France gets the initiative and charges the fence! x3 Poilu and x2 Germans go down, but they've done it... they reached the position! French fire add x2 more KIAs but the 75s miss. Germans next add x2 KIAs and a Shaken at the farm and x1 KIA and another Pin against the charge. All 77s miss. German artillery has been tottally absent!
The Germans next turn their attention to the Brits and a melee in a Gemappe building with x4 German and x2 Brit leaves both Tommies down with x1 German. In the street x1 more Brit becomes a casualty. Next it's the survivor of the brave charge that goes KIA and in the melee woods, between x5 German and x2 Brits, both Tommies are lost with x1 German. The woods have been taken! But the British don't give in quite yet. A counterattack goes in and they get x2 KIA and x1 Shaken. On the Gemappe streets, both British fires go wide
Viva la France! The French keep the initiative!! And their 75s finally score, destroying a 77mm!
South of Villiers, one Poilu actually jumps the fence...only to be cut down in melee! (There he is, right of center) with the famous red pants) They down x3 more of the Huns. German artillery again misses everything (Someone will catch hell!) and they miss all French at the farm. x2 German survivors at the fence fall back. Is the tide turning?
In Gemappe, the Germans engage the final two Tommies on the street in melee, and dispatch both! Finally, a British company has waited patiently inside some houses (have removed top floors) and now opens up on the Germans in the street and gets x2 KIAs(can see a second British company retiring from the l-shaped building, as HQ has decreed a fallback):
In the woods, Germans score a KIA, Shaken and Pin but then the British counterattack drops two Germans. Finally two Tommie companies west of the wood get x10 shots, on target with x5 and get x4 KIAs! They may have stabilized the sector once more.
Looks like it is almost done, stayed tuned for the finish.
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