So I’ve played this out twice with admendments.
I built my own map (part of my 3 foot by 8 foot hex map). It was 16 hexes by 20 hexes. Across one corner was 14 hexes of water front. In the center were 4 town hexes about 8 back from the beach (too far for the infantry). The beach itself was 2 hexes deep. There was an assortment of hills flanking the beach and woods to break up the area.
In my usual way I went bigger. My forces were Canada 222 points to Germany’s 172 points. I roughly followed the plan but ammended a few things to suit my forces.
Canada
2 x platoons with - 1x eagle eyed NCO, 1x bren gunner & 2 x Canadian Riflemen each.
1 Platoon with - 4 x Royal Engineers
Armour - 1 x M3 Stuart and 2 x Crusader II
Reccon - 2 x Humber Scout Cars
Elite Inf - 4 x Defiant Paratroops & 1 x Bren gunner
Air Spt - 1 x Hawker Typhoon & 1 x concealed spotter
Coy HQ - 1 x Inspiring Lt. and 2 x Vickers MG
Boats - 3 x Higgins (because of larger force)
Germans
Platoon - 1 x MG42, 1 x Panzerfaust 30, 3 x Mauser
Platoon - 3 x Panzer Grenadier, 2 x Stormtroopers
Anti tank - 2 x PAK 38
Air Spt - 1 x Focke-wulf Fw 190A
AA Bty - 1 x 20mm Flak 38 & 2 x Luftwaffe Inf
Mortar - 2 x 81mm mortar and 1 x Disciplined spotter
Leader - 1 x Haupstrumfurher
Special - 18 points of obstacles 4 wire, 4 mines, 4 AT and 2 bunkers.
I have played this twice. The first round I was Germany and won a decisive victory. Granted my oponent was my young son and doesn’t have my tacxtical mind. Today I played as Canada against an infantry NCO who thinks a lot smarter. For the first 6 turns I figured I was being crushed. I concentrated an attack on one side of the beach forcing him to draw some of the other defences toward the left. Then I landed the scout cars on the right. One was stuck for three turns on the Higgens boat. Somehow I prevailed in the last three turns as I managed to get three damaged vehicles into the town. Even with the Inspiring Lt, I couldn’t get the surviving infantry forward to the objective. They did their bit. I’ve put up my questions about engineer capabilities else where. The first couple of waves were slaughtered on the beach.
One would think that the 81mm mortars would have a blast effect against all tgts in a hex.
The boat off loading system was probably pretty realistic but also frustrating with only the 50% chance of succesfully beaching a load.
This scenario was a lot of fun. My thanks to Der Leiter for the model.
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