Emergency Miniature Work - 15mm USMC Super Cobra
Repost from Last Year's Omaha Beach Mega Panzer Leader game
A quick repost from last year’s game (so I won’t put it ALL up again) … I will post links to the original project thread if anyone is interested …
From last year —>
My God, I think there is something legitimately wrong with me. What kind of fool tries to recreate a legitimate, full-scale, platoon-based, historically “approximate” re-staging of ALL of Omaha Beach?
Well, the map is complete. The initial forces are set up. Just a few special rules to iron out and it’s time to start this apocalyptic game.
The whole map. Almost six miles wide, over three miles deep. At least 5,000 men on the table already. Each hex is a 4x6 15mm table, or three 28mm tables.
A close up of what I'm sure will be the bloodiest sector of a very bloody beach, Dog Green and Dog White, the right shoulder of the Omaha assault zone.
THIRTY SECONDS! GOD BE WITH YA! A detail of the initial landing waves of Dog Green and Dog White. Note the "Ranger" counters in Dog Green. This is "C" Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion, "Captain Miller's" unit in Saving Private Ryan. They went in with "A" Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Regimental Combat Team at the mouth of the Vierville Draw. Well, you've seen the movie. The reality was horrifically worse. MOVE FAST, AND CLEAR THOSE MURDER HOLES!
H-Hour +10 minutes. 27 American platoons have been destroyed (marked by black smoke columns) across five miles of assault beach. So that's over 900 men killed, wounded, or hopelessly scattered.
As expected, the hot spot is the American right wing, in front of "Dog One" draw leading toward the Vierville objective hexes. This was BY FAR the bloodiest slice of Omaha, which was BY FAR the bloodiest beach at Normandy (more casualties than the other four invasion beaches plus the three divisional airborne drop zones ... all combined). To kick the historical results a little, I have thrown a lot more support here. Note the naval gunfire support markers (green target icons) and the four P-47 Thunderbolt air strikes. One plane was hit and damaged, but the strike went in and probably saved at least some lives.Some of the project entries from the original post.
What is WRONG with me?
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1408912/
Dear God, It’s Started.
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1409235/
H-Hour +36 minutes. It’s Getting Worse!
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1409637/
H-Hour +1 Hour … A Ray of Hope?
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1410084/
Omaha Mega Game – Half Complete:
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1410966/
Omaha Mega Game: The Home Stretch:
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project-entry/1411583/
Guns Fall Silent on Omaha – It Is Finished:
Nothing is wrong with you…you were a bit distracted with other things going on in the world! Also, I look at it as you are recycling, which is something we all should do.
I remember this game. You literally spent DAYS building the counters and the maps.
Thanks @gladesrunner. The “what is wrong with me” title was really just a lamentation about BUILDING this obscenely enormous game to begin with.
Yeah, map and counters took something like a week.
The game itself took 25 hours, six hours or so a day for four days.