Prepare The Flames Of War Landing Craft On June 8th
June 1, 2013 by brennon
A week from Flames of War have some awesome additions to the line-up of World War II goodies. Check out the LCVP Boat Section and 29th Infantry Division that will be available from June the 8th...
The LCVP Boat Section provides you with three landing craft, the crew and mounted boat sections for use when storming the beaches at Normandy. Everything the soldiers needed were packed into these cramped spaces but they were welcome barriers between the soldiers within and the German forces on the beaches.
Once you get to the beach you'll be wanting to storm those pillboxes and take down the defences further up the coast. Here is where the 29th Infantry Division comes in. They had rocket launchers, flamethrowers, mortars and everything else you could possibly think of that would be handy once they got ashore. It even comes with General Dutch Cota, a fearless commander.
Will you be grabbing these?
Would be interesting to reenact the Omaha landings if things had started better and the duplex drive Shermans had made the landing.
I had some chats some time back with a fellow that landed on that beach just after the first thrust onto them. He was one of the senior officers that tried to restore communication for the Canadians as all the officers where ether dead or so far in that they lost contact and where therefore thought dead. They needed someone to lead the army. He said he never seen so many dead bodies in all his service and not a soul to be seen. All the action was off the beach by the time he landed and moved inland. He… Read more »
8 th june, there 2 days to late