by GeneralHowitzer | Aug 20, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Breakthrough Game, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Mobile Artillery, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Coldstream Hill Hill 309 in Normandy wasn’t just another patch of dirt—it became Coldstream Hill because the 4th Battalion, Coldstream Guards, stormed it on July 30, 1944, and planted their flag in blood and steel. This was part of Operation Bluecoat—launched while...
by GeneralHowitzer | Aug 19, 2025 | Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Mobile Artillery, Scenario, Strategic
Tanks, Tanks, Tanks! What can I say? There’s a lotta tanks in this battle! ~~ General Howitzer VP’s 12 Card Balance: Allies – 7 Axis – 8 Complexity: 3 Conditions: Countryside Context: Fictional Location: Somewhere Year: Sometime Summary:...
by GeneralHowitzer | Aug 11, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Breakthrough Game, Countryside, D-Day, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Drop in the Night: 82nd In the dead of night before D-Day, the All Americans of the 82nd Airborne didn’t tiptoe into Normandy—they dropped in like thunder. C-47s hauled them over the Channel, and under flak, wind, and pure hell, they jumped straight into the enemy’s...
by GeneralHowitzer | Aug 4, 2025 | 1941, Armor, Artillery, Breakthrough Game, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Russia, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Overlord Game, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Eastern
Force vs. Finesse: Battle of Dubno - Brody The Battle of Dubno–Brody (June 23–30, 1941) was one of the largest tank battles of World War II, fought during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa between Germany’s Army Group South and the Soviet Southwestern Front....
by GeneralHowitzer | Jul 29, 2025 | Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic
Wittmann’s Final Battle Wittmann’s last ride came on August 8, ’44, when the Canadians kicked off Operation Totalize south of Caen. He rolled out in his Tiger, thinking he’d stop the Allied push cold—but this wasn’t the Eastern Front, and the Allies...
by GeneralHowitzer | Jul 15, 2025 | 1945, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Netherlands, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Pacific
The Defense of Wanssum Wood The Defense of Wanssum Woods in 1945 was part of Operation Snowman, a late World War II engagement in the Netherlands. German forces mounted a stubborn defense in the wooded area near Wanssum to delay the Allied advance. General Howitzer...
