Battle Report: 1500pts American Armour Vs German Panzergrenadiers

The Americans kicked off the Allied attempts to move Patton’s whisky cabinet one step closer to the Reichstag with an armoured assault towards the recently lost Gatow airport.  Running into the remains of the ever present 18^th Panzergrenadier Division they stalled on the edges of the outlaying airport buildings.  With German resistance stiffening the footsloggers were sent on a flanking manoeuvre while the armour demonstrated in front, only to be cut to pieces by MG fire from the buildings they had hoped to capture.  

The edge of Gatow airport - Shermans massing by the trees while the Germans defend the buildings.

American AA halftracks getting too close to the StuG's.

German StuG assault guns and PaK43’s arrived to duel with the American armour, with the AT guns swiftly put out of action, but the Yanks armour piercing ammunition proving a dud with the StuG’s improbably surviving shot after shot.  In return they knocked out several Shermans, and when the panzergrenadiers began to advance through the ruins; hunting down a Sherman Jumbo with panzerfausts and a panzerschreck, the American CO decided it was time to cut and run before his losses became more than he could bear.

Panzergrenadier counterattack.

Of course he missed.

The Yanks lost their cavalry recon and infantry platoon, while the Germans lost their last heavy AT guns in the PaK43’s but in the subsequent Allied retreat they gained a large swath of woodland to the West of Berlin.