Paul_RS
Elder Member
Gents,
I've been completing some long overdue ASL Admin and was browsing the scenarios for ABTF. IIRC the scenarios were based upon the scenarios from the GSTK module from HoB. I was asking myself why I hadn't really played this module as much as I perhaps should have done. Then I spotted the King Tigers and it all came flooding back..
On the 24th/25th of September 1944 s.Pz.Abt.506 detrained at Zevenaar, approximately 7 miles East of Arnhem. 2 Companies were sent to Aachen and 2 to Arnhem. the 9th and 10th SS Pz divisions each received 1 company each and the tanks were deployed to Oosterbeek (1 was destroyed in the subsequent action) and Elst (2 were destroyed along with 2 Jagd Tigers (the latter by fighter bombers) that anecdotal evidence suggests may have been deployed with the company at the time.
Elst is South of the Neder Rhine so the tanks would have more than likely used the Arnhem bridge to get there as all Allied resistance at the bridge had ceased on the 21st Sept, 3/4 days before the tanks arrived in Zevenaar.
No evidence of King Tigers fighting at the bridge, suggest replacing the King Tiger with a early Tiger 1's from KG Hummel. Plenty of evidence to support that order of battle.
I've been completing some long overdue ASL Admin and was browsing the scenarios for ABTF. IIRC the scenarios were based upon the scenarios from the GSTK module from HoB. I was asking myself why I hadn't really played this module as much as I perhaps should have done. Then I spotted the King Tigers and it all came flooding back..
On the 24th/25th of September 1944 s.Pz.Abt.506 detrained at Zevenaar, approximately 7 miles East of Arnhem. 2 Companies were sent to Aachen and 2 to Arnhem. the 9th and 10th SS Pz divisions each received 1 company each and the tanks were deployed to Oosterbeek (1 was destroyed in the subsequent action) and Elst (2 were destroyed along with 2 Jagd Tigers (the latter by fighter bombers) that anecdotal evidence suggests may have been deployed with the company at the time.
Elst is South of the Neder Rhine so the tanks would have more than likely used the Arnhem bridge to get there as all Allied resistance at the bridge had ceased on the 21st Sept, 3/4 days before the tanks arrived in Zevenaar.
No evidence of King Tigers fighting at the bridge, suggest replacing the King Tiger with a early Tiger 1's from KG Hummel. Plenty of evidence to support that order of battle.
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