by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Closing the Gap The Battle of Closing the Gap near Falaise from August 19–22, 1944, marked the final phase of the Falaise Pocket, where British, Canadian, Polish, and American forces worked to encircle and destroy retreating German units in Normandy. Fighting was...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Netherlands, Overlord, Overlord Game, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Operation Market Garden (Overlord Map) Op-Market-Garden_title Op-Market-Garden_Right2 Op-Market-Garden_Right1 Op-Market-Garden_Left2 Op-Market-Garden_Left1 Op-Market-Garden_center2 Op-Market-Garden_center1 Operation Market Garden, fought in September 1944, was a major...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 28, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Special Weapons, Tactical
Saint-Martin and Bull Bridge After the Allied breakout from Normandy (Operation Cobra, late July 1944), U.S. forces rapidly advanced across northern France. As they pursued retreating German forces, small but fierce battles flared up at key defensive points. Battle...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 5, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Smackdown, Special Weapons, Strategic
STRATEGY SMACKDOWN: Take a look at this situation in the Drive on Caen scenario. Historically, in 1944, the Allies, through Operation Charnwood, were attempting to take the city of Caen. In this battle, the Allies have just barraged and taken out the Axis armor in the...
by GeneralHowitzer | Mar 28, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic
Mount Pinçon “Listen up! In July ‘44, our British allies climbed that Mount Pinçon, the highest ground in Normandy, and they weren’t going to let anything stop them. That hill was a fortress—machine guns, mortars, and some of the toughest terrain you could imagine....
by GeneralHowitzer | Feb 23, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Tactical, Theater: Western
Drive on Caen The “Drive on Caen” was a series of battles during the Normandy Campaign in World War II, aimed at capturing the city of Caen in France. This was a key objective for British and Canadian forces following the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944....
