GJS'44 Campaign Main Thread - Final June 16th 1944 Tournamen

[leci]

k9mike commands II/736/716

morge4 commands I/736/716

I'll need to come back to you re 857/346

Leci

[GottaLove88s]

Nice mapwork Brummbar!

Please could you add a small British roundel to the bottom right corner of the Vimont and Villers-Bocage sectors, to signify control.

Something like this but a whole lot smaller -> http://www.flyingcolours.org/product-detail.php?ID=56

[kingt]

I'll need to come back to you re 857/346

Leci

Waiting on Gold, in case anyone wants to defend it. Game created, password "gold6".

[leci]

Alex0809 will be commanding 857/346 - just awaiting confirmation from Alex

Leci

[Brummbar44]

Having some fun with the map...for those who want to clear some of the clutter.

Toggling Map - June 6th

[GottaLove88s]

Having some fun with the map...for those who want to clear some of the clutter.

Toggling Map - June 6th

Very nice!

[GottaLove88s]

No way...Jon is joining the "Dark Side"...lol.
Besides you guys got enough good players...

Thanks. Map updated... viewtopic.php?f=87&t=38844&start=140#p365048

Should be some good games...good luck all and have fun, wish I could play in any one of those! Either side!

But woe to those who come against the Winged Fury, those airborne are going to hold hard! That's where I'll be!

I'd like to invite GottaLoves88 to take one of those units. If everyone is ok with that?

Thanks for the invites Gents, Absolutely I'll be chuffed to play occasional battles for both sides.
But, to protect GM neutrality, I will only play games on maps that other players have already used at least once.
Much as I'd love to kick ass with 6th airborne, that means I have to watch this one from the sidelines...

PS. I don't think Alex would be ecstatic with you guys giving me a para BG to fight German armour in a critical sector...

[GottaLove88s]

Having some fun with the map...for those who want to clear some of the clutter.

Toggling Map - June 6th

Ps. I think u mean II/726/716 in Hillman?

[kingt]

Having some fun with the map...for those who want to clear some of the clutter.

Toggling Map - June 6th

Very nice!

Very nice indeed.

[leci]

Alex0809 has confirmed he is playing Gold versus Kingt

[kingt]

Alex0809 has confirmed he is playing Gold versus Kingt

Good to hear. Any ETA on when he'll join?

[alex0809]

Just did!

[kingt]

8/3 is en route.

[leci]

The trials of Command! My kingdom for a horse, a carrier pigeon, an Abwehr encrypt, a captured prisoner..... how goes the battle(s)? Is the Force with us?

[leci]

One day in the future, I see Sky News correspondents being embedded - I will no doubt then be able to gain news albeit being bombarded by adverts for motorcars, fast food and various cleaning products...... Oh joy!

[jcb989]

Any morge4 sightings? We're in sight of Queen White

[GottaLove88s]

On 23 March 1942, Führer Directive Number 40 called for the official creation of the Atlantic Wall. Fortifications were initially concentrated around ports until late in 1943 when defences were extended into other areas. While the German army had seen its strength and morale heavily depleted by campaigns in Russia, North Africa and Italy, it remained a powerful fighting force.

Despite this, most of the German divisions along the French coast in late 1943 were composed of either new recruits or veteran units resting and rebuilding from the Eastern Front; altogether some 856,000 soldiers were stationed in France (predominantly on the coast). An additional 60,000 Hilfswillige, Russian and Polish conscripts to the German army, served on the French coast. Under the command of Field Marshals Erwin Rommel and Gerd von Rundstedt, the defences of the Atlantic Wall—a line of coastal gun emplacements, machine-gun nests, minefields and beach obstacles along the French coast—were heavily upgraded; in the first six months of 1944 1.2 million tons of steel and 17.3 million cubic yards of concrete were laid. Rommel also surrounded the coast with four million antitank and antipersonnel mines and 500,000 beach obstacles.

On and behind Sword, 20 strongpoints, which included several artillery batteries, were constructed. The coastline was littered with wooden stakes, mines, hedgehogs, and Dragon’s teeth while along the top of the beach, infantry had constructed trenches, gun pits, mortars, and machine gun nests; barbed wire surrounded these positions and lined the beach. To reinforce the defences six strong points, with one –codenamed by the British, Strongpoint "Cod" - located directly facing Queen sector, had been constructed on the coastline containing at least eight 50mm Anti tank guns, four 75mm guns, and one 88mm gun; while exits from the beaches had been blocked with various obstacles.

Behind the beaches six artillery batteries had also been positioned, three of which were based within three strongpoints; these latter batteries totalled four 100mm guns and up to ten 155mm guns. In addition, positioned east of the Orne River was the Merville Gun Battery that contained four Czechoslovakian 100mm howitzers that were also able to direct fire onto Sword Beach and the invasion fleet. Between Cherbourg and the Seine River there was a total of 32 batteries capable of firing onto the five invasion beaches; 50 per cent of which were positioned in casements of six foot reinforced concrete.

Since the spring of 1942 Generalleutnant’s Wilhelm Richter’s 8,000 man strong 716th Infantry Division had been positioned to defend the Calvados coast of Normandy. In March 1942 the 352nd Infantry Division assumed control of the western Calvados coastline, leaving the 716th in position north of Caen covering an 8 miles (13 km) stretch of coastline. The division comprised four regular infantry battalions, two Ost battalions, and artillery units. Four infantry companies were spread along Sword with two positioned facing Queen sector while a further four were positioned inland behind the beach.

Further inland Generalleutnant’s Edgar Feuchtinger’s 16,297 strong 21st Panzer Division had been positioned on both sides of the Orne River around Caen to provide an immediate counterattack force should a landing take place. In May 1944 two Panzergrenadier battalions and an antitank battalion from the 21st Panzer Division, were placed under Richter’s command. One of these battalions, along with the divisions anti tank guns, and several mobile 155mm guns were positioned on Périers Ridge; a ridgeline raising to 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Sword...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Beach

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[leci]

And the Periers Ridge guns for a time protected Hillman until Hillman was infiltrated from the rear ...

[GottaLove88s]

And the Periers Ridge guns for a time protected Hillman until Hillman was infiltrated from the rear ...

Oops, sounds painful, lol... Better take precautions, Leci...
Like looking skywards for enemy parachutists seeking to infiltrate during the night (of June 5th)...

[leci]

7th?