Ok finally I have had time to watch the videos. Truly great but bloody game guys, awesome! Down to the last turn, I love these kind of games.

Watching the British landings, talk about carnage. However I suggest changing Beach Jig to Beach Quoll. A tiny Australian native. If the female with young is threatened in the den by a predator will pick up one of the young and throw it at the Germans, ah predator rather.

Great job in editing 9 plus hours down to basically 3 half hour videos.

In the past I have only criticised the Americans releasing their DD too soon. I watched a documentary a while back that surveyed the sunken DDs at Omaha beach then loosely compared to the British. Landing earlier the US faced a stronger current that swept the US DDs faster down beach.

Hardly without that many exceptions the US DDs were facing parallel to the beach facing their allotted landing point. While the British simply kept their DDs pointing at the beach and landed wherever the current took them.

So it looks like most of the US DDs could have made it. However the Tank commanders kept their tanks pointing at their landing points. Once they were nearly parallel to the surf the long sides of the skirts were easily collapsed by the rough seas.

Do this is me saying my previous option was WRONG! I seriously apologise for wrongfully putting the Americans down.

It is just sad that for lack of a bit more seamen ship so many young heroic men died that day.

Back a long while ago we played the SPI mega game of D-Day. For a few years we played the single breach scenarios but once we played the full invasion. All the beaches and connecting land on 6 of their largest maps down to platoon level. We had to empty an entire lounge room and took 3 days setting it up, 4 days to play and a week at nights to pack everything back in their trays. I don’t remember much sleep over the 4 days of play. I do remember huge qualities of coke and a small mountain of delivered pizzas. We had to separate the maps so we could play twister while trying to get to pieces just out of reach. We had a great time, but it left us so exhausted we were never interested in playing the full invasion again. So I wish you well on the super Omaha you are thinking about doing.

One thing I will get around to trying one day is doing Utah. Historians often say that Utah should have been another Omaha except they landed in the wrong place. So it might be interesting to play it out was if they had landed on the correct place, you might want to give this a try.

To be honest I am trying to avoid doing any anniversary D-Day games at the moment as it is about to be full on for me.

I am just about to finish the campaign primer for Izium that will lead to 2nd Kharkov and finish with Case Blau including Stalingrad and the Caucasus excursion. After this it is of to Rzhev. Then 43 to Kursk. So I have a huge amount of modelling terrain and expanding my German Army which is normally an ally force to my Finns and not the primary force, but it is fun using PZ-1’s in 44.

Finally by the end of the month the new gaming surface will arrive. It is made up of 4″ hexes where the angles lock into pegs and be built up or down. It will speed up movement, deciding range and terrain beginning and ends by the hexes. So I will get the best of both worlds, tabletop and hex maps.

We want to use it in the up coming campaign so the first surface will be a Russian/Finnish winter surface. 😀

But I don’t what to be washed away again like what happened in the operation Sea Lion project. Hence my reluctance to add D-Day to the list at the moment.

Thanks to all three of you for sharing your anniversary D-Day game with all of us. I was impressed just how well PL can be played inside a spreadsheet.

@oriskany can you send me a copy of the explosion graphic you are using. I have a number of MDF explosion makers. Rather than hand painting them I could use that explosion graphic printed up on a decal sheet, then just touch up with paint brush.