on the Allies.
Author:
Days of Wonder
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Scenario details
- Theater
- Western Front
- Battle date
- 1944 (year recorded)
- Sides / forces
- Allies - 7 Infantry, 4 Armor, 2 Artillery Axis - 8 Infantry, 5 Armor, 1 Infantry
- Victory conditions
- 6 VP's, including Exit Medals for the Axis forces
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