NUTS! Supplement - Peiper at the Gates
NUTS! Supplement - Peiper at the Gates
"December 22nd 1944
To the U.S.A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne:
There is only one possibility to save the encircled ... U.S.A troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town .... "
The German Commander.
December 22, 1944
To the German Commander,
NUTS!
The American Commander"
At 5:35am on December 16th 1944, the pre-dawn hush of the Ardennes forest was shattered by 620 German artillery pieces firing into Allied positions. With an ambitious plan to surround and destroy several US divisions, retake the critical supply port of Antwerp, and force the Allies to sue for peace, the Germans stormed forward to battle and their first major objective: crossing the Meuse River.
Peiper at the Gates is a scenario book for NUTS! covering the actions of small bands of American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division and other US infantry units during the Battle of the Bulge, facing the elite SS and Falschimjgaer units of Kampfgruppe Peiper.
Inside Peiper at the Gates you will find:
• New rules for the different types of terrain you'll be fighting in.
• Rules for Engineering units and actions.
• 11 linked scenarios covering the critical actions from December 16-19, 1944.