@oriskany,

Great to see your moving along with this project and such a large game in only 4 hours. You guys are machines!

I will certainly let @timp764 know about it once you have posted the link to it. It would be good for him to see the British operating as a division and brigades. One thing I think will confusing for him at first is that at first glance all British divisions are armored until he learns the difference between Infantry tanks and Cruiser tanks. It will also be good for him to see life in the fracture zone, the boundaries between two large and separate formations. Even at Izyum the Russians were good at this. It will also be good for him to see that Panthers and Tigers are not the be all on the battlefield.

From what I have read the Hitler Youth and the Viking divisions were standout divisions in even the SS for the unnecessary horrendous casualties they took. They were too busy being heroes for Hitler rather than being great soldiers. Still they were very unsettling for those who they attacked.

It was an interesting chose here as you get a good mix of German armour, as STuGs were by far the most numerous at Normandy followed by Pz-4s with Panthers and Tigers in the minority. Not helped by PZ Lehr getting decimated in the opening moves of Cobra.

I watched an episode of Drain the Oceans, Normandy special, last night. I was unaware on just how many large ships were lost in the first month of Normandy. What surprised me was the loss of one of the large LSTs at Omaha on D-Day when they desperately tried to land tanks in numbers to stop the blood bath. Would they have really made a difference? Something to look at in a what if game. Given that there was not enough LSTs to go around, adding the 3 lost recently in Hawaii, it must have been a painful loss.

At the moment I am currently sorting my “must have” list together for WinterCon. I already had the unit and command cards for the US at Normandy on pre-release order so they should be here soon. It is funny that there is no mention of Normandy cards for Commonwealth and Germans as yet. While the group’s main interest will be on mid war Eastern Front, I want to do late war North-Western Europe with him as a side thing. D-Day seems a good place to start.