Endless waves of US infantry storm the beach. The German defenders are forced back to their secondary position.









An ambitious assault platoon jumps on their forward objective.







The engineers make their way off the beach and head for the recently abandoned German trenches.



The remainder of the stubborn Germans are "removed" from their trenches...









By turn 9 the Americans had successfully taken the first objective and had a large amount of reinforcements making their way off of the beach.

Unfortunately, we were unable to finish all 12 turns due to time constraints. It felt like I had a pretty good grip on being able to take the second objective but I still had the remaining three stands from a grenadier platoon and two understrength grenadier platoons that had made their way up to the front. All three platoons were dug in on the objective and could have been a tough nut to crack. On top of that two StuG's had finally made their way to the town to offer their support.

It was a great game. I hope to be able to do another one soon.

D-Day Battle, Part 2...

The fourth turn saw the arrival of an 81mm mortar platoon and another assault platoon. The Shermans rolled forward and took out more machine guns, the infantry was close behind







The German anti-tank guns took out the remaining Sherman tanks....



and their artillery wasn't any kinder....



The infantry pushed forward....



A gout of flame took out the last machine gun...

D-Day Battle... Part 1

The Germans were defending with one grenadier platoon with seven teams, a heavy platoon with three machine guns and a battery of four 10.5's. There was a pilbox with a 5.5cm gun, two 7.5cm nests and two machine gun nests. Ugh... the poor Americans were looking down the barrel of five MG42's.... thats 30 shots a turn *eep!*

The preliminary bombardment was reletively unaffective, only taking out one stand of German infantry.

On the first turn the US managed to get three out of four assault platoons and three out of five DD Shermans onto the beach. Not too bad to start with.....



Alas, they only managed to take out one machine gun nest...



The German machine gun fire whittled away at the infantry while their artillery pinned two platoons on the beach and destroyed one of the Sherman tanks.




Turn 2 saw the arrival of two more assault platoons and one more DD Sherman in the second wave. Two Shermans made their way up the draw onto the mainland wiping out some poorly placed barb wire entanglements. (I had a talk with my opponent after the game and we both agreed that his static defenses were in the wrong place) The infantry rushed to the shingle to get some cover from the machine gun fire.





German artillery and machine gun fire took a toll on the Americans this turn....



The third wave was delayed, only a small recon element found its way to the beaches. The Shermans made their way toward the German defenses bouncing anti-tank rounds off their armored hulls.







The infantry took another pounding from the artillery as they funneled their way off the beach.

Canadians

DaK