1944 - June
The US assembles a massive fleet on the western coast in late 1944, Hundreds of thousands of Men and Millions of tonnes of supplies begin slowly moving across the Atlantic. The US looks at the Atlantic wall, the Reich stands to resist the invaders, the US determined to take Europe. Using exotic Rift tech the US army rapidly landed a force near Cherbourg whilst the USN secured forward positions in southern England to use as supply dumps for the larger landings along the Normandy coast.
In this Campaign we'll be using combined arms board with the Normandy map board, we'll be incorporating rules and models from K47 in our games as well as the Theoretical Blood red skies cards from Lead Pursuit podcast.
The US drew the Forward positions Opening Gambit card allowing each player to place a unit forward and capture an objective whilst the Axis drew the Infiltration card giving the player who moves one of their units into the opposing deployment zone first an additional victory point.
The axis chose Inspired General for their national characteristic allowing them to draw an initiative card when escalating, whilst the US chose Great navy allowing them to move 5 spaces per ship move rather than 4.
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| Axis: Yellow US: Green |
Turn 1 saw the USAF hitting the Axis Panzers trying to secure the airfield along the coast whilst the Axis launched an assault against the US bridgehead to dislodge them from the Factory.
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| Assault towards St.Lô |
The US Army setup a series of trip lines outside the factory towards St.Lô, the US HQ was located at the crux of the trip lines and a spearhead of the advanced and horrifying rift tech monsters struck to cut the head off of the snake. This game we rolled for was: Demolition at 1250pts.
Turn 1 the Nebelwerfer fires and Misses every target!
German sniper takes out the Flamethrower team.
Skipping to the end of Turn 2 the Wirbelwind moved up and tried to pour shots into the US heavy infantry squad but missed, the M3 halftrack and its accompanying infantry squad tried to rush the Wirbelwind.
The M4 Tesla Sherman destroyed the Nebelwerfer before the German Infantry rushed up the flank using the Bocage as cover.
Start of Turn 3 the Germans with Panzerfausts attack the Tesla Sherman destroying it.
Followed by the Wirbelwind making Swiss cheese of the M3 halftrack, killing 5 occupants
The US walker jumped in and charged the sniper team before consolidating towards the Objective, the German infantry fail their order test and go down end of turn 3, turn 4 they pop up and destroy the Walker!
End of turn 3 the Nachtjäger come in and wipe out the US infantry squad.
Board end of turn 3
Turn 4 the Wirbelwind pours shots into the heavy infantry before the Nachtjäger fly up and over the church landing on the other side.
US infantry squad moves to counter wiping out the Horrors!
Turn 5 the Wirbelwind moves forward and shreds the US infantry squad that killed the Nachtjäger.
The US infantry charge the LT and his assistant
... and miss every hit, losing 2 to the LT and getting wiped out!
The Wirbelwind charged up to the objective winning the game.
