138 The siege of Colmar

Original Title: El cerco de Colmar

On November 19, 1944, the 2nd General's Armored Division Leclerc took the Germans in Strasbourg, while the 1st Army Corps broke the German defenses at Belfort. The Germans were bagged in the city of Colmar when the French flag was hoisted in Strasbourg on November 23.
On December 31 the Germans started Operation Nordwind whose main objective was to separate the forces of General Patton and General Patch releasing forces fenced in Colmar. To achieve it the Germans could annihilate the French forces buying time and perhaps extending the duration of the war.
General Jean de Lattre ordered that the 3rd Algerian Division of Infantry, out of retreat from Strasbourg, because the city already was insured, along with the 1st Free French Division and 6th US Army Corps, thus covering the spaces left by US forces that were moving rapidly in the direction to the north. The Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder was conceived to stop Operation Norwind and prevent the Germans from leaving the Siege of Colmar.

	American	German
Division 1	6 Squad Bases - 14 Regular Infantry - 2 Officer - 4 Machine Gun Crew 3x AntiTank	8 Squad Bases - 24 Regular Infantry - 4 Elite Infantry - 2 Mortar Crew 2 Opel Blitz Truck 1x Engineer 1x Flamethrower
Division 2	4 Squad Bases - 8 Regular Infantry - 2 Elite Infantry - 2 Officer - 2 Machine Gun Crew 1 M3A1 Halftrack 2x Engineer	3 Squad Bases - 11 Regular Infantry - 1 Officer 4 Panzer IV 1x Medic
Strategy Decks	American Air Support 1 Morale 1 Supply 1	Command 1 Ground Support 1
Starting Strategy Cards	3	2
Operations Cards	-	-
Deployment Zone	Any hexes on boards 4B, 5B and 12B.	Any hexes on boards 6A and 2A.
Starting Initiative
Objective	Americans win if they manage to destroy at least 3 German tanks. If at the end of round 8 no side has achieved its objective, distribute victory points of the following form: -2 VP for the Germans for each crew of machine gun destroyed. -3 VP for Americans per every tank destroyed.	Germans win if they get destroy all endowments enemy machine gun. If at the end of round 8 no side has achieved its objective, distribute victory points of the following form: -2 VP for the Germans for each crew of machine gun destroyed. -3 VP for Americans per every tank destroyed.
Rounds	8
Actions per turn	3	3
Reinforcements	-	If at the end of round 4, the Germans have destroyed at least 3 crews machine gun, receive the following reinforcements in the hexagons highlighted in gray: 5 squad bases - 14 regular infantry - 4 elite infantry - 2 officers
Special Rules	-	-
Terrain Features	The stream is deep.