Bucha, Ukraine - 27 Feb 2022 - 15mm
82nd Airborne at Ste. Mere-Eglise (D-Day Anniversary Special)
Join us for a special D-Day anniversary of the Sitrep Podcast’s Sunday Wargaming. In this episode, we’ll be using the Valor & Victory WW2 squad-based infantry combat system to recreate part of the parachute drop of 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, early in the morning of 6 June 1944.
Can the paratroopers use their elite status, surprise, and superior training to overcome badly-scattered drops, the confusion of darkness, and heavier German firepower (Kompanie 14., Infanterie Regiment 1058, 91st Infanterie Division)? Tune in and find out!
7PM UK, 2PM East US
Night in France, just west of Ste. Mere-Eglise . . . Note some of the hexes have tiny cows in them. Just for fun.
Forces for the two sides. I have George and Hotel Companies, 3rd Bn / 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (with their historical commanders) and 14. Kompanie, infanterie Regiment 1058, 91st Division. Note the small counter for 101st Airborne team at the bottom. Historically this nightwas sheer chaos, you never know who might show up!
The immediate environs around today's game, the green rectangle shows the specific area covered by the board to scale (roughly half a kilometer across).
"The Great Crusade" - The overall disposition of forces, D-Day - 6 June 1944. 
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