Ukraine War 2022 - 15mm Wargame Video
H-Hour +36 minutes. It's Getting Worse!
Turns 2 and 3 are now complete, putting us at about 36 minutes past H-Hour. The American second wave is ashore … sort of. Losses continue to be hideous. American losses now stand at 48 platoons of various types rendered combat ineffective (1680 men, so roughly 560 killed and 1120 wounded).
Although some cracks may just be starting to spread in the Atlantic Wall, casualties and equipment losses are reaching the point where I honestly don’t know if the Americans will succeed in opening the four major draws off Omaha.
WOW, that last photo really puts it into prospect just how massive and bloody the carnage is on Omaha Beech!
Yeah, its a nasty one @templar007 . But Turn 4 is seeing just a couple of cracks finally starting to open up. Two close assaults on German improved positions and 2 overruns. Some successful, some now. I still don’t have any BLOCKS blown open on the draws, however. Getting closer.
Is it possible, historically, to reinforce success @oriskany ? Can you change the landing zones for subsequent waves of reinforcements? It would be far more fun than just queueing up to be slaughtered every turn on the same ground. I don’t know that I could actually enjoy a game like that! I once did a 10-game campaign in SPWAW of a Canadian battle group coming ashore at Juno Beach (roughly where the Royal Winnipeg Rifles landed), and went to great pains to get the terrain and defending forces right (using photocopies of original maps), so I know how much work… Read more »
Thanks @cpauls1 – Okay, to answer your questions … Is it possible, historically, to reinforce success? Sort of. In fact this happened historically. The first big group of waves to go in at Omaha was 116th RCT/29th Infantry Division in the west, and 16th RCT/1st Infantry Division in the east. Both assaults were a nightmare, but the 16RCT/1st ID in the east definitely went better. Therefore, in the early afternoon, 18th Regiment went in behind the 16th RCT/1st ID as planned. However, 115th RCT was sent in along with them, through the EASTERN assault zone, rather than the western assault… Read more »