CAMCOR B 1010

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR B 0950 and 1000

CAMCOR 0934 and 0940

CAMCOR COMMENTARY

The Cameronians managed to catch up with the barrage in the centre and arrived on the Germans front line just as the barrage passed over - textbook stuff. However, the Germans just managed to hold them back thanks mainly to some unlucky SNAFU DRs and the attack has utterly stalled and been decimated.
The Germans should be able to hold back the British given the probable ratio of casualties. It all depends on a few lucky breaks either way.

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR 0820 to 0918 26th June 1944

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR B 0820 26th June 1944

10 minutes later the Cameronians have closed up on the creeping barrage and have an almost textbook formation - minus the tanks.

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR B 0810 26th June 1944

Retrying CAMCOR with some rule changes. I've beefed up the preparatory bombardment to a 48FP attack - the full FP for 5.5" guns. This offsets the increased TEM for bunkers (+8 vs HE). However, it does make the forward outposts in their foxholes very vulnerable, and in this playing they have suffered a lot of KIA. Another change to help the Scots is I've changed the sniper TH DR to <= 8. This should make sniper fire less deadly to the CAMERONIANS as they stride bravely through the cornfields and pastures.
In this playing, the Cameronians are already 10 minutes late and have made no progress activating their orders. Confusion as the officers try to figure out what to do without the promised tank support.

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR 0920 26th June 1944

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR 0910 26th June 1944

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR 0850 26th June 1944

CAMERONIANS' CORRIDOR - 2012

This is the situation at 0840. The Cameronians press their advance despite the delays suffered by 7th RTR. Resistance so far is limited to sniper fire, which has nevertheless killed several men and wounded 2 officers. German losses so far are quite light. It is remarkable how sparse the Cameronians are - just 8 platoon size groups looking rather forlorn in the misty fields.

Tinkerings...

Been adding bits, changing bits and generally tinkering with F&M's vassal module. In so doing I managed to delete an entire panel of German units - all the AFV wrecks! Arggh! I had to redo them manually and then I couldn't get the labels to stay when the were 'unwrecked'. Since I use this to refresh the AFV counters in scenarios after making changes to the counters and will even be using wrecks plus a layer to signify immobilized AFVs this was a major pain. Silver lining is I managed to work out why this happens, correct it and fix another counter that had the same glitch. So all's well as ends well.