With the 75th anniversary of D-Day nearing on I took out my Max Hastings Overlord for more inspiration I enbarked on trying an invasion type scenario.
I have long been a ww2 wargamer since early seventies.Actually ww2 was the only era that interested me. Warlord and victor comics Look and learn ,Readers digest ,World of Wonder ,any literature on ww2 was consumed.
It all started with Gavin Operation Warboard borrowed from the local library and since we eventually had to return my cousin typed two copies .Mine was the back copy with red print.Bound with a sewing machine which I still have somewhere
All this was in
20mm until I got my first 1/300 Heroics and a copy of WRG 1925-1950 rules in
1981.
Then went through WRG 2nd edition ,Newbury
Cambrai to Sinai ,B R Taylor Firefly,Command and Decision and Clash of Armor by
Clash of Arms.Then interest shifted to ACW and Napoleonic but that’s another
story.
Recently I came across Kampfgruppe Commander which was a 2nd edition
of Clash of Armour which I had really liked its initiative system. I played a couple of games but realized I was no longer
in minute detail ,spotting ranges and barrage templates.
That’s until Rommel.Sam
Mustafa WW2 Game.It puts you in a commander role where combined arms is the
key. And at 1 sqr Km/6inch there’s plenty of room for great battles.
Juno is the Canadian beach in operation Overlord.I have never played an invasion scenario as it was never easy te recreat a balance betwwen a machine gun in a pillbox a men trying to wade ashore under fire. With Rommel the allied first two brigades land jam packed with no exit in the 1st tactical phase .Unless an exit is opened by the end of turn 1 some remaining units of the first wave will have nowhere to land due to stacking and will be shattered.So all 10 ops points will have to go to invoking subsequent tactical phases.3 defending squares were concentrated on and by the 3rd tac phase an exit was opened .
The allies cannot afford using offensive tactics but must push hard bt invoking as mant tactical moves as possible at all costs . Casualties is the price to pay.The defender receives reinforcments by the 21st panzer Division which counter attacked aggresivly. we still have to conclude and will update accordingly. I am including some photos taken during the game kindly taken by Mike .
First wave going in
must be turn 6 with 21st panzer coming in
Stugs and Marders of the 352 inf Div
depleted allied 7th Brigade
from the defender's rear
allied out numbered but fight on
red marker tipped
