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Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridge
Maeda Escarpment Bastion Falls.(1945)
The fighting was especially fierce on top the escarpment on 4 May. Colonel Cooney's 1st Battalion successfully executed a
complicated demolition assault on the big cave-tunnel-pillbox network about 200 feet west of the eastern end of the
escarpment. The battalion then held the newly won ground against repeated counterattacks from the southern side. It was
estimated that 600 enemy were killed by the 307th Infantry in the fighting at the escarpment on 4 May. Slowly, on 5 May,
the reverse slope was taken and caves blasted and closed. On the night of 5-6 May the Japanese staged several
counterattacks in an effort to win back the escarpment. An especially severe attack struck the 3d Battalion, 307th
Infantry, on the regimental right. In repelling it the 3d Battalion killed 250 enemy troops, largely in hand-to-hand
fighting. During 6 May all battalions of the 307th Infantry advanced southward to the slopes of Hill 187. The battle of
the escarpment was over.
The losses in the escarpment battle had been heavy. In the 1st Battalion, 307th Infantry, no less than eight company
commanders were wounded in one 36-hour period. It had gone up on the escarpment on 29 April with a strength of about 800
men; it came down on 7 May with 324. The 77th Division estimated that it had killed upwards of 3,000 Japanese in the
7-day battle for the escarpment.
One of the most remarkable incidents of the battle for the Maeda Escarpment was the performance of Pfc. Desmond T. Doss,
a medical aid man attached to Company B, 307th Infantry. Doss was a Seventh Day Adventist and would not touch a gun, but
time after time he remained on top of the escarpment after the others had been driven off, lowering the wounded over the
side in a rope litter. He went repeatedly to within a few yards of caves to administer first aid to men who had been cut
down trying to assault the positions, and then carried these men to safety under the very guns of the enemy. For his
valor Doss later received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
American : --> [- : Japan
Scenario Length: 7 Game Turns - LOS (9 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: Mel Gibson'Movie [ Hacksaw Ridge ]
Maeda Escarpment Bastion Falls.(1945)
The fighting was especially fierce on top the escarpment on 4 May. Colonel Cooney's 1st Battalion successfully executed a
complicated demolition assault on the big cave-tunnel-pillbox network about 200 feet west of the eastern end of the
escarpment. The battalion then held the newly won ground against repeated counterattacks from the southern side. It was
estimated that 600 enemy were killed by the 307th Infantry in the fighting at the escarpment on 4 May. Slowly, on 5 May,
the reverse slope was taken and caves blasted and closed. On the night of 5-6 May the Japanese staged several
counterattacks in an effort to win back the escarpment. An especially severe attack struck the 3d Battalion, 307th
Infantry, on the regimental right. In repelling it the 3d Battalion killed 250 enemy troops, largely in hand-to-hand
fighting. During 6 May all battalions of the 307th Infantry advanced southward to the slopes of Hill 187. The battle of
the escarpment was over.
The losses in the escarpment battle had been heavy. In the 1st Battalion, 307th Infantry, no less than eight company
commanders were wounded in one 36-hour period. It had gone up on the escarpment on 29 April with a strength of about 800
men; it came down on 7 May with 324. The 77th Division estimated that it had killed upwards of 3,000 Japanese in the
7-day battle for the escarpment.
One of the most remarkable incidents of the battle for the Maeda Escarpment was the performance of Pfc. Desmond T. Doss,
a medical aid man attached to Company B, 307th Infantry. Doss was a Seventh Day Adventist and would not touch a gun, but
time after time he remained on top of the escarpment after the others had been driven off, lowering the wounded over the
side in a rope litter. He went repeatedly to within a few yards of caves to administer first aid to men who had been cut
down trying to assault the positions, and then carried these men to safety under the very guns of the enemy. For his
valor Doss later received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
American : --> [- : Japan
Scenario Length: 7 Game Turns - LOS (9 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: Mel Gibson'Movie [ Hacksaw Ridge ]
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RE: Submitted Scenarios
Hello friend :
A question. Is there in the forum any .zip file that contains all the scenarios that present you in this post?. I remember me downloading all them in a single file.
Thank you very much. Regards.
A question. Is there in the forum any .zip file that contains all the scenarios that present you in this post?. I remember me downloading all them in a single file.
Thank you very much. Regards.
RE: Submitted Scenarios
Hello friend :
A question. Is there in the forum any .zip file that contains all the scenarios that present you in this post?. I remember me downloading all them in a single file.
Thank you very much. Regards.
A question. Is there in the forum any .zip file that contains all the scenarios that present you in this post?. I remember me downloading all them in a single file.
Thank you very much. Regards.
RE: Submitted Scenarios
Hi, Jomi!
Please, see Page 1, Post 1 on this thread.
Numerous scens are in the bundle packs given on the thread's first lines.
That page is done & updated by Paullus, the Forum's Moderator & Peter's "Aide de Camp"!
Enjoy!
Lilian (LN59)
Please, see Page 1, Post 1 on this thread.
Numerous scens are in the bundle packs given on the thread's first lines.
That page is done & updated by Paullus, the Forum's Moderator & Peter's "Aide de Camp"!
Enjoy!
Lilian (LN59)
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"On ne passe pas !"
The French Motto (Verdun, 1916)
"On ne passe pas !"
The French Motto (Verdun, 1916)
Khalkhin Gol Act1
Khalkhin Gol Act1
The Battle of KHALKHIN GOL - Soviet-Japanese War. 11 May 30 August 1939
By the DESTIA General Context: After the occupation of Manchuria, to the detriment of China in 1931, and the
establishment of a client state, the Manchukuo, Japanese ambitions turned to the Far East The soviet union. With Japanese
victory in 1905 and intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War, part of the Japanese army tried to influence
the government to open hostilities against the Soviet Union. The disputed border area lies between Manchukuo and
Mongolia. 11 May - 30 August 1939
SOVIET UNION - Gueorgui Jukov: 57,000 soldiers.
EMPIRE OF JAPAN - Michitaro KOMATSUBARA: 75,000 soldiers.
How the battle unfolded:
Time 1: Contact and first Japanese errors.
In May 1939, the Soviets crossed the border several times but withdrew as soon as the Japanese came into contact. On May
28, after a new incursion, the Japanese army reacted by sending a battalion in offensive reconnaissance to seize the only
bridge over the river (Kawamata bridge) without judging it necessary to be supported by its 37mm guns. The Japanese
believe they have only a few border guards in front of them who will be beaten quickly. After a difficult progression due
to the wet ground, the Nippons encounter a mechanized force well entrenched, supported by artillery. The 2 Japanese
columns are destroyed in 2 days. Colonel Azuma, who commanded one of them, lost eight officers, 97 killed and 33 wounded
out of 220 men. The 23rd Imperial Division is prepared for a counter-attack.
Time 2: The Japanese Offensive.
On July 1, the Japanese resumed the initiative, sending 2 regiments to the heights above the river to the north
(Kobayashi group), jostling the Soviets and crossing the Khalkhin Gol on a bridge of the genius. At the same time, an
armored force (73 tanks) supporting two infantry regiments attacked positions on Baru Hill. Zhukov, fearing that his
artillery would be threatened on the western shores, engaged his mechanized force (186 tanks and 266 armored cars)
without infantry to break the Japanese encirclement. Despite heavy losses (120 tanks destroyed), Zhukov obtains the
withdrawal of Kobayashi, constrained by its unique crossing that also vulnerabilizes its logistics. To the east, the
Japanese attack encounters the Soviet defenses (and especially the 100 guns that support them) and is limited to a war of
positions. On 23 July, the Japanese attempted a final frontal breakthrough after a long artillery preparation (25,000
shells) but lost 5,000 men in 2 days without results. Zhukov resumed the initiative, the Kwantung army no longer
maneuvered.
Japan : --> [- : Russian
Scenario Length: 6 Game Turns - LOS (5 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: CDEC - Pensées Mili-Terre [ La bataille de KHALKHIN GOL ]
The Battle of KHALKHIN GOL - Soviet-Japanese War. 11 May 30 August 1939
By the DESTIA General Context: After the occupation of Manchuria, to the detriment of China in 1931, and the
establishment of a client state, the Manchukuo, Japanese ambitions turned to the Far East The soviet union. With Japanese
victory in 1905 and intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War, part of the Japanese army tried to influence
the government to open hostilities against the Soviet Union. The disputed border area lies between Manchukuo and
Mongolia. 11 May - 30 August 1939
SOVIET UNION - Gueorgui Jukov: 57,000 soldiers.
EMPIRE OF JAPAN - Michitaro KOMATSUBARA: 75,000 soldiers.
How the battle unfolded:
Time 1: Contact and first Japanese errors.
In May 1939, the Soviets crossed the border several times but withdrew as soon as the Japanese came into contact. On May
28, after a new incursion, the Japanese army reacted by sending a battalion in offensive reconnaissance to seize the only
bridge over the river (Kawamata bridge) without judging it necessary to be supported by its 37mm guns. The Japanese
believe they have only a few border guards in front of them who will be beaten quickly. After a difficult progression due
to the wet ground, the Nippons encounter a mechanized force well entrenched, supported by artillery. The 2 Japanese
columns are destroyed in 2 days. Colonel Azuma, who commanded one of them, lost eight officers, 97 killed and 33 wounded
out of 220 men. The 23rd Imperial Division is prepared for a counter-attack.
Time 2: The Japanese Offensive.
On July 1, the Japanese resumed the initiative, sending 2 regiments to the heights above the river to the north
(Kobayashi group), jostling the Soviets and crossing the Khalkhin Gol on a bridge of the genius. At the same time, an
armored force (73 tanks) supporting two infantry regiments attacked positions on Baru Hill. Zhukov, fearing that his
artillery would be threatened on the western shores, engaged his mechanized force (186 tanks and 266 armored cars)
without infantry to break the Japanese encirclement. Despite heavy losses (120 tanks destroyed), Zhukov obtains the
withdrawal of Kobayashi, constrained by its unique crossing that also vulnerabilizes its logistics. To the east, the
Japanese attack encounters the Soviet defenses (and especially the 100 guns that support them) and is limited to a war of
positions. On 23 July, the Japanese attempted a final frontal breakthrough after a long artillery preparation (25,000
shells) but lost 5,000 men in 2 days without results. Zhukov resumed the initiative, the Kwantung army no longer
maneuvered.
Japan : --> [- : Russian
Scenario Length: 6 Game Turns - LOS (5 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: CDEC - Pensées Mili-Terre [ La bataille de KHALKHIN GOL ]
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RE: Submitted Scenarios
Thank you very much LN59. Regards
Verdun
Verdun
21 February - 18 December 1916
German side preparation:
In the middle of the war, at the beginning of 1916, the German general Falkenhayn decided to post troops near Verdun. For
a few kilometers, on February 21, 1916, he decided to explode everything: 2 million shells were sent within two days.
While the Germans launch several attacks in front, they are facing French soldiers, certainly less numerous, but able to
resist the opposing confrontations. However, they are nearly 5 km ahead. The same distance separates them from the town
of Verdun.
Riposte on the French side:
General Philippe Pétain was then responsible for managing French troops. He decided to bring the infantry from all over
France. The troops will be relayed in order to keep Platform to defend their bases. To do this, he has enlarged the
departmental road which goes as far as Verdun, it is called the Sacred Way. A truck arrives every 15 seconds at the front
and 90,000 men arrive there every week.
An endless battle:
Until July 1916, the Germans advanced. They attack both Douaumont and Fort de Vaux. A few kilometers ahead of them is
Verdun, they even see the coils of the cathedral. Before that, we must take the fort of Souville. After bombing for
several days this fort, well defended by the French, they tried to seize it. About fifty Germans manage to reach the top
but become prisoners. The failure of the capture of Fort Souville marked the end of the German advance at Verdun.
On the French side, thanks to the Sacred Way, there are 150,000 men and 500,000 soldiers. On their side, the British
attacked the Germans in Somme (Battle of the Somme) and the Russians attacked them in present-day Poland. The German
general Falkenhayn decides to position some troops in these two places, which then weakens the German infantry in Verdun.
At the end of October, the French resumed Douaumont, which they had lost a few months earlier. At the beginning of
November, it is the fort of Vaux that is in turn. In mid-December, the French and Germans occupied the same positions as
at the beginning of the battle.
Review of the Battle of Verdun:
It is a war of position: the Germans have very little progress (5 kilometers in 10 months), while it is one of the most
deadly battles of the First World War: there were 700 000 victims, then That the gain of territory for the Germans is
zero.
French losses: 378,000 victims including 62,000 killed, more than 101,000 missing and 215,000 injured.
German losses: 333,000 victims of which 143,000 killed and missing and 190,000 injured.
The symbol of Verdun:
The resistance of the French fighters to Verdun is related throughout the world. The small Meuse town acquires a
worldwide reputation. This defensive victory is regarded by the combatants as the victory of the whole French army, of
which the greater part of the contingent participated in the fighting. Of the 95 divisions of the French army, 70
participated. "Verdun, I was there! "Assert, with a mixture of pride and retrospective horror, the poilus who have come
back. For the whole nation, Verdun became the symbol of courage and self-denial.
They fought in Verdun:
A number of famous actors of the Second World War served in Verdun, and German testimonies and accounts of the Second
World War on the Eastern Front frequently refer to the memories and experience of the campaign. Verdun.
As early as 1942, some German officers noted that the Red Army was capable of gathering concentrations of artillery "as
has been seen since the battle of Douaumont". Future Blitzkrieg experts, Heinz Guderian and von Manstein both served in
Verdun, the first on the staff of the 5th Army, where he was an assistant intelligence officer, the second in the army,
The general staff of von Gallwitz.
Twenty-two years before heading the 6th German Army in Stalingrad, this Verdun of the Volga, Friedrich Paulus lived the
real battle, in 1916 he was Oberleutnant in the 2nd regiment of Prussian hunters, and he participated in the Battle of
Fleury in the month of June. Governor of Paris in 1942, General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel commanded a battalion at
Verdun. A member of the conspiracy that tried to kill Hitler in July 1944, he attempted to commit suicide near the
Death-Man, but only succeeded in getting rid of himself. He was hanged a few weeks later.
One of Hitler's best generals, General Hans von Kluge, who commanded Army Group B, and also participated in the plot, had
been an artilleryman at Verdun in 1917. He was dismissed on the Normandy front, Was summoned to Berlin. In anticipation
of an arrest, he committed suicide on the way, shortly before Verdun, between Clermont-en-Argonne and Dombasle-en-Argonne.
Hitler's Chief of Staff Generaloberst Wilhelm Keitel served on the staff of the 10th reserve corps on the right bank of
the Meuse during the summer of 1916. Among the other German participants In the battle, the head of the SA, Ernst Röhm,
and his deputy, Rudolf Hess.
On the French side, besides Marshal Petain himself, the names of the French veterans, that of his future protégé, then
adversary, Charles de Gaulle. On March 2, 1916, the 33rd regiment of infantry where he served was attacked and decimated,
wiped out by the enemy while defending the village of Douaumont, near Verdun. His company is wounded in this fight and
the survivors are surrounded. De Gaulle was forced by force to jump into a shell-hole to protect himself, but Germans
followed him and wounded him with a bayonet stroke on the left thigh. Captured by the German troops, he was cared for
and interned. This disappearance at the front is worthy of being quoted to the order of the army.
In 1966, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, he was to declare: "The glory which Marshal Petain had
acquired at Verdun can not be disputed or ignored by his country."
German : --> [- : French
Scenario Length: 6 Game Turns - LOS (6Hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: Memoir44'Men [ Verdun ]
21 February - 18 December 1916
German side preparation:
In the middle of the war, at the beginning of 1916, the German general Falkenhayn decided to post troops near Verdun. For
a few kilometers, on February 21, 1916, he decided to explode everything: 2 million shells were sent within two days.
While the Germans launch several attacks in front, they are facing French soldiers, certainly less numerous, but able to
resist the opposing confrontations. However, they are nearly 5 km ahead. The same distance separates them from the town
of Verdun.
Riposte on the French side:
General Philippe Pétain was then responsible for managing French troops. He decided to bring the infantry from all over
France. The troops will be relayed in order to keep Platform to defend their bases. To do this, he has enlarged the
departmental road which goes as far as Verdun, it is called the Sacred Way. A truck arrives every 15 seconds at the front
and 90,000 men arrive there every week.
An endless battle:
Until July 1916, the Germans advanced. They attack both Douaumont and Fort de Vaux. A few kilometers ahead of them is
Verdun, they even see the coils of the cathedral. Before that, we must take the fort of Souville. After bombing for
several days this fort, well defended by the French, they tried to seize it. About fifty Germans manage to reach the top
but become prisoners. The failure of the capture of Fort Souville marked the end of the German advance at Verdun.
On the French side, thanks to the Sacred Way, there are 150,000 men and 500,000 soldiers. On their side, the British
attacked the Germans in Somme (Battle of the Somme) and the Russians attacked them in present-day Poland. The German
general Falkenhayn decides to position some troops in these two places, which then weakens the German infantry in Verdun.
At the end of October, the French resumed Douaumont, which they had lost a few months earlier. At the beginning of
November, it is the fort of Vaux that is in turn. In mid-December, the French and Germans occupied the same positions as
at the beginning of the battle.
Review of the Battle of Verdun:
It is a war of position: the Germans have very little progress (5 kilometers in 10 months), while it is one of the most
deadly battles of the First World War: there were 700 000 victims, then That the gain of territory for the Germans is
zero.
French losses: 378,000 victims including 62,000 killed, more than 101,000 missing and 215,000 injured.
German losses: 333,000 victims of which 143,000 killed and missing and 190,000 injured.
The symbol of Verdun:
The resistance of the French fighters to Verdun is related throughout the world. The small Meuse town acquires a
worldwide reputation. This defensive victory is regarded by the combatants as the victory of the whole French army, of
which the greater part of the contingent participated in the fighting. Of the 95 divisions of the French army, 70
participated. "Verdun, I was there! "Assert, with a mixture of pride and retrospective horror, the poilus who have come
back. For the whole nation, Verdun became the symbol of courage and self-denial.
They fought in Verdun:
A number of famous actors of the Second World War served in Verdun, and German testimonies and accounts of the Second
World War on the Eastern Front frequently refer to the memories and experience of the campaign. Verdun.
As early as 1942, some German officers noted that the Red Army was capable of gathering concentrations of artillery "as
has been seen since the battle of Douaumont". Future Blitzkrieg experts, Heinz Guderian and von Manstein both served in
Verdun, the first on the staff of the 5th Army, where he was an assistant intelligence officer, the second in the army,
The general staff of von Gallwitz.
Twenty-two years before heading the 6th German Army in Stalingrad, this Verdun of the Volga, Friedrich Paulus lived the
real battle, in 1916 he was Oberleutnant in the 2nd regiment of Prussian hunters, and he participated in the Battle of
Fleury in the month of June. Governor of Paris in 1942, General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel commanded a battalion at
Verdun. A member of the conspiracy that tried to kill Hitler in July 1944, he attempted to commit suicide near the
Death-Man, but only succeeded in getting rid of himself. He was hanged a few weeks later.
One of Hitler's best generals, General Hans von Kluge, who commanded Army Group B, and also participated in the plot, had
been an artilleryman at Verdun in 1917. He was dismissed on the Normandy front, Was summoned to Berlin. In anticipation
of an arrest, he committed suicide on the way, shortly before Verdun, between Clermont-en-Argonne and Dombasle-en-Argonne.
Hitler's Chief of Staff Generaloberst Wilhelm Keitel served on the staff of the 10th reserve corps on the right bank of
the Meuse during the summer of 1916. Among the other German participants In the battle, the head of the SA, Ernst Röhm,
and his deputy, Rudolf Hess.
On the French side, besides Marshal Petain himself, the names of the French veterans, that of his future protégé, then
adversary, Charles de Gaulle. On March 2, 1916, the 33rd regiment of infantry where he served was attacked and decimated,
wiped out by the enemy while defending the village of Douaumont, near Verdun. His company is wounded in this fight and
the survivors are surrounded. De Gaulle was forced by force to jump into a shell-hole to protect himself, but Germans
followed him and wounded him with a bayonet stroke on the left thigh. Captured by the German troops, he was cared for
and interned. This disappearance at the front is worthy of being quoted to the order of the army.
In 1966, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, he was to declare: "The glory which Marshal Petain had
acquired at Verdun can not be disputed or ignored by his country."
German : --> [- : French
Scenario Length: 6 Game Turns - LOS (6Hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: Memoir44'Men [ Verdun ]
- Attachments
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Merville Battery
Merville Battery
Sergeant Sidney CAPON died on September 9, 2006 in his 82nd year.
This is what Pascaline Dagorn, Director of the Musée de la Batterie de Merville, stated when she heard of the death of
Sidney Capon:
"I just lost a very dear friend. My son Gaëtan (8 years old) has also lost an Ami d'exception. They saw each other every
year, wrote and even made presents, so great was the complicity that united them. For Gaëtan, Sid will remain the
greatest of his heroes. Sid will also miss the circle of his friends in Normandy. "
Pascaline Dagorn continued by evoking memories:
"That's what Sid said to us:" You see me now an old man with a bone-sized and stout head, but I was a young sportsman
when I was called to serve my country. He was only 18 years old. "
"Sidney or Sid as all his friends called him, participated in the attack of the Battery of Merville.
His mission was to neutralize casemate No. 1. No longer with 32 men as expected but only 7: Lieutenant Alan Jefferson,
Sgt Bedford, Delsignore, Harold Walker, Leslie Cartwright, Tom Stroud and himself. "
"The order" ENTER, ENTER! (GET IN, GET IN!) Was launched by Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway who was with us.
Immediately Lieutenant Jefferson collapsed, wounded.
We continued to zigzag on the ground upset, towards casemate No. 1. We felt we were running in the midst of the enemy
fire.
I was arriving on the other side of the casemate, and there were Eric Bedford, Frank Delsignore, Harold Walker, and the
four men who had arrived there.
We threw two grenades inside and the Germans came out of the room to the left of the corridor to evacuate to the outside
of the casemate through the door.
During the attack I heard explosions and cries to casemate No. 2: "MINES, MINES! ". I did not see Lieutenant Mike
Dowling, he was killed ... "
Here is a brief summary of his biography that he wrote and confided to Pascaline Dagorn:
After the battery of Merville had been neutralized at the dawn of June 6th, he left with the survivors of the 9th
Battalion in the direction of Amfréville.
On June 7, he participated in the bloody fighting at the Château-St-Côme.
On July 24 he was wounded in Bois-de-Bavent and had to spend eight weeks in the hospital in England.
Always voluntary, he returned to rejoin his battalion in the Ardennes.
In 1945, after crossing the Rhine and meeting the Russians on the Baltic, he was sent to India to learn the fight in the
jungle. But the atomic bomb put an end to this training.
At the same time the 9th Battalion had been sent to Palestine. Of course, after his stay in the Indies, he will join them
without delay.
On his arrival he was proposed to become an officer, but he refused the offer.
In 1946 Sidney CAPON returned to civil life.
6th "Pegase" Airborne Division: --> [- : German
Scenario Length: Game Turns - LOS (6 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: Battle Academy'Men [ AMARIS - DDaySF ]
Sergeant Sidney CAPON died on September 9, 2006 in his 82nd year.
This is what Pascaline Dagorn, Director of the Musée de la Batterie de Merville, stated when she heard of the death of
Sidney Capon:
"I just lost a very dear friend. My son Gaëtan (8 years old) has also lost an Ami d'exception. They saw each other every
year, wrote and even made presents, so great was the complicity that united them. For Gaëtan, Sid will remain the
greatest of his heroes. Sid will also miss the circle of his friends in Normandy. "
Pascaline Dagorn continued by evoking memories:
"That's what Sid said to us:" You see me now an old man with a bone-sized and stout head, but I was a young sportsman
when I was called to serve my country. He was only 18 years old. "
"Sidney or Sid as all his friends called him, participated in the attack of the Battery of Merville.
His mission was to neutralize casemate No. 1. No longer with 32 men as expected but only 7: Lieutenant Alan Jefferson,
Sgt Bedford, Delsignore, Harold Walker, Leslie Cartwright, Tom Stroud and himself. "
"The order" ENTER, ENTER! (GET IN, GET IN!) Was launched by Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway who was with us.
Immediately Lieutenant Jefferson collapsed, wounded.
We continued to zigzag on the ground upset, towards casemate No. 1. We felt we were running in the midst of the enemy
fire.
I was arriving on the other side of the casemate, and there were Eric Bedford, Frank Delsignore, Harold Walker, and the
four men who had arrived there.
We threw two grenades inside and the Germans came out of the room to the left of the corridor to evacuate to the outside
of the casemate through the door.
During the attack I heard explosions and cries to casemate No. 2: "MINES, MINES! ". I did not see Lieutenant Mike
Dowling, he was killed ... "
Here is a brief summary of his biography that he wrote and confided to Pascaline Dagorn:
After the battery of Merville had been neutralized at the dawn of June 6th, he left with the survivors of the 9th
Battalion in the direction of Amfréville.
On June 7, he participated in the bloody fighting at the Château-St-Côme.
On July 24 he was wounded in Bois-de-Bavent and had to spend eight weeks in the hospital in England.
Always voluntary, he returned to rejoin his battalion in the Ardennes.
In 1945, after crossing the Rhine and meeting the Russians on the Baltic, he was sent to India to learn the fight in the
jungle. But the atomic bomb put an end to this training.
At the same time the 9th Battalion had been sent to Palestine. Of course, after his stay in the Indies, he will join them
without delay.
On his arrival he was proposed to become an officer, but he refused the offer.
In 1946 Sidney CAPON returned to civil life.
6th "Pegase" Airborne Division: --> [- : German
Scenario Length: Game Turns - LOS (6 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: Battle Academy'Men [ AMARIS - DDaySF ]
- Attachments
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RE: Merville Battery
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RE: Merville Battery
Thanks, Rico!!! [&o]
This looks tough [;)]
This looks tough [;)]
Chasing Germans in the moonlight is no mean sport
Siegfried Sassoon
Long Range Fire (A7.22)........1/2 FP
Siegfried Sassoon
Long Range Fire (A7.22)........1/2 FP
RE: Merville Battery
Great write-up on Merville action, Rico. I think it was Band of Brothers movie that did a good job of re-creating it. But I wasn't there, so I would not know!
Mike
Mike
RE: Merville Battery
Mike, Casebier, UP, Rosseau and other sympathic friends...
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT![&o]
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT![&o]
Ad Hoc At Chef Du Pont
Ad Hoc At Chef Du Pont
Chef-du-Pont, France, 6 June 1944. One of the responsibilities of the airborne troops landing behind Utah Beach was the
seizure of several key bridges following the D-Day drop. Brigadier General James Gavin, Assistant Divisional Commander of
the 82nd Airborne, found himself as the senior officer near one of these bridges, the one at Chef-du-Pont that led to the
causeway over the flooded Merderet marshes. Once Col. Maloney arrived with an extra 75 men, Gavin organized a pickup
force to take care of this bridge himself. With elements of the 507th split into two groups under himself and the 507th
C.O. Lt. Col. Ostberg, they marched on Chef-du-Pont by parallel routes.
82nd "All American" Airborne Division: --> [--> : German
Scenario Length: 6 Game Turns - LOS (16 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: ASL'Men [ Scenario S8 ]
Chef-du-Pont, France, 6 June 1944. One of the responsibilities of the airborne troops landing behind Utah Beach was the
seizure of several key bridges following the D-Day drop. Brigadier General James Gavin, Assistant Divisional Commander of
the 82nd Airborne, found himself as the senior officer near one of these bridges, the one at Chef-du-Pont that led to the
causeway over the flooded Merderet marshes. Once Col. Maloney arrived with an extra 75 men, Gavin organized a pickup
force to take care of this bridge himself. With elements of the 507th split into two groups under himself and the 507th
C.O. Lt. Col. Ostberg, they marched on Chef-du-Pont by parallel routes.
82nd "All American" Airborne Division: --> [--> : German
Scenario Length: 6 Game Turns - LOS (16 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: ASL'Men [ Scenario S8 ]
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Tridtsatchetverki
Tridtsatchetverki
On the morning of 19 April, four Tiger II SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503 advanced rapidly towards the village of Klosterdof,
north of Strausberg. Their task was to break the Soviet spikes that had ventured into the area of The 11th SS Nordland.
Russian : --> [- : German
Scenario Length: 10 Game Turns - LOS (22 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: ASL'Men [ Batailles et Blindés n°78 ]
FIXED, NEW VERSION:
On the morning of 19 April, four Tiger II SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503 advanced rapidly towards the village of Klosterdof,
north of Strausberg. Their task was to break the Soviet spikes that had ventured into the area of The 11th SS Nordland.
Russian : --> [- : German
Scenario Length: 10 Game Turns - LOS (22 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: ASL'Men [ Batailles et Blindés n°78 ]
FIXED, NEW VERSION:
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RE: Tridsatchetverki
спасибо, рико [:D]
Chasing Germans in the moonlight is no mean sport
Siegfried Sassoon
Long Range Fire (A7.22)........1/2 FP
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RE: Tridsatchetverki
Luckily there Rico to keep alive the forum. Paullus, Peter, where are you?
Tridsatchetverki: I tried playing with the Germans. The Russians are scrambling around the victory point hex and not firing a shot. Not even trying to get out. It is probably a scenario to play with the Russians? Rico Thanks for your creativity.
Tridsatchetverki: I tried playing with the Germans. The Russians are scrambling around the victory point hex and not firing a shot. Not even trying to get out. It is probably a scenario to play with the Russians? Rico Thanks for your creativity.
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RE: Tridsatchetverki
Rico, there are a couple issues with VP allocation in "Tridsatchetverki":
1. the Russians gain VPs by occupying the VP hex (1 VP), plus 1 VP for every Russian AFV exited: unfortunately, there are no Russian exit hexes on the map [&:]. As a consequence, the Russian will never be able to get more than 1 VP. By the way, this should also explain the behaviour Ticonderoga60 reported above.
2. the Germans gain VPs by occupying the VP hex (1 VP), plus 1 VP for every Russian AFV killed, plus 1 VP for every German AFV exited: even in this case, there are no German exit hexes on the map, so the German won't be able to gain such points. I suspect a human German should anyway be able to achieve a Major victory VPs by slaughtering Tridsatchetverki led by the IA (which is neither Katukov nor Cherniakovski [;)]).
1. the Russians gain VPs by occupying the VP hex (1 VP), plus 1 VP for every Russian AFV exited: unfortunately, there are no Russian exit hexes on the map [&:]. As a consequence, the Russian will never be able to get more than 1 VP. By the way, this should also explain the behaviour Ticonderoga60 reported above.
2. the Germans gain VPs by occupying the VP hex (1 VP), plus 1 VP for every Russian AFV killed, plus 1 VP for every German AFV exited: even in this case, there are no German exit hexes on the map, so the German won't be able to gain such points. I suspect a human German should anyway be able to achieve a Major victory VPs by slaughtering Tridsatchetverki led by the IA (which is neither Katukov nor Cherniakovski [;)]).
Chasing Germans in the moonlight is no mean sport
Siegfried Sassoon
Long Range Fire (A7.22)........1/2 FP
Siegfried Sassoon
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RE: Tridsatchetverki
Just finished playing "Tridsatchetverki"
Playing with the Russians, I managed to get a Major Victory with moderate and acceptable losses (25 T-34/85 [;)]). The damned Tiger II are extremely easy to hit (I managed approx. 40% hits after moving) but firing at their front aspect is a waste of time, even using APCR. I fired many times (more than 100 shots) and I never had any result, not even an Immobilised. I managed to kill them only with close-range (1 to 3 hexes) shots on their flank/rear aspect, even though I had to enter buildings and woods to achieve a good firing position.
I hoped the Tiger will surge forward (giving me the chance for some nice side hit) once I took the VP hex, but the AI didn't look worried at all [:(]
Playing with the Germans, I only managed to get a Minor Victory, killing 34 T-34s and losing a Tiger (*). In the last turns, hitting the remaining T-34s has been extremely difficult because of the many wrecks. The same wrecks provided the Russian infantry with enough hindrance to make my MG fire absolutely useless.
In this second play, I noticed the same behaviour previously reported by Ticonderoga60: the Russian tanks come as close as possible to the VP hex and then they stand here or move around (they cannot enter the VP hex), providing a nice series of targets for the Germans. They seldom fired: the only gun fire I saw was the one that killed my Tiger. Perhaps the T-34s didn't fire because the AI knew it had no chance to kill the Tigers [&:]. Even when I made all my Tigers CE to avoid the BU penalty, no more than 1 or 2 T-34s fired at them, using MGs only [&:].
(*) LOS for the hit that killed the Tiger (with a SIDE Hull Hit) passed exactly through the corner between the front CA and the side aspect: I thought such LOS implies a Front aspect hit, but this does not seem to be the case.
I regret to say that, in my opinion, the scenario still needs some tuning, especially as regards to the Russian AI. I think the addition of an extra VP hex at the bottom of the map could be of help. Adding a Russian Exit hex is not advisable, since it is highly likely a German AI will run to it, even though the presence of VP hexes might counter this despicable behaviour.
Playing with the Russians, I managed to get a Major Victory with moderate and acceptable losses (25 T-34/85 [;)]). The damned Tiger II are extremely easy to hit (I managed approx. 40% hits after moving) but firing at their front aspect is a waste of time, even using APCR. I fired many times (more than 100 shots) and I never had any result, not even an Immobilised. I managed to kill them only with close-range (1 to 3 hexes) shots on their flank/rear aspect, even though I had to enter buildings and woods to achieve a good firing position.
I hoped the Tiger will surge forward (giving me the chance for some nice side hit) once I took the VP hex, but the AI didn't look worried at all [:(]
Playing with the Germans, I only managed to get a Minor Victory, killing 34 T-34s and losing a Tiger (*). In the last turns, hitting the remaining T-34s has been extremely difficult because of the many wrecks. The same wrecks provided the Russian infantry with enough hindrance to make my MG fire absolutely useless.
In this second play, I noticed the same behaviour previously reported by Ticonderoga60: the Russian tanks come as close as possible to the VP hex and then they stand here or move around (they cannot enter the VP hex), providing a nice series of targets for the Germans. They seldom fired: the only gun fire I saw was the one that killed my Tiger. Perhaps the T-34s didn't fire because the AI knew it had no chance to kill the Tigers [&:]. Even when I made all my Tigers CE to avoid the BU penalty, no more than 1 or 2 T-34s fired at them, using MGs only [&:].
(*) LOS for the hit that killed the Tiger (with a SIDE Hull Hit) passed exactly through the corner between the front CA and the side aspect: I thought such LOS implies a Front aspect hit, but this does not seem to be the case.
I regret to say that, in my opinion, the scenario still needs some tuning, especially as regards to the Russian AI. I think the addition of an extra VP hex at the bottom of the map could be of help. Adding a Russian Exit hex is not advisable, since it is highly likely a German AI will run to it, even though the presence of VP hexes might counter this despicable behaviour.
Chasing Germans in the moonlight is no mean sport
Siegfried Sassoon
Long Range Fire (A7.22)........1/2 FP
Siegfried Sassoon
Long Range Fire (A7.22)........1/2 FP